Enjoy the catalogues :-)
CLOSED: Second Chance Wishlist Swap #3
Oh No!!! I'll have to avoid looking at the mail over the next couple of days!
There ya go,then! My Scabiosa Blue on to Seandor.
LoL! Gram, That's 'exactly' what I meant to say, "minimally piggy", but it was too much to type :))
Sea, I don't need the Bachelor's Buttons, I just wanted to see Bottle Blue. Or whatever she had listed up the thread LOL.
Whoever is asking Shirley for stuff, ya gotta dmail her -- she isn't in the barnyard!
You can have the Green Coneflowers, but I'll take al the chocolate cosmos!!! How much is it? I got Burpee today. I hate their catalog -- some seeds, some plants, some plants and seeds. I find it very confusing!
At midnight I can update my tradelist, I hoe I don't make any mistakes.
Does anybody know anything about Chinese Houses? I thought it looked gorgeous, but nobody jumped on some seeds listed above and I wondered why.
Is there anybody who thinks they are not getting enough stuff??? Not getting hteir fair sare, I mean. I need to know dmail and I won't hold it against you for making the point. I have lost track of a coupla peeps.
Suzy
Suzy
You all are having way too much fun without me! I got some Chinese Houses in one of the Unusual Seed Swaps (probably from the same wonderful person offering them here?) and I was excited to try them. Just thought you wanted two of my cents, which is generous, since I don't have a lot of sense! Love to all!-Kath
Evening everybody!
if ya don't see me to much during the week, have no fear this crazy plant lady is still here, but even though I have my degree I went back to school to take a few more classes I wanted and it gonna take me a bit to get my research projects set up, so I won't be able to update as much as I would like right now, so if I post something ya want just send me an email please and if I don't answer your email sometime within a day, please email me again incase I forget, as I checkign the threads now between classes but don't always have time to answer nor my seed s with me . LOL I probably gonna be kickign myself for puttign my tired body and brain through this again at my age, especially come exam time. I have 16 hour days, so if it not to much trouble post on here so folks can se e it gone if I not aroudn right then and send me an email too.
Come the weekend I will update my send out thread for everybody. I have a research paper I need to read and understand for class and it takes me forever cuz I have to sit with a dictionary and look up the big words I don't know or never heard of before.
A coupel more things I have....
1 Nasturtium ' Carribean Cocktail'
1 Geranium " Maverick orange' ( about 14 seeds)
2 geranium " Maverick red (10 seeds) geraniums don't like the heat and drought here I found out the hard way LOL
3 mixed colors of columbine butterflies and hummers love em. : )
1 Columbine " William Guinness"
2 Indian Pinks very hard to gerinate and takes a whole lot of patience finally found where I put them in the fridge.
1 Strelitzia nicolia " White Bird of Pardise" needs patience, slow to germinate. Need to soak to remove fuz z and then scarify and lots of heat to germinate. Take s about 30 days to germinate. ( 10 seeds)
1 Yellow flag Iris ( 10 seeds)
2 Malvaviscus arboreus var. Drummondii "Turk's cap " ( 15 seeds) I gathere d these up near th beginnign of summer and hand cleane d them. Have no idea on germination yet cuz just gettign redy to sow mine too. needs patience. Humming bird magnet
3 Pink Pampas grass
2 Canadian hemlock tree
1 Coriandrum sativum " Chinese Parsley" it like a herb and parsley in one.
1 Agapanthus " white"
1 Impatiens " Summer Wine'
3 Fox Glove ' Apricot Beauty'
2 Butterfly weed . The orange one that feeds the Monarch butterflies especially.
6 I cannot remember the scientific name of these of f hand or the common name. it one plant I always forget. Maybe somebody else can come up with the name and if I see the pic I'll know it. These are a flower that grows in the shade. They have iris type leave s but beautiful pink orchid flowers on them. Can't remember the name, but can remember that they not easy to germinate. Y a can sow a bunch but only a few will germinate. need lot sof patience, but they make a beautiful grouping or boarder in the shade. They a prenial and go dormant in the winter to emerge in the spring. The seed like featherd dust if that helps.
2 Tall single pink hollyhock. These babies got to over 8 foot tall.
I have these coming in , in the next week or so, if somebody wants a few to plant that I will have extra.
3 Carnation ' Sungold" fragrant and makes excellent cut flower too(10 seeds)
3 Carnation ' Striato' Striped mixed colors ( 10 seeds)
This message was edited Jan 8, 2008 10:57 PM
KD... If you don't have any more butterfly bush I stil have a pack of the mixed colors, blue, white , and pink if Suzy tells me who was lookign for it.
Oh and before I forget, I only have the purple Ecghinache a left if ya want that. My other ones were alrady taken by the time you asked. Sorry. ; (
Yay!! AmI gettingon first???
I want
Impatiens " Summer Wine'
Fox Glove ' Apricot Beauty'
Malvaviscus arboreus var. Drummondii "Turk's cap "
tag this for me, but it's really for somebody else, I just forget who
1 Indian Pinks
I'll dmail you, too.
ThankyouStarlight!!!
oooooo - I'd like some of the Fox Glove 'Apricot Beauty' too!!! (oink, oink...)
If there isn't enough, we can share, Dryad. Foxgloves can be tossed out (direct sown), but they can also be started in pots and transplanted one by one and a little seed can go a long way if you do it like that.
Suzy
Or - I can be realistic and wait and get seeds from you, Suzy, next year ;)
This message was edited Jan 8, 2008 11:17 PM
Pam, Thankyou so much!!!! I'm pretty sure we won't have to share....there were 2 or 3 of them I need to look it up in Plant files..I was thinking Turk's Cap lily, but of course that would be the Genus Lilium, not Malvaviscus. LOL! I was so excited to be first that I just click send!
Malvaviscus --> Sounds like a really mean Mallow...Malva Viscious! ROTFL!
Suzy
Dang! Not hardy. But I want to try it as an annual here and see if it works.
LOL! We'll work it out, dryad
Suzy
Now play nice you little oinkers. : ) LOL I got enough for all of ya. heheheheheh and enough for thre e more people if they want too if they want turks cap and the apricot beauty foxglove. Gotcha's hehehhehehe : ) Was gonan sen dthem in the extras but wil leave them on here I guess incase somebody would like some.
*sigh*
Oink Oink.
Count me in.
That what I do Suzy. The seeds is tinier than dust but I use an index card and fold it in half and sprinkle a couple seeds alogn the crease and then use the fat end of a sewing pin to scrap one seed at a time into a small seed tray. Takes a bit longer to sow that way, but so much easier to transplant. it amazes me that they are probably oen of the smallest seeds on earth and yet make such a big plant and flower. Mother Nature astoundign sometimes.
Just whatevr ya do don't sneeze, cough , or blow your nose at the same your sowing or your seed s wil end up in nevr never land. never to be seen again. : )
Lala Jane! You made it!
Here is a link to a list of some stuff you can look at for now, then Starlight just posted some stuff above, about 6-8 posts above this one.
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/p.php?pid=4367821
Szyt
You can tell Starlight is younger. I have to sow my tiny seeds in a master community pot, and then transplant the seedlings to the cells (or 3" pots in the case of Foxgloves.)
Edited because I get Hollyhocks and Foxgloves confused and Lea caught it.
Suzy
This message was edited Jan 9, 2008 12:01 AM
Starlight,
lala_ Jane is going to dmail you in the morning (she wakes up early too) but wanted the 2 Nasties -- 1 of each kind -- on your list. I'm sure she'll dmail you tomorrow sometime, but I wanted to get the plug in before the stampede!
Thank Yoooo
Suzy
Suzy... will mark Lala down. Ya i hitting the bed a ssoon as I finish this cup of coffee. Been p for 20 hours already . My body has already hit the snooze button a half dozen times.
I am probably way older than you. My mind is stuck in the 70's, just wish the ole body was too. ( sigh)
Great by the time I get all of my seeds posted again we will have new people makes for a bigger avalanche lol I'm so glad more people are joining means more seeds! lol I hope to post seeds tomorrow night :)
Pamsue that toothpick sounds good I'll have to try that but how do you see the end of the tooth pick and the seed to get it there? lol My eyes aren't all that either! I was soo proud when I had 20/20!
Suzy, you can't see a holly hock seed? Do you drive? lol I'm sorry gotta ask :) lol
I usually just put a pinch of the smaller seeds in one cell in a 6 pk. of the ones I know I can clump sow, otherwise I just put them in sand and plant in a seed tray then transplant later, I have a salt shaker for that. I need a different sand and have run out of the other so don't remember what kind it was would anyone have a suggestion of what kind of sand to use to plant my seeds with, sure would appreciate it! Does anyone use play sand? Is that what I'm suppose to use?
Starlight, I hear you! lol
This message was edited Jan 8, 2008 11:59 PM
Starlight I would love to have these I thought I would have to order some :)
Thank you Star g'night.(How can you sleep after coffee?)
LOL! Lea, I just changed it to foxgloves. Sheesh! Yes, I use play sand to "lightly sow". The salt shaker was a mess, though. Didn't try that again.
I understand about the toothpick (did that with begonias) but I do NOT understand the people who soak their seeds in water and hydrogen peroxide (it's 10% solution for those wondering what I'm talking about) and then try to sow wet seeds! That does not work at all for me. They clump together terribly and the seedlings are very intertwined from birth.
Suzy
hi lea
oh i could see the toothpick end ok..but then that was last year with glasses..i havent started this year for the heat mat sowing yet. Have to clear a space for a table and set it up..this weekend i hope.
pam
soaking does work ok for larger seeds like the morning glory i.nil and daylilies.soak until the roots show.and i do that for hibiscus prior to sowing just a 24 hour soak..i do not see a benefit for smaller seeds.
This message was edited Jan 8, 2008 9:12 PM
LeBug... What is ya want? Ya forgot to tell me. : )
Starlight, lol Fox Glove ' Apricot Beauty'
It's been a good night with the Liebfraumilch, a new kind of softdrink lol
Goeorge don't you say a word! lol
Hi all, I guess early morning's my best time to check in - got waylaid by the seed exchange list from NARGS (http://www.nargs.org/). A surprising thing is happening with them - donors didn't send in as many seeds for alpines as they expected, but they are becoming an incredible source for cottage garden plants for a huge variety of conditions - gardeners from the NW rain forest to mid-west prairie to eastern woodland and all around the globe can find something unusual to treasure on their seed list - as well as rock gardeners. I hope you all consider joining them next year - they are as wonderful as they are because of the seed their members donate.
Going back to Dryad's offer to experiment with grays and design - Dryad, I'd really like to know what further thoughts you've been having on the subject. Following is a little history and compendium of sources relating to silvers - (oops, well I began with an answer to Dryad about how gray I. nil Gray Morning Mist really is)
Dryad, we just aquired a digital camera for the first time last summer, and while I confess I've bumped into the macro feature to the serendipital benefit of a couple of shots (not this one - lol), basically my technological forte is to just point and click.
So, the dc doesn't catch color as true to the plant as the older non-dc camera, I don't know how to fiddle with dc color very well yet, and the MG flowers themselves change color as the day progresses.
Actually, the color of Ipomoea nil 'Gray Morning Mist' seemed a paler, more pure gray with very subtle hints of lavender lurking beneath the gray. GMM is unusual among the other grays I'm familiar with, because those others have a gray that is more delicately difused throughout the corolla without the sharper delineations of pattern seen in GMM.
Gray/silver gardens have been a recurring moonlight theme at least since the mid-19th century. A small classic book on "silver" leaved plants was written by a Mrs. Underwood - don't know if it's still in print. A famous moonlight garden was created by Vita Sackville-West at Sissinghurst in the 2nd half of the 20th century. From her castle tower, she spun her design from a mental image of an owl gliding through her garden at night. On our honeymoon in New York, before I realized I was going to be hooked on plants and gardening, I found Adelma G. Simmons' book, Herb Gardens of Delight, and I must say her use of language and elegant line drawings is the best explication of various kinds of herb gardens I have ever found, and the chapter titled A Decorative Garden of Grays and Silvers is wonderfully instructive for how to use the "silvers" in associations among themselves and with respect to an overall design.
And what cottage gardener worth his/her weight in plant diversity could refrain from expanding the palette of silver leaves into white flowers? Especially night-blooming, fragrant pale flowers that show up to the nose as well as the eyes in moonlight? The best two books I ever found that include this subject are:
The Fragrant Path, by Louise Beebe Wilder (inexpensive reprints from Amazon)
The Fragrant Year, by Helen van Pelt Wilson and Leonie Bell (shame on modern publishers for not keeping this one in print!) (actually a later homage to Wilder's book)
Dryad, I don't know how many folks reading this know about these books and the history behind this type of garden, so I guess I got carried away here;but I really would like to see what you come up with. It is such a pleasure to have real, live humans with whom to bring alive the dreams in old dusty tomes.
Hi Shirley and Connie - nice to see you two here. How about posting some of your wants - both specific plants and characteristics of what you'd like to have?
This cold is finally letting up - once we skidded into the post office with NARGS' list yesterday just as they were closing, I finally got the first snooze this cold would let me take in a while. I'm afraid instead of updating my list, I'm heading back to the sack. Everyone stay well.
karen
ha ha lebug, becoming quite the globe trekker aren't we
If anyone taking part has asked me for seeds and didn't get a reply, its because I didn't see it. I have tried to read through the thread but it is very long and so much LOLitics I forget what I'm lookin for -- in other words please send me a dmail and ask again.
Thanks :-)
Hi Suzy,
Is it still possible for me to join? If I send seeds they will not make it before february 1, I'm afraid.
You've seen my list, are those seeds useful? And if so, how to proceed (me being a non-USA resident)? This is the first time I do something like this and I'm quite uncertain.....
Please let me know, I would love to join!
Maybe you can send me a d-mail to explain....
This message was edited Jan 9, 2008 11:53 AM
Tuikabouter, Hi!
Your package probably wouldn't take any longer than 10 days to get here.
Ana from The Netherlands has joined, do you know her? The reason I ask is because She has some extra APHI labels, and everything you would need to send to me, but if you do not know her, then maybe it would be better for you to send me your address i ndmail and I'll tell you about sending small lot seeds through customs.
The biggest problem, and I may as well make this public because people are going to start seeing your poppy post soon, the biggest problem is I can only import SMALL lots of seed which isless than 50 seeds in a packet. THEN, only 50 seeds to a mailing envelope. Poppies are usually 200-300 seeds in an envelope, and I do not want big envelopes caught in customs for this swap. It is too nerve wracking for me! (This means I get anxious! -- I always forget that English is not your first language! )
More in a minute
Tuik, I dmailed you, but go ahead and post your list, or *part* of your list, as soon as you have it ready. When somebody posts a list, there is a slight feeding frenzy, but don't worry, they're harmless!
Post only things that have fewer than 50 seeds in the packs.
MOST IMPORTANT: Tell us what you are looking for in terms of plants and flowers. Feel free to post the link to your trade page and say you are looking for anything you don't already have, if that's the case. ;)
My post is the second in this thread up top. Take anything you want :))
All, If everybody would dmail Tuinkabouter a link to the lists and have their wishlist attached to the bottom, I'm sure it would make his life easier! Do not offer him heavy seed -- No Hyacinth bean vine, beans of any kind, corn, well nothing heavy LOL! Aso we can send more than 50 seeds to him, it's the entry into the US that is the big problem.
Suzy
good morning :)
I'd love to try the Indian pink from Starlight if still available
Also I'm on a quest for BREADSEED poppies (Papaver somniferum). I'm confused about 'Lauren's Grape' poppy because it is mostly NOT listed as a breadseed poppy but on plantfiles it says it is. Does anyone know?
The ones I really want to find are Cyclops; Hens and Chicks; and Giganteum. I've always avoided poppies because the base looks very similar to an invasive weed we have (Canada thistle); but I really want to try them...luv the flowers and luv to bake with the seeds!
WELCOME TINK & LALA-get ready for a fun ride!!!
Morning everybody!
Wind... Got some Indidan Pinks with your name on them. : )