frausnow, I don't think anyone has asked for these if they have that's alright just thinking of what Suzy said about the june bugs lol
25 of Yellow 4 o'Clocks - Mirabilis Jalapa Annual. Zones 7 -11. Surface sow by just pushing the seeds into the ground and keep soil moist but not soaking wet. Suppose to be planted in sun, but mine grew in mostly shaded area at the corner of my garage. Seeds are a breeze to collect from their little cups. This is a very prolific reseeder so only plant where you want it.
It's your turn to go crazy now, fun isn't it lol
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Here is a photo of the mystery pink flower that I think may be a zinnia. The photo is not too clear, but it is all I have.
LeBug -- it's the Japanese Beetles that the Mirabilis Jalapa attracts and kills.
as i mentioned above... i have magenta and a coupla yellows.
and heavens... i do have a lot of stuff on my "soon to get done" mental list ... but as i hate going out in weekends due to traffic... but with the warmer temps.... i really should.
and Charlene -- got ya down for magenta.
Oh my gosh, ..after reading just part of this, I feel like someone put my head in a blender. lol : ) Carry on. : ) ~Lucy
I've got both of those pesty beatles! lol I'll take the 'coupla yellows' I have a few others, thanks for the offer I don't need a whole lot anyway.
We're having warmer temps. that I have been looking forward to all week and it's raining too much for me to get outside and get anything done, just as well cause this swap is keeping me busy :)
You missed out Lucy, missed you :) I think all of our heads are swimming right about now!
Naw, I've got it all memorized.
Suzy
Frausnow - I would love some coriander and thyme if not already spoken for. Thanks KD
Suzy DOES have it all memorized - I just got back from her house. She may THINK she's not organized, but she's kiddin' herself!
Ana, could you please add the Japanese Lilac Tree to my bundle? Those are fabulous trees!
Frausnow, do you have any more Beautyberry seeds?
Robin
Mirabilis Jalapa kills Japanese beetles? Well, we should make it a federal law that one has to be planted in every yard!
Except the problem with those is that once you plant one - you end up with a yard full, they reseed prolifically and they have absolutely massive roots.
(edited for silly spelling)
This message was edited Jan 5, 2008 4:57 PM
So these are the Japanese Beetles of flowers?
Seandor, so right!!! LOL! And the people on the west coast are saying, what? What's a japanese beetle? I am attaching a photo of them on a dahlia, Alfred Grille, so you can see for yourselves.
I have seen lots of posts where people talk about the dead JB at the foot of their Four O'Clocks. They take a bite and croak. However, I can tell you I have never seen a dead JB near mine. Dave swears by them, so that's enough to make me keep them growing here, but I haven't had the same teriffic results as other people. (They do eat my Four OClocks, tho, so maybe they croak somewhere else?)
OMG - if I had JBs that bad, I would seriously think about taking up chemical warfare. . . egads! (I know the use of chemicals is politically incorrect - but OMG!)
I still have these available:
white habanero
stella d'oro ('05 seeds)
swamp hibiscus ('02 seeds)
pink hibiscus (no id)
feverfew
nicotiana sylvestris
burgundy amaranth (tall, not sure of exact type): have plenty: PamSue,
yellow four o'clock
holy moly pepper
lunaria lavender money plant
iron weed
siberian iris, purple
chives
garlic chives
tree: Cryptomeria japonica 'Sekkan Sugi' - Japanese Cedar
http://www.lazyssfarm.com/Plants/Shrubs/Cl-It%20Shrubs/Cl-It%20Images/cryptomeria_japonica_sekkan_sugi.htm
wisteria
ginger lily (red blossom 6 seeds)
sweet pea, mixed colors (ferry-morse '06)
rose of sharon, lavender
vitex agnus castus light lavender
Four O'Clock Pimp Time:
In Defense of Four O'Clocks
They might not be hardy and die over the winter and never retun, so those massive roots just rot and hep your soil. :)) They only return in mild winters, and winters where they don't rot. The roots aren't any bigger than dahlias'. If you don't like them where they re seed, either pull the seedlings or dig them up. They don't spring up from a little chunk of root or spread that way at all. They are lovely! Fragrant! The hummers like them.
One of the biggest selling points: They open up in the afternoon, so if you work a day job they are always open, unlike the moss roses and african daisy/gazanias and morning glories that are always closed when you get home or when you're in your garden.
Four O'clocks are also bushy plants...mounding? They are a totally different shape than stems that come up from a basal rosette and give some weight to your flower bed that it might be lacking. They can probably take full hot burning sun, but they bloom very well in part shade. Who doesn't need some white, pale pink and yellow blooming plants in their shade gardens?
I love them and have always been happy where they decide to pop up, and am happy to see them if they return, and if they don't then there is always seed. They are quick and fast from seed, and when you are watching for germination, you'll see the seed turns to clear jelly-like consistency right before germination. It's fascinating.
Also, if you have kids and grandkids, Four O'clock are one of the absolute best plants for them to start with because the seeds are big and for boys, very cool. They're shaped just like grenades! Preschools and kindergartens always want thekids to grow marigods in Dixie Cups, but Four Oclocks (and Nasturtiums, but they're too expensive) are way better choices.
Okay, the Mighty Illoquin has spoken! I'm convinced - Four O'clocks in the gardens :-)
don't you love the ring to that? "Mighty Illoquin" sounds like a heroine in a great novel.
Seandor, Yeah, I know. I went all organic about 2 years ago. Every single day for a month in late June-July last summer, right at 5:00 when my garden cooled down, I went out with a can of soapy water and hand picked them off. Nothing like a handful of little beetles clawing at your hand to make a chill run up your spine! Ugh!
Last year, too late, I got some traps. This year I'll put them out sooner because they worked. They also said (last year) that it was the worst infestation in 50 years....something like that.
The thing is, all my other pests are being biologically controlled by natural bugs & wildlife and I hate to mess it up just for a couple of lousy dahlias and roses. I'm not certain what I'll do next year.
This is what I have so far LMK if you aren't on the list and should be with confirmation from me :)
Kd2000
Columbine ~ white
Columbine ~ caerulea
Blue Mist Shrub
Blackberry Lily ‘Freckles’
White Crepe Myrtle
Seandor
Columbine ~ pink
Columbine ~ purple
New York Aster ~ Professor Kippenburg
Zinnia ~ fire profusion
Zinnia ~ cherry profusion
Corepsis Grandflora ‘early sunrise’
Veronica ‘gentianoides’
Fairy1004
Cornflower ‘blue carpet’
Cupid’s Dart ‘amor blue’
Maiden Pinks Dianthus ‘artic fire’
Tcs1366
Cornflower ‘blue carpet’
Suzy
Tequila Sunrise
Hibiscus ‘luna red’
Dryad57
Cabbage ‘rose bouquet’
Bottom of the seed box 2007 ~ possible white dbl. balloon flower, blue and pink balloon flower (short 18-24”), red bleeding heart, fern leaf bleeding heart, white bleeding heart with pink tinge.
Rachierabbit
Hardy Pink Hibiscus
Cherry Profusion
Coulumbine ~ pink
Whopper Banana Pepper
Baptisia ~ Purple Smoke
Sweet Pea ‘spencer types’
Columbine ‘william guinness’
Grampapa
Columbine ~ pink
Columbine ~ purple
Crepe Myrtle ~ strawberry
Baptisia ~ Purple Smoke
Helenium ~ mardi gras
Starkight1153
Whopper Banana Pepper
Whopper Green Pepper
Eggplant
Margaran
Blackberry Lily ‘freckles’
Ana3
Salvia ‘regeliana’
Frausnow
Ruby Cloud
Helenium ‘mardi gras’
Blue Mist Shrub
Hibiscus ‘blue satin’
Coral bell ~ ‘pepermint spice’
Coral bell ~ ‘green spice’
Virburnum ~ wentworth
Sea holly ~ ‘planum’
Sea holly ~ ‘moroccan’
Baptisia ~ purple smoke
White Dogwood
Thank you for shopping at Lea’s Garden lol
If I missed anybody let me know and I’ll see what I can do 8?)
LOL, I am sort of a pimp. Keep an eye on the reseeding and you'll be fine. It depends on how big your garden is, but yes, I really like them, but yes, Dryad is right, too.
Suzy
Wind, I had requested some 'iron weed' seeds in my mind and forgot to ask for them lol
I'm updating my list now, wow lol I'm ready for a break lol
Does anyone have Dutchmen's pipes? It's a kind of vine with large heart-shaped leaves.
Suzy, I sprayed alcohol on the darn beatles with a spray bottle while they were away from the flower on the leaves took a bit but it did kill them probably just as well picking them off though it took a while to get them on the leaves lol But the alcohol worked really good on the blister beatles knocked them deader than a door nail really fast! Didn't spray it on any of the flowers though because of the butterflies but those blister beatles reall give me the creeps too!!!
Charlenesplants - I have everything but aster ton. for you.
Marigolds:
Queen Sophia; 1880 Heirloom 6'; French Dwarf Double; Colossus;
Pinwheel; Durango
Gourds:
Small Dipper; Snake Gourd; Ornamental (Orange & Egg); Loofah;
Queen Anne's Pocket Melon
Castor Bean Mixed (4 types)
Zinnia Mixed
Cleome Mixed
Cosmos: Golden Orange 6'
Milk Thistle
Orange Trumpet Vine
Balloon Vine
Moonvine (5 trades X 5 seeds)
Red Cypress Vine
MG Split Personality/Pink Rambler Mix
MG Scarlet- Hearts and Honey
MG Mt. Fuji
MG Grandpa Otts
Balsam Mix
Coreopsis
Feverfew
Nicotiana Mix
4 O'Clock: Red, Fushia, Yellow/White
Anise Hyssop
Mint: Chocolate & Spearmint/Chocolate Mix
Borage White
Amaranth Love-Lies-Bleeding
Amaranth Green Tails
Amaranth Hot Bisquits
Amaranth Tall Red
Basil: Italian Large Leaf
Basil: Siam Queen
Basil: Cinnamon
Basil: Lemon
Toadflax: Butter and Eggs
Asclepias-Regular kind
Black-Eyed Susan Goldstrom
Parsley Flat Leaf
Cilantro/Coriander
Native Evening Primrose
Candytuft White (5 trades)
5 Spot (5 Trades)
Beebalm (5 Trades)
Catnip
Yarrow Summer Berries
Well, where the heck were you this summer? LOL! I wish I had known that!!! No alcohol on flowers. I can remember that! Does it evaporate from the spray bottle? Do you add any water or anything to dilute it? Any plants I need to avoid in terms of it burning leaves or anything?
Thanks for the tip! It's a good one!
Suzy
Sendor... I have a few seeds of the ducthman's pipe, but not sure of germination on them if you'd like to give them a try.
Charlene.. would like some of the yellow can eat manihot hibiscus please if ya have enough. Do you have a want list up yet?
Our Illustrious Illoquin is right on those Four O'Clocks - I'm remembering them from when I grew them in Southern Cal as a kid. (Well, duh Robin - of COURSE it freezes here - LOL!)
Suzy, be careful with those JB traps. Wait to see how this year's infestation goes - if it's not bad putting that trap up can actually draw them to your yard (it uses pheromones). (Of course, if there's someone you don't care for who lives about a half mile or so away, you could always give THEM some of those traps!!)
Oooh, Ansonfan, Nice list!
Lots of nice fragrant pesto basil!
Tell us what you'd like!!!
Suzy
Thanks starlight1153. I would be ever so grateful :-)
Illoquin, may I have if there is enough please
Amaranth Illumination & Pink Cockscomb
Any Scabious
St. Johns Chamomile
Butterfly Bush Honeycomb
And fancy Coreopsis
Sweet William
Chicory
Elcampagne
Ligularia
Rudbeckia "Rustic colors"
Thanks
I just used straight alcohol and it doesn't evaporate but I go thru it like crazy in the summer so it's hard to tell, I didn't notice any leaf burn but if you want to try other plants with it you should check first on a leaf, I also spray mealy bugs when they fly thru the air, gotta have some fun lol I guess that's what they were lol It didn't hurt the butterfly weeds on the milkweed bugs, mardi gras, red cloak, hibiscus think that's all I really used it on. Try it on any pest, I used it on a couple of others but can't remember right now which they were, alcohol must be some mean stuff! I'm just sick of all of these beatles and blister beatles and milkweed beatles lol I don't use any other sprays either and have quite a few benificial bugs in my gardens but some just get out of hand on the pests and we just can't help but spray something!
I'm sorry, when I read the first entry on alcohol and bugs, I thought LeBug was getting them drunk!
Sure, Ansonfan, I'll pull them and let you know if I have any trouble finding anything.
Suzy
Yes it get's them DEAD DRUNK lol They do teeter a little lol
rachierabbit
may I have heliopsis and sweet pea please - thanks :-)
I have a large garden dedicated to both medicinal and culinary herbs
I like cottage type flowers for the beds out front
I have one bed on the side that is just really gaudy colors gone wild
I really like my backyard to be a jungle with lots of vines and perennials that are not too fussy, and annuals for borders
I don't have too many containers yet, but I do like growing some container plants around the porches. Last year I used Nemesia and some MGs and petunias w/ coleus and Aubrietia Purple Cascade in hanging baskets with dichondra as a fill in.
Excellent and informative list!!!
Everybody, scan your lists, please, and help Ansonfan out by presenting him with some cool choices from your lists. He is our only swap virgin and has the only Y chromosome in the group; it's amazing to me he hasn't been scared off by the piggy herd! LOL! If we scared off Blueglancer, you know it must look bad from the outisde!
I'm sure it would be helpful to start your offers to him by saying "Ansonfan" so he can just scroll through looking for his name.
Thanks!
Suzy