Hi all - whew! Went to bed too early last night, didn't I?? No update on my list yet, will do my best to get that up today. Have to go to a business meeting, and then to a client.
Two things:
1. My sis has maltese cross - I'm headed to see her today - and I can check and see if there are any seeds left on her fairly protected plant :) if anyone still needs them.
2. The client I'm meeting with is ONLY interested in heirlooms, so we're sitting down with the Baker Creek Catalog today to place an order for her. ANYONE who is interested in Baker Creek seeds let me know if you'd like to piggy-back on our order. (I'll also ask her if she's interested in trading seeds, to see if we can expand our haul!)
Robin
CLOSED: Second Chance Wishlist Swap #3
sure, I'll check and get back with a post. I was looking for a photo of it, and I'm still looking for the photo, but I found a photo of our lacecap hydrangea. I also spotted a few of the flowers on my list. I'll try and post them too.
Someone wanted lacecap seeds (maybe was on the first thread). I checked ours (hydrangea macrophylla ‘blue billow’, mountain hydrangea) for seeds and it seems they are very very small, dustlike? I looked it up on plantfiles and it says it won't come true from the seeds.
pink obedient plant
Physostegia ...not sure of the species perhaps angustifolia
prolific self sower
Wind, it was Fairy (Stacey) who wanted the lacecaps.
Wind, mao has yor breadseed poppies. But so does Baker's Creek
Dryad/Robin We have a lot of stuff here (and coming) that is in that Baker's Creek catalog -- Grandpa Otts MGs for one thing. In fact, I'd say we have 60% of the flowers, and 30% of the Amaranth (in the vegetabes section) sitting right her on my desk or on the lists of unloved and unappreciated in this thread.
I can make a list fo rher, but not if your meeting is in an hour. I would be willing to give these things away to her if they aren't requested by somebody here. I do not like them (for the most part) and they are a swap hostess'es worst nightmare because everybdoy has them, and all they do is make more seed! If her stuff is mostly heirloom, well, we'll take the Black Prince snaps, but that's all I can think of. BUT we'll trade her ALL our Grandpa Otts for those snaps, so tell her it's a really good deal and that she should jump on it! ROTFL!
You can call me if you want and I can run through it, or call me with your order and I'll tell you what not to order. Most everything comes true except the Elephant Head -- and on that, you just never know
Shiso Perilla Red, Akashiso, “Japanese Basil/Mint” Perilla frutescens ‘crispa’
prolific self sower, many culinary uses, inconspicious teeny blooms
I let is spread to many plants in a circular area so they form what looks like a shrub in size. Then I leave the dry stalks because they look so neat and the birds eat the seeds too.
P.S. Baker's Creek is a good place for players to look. Go shopping and pick out anything you want!! LOL! If there is something you want to buy, post here and I'll see if I have it, or if it's coming.
http://rareseeds.com/seeds/
Suzy
Suzy, Dryad and Tuink are sending me breadseed poppies to try. Hopefully they grow ok and I'll have seeds and photos to share next year. Another plant I hope blooms this season and I'll get seeds from is Foxglove silver fox. The foliage is really lovely, lamb's ear color and fuzziness.
I'm not familiar with Baker's Creek...I'll see if they are online :)
edited to say why THANK YOU for posting their link :)))))))))
This message was edited Jan 10, 2008 8:28 AM
Okay! Everybody needs to dmail me their wishlists. Ten things you want and 10 things you don't want. If you think you've done it already, send me the mail and say "see I did do it!" or something to that effect.
General of specific, your choice.
I need to play with my dog and then go through some seeds, and I need some lists of seed to sort of aim for.. and I'vebeen goingby memory this whole time, I'd like to have some lists where I an scratch stuff off as I find them. It makes me feel so productive! LOL..
Suzy
Wow - You guys are active!!!
Wind I am so glad you are sending me the Perilla, it fits in nicely with my "good looking herb garden" theme.
Suzy - I just received a double trade of maltese cross red if that is what everyone is looking for, just let me know who to tag it for and I will send it separately. I was actually looking for the salmon and white varieties. KD
Wind-it was me that wanted the lacecaps!!! Pretty please!!;0
My guess is that Fairy will be looking for lacecap cuttings in summer....seed is too iffy. Too slow. I don't believe I have ever seen a hydrangea seed, oh, yes, when you let them dry in the vase, dust-stuff falls out after a while with maybe some flat papery things. I think some of that you have to clean up off the table must be seeds.
Suzy
I'll be glad to send in what I have, with the chaff because with these when you blow on them to blow off the chaff the seeds blow off !!!!... the teeny little seed pods are heavier than the teeny seed!!!
Maybe you can just plant it all in a pot and see if anything sprouts. It may take a LOOOOONG time by seed. The plants I got were from a gdn ctr and were at least a few feet tall with an established root ball.
So if they grow and they say they won't come true from seed what would Fairy get? another lace cap?
Yes, I think so. But I don't know that you can just sow/wintersow hydrangeas (Or Azaleas) and have them come up. Maybe a google search will bring something up about them.
I have neighbors who have 30 year old ones and I've never seen any seedlings (not that I'm checking under their bushes, but I ususally pick weeds, or at least look around, when we're out talking or something.)
Suzy
Yes Fairy I'm sure looking forward to this swap for next year lol I will be sure and have enough beer or wine on hand for it to calm my nerves! lol
Wind, that's fine, if I don't get the iron weed seeds, if anyone misses one of my beggins for seeds my seed box will only thank you for it lol
Has anyone tried that perilla in salads? When I was selling plants I was telling a lady that you could put it in salads and took a leaf and ate it and about choked! lol It was so dry by it's self and had to spit it out while the lady wasn't looking lol It's really a pretty plant though and will grow in sun or shade. As a matter of fact if a lot of people send in seeds for it I wouldn't mind growing some thru the whole side yard. I'll have to add that to my want list.
Even if I don't get anything from the seeds, at least it's worth giving it a whirl. WIND-if I don't get anything from them, would you consider a cutting later on??? If not I totally understand, just want to cover my bases...
LeBug-Beer or wine for the next one huh-can't wait to see how that list comes out-LOL You may even come up with whole new names to some of the seeds-ROTFL!!
Fairy, I grow lace caps and was having a hard time finding more to plant from local nurseries. What I have done is "layer" them. Just took non blooming low branches wounded them and pinned them into the ground with a landscape pin, covered with earth and hope to have rooted babies to disconnect from the parent plants in the spring. I am new to much of this, but this method worked really well for my currant plants, and I understand it works for hydrangeas, if there are people in your area with plants you like maybe you could try this. Others likely have more knowledge here to share. KD
PamSue - sending a major OINK of regret your way - lol! $1 for Chocolate Cosmos? Hopefully when the chaff settles from this swap, those interested in this flower might look into a quest for another inexpensive source.
Grampapa - I haven't tried it, but I wonder what would happen if we were to google the names of different flowers with the phrase "seed exchange"? For example, if you type: primrose + "seed exchange" into the search bar of www.google.com , the American Primrose Society comes up. Might be worth experimenting with other flowers.
Dryad - thanks for the heads up on that book - hopefully I can persuade our local library to aquire a copy of it. I've got some promises I need to fulfill first, but you & I'll have to do threads - each on a separate color - explicating each color and its echoing & contrasting plants under different conditions in terms of plants. Physically, I can only have one garden - as chaotic as it may be in reality - but there's no limit to how many gardens any of us can have in our imaginations.
Tuinkabouter - welcome to the swap - I sent you dmail - the stachystarpheta and caryopteris are yours.
Shirley - that is so wonderful about your son
Suzy, could we start a 2nd Chance Swap- Pictorial so we all could share pictures of our gardens? Tcs, Kd and PamSue - loved your pics and hope to see more if Suzy starts that thread. I've mentioned this to some, but they say words to the effect that their gardens are not "picture perfect" but my sentiments are along the lines of what Maozamom said - words to the effect - that what makes cottage gardens special is the way they rise to various challenges (like time, $, space, vandals, etc.) and find beauty in imperfections. So, really, what's a cottage garden without a few warts? Anyhoo, I'd love to see everyone's pics and would contribute a couple of mine, too. ps - and no pic will go ignored by me, though I might not be able to visit the thread more than once a day.
tcs - that is the most wonderful thing when neighbors get together and link their gardens. For a few years, we had a neighbor, who when he moved in, sawed an opening in a chain link fence between our properties. DH made a gate, and he designed his back garden so its cross-axis would line up with that gate, and we made a cross axis in ours to the gate, as well. Then a 2nd family moved in on the other side of him and did the same thing. We all enjoyed each others' company so well that our gardens were always open to each other. Very sad day when those 2 families moved away.
Suzy, Maozamom is sending me the Maltese Cross - :)!!
Regarding Caryopteris incana (Blue Mist shrub), Is there anyone who wants seeds that hasn't been promised some by now? I have some I can share from a harvest last September, before frost. It'll make a great thick, bushy hedge to about 3' if it's hacked back early in spring (March, here) and allowed to mature for a couple of years. In our garden, it makes a great antidote to the scrawniness of rose Othello behind it. ps - I've dmailed Tuink and Grampapa that I'm sending them seeds of Caryopteris incana
Wind - I would love to have some seed of your lacecap hydrangea and I have seed of another plant you might like to have
Who was wanting yellow trumpet vine? I found some seeds! I'll split them with you I saw a post up above and can't find it.
Lea,
it was Robyn [Robynznest]
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/p.php?pid=4372791
I enjoyed viewing tcs, PamSues and kd's pics too....never saw a coyote before...we had several red foxes but haven't seen them lately.
LeBug I got you down for the ironweed and the shiso perilla....I didn't see your first few posts at first but now I've got you covered :)
...you know how on the Food Network they have the iron chef challenge...well we have two people here for the hydrangea seed challenge!!! I'll send those in for BlueSpiral and Fairy (and sure on cuttings too later on just dmail me in season or better yet, I'll dmail you with my regular email add. so I don't miss your request).
==> I do have caryopteris seeds
I also found more seeds, while I was outside, for white stokesia and common milk weed if anyone is interested.
Stokes' Aster, Stokes Aster, Cornflower Aster
Stokesia laevis
Grampa,
Dicentra eximia, Dracocephalum argunense 'Fuji Blue', Helleborus sternii, HUMULUS LUPULUS, HYPERICUM ANDROSAEMUM, HYPERICUM PERFORATUM, KOCHIA SCOPARIA, PRUNELLA VULGARIS, SEDUM TELEPHIUM, SILENE MARITIMA, SOLIDAGO HYBRID 'Golden Dwarf', VIOLA CORNUTA, VIOLA LABRADORICA, VIOLA TRICOLOR
Have been tagged for you too! (I knew I had forgotten something!)
Wind, I would love the white Stokesia if you can spare them!
ok Tuinkabouter, got it
Tuink, you are the best! thanks much.
Thanks tcs, I'll tag them for her! I did the search thing again and again it didn't show up lol Computers are german to me! I'll get the hang of it if I keep trying it :)
Thanks for the iron weed and perillia Wind!
Come on people am I the only one that this seed swap has driven to drinking lol Of course my dad has something to do with that too but don't worry it takes me a year to drink a case lol
Fairy dmail me and explain how to save snapdragon seeds please just when u get time, thank you! I miss those seeds and try soo hard!
Suzy, I'm gonna google for some of those 'black prince' those are soo cool the more I think of it I have got to have some!
dryad57, if you haven't sent the order in yet I'm going to check baker's creek out, thanks for the link :)
I'll take any Caryopteris that anyone wants to send in!
I've not sent in the Baker's order yet - probably won't do it for a couple days. I'll post a warning before I send it in, to make sure y'all get a chance to participate.
Suzy, I'm dmailing you the Bakers seed list from my meeting. She's happy to trade seeds with us as well :) And, while I'm NOT a fan of MGs, she is - so I guess I should get some of those Grandpa Otts to surprise her - LOL!
Blue - it's a deal about the different threads on colors, etc.! That should be fun.
Robin
This message was edited Jan 10, 2008 1:48 PM
>>some of those Grandpa Otts to surprise her
i got lots of those too. though i do think i sent 2 extra packets to Suzy.
and Lea -- when i found the quest for Yellow Trumpet... all i used was "yellow" for my search ... it found lots of yellows, but found the message you were looking for.
It's funny -- DH went to the PO an hour or so ago, and he asked if there was anything i needed dropped off, when i said "no", and said, "What, no seeds?" little does he know, I'll probably be back there tomorrow... lucky it's so close. ['bout 1.5 miles.]
but with DH's hobby -- we're there A LOT.... err and mine too.
hey, Robin, I will make a small packet of carpopteris icanna Blue Myth, if you want.
oooo - thank you Seandor!
My pleasure!
Hi everyone, I'm just now back from yesterday and I still have mail to answer, but I saw where some people were looking for castor bean. I know I don't have mine seperated, but my 3 or 4 cultivars still have very strong characteristics of the parents and could be easily matched to pic when grown. I also still have some moonvine seeds if anyone wants them and the hairypod cowpea is a pretty vine with yellow flowers if anyone is interested. :-)
Can someone send a link to 'cup plant' I checked the plantfiles and didn't see it, I have no idea what it is but I got seeds in a trade, please? You computer savy people out there lol Should I grow it?
And if anyone has extra 'perilla' I would love to have some, I got some in a trade on here but at the side of my yard I keep waiting for this tree to get cut down and can't plant anything yet so this perilla would be perfect, it's a large area, thanks guys!
Everybody has been busy-busy-busy, but it all looks like you have it all worked out. I will go back and re read to see if there is anything for me inthere :))
I need some maintenence help:
1. The photo thread needs to be made in the Cottage Garden Forum, It can be called the 2nd Chance Swap - Pictorial. Does anybody have time to make a thread and post a link from here to there?
2. I need help with Second Chance Swap #2 Chat 7 Questions http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/803331/. It has become too big for me to load, and I can't see the last few messages. I also can't see my original message! I need sombody to dmail me who can still open that thread.
Suzy
The Cup Plant I know is Silphium perfoliatum: http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/1068/
(a couple of the pics there are from me)
I'm not going to put my list up on this thread, since it is too long. Basically, I've sent Illoquin all my past trade seeds, keeping only the ones collecting in 2007. The bags of seeds stuffed a wine case box. So, except for a few things I ran out of over the last year, my DG tradelist is what I sent. I also sent two gallon ziplocks of seeds I culled out of my personal tote, some older than not. I don't know how Suzy plans to offer these seeds, but I trust her to do a good job seeing they get used up. Once we get rolling on this swap, I'll update my tradelist, but for now, I'll leave it up as a reference.
Hey everyone, I bought the Caryopteris incana Blue Myth seeds from:
http://www.hazzardsgreenhouse.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=SFNT&Store_Code=Hazwho
Anyway, the package was only 143 seeds not the 250 I was supposed to get. I emailed just a few minutes ago, and within 5 minutes, got a reply that they will be sending another package
Anyway, that means I will have ANOTHER bunch of these seeds to share - so assuming they arrive in time, anybody else want some? These are a new cultivar just introduced in 2004 which grows to about 24 inches tall.
Here is a picture
http://www.sahin.nl/_alg/products/items/CA8665.php
Hi WZ!!!
A wine box?? You're sending a whole wine box of little seed packets? LOL!
Thank you behalf of all the little oinkers!
I hope you have at least scanned the thread, because if you have, you know one thing: A new list brings a stampede! I'll go crazy with trying to keep up if you post a list until I see what is what when the box gets here. It will all have to be on paper and those little lists can get lost and feelings get hurt. If I have the seeds, I can list them in different batches, at differenttimes of the day so the people who work a normal shirft get just asmuch chance as the people who are on the west coast, or whatever.
In fact, what do you think about not putting your list up at all? There are a number of people who have maybeone things on their wishlsts I would like to fill from your stock, or at least scan ahead of time, and then there are a few people who are sending in way more than they've taken, and they need to be taken care of. Maybe I can offer them first dibs on 5 things, or if a wine box is what I think it is, 10 things? Enough to give them something wonderful in return for their offerings, but enough to have lots and lots and lots left over for the trough?
Your tradelist has links to the pictures and it is wonderful to be able to click instad of going back and forth to PFs copying and pasting.
Suzy
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Suzy - Could I have a few seeds of the Blue Myth that is exquisite! And I do not think anyone responded on the Maltese Cross, but I have two sets I will send you. KD
Isn't the Cryopteris called Blue Mist instead of Myth?
Seandor, I would love to have some Caryopteris incana Blue Myth seeds just a few like maybe 20 they should germinate pretty good being from a vendor, thanks if I can get some!
I would also like to have some of the Caryopteris incana Blue Myth seeds if you have enough just about 15 seeds would do me if possiable? Thanks for the offer! If I don't get an I understand 8^)
Weezingreens, I'm rubbing my hands together just anticipating your trade list from this year, I love your seeds!!! My alaskin wormwood is beautiful that I got from you! I just love how the wind blows it and shows the silver underneath!