Seeds from DragonFly up for grabs to PNW Forum folks

This thread is now closed. Seeds will be mailed on Thursday, January 24, 2008 I will dmail you with your postage costs. Enjoy!

Hi all!
Well it's raining and I have been spending the day inside pawing through the box of seeds that Heidi (Owner of Dragonfly Farm Nursery) sent to me to take to the Winter Sowing event last Saturday. We sowed some of the seeds but there are sooooo many. Heidi is so gracious and loves to support our habit!

So here is my thought. Susybell is helping me make this happen, hugs to you Susy! She and I will be posting a listing of the available seeds on this thread. It is first come, first served. Remember to be nice and share kids, I have no doubt you all will. Everyone on this forum is so kind, generous and giving (yes that is the jewish mother side of me laying the guilt on all of you!!!)

Please dmail me a list of your wants. I will package them up for you and figure out how much postage is and then you can just send me a check via snail mail. We can also meet for lunch or coffee and save the postage!

Hope this all makes sense! I will do my best to edit out items once they are spoken for. Enjoy!

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Guizotia http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/139810/
Oenothera versicolor 'Sunset Boulevard' http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/2089/
Tomato Early Big Red
Goldmane Tickseed-Coreopsis basalis http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/55838/
Chinese Varnish Tree, Sumac Rhus potaninii http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/152479/

Echinocactus http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/53101/ or http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/55964/ on the packet it says "mix"

Purpletop Tridens Tridens flavus http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/148539/
Nepeta Tubersa http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/76723/

Himalayan Blueberry Vaccinium moupinense (I think, it is handwritten on the envie Himalayan Huckleberry, will have to check with Heidi I think it's her handwriting) http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/138701/

Tobacco, Cultivated Tobacco, Smoking Tobacco http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/166322/

Clusterhead Pink, Dianthus carthusianorum http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/2276/
Shoofly Plant, Nicandra physalodes http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/654/
Eucalyptus rubida http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/90891/
Pale Evening Primrose, Oenothera pallida http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/64334/
Tree Tobacco, Nicotiana glauca http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/51448/
Verbascum (unknown species and cultivar)
Olive Tree, Olea europaea http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/2374/
Round Headed Bush Clover, Lespedeza capitata http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/54598/

More to come after dinner......

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Billiardia Longiflora Purple billardia vine-Appleberry
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/74155/

Phaseolus vulgaris "yin yang"
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/158852/

Red peony poppy
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/38366/

St John's Wort (White varigated)
My best guess:
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/159858/

Watsonia Garden ?
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/search.php?q=Watsonia&Search=Search+PlantFiles

Veronica - By night?
Hmm.
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/search.php?q=Veronica+&Search=Search+PlantFiles

Pachycereus mix
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/search.php?q=Pachycereus&Search=Search+PlantFiles

Red double poppy
No way to know which one
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/search.php?q=Red+double+poppy&Search=Search+PlantFiles

Calamagrostis Canadensis - Blue joint grass
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/136978/

Pennyroyal Mentha Pulegium
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/297/

Amorpha canescens Lead Plant
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/1512/

Silphium perfoliatum cup plant
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/1068/

Eucalyptus rodwayi (Swamp Peppermint)
http://oregonstate.edu/dept/ldplants/eurod.htm

Carex Trifolia-(Trifida?)
Well, it's a Carex
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/search.php?q=Carex+&Search=Search+PlantFiles&offset=0

Rudbeckia Triloba Brown-eyed susan
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/1173/

Horehound
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/54892/

Lepechinia
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/search.php?q=Lepechinia&Search=Search+PlantFiles

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A few more:

Pycnanthemum tenuifolium-Mountain mint
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/94040/

Carex crus-corvi Crowfoot Fox Sedge
not too helpful
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/134296/

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Holding and waiting for list.

I love it Tills!

Anything I can do to help, ya know

Working these dumb shifts as but me a little out of touch lately.

My want list so far,

Chinish varnish tree
Motherwort
Oenothera
Guizotia
Monarda
Nepeta Tubersa
Lespedeza Thunbergii

DMailing





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Here's a picture of the Round Headed Bush Clover:
http://www.oakprairiefarm.com/rhbclover.htm

Hi,

I would love (so far and if possible):

Sweet Corn, Early Yellow Hybrid

Red double poppy

Lycium chinense (chinese wolfberry)

Clusterhead Pink, Dianthus carthusianorum

sending dmail also

Oh Rachel and suzy I never meant to create more work for you all. Thanks so much for sharing and I hope we can add a few new plants for peoples garden. I'm so glad your going to see Jim. He was the one that suggested you come see me last fall and he was the one that got me to join Daves garden. Jims the man. The red poppy is the opium poppy which looks like a peony flower. They are very pretty and I have them planted with the tall purple verbena and it looks great. The himilayan blueberry is probably leycestera formosa my guess. Thank you both Heidi and Dragonfly

Wow, free seeds...Thanks so much Heidi, Rachel and Susy.
I would love to try....so far

Lepechinia
Rudbeckia Trilba Brown-eyed susan
Verbena Rose
Gaillardia Fanfare
Dahlia "Roxy"
Leonotis Staircase

Thanks,
Carla

Hi Heidi,
Please, no apologies! Some of these were completely new to me. It was a lot of fun looking them all up. I discovered a lot of interesting plants that I'd never heard of, and also a few new plant websites, too.

Heidi- No apologies girl, I'm having a blast! Now when you ask for some back we will know that you are a serious plant addict!

I would love to try the standing cypress. Heidi, is that difficult to grow here? I love the look of that one and have almost ordered it before, but then wasn't sure about how it would do here. What's your advice on this?

I'd also like to try Nepeta parnassica and the Holly Flame Pea

Guess I better list these to make it easier:

Standing Cypress
Nepeta parnassica
Chorizema Holly flame Pea


Susy, bet that Veronica is 'May Night'. Whoops! No that's a salvia. The Carex is Carex trifida, I think.




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Hi Pixy what is the standing cypress? Ipomopsis? If so Beautiful failage and cool red flowers. I have grown it as annual. The hummers love it and It draws attetion since it looks different nice and feathery foliage. I'm so glad to share. I truly do this for the love of plants and get so excited about all plants and now I have more people to share with. I'm kind of far away from tons of plant geeks especially with heronswood gone. Now your here every eveniong with me giving me a boost to keep going. I have fifnished my manure phase and now I am onto the black compost phase. Yhis one is the icing on the cake and the dogs agree with me They keep eating it and its gross. Happy sunny day. Heidi and dragonfly

Yes, the Ipomosis. I'm excited to try it. If it does well, I'll collect seed to share for the following year. Glad to be of service to your plant geek needs!! I do so envy the truckloads of composted manure you get. I wish there was someone around here who would deliver that to my house.

I would be happy to have some seeds. I wasn't thinking I could manage it, but I just saw your d-mail Rachier, and you probably don't live too far from my mom's house. She lives at Panorama off Sleater Kinney Rd. I would love to get together. I don't know exactly when we're leaving, but I'll be around Sunday for sure. I'll d-mail you when I know our timing a little better.
I might like if still available: Peas- dark green; Goldmane tickseed; Rudbeckia sweet black eyed susan; Elsholtzia mint shrub. Any and all would be an adventure in experimentation. Many thanks!

MHF- I will set those aside for you. I am just north of Sleater Kinney by about 2 miles. Look forward to hearing from you!

Oh, Heidi, leycesteria formosa . . . I planted several of the "himalayan blueberry", not knowing that it might be the leycesteria formosa. I "discovered" this shrub when it was in bloom out in front of Molbak's last summer and actually turned around to go inside and buy it. And this when I was out of work and had no business spending the money.

I just think it's the most beautiful looking plant and blossom. And I might get some more. Woohoo!!

http://www.rainyside.com/features/plant_gallery/shrubs/Leycesteria_formosa.html

Oh, that is really pretty! Is it evergreen?

Hi Katie Yes it is so pretty. I will seed around so you will have babies around. The yellow form golden lanterns is also very pretty in the part shade. Heidi

Pix - mine is still green and hasn't lost leaves, but I don't think the mature plant at Molbak's is, so I'm not sure what it generally does here. That mature plant was at least 5 or 6 feet high - pretty dramatic - and lush and healthy looking.

Heidi - I'm thrilled that this will reseed. I'd love to share with others and a few more to add impact will be awesome. What's your experience with it as far as it being evergreen?

I am enjoying the threads today - first time I've felt relaxed enough to do so (I think I'm realizing that I can handle what Steve needs at this point).

I'm almost afraid to take any seeds, though, as even the ones I got from folks last Summer (before my life changed so drastically!) didn't get planted. Of course, I'm "retired" now so have more time, right? LOL. I do have a four shelf thingamajig with a plastic cover that zips that I plan to use for seed planting, etc. And I have one of those little heat mats. I just need to go get the stuff off of the shelves (amazing how it became a storage unit before I ever even planted one little seed).

hi Carol Glad to see you are hanging in there. I enjoy starting seed I go down everyday to see if any sprouted and it so little but makes me happy. My trouble is finding the time to prick them out, that where I get behind. You make my problems seem so small and by sharing you days makes me appreciate mine. Hang in there Heidi

Katie the leycestera seems to be a short lived plant I had some in my garden they look good for maybe 3 years then start to go downhill to where I rip them out but there are more all over your yard so you always have a supply. I wouldn't count on the one you have as beening a focal point in that bed for very long.

Thanks, Heidi - I'm hanging in there . . . quite well today, we'll see about tomorrow!! I'm actually feeling quite fortunate to know all the people I know - both in "real" life and here on DG (some of those overlap, of course!).

Tomorrow I hope to check things out in my yard a bit - had planned on it today, but funny how the day got away from me (I did get some long overdue cleaning done, though - plus all the bed linens changed). I had divided and potted up a lot of plants and need to check on their well being. I do love watching my plants multiply!

Hope everyone is having a peaceful evening.

Carole

Carole it's wonderful to 'see' you on these threads! This is good selfcare so good girl! I hope you get a chance to sow a few seeds this year as it really is cool to see that little plant come up from such a small seed. Last summer I collected some seed from a tree peony in a friend's mother's yard. The peony is really old and I have no idea what the flowers look like but it had a few seed capsules on it so they came home with me. I nicked them today, treated them w/messenger and put them in a baggie with moist seed starting medium. I have no idea if they will germinate, but if they do it will be a cool surprise. Years before a bloom, of course, but worth the wait.

Thanks, Melissa - I admit it is very soothing to be catching up on DG . . . especially the PNW threads!!

Absolutely! A little 'normal life' is so good for you. Caring for a sick family member, much less husband, can be all-encompassing.

Hi Pixy I have sowed many peonies and they are easy but they are a 2 year germinator and they need cold. I think the first year they send down the root then the next year they push up the leaves. I have found it easiest to push them in the f=ground in an out of the way spot and forget about them them. Then a few years later wa la you g=have babies. Heidi

Are tree peonies the same? In my germination manual it said to get them to germinate using the warm baggie method, then plant them and put them out in the cold. I figured they were difficult. well, done is done so I'll let you know if it works.

I don't know. What is the warm baggie? Moist paper towels? I have that huge yellow tree peony and thats what I have done. i don't think what you are doin will hurt. It might speed it up. We'll see keep me informed. Maybe you have a quicker way than 2 years. Heidi

you take seed starting medium and put it in a ziploc bag w/a little moisture and the seeds and put it in a warm place w/light until they germinate, then you pot them up.