Hi,
Does anyone have any seeds of yummy smelling fragrant flowers they would like to trade? I already have Lily of the Valley & Valerian planted. I love to sit outside by my little pond, feeding the fish and enjoying the scents. Please check out my list and see if you would like to trade with me.
I can't wait for spring!!
Thank you, Kathy
Well, I do have a handfull of Brunfelsia americana seeds, but I don't think from looking at your wish list you are interested in anything that tropical. Nice little place for a fragrant and pleasant atmosphere!
I would love to try them! I just looked them up and they look wonderful. My friend has a heated greenhouse that she overwinters my tender plants in for me, so that will be no problem when it gets cold out in the fall. Is there something you wanted to trade for?
Thank you, Kathy
Tropical Plants would be fine because I have a friend with a heated greenhouse that keeps my plants in the winter for me. So if anyone has seeds for Tropicals that are fragrant I would love to try them.
Kathy
Hey Kathy another great forum to post in would be the seed trading one, if you haven't already - they're a great bunch of folks other there!! http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/f/trading/all/
I'm kind of a lurker in the seed thing. I don't have much to offer, but in guspuppy's case, I did. I tried reading all the seed rules once, and it was, well, long. Turns out, a few things that are practically weeds to me will be something different for her, so it was nice to connect with her. I started poking around the yard, and the next thing I knew I went from 3 seeds to trade to like a dozen. Who knew?
Jazz,
If you go to the seed trading forum you will see offers that they will send SASE's ( you send them a self adressed stamped bubble envelope and they will put seeds in it and send it back to you) to the newbies so that you have seeds to trade with. I came with seeds so I didn't need to take that offer, but I did ask if anyone has any old seed that they couldn't get rid of to send it to me for SESA and I will put them in the field here on the Nature Concervacy. So many wonderful people shared seeds with me for that. Even if some don't come up because they are too old, it will be gorgeous.
Kathy
Thanks, for the info., Kathy. A lot of what is traded on the list is stuff that I don't know how well it will do here in SoFla or I am not currently gardening that way. I may take up an offer like that at a later date, however. I have plans to set up a big vegetable garden here, but I need a lot to that. I need to level ground, build a raised bed, install irrigation and enclose with shadecloth to minmize pests. In Orlando, I basically just dug up the yard and grew all kinds of vegetables and flowers from seed. It was a lot of fun. Tragically, when I moved down here my entire seed collection was spitefully stolen from me. I had heirloom vegetables and many many kinds of sunflowers. A lot of the seeds came from a family friend who worked for Burpee. Currently, I am into managing a mature landscape of five acres and I prefer to buy live plants. My themes are fragrant plants, unusual palms, anything with a red emergent leaf, and plants that attract bees and butterflies. Also, one of the perks of my job is free seeds, so that is a lot of fun,too. I have gone nuts with 5 acres and am very happy, but a part of me is waiting to get the vegetable garden going full force again. Maybe when I am ready to do that, I'll send out the SASE envelopes!
Jazz,
Try the Florida gardening forum, they would probobly be a big help to you and can answer your questions of what will grow there. Myself, I am jealous that you live there and I am in Ohio with all of this snow, lol. I do tend to spend alot of time down there with the hurricanes though, I am a Red Cross Disaster Volunteer, I love Florida.
Kathy
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/f/region_fl/all/
Guspuppy, God bless you for any work you have done for us. The hurricanes are the harsh breath of Nature that we all know very well. They affect life and people, but nature perseveres. In spite of the fact that my first ever serious back injury was from cleaning up hurricane debree, there is always a positive side to life.Tropicals have a way of adjusting......its amazing how all the ripped up ficus are so leafed out now you would never know how broken a tree it was a few years ago. Its amazing how a species like Bucida buceras can be nearly girdled and a few years later not have so much as a hiccup in the bark and cambium. I love tropicals. I do not think all native species fair the hurricanes the best. I have observed that a hurricane is an equal opportunity event. In SoFla, we start vegetable gardens when it is just getting really cold for you. Believe it or not, tomato flowers do not produce pollen if the nights do not go below 80 degrees, so vegetable season is like October to March. I'll be back there......eventually.......when I had 6 different kinds of tomatoes, okra, 2 types of corn, so many sunflowers, 3 kinds of beans, 2 types of peas, trellised miniature pumpkins and canteloupe, 6 different kinds of squash (sauteed immature flying saucer is to die for.....), lettuces.........oh the loose leaf lettuces, and kohlrabi and peppers pepper peppers, the watermelon and the annuals........I used to take home everything that was marked down to 25 cents just because it wasn't flowering at the time........and I had bees bees bees from all that companion gardening. I would wake up in the morning and the sound of humming was so intense. What I really really need is a front end loader and some cheap building materials. It will come, all in good time. I am pround that since I've moved here we have adopted a dog from the pound, adopted a rooster from a grocery store parking lot, begun to compost, started bird watching, planted a LOT of plants, and we just try to be happy people. You are a good spirit and I appreciate that so much. Yours truly, F4F
Thank you for the kind words Jazz, I am proud of what you have done also.
Kathy
