Sorry, I know the name is confusing. Is this the one you have? http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/59091/
Central Texas Near I-45 Trade List June 8th RU 2nd Thread
Sorry cocoa... mine is the pink flowering shrub that blooms in the spring right after the azaleas, but your want sure is pretty too!
Charlene, please post that recipe if you find it. My dh just adores Baby Ruths, and I'll bet he'd love it.
Does anyone have Hibiscus syriacus 'Purpureus Variegatus' ? I have never seen it before today when I was looking for something online. It is a have to have if you see it!!
http://davesgarden.com/products/ps/go/57926/
Check it out.
Charlene
wish I did..lol that foilage is gorgeous!!
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I've never seen it before either. I really think it is beautiful. I didn't even hang around the add to check the price. DH would absolutely kill me if I bought it right now. Now, I could trade for it. I would offer a lot of trades for that beauty.
Charlene
There are five retailers listed here on DAves that have it for sale.
Charlene
which one you want me to order it from.. I want dls!! LOL.. I am serious! Besides I owe you!!
LMK!!
oooooooo Pretty !!!!!
lots of bananas (red flower I think) Beck, Mibus
elephant ears Alocasia x calidora (get over 6 feet tall when mature)
Peach iris-(gone) Mibus
yellow iris-Mibus (see my blog for iris pictures)
Pineapple sage
Rosemary
Mexican petunias
Mexican heather seedlings
Portulaca
Sweet Herb
Hardy Amarillis (looks like St. Joseph)
taller yellow daylily (blooms now)
daylily with smaller yellow flower with wine colored stripe -Beck
orange daylily (blooms after yellow)
Red/pink canna
citronella(scented geranium)
lemon grass
Getting:
root beer plant from Josephine
artemisia, russian sage, maybe chamomile from cocoa_lulu
bluberries from Beck
My wish list:
obedient plant
hummingbird plant
lemon balm
pride of barbados
white butterfly ginger
any daylilys especially pink ones
I would love to have any fruit trees/bushes that would do well in Houston but not get too big.
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Here is a picture of the daylily. It is not so orange in real life. The lighting wasn't great when I took the picture.
Tabitha
O.K. Tabitha, the Rootbeer plant is yours.
Josephine.
charlene/cocoa bluestone has it for sale now.
Hi madrid!!! Welcome and it will be nice to meet you!
I have a couple blueberry plants if you are interested.. mine are in sandy soil not gumbo like you have and mine are about 6 yrs old and only about 7 ', but send lots of babies underground.. check my list above!! I'd like a couple bananas?! And I would LOVE the dls with the wine colored stripe please!
Charlene.. wheres my dmail...lol
MORNIN everyone!!
Thanks, Mama. I've been on the phone all morning trying to track it down locally. Bruce Miller Nursery said it was a fairly common found variety, just hasn't seen it offered from growers this year. I'm a bit scared to mail order this late in the year. if I find them locally, I'll let ya'll know.
Hey Cocoa, if you find it out this way, I can pick it up and bring it to the swap for you. Check Shades of Green, North Haven, Pots & Planters, Rhodes, Ruibal's and Calloways in McKinney and Plano. Those are other nurseries that aren't out of the way for me.
Barbara, are you "trying" to get me killed? Did you not read where I said DH would kill me if I bought that plant right now? Please don't tempt me so! I have spent so much on stuff for the yard that I am on a leash at the moment. So, the leash is tight!
I have been working on this yard for less than a year and to see the stuff in it, you wouldn't believe it. Of course, I have moved stuff from two different homes to here. First from my own home in Vidor and then from my daughter's home in Houston. Also when we first bought this property about 4 years ago, I started planting things in a different place from where we wound up putting our mobile home.
So, I have had to have a ton of soil to get all of these things re-located. Also, I have been in the woods here on my property gathering anything that I can find to move up here where the house is. Not to mention two RUs that I have been to and received wonderful new plants that needed to be planted.
When we bought this property it was all planted in coastal hay. That is the most difficult thing on this earth to eradicate. About the only way to kill it is to cover it with black plastic and leave it for a year. That hay is good for a pasture, but bad for a flower bed. Most of my new beds have been raised, which means labor, lumber and dirt. I haven't kept count, but I know I have really spent quite a bit.
Three years ago, I planted about a zillion daylilies here on the front of the property. I wanted to start a daylily farm. Big mistake!! I didn't know about coastal hay being the villain that it is. So, I didn't know what would happen when I tilled and lasagnaed and improved the soil.
When you visit you will see the area where the lilies were planted that is now the greenest hay around. That of course is due to the monies I poured into great soil and fertilizer and mulch. I have moved the daylilies and now I go out daily and try to figure out what the heck the name of the daylily is that is blooming today. Tags and daylilies are not together. They are driving me crazy! I check the old lists of what I had bought and compare photos to blooms. Just when I am sure I have it right, I notice some little something that says, no it is not that one, but it might be......and on and on.....
So, Barbara, just let me drool over that plant and for goodness sakes don't enable me by telling where I can find it. LOL
Charlene.. mama is an enabler.. and I offered to BUY it for you... and you aint having that either!!LOL WELL!!
I have bahayia.. I think that is how it is spelled.. and the bad thing is I am the 5th generation to be on this land and I KNOW it was never planted. .. must have been the birds!! It is tough too! But thank goodness I don't have much in the flower beds. Mine are kinda raised too. I dug all my dirt out in the woods and amended with the leaf mold.. in other words I worked like a dog, but that was a few years ago..hehe This year I bought 80 bags of top soil.. easy I thought..lol the only thing that "top soil" is hard as a rock.. I much prefer my ol' sand. So easy to dig!
Well Becky, we dig a lot out of the woods also. It does tend to have a lot of native plants and weeds in it when the sun and water wake it up. I have pulled them and added compost to combat them. I too have sandy soil and the topsoil from the woods is awesome even if it does come with it's own life when awakened.
Charlene
Charlene.. hmmm so that was what I was pulling out... wasn't interested in the natives then though.. not like now!!
I also try to mulch every year... We have a farm in TN.. told you that ..lol, well we brought the baby pigs here and sold them to the ag kids for the fairs,and I used lots of pig poop and shavings mixed. weellll it was great.. wish I had more, but the pigs are history.LOL
These are the daylilies that have bloomed so far: I don't know if this link will work. If not you will have to copy and paste it into your address bar.
http://www.geocities.com/nanaandpoppysantiques/daylily.gif
I can offer trades of some of these, so if you see something you like LMK.
Some of them don't have enough extras yet to share. I will try to find an extra for someone wanting them as trades for the Ru.
I do plan on selling these later after they recover from the move. I hope to offer them on the new market site that Dave set up for us. I have got to match the names to the lilies. I am almost ready to give up on matching names to the yellows. I have a dozen different kinds of yellows and they are just too similar. It is hard to sell them when you don't have a positive id on them.
If you see a daylily in my link that you want for the RU just go to the trade site and describe it and I'll see what I can do about getting you one.
Charlene
Charlene, I just love that red one. Do you think you might have an extra of that? It's #8 in your slideshow.
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I thought they were all gorgeous, but then I haven't seen a dls I didn't like! hehe
I am finally getting some "named" dls, but the older ones. Was looking on some of these hybridizers websites, and $50.00 isn't uncommon for a fan. But I can see the addiction!! They are out of this world!
Charlene.. do you pollinate, etc. to get your own?
Cocoa_lulu, you are a doll!
On the daylilies, I don't pollinate or anything fancy. I bought about $1200 worth at wholesale with the intention of starting a daylily farm. Family emergency came up and for three years they sat there with almost zero attention and were take over by the coastal hay. This year before the hay came up, I rescued them and replanted them.
In the midst of the time they were neglected, I gave away several large boxes of them when they weren't blooming. I figured I was just going to lose them at the time due to my neglecting them so much. So, I am left to figure out what is what.
I think the names are as follows:
Yellow with thin brown eye is Early Belinda. (several)
Mauve with burgandy eye is Zagora..(several)
Yellow and bronze is Frans Hal.(small group)
Creme with purple eye is Pandora's Box. (one so far)
Orange is Leebra Orange Crush (One so far)
Pink with dark pink eye is Strawberry Candy (only one so far).
Mostly red is Juanita Hammond (only one so far).
Peachy pink with darker eye is Buffys doll (several)
The best one so far is Zagora, it started blooming on the 8th and hasn't stopped yet. It has a nice large flower and the color is great. It is one of the very few that I have that is not a re-bloomer.
If I get even one more red PBtxlady, it is yours!
Charlene
Charlene... do you still have your antique shop? Thats another big love of mine
is there anyone in this group who is good with identifying grasses?
mama... only pampas grass and it has to be blooming..lol
I asked DH and he said I can come! YEA!!!
Beck: I dug up daylilys for you this morning, and will bring bannanas for you too. I would like to try the blueberrys. If they don't do well for me, I can give them to my mother in East Texas this fall.
Josephine: Thank you for the rootbeer plant
My wish list:
obedient plant
hummingbird plant
artemisia
german chamomile
russian sage
lemon balm
pride of barbados
white butterfly ginger
any daylilys especially pink ones
Let me know if there is anything ya'll would like that I have. My tradelist is in this thread.
Tabitha
Tabitha... the blueberries should do well for you but of course for Momma too...
Thanks for the dls and bananas... I have never had bananas.. yippee
WTG cocoa... LOL mama!!!
Charlene.. don't you give away my zagora, OR my buffys doll!..lol
Tabitha.......when you say bananas are they the ones that produce them too????
I know may sound silly but ya never know and there are things I am growing here I never dreamed of ever growing and for sure not back in Illinois.
Could I have some peach and yellow iris???
I know I wanted to fin e the ones my grandma grew but am kinda giving up on it for now as they are hard to find being historic ones not everyone grows them anymore.
not sure what I have you would like but my list is someplace I think on the first thread
Beck, not to worry. When you come I will hand you a shovel and you will get your dl's.
Okay, here are today's new blooms. So far only one of each. However PBtxlady put in an early request for the red and bwahla! today that request got filled for her.
If you see one of these new ones that you want. Request it and we'll see.
The yellow is spectacular. I have lots of yellows, that I don't bother photographing. This one is exceptional as it is at least 6" and a beauty at that.
The peach photo doesn't do it justice. It reminds me of a soft peach chiffon.
The golden orange (two photos) is absolutely the prettiest one yet. It is huge and pictures can't even come close to reflecting it's looks. It stands out in a crowd.
As for names, on these three I haven't a clue as of yet.
http://www.geocities.com/nanaandpoppysantiques/daylily2.gif
I know my trade list has been small, but these were worth waiting for if I can get multiples of them.
I added some black-eye susans and some Texas Betany as I have some potted and ready to share.
Charlene