NeoFarmer needs Help with Plant Names

Katie59, thimble berry, hadn't thought of that one, but a google search yes, yep, that's what it is!
You win a cookie!

Poochella, what a great laugh you gave me! I can just see that pygmy boarding the bus
with all the confidence and attitude of a regular rider. I was laughing to think what would
have happened if the driver had not seen the stowaway until underway with passengers. :)

Laurie1, ok, you asked for it. :) Don't say I didn't warn you, because I have 90 gigs of images,
and that is on just one of the four harddrives. But I promise to be kind. The six seed trays
are planted with heirloom tomatoes, asian and european melons, and winter squashes,
which are all starting to pop their little heads up, in spite of the cold weather. I started 30 varieties
of beans, and cannot imagine where I am going to put them. I am most excited about the
chinese red and pink long beans. Just think how pretty those two foot pods will look.

All of those veggie seeds sound beautiful and tasty! You must have a huge space for them all. For the first time in years I am growing spinach, lettuce mix, and cukes, I think. Grocery prices are just astounding.

I'll look forward to more photos too!

Huge Space?! I wish it were so. I am just cramming them in every nook and cranny.
I bought sage green square containers that fit neatly side by side and they are full.
The containers will have the vining plants so they can spill out onto walkways
and driveway to ripen the fruits. This worked well last year.

I have given away hundreds and hundreds of heirloom veggie seeds to encourage
everyone to start growing their own, food that is. :) I have pulled out hedge shrubs
and other space fillers to put in plants that have edible berries, but look nice as well.
I am not old enough to remember victory gardens, but at least I will be having my
own little victory over the grocery bill. ;)

Here's a good one to guess at. What will it be?

Hello Neo,

Sounds like what I did with flower seeds and tubers and rhizomes and... you get it...lol

I also planted many veggies just not as many varieties as you, although if all the cukes produce I will be having my own farmers market...even if the 3 zucchini plants get going at a normal rate I will be begging someone to take them...can you freeze zucchini??? I do not want to can anything anymore just to tired...lol I am growing 4 varieties of tomatoes too, trying white corn and of course green beans.

Isn't it wonderful to watch and wait, then they pop out of the ground and you feel so proud! Even more wonderful is the fruits of the labor whether edible or viewable, just heavenly.


I have duplicate flowers to dig up and replace with new, so I will have tons to share...lol I have 20 Iris waiting to go into the ground, 40 ordered, several to give away, and several to move once the blooming and energy is spent. I have no idea where the the iris I have are going let alone where the 40 which will come in late August will go...lol I will figure it out when the weather gets better...lol

I also have all the Canna, Elephant Ears, Caladium, Agastache, Salvia, a variety of Coneflowers, and then there are the seedlings....

And of course your inspiration to get a move on with the dry river bed....good thing I need to keep moving...Summer is coming, I hope...lol

Happy gardening all!
Carla

I don't know, willow, but it looks dangerous! ;)

Carla, I'll see if I can find the list of veggie seeds I have.
They are bizarre, black melons from Japan, red cucumbers,
blue melons, gray zucchini, black cherry tomatoes, well,
actually black, white, pink, green, and orange cherry tomatoes.
Yellow beets, etc. Some of these seeds can be traced back for centuries,
and have kept people from starving in Russia, etc.
There are beans that came over with the Pilgrims, called Mayflower beans.
How cool is that?!

Wow, so these veggies would survive our short summers? I hate when all the work goes in to grow food only to have a cool summer, I don't care for fried green tomatoes...lol

This is one of three orders, being the summer plants.
The other order was a complete garden in a bucket,
enough for a school or church group. yes, I am nuts.
The other order was all of the spring veggies.
Everything is now sealed in mylar bags, for long term storage.
So hopefully I can share seeds for years to come!

You can view these online at Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds:

http://rareseeds.com/seeds/

AM102 $2.00 1 - Opopeo
SQ131 $1.25 1 - New England Sugar Pie
SQ133 $2.50 2 - Marina di Chioggia
SQ134 $2.00 1 - Long of Naples
SQ135 $2.25 1 - Queensland Blue
SQ136 $1.40 1 - Table Gold Acorn
SQ137 $1.35 1 - Sweet Dumpling
SQ138 $1.25 1 - Jumbo Pink Banana
SQ140 $1.45 1 - Sugar Loaf Delicata
SQ159 $2.00 1 - Honey Boat Delicata
SQ189 $3.00 1 - Crown
AM103 $1.50 1 - Love-Lies-Bleeding
SY101 $2.25 1 - Envy,
TG101 $2.00 1 - Aunt Ruby's German Green
TG102 $1.75 1 - Emerald Evergreen
TG104 $2.00 1 - Green Grape
TG105 $2.25 1 - Green Sausage
TG108 $2.25 1 - Spear's Tennessee Green
TG109 $2.25 1 - Green Moldovan
TG112 $2.25 1 - Green Pineapple
TK102 $1.75 1 - Thai Pink Egg
TK104 $1.40 1 - The Dutchman
AM112 $2.00 1 - Thai Round Leaf
TK105 $2.00 1 - Pink Accordion
TK119 $1.40 1 - Amish Salad
TK120 $1.50 1 - Mortgage Lifter
TK121 $1.40 1 - Pruden's Purple
TK123 $3.00 1 - Millionaire
TK125 $2.50 1 - Henderson's Winsall
TK126 $2.25 1 - Vinson Watts
TK127 $1.75 1 - Pearly Pink
TK129 $2.00 1 - German Lunchbox
TK132 $2.50 1 - Ferris Wheel
AM113 $1.50 1 - Love-Lies-Bleeding Green
TO101 $1.75 1 - Kellogg's Breakfast
TO104 $2.00 1 - Orange Banana
TO108 $2.00 1 - Dr. Wyche's Yellow
TO109 $2.00 1 - Golden Sunray
TP103 $2.00 1 - Black from Tula
TP106 $2.25 1 - Black Cherry
TP107 $2.25 1 - Japanese Black Trifele
TP108 $2.50 1 - Purple Russian
TP109 $2.25 1 - Nyagous
TP110 $2.50 1 - Paul Robeson
AM117 $2.00 1 - Golden Giant
TP112 $2.50 1 - Carbon
TW104 $2.25 1 - White Currant
TW105 $2.50 1 - Cream Sausage
TW109 $2.25 1 - Ivory Egg
BN102 $1.75 1 - Contender (Buff Valentine)

BN106 $2.25 1 - Cherokee Trail of Tears
BN110 $2.00 1 - State Half Runner
BN112 $2.00 1 - Missouri Wonder
BN114 $2.50 1 - Purple Podded Pole
BN115 $2.00 1 - Jacob's Cattle
BN117 $3.00 1 - Papa De Rola
BN120 $2.50 1 - Molly Frazier's White Cuts
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BN121 $2.50 1 - Hutterite Soup
BN122 $2.50 1 - Yellow Eye
BN123 $2.50 1 - Elvie
BT102 $2.50 1 - Golden Beet
BT104 $1.50 1 - Chioggia (Bassano)
BT108 $2.75 1 - Albino
BT111 $1.50 1 - Cylindra or Formanova
BT113 $1.75 1 - Flat of Egypt
CN104 $2.75 1 - Hopi Blue Dent Corn-
CN127 $3.50 1 - Double Standard Sweet Corn

CR104 $1.50 1 - Tonda di Parigi
CR109 $2.50 1 - Atomic Red
CR111 $1.50 1 - Chantenay Red Core
CR112 $2.50 1 - Cosmic Purple
CR113 $2.50 1 - Lunar White
CR114 $2.50 1 - Amarillo
CU108 $3.00 1 - Richmond Green Apple
CU111 $2.25 1 - Japanese Long
CU112 $2.50 1 - Chinese Yellow
CU120 $2.00 1 - Hmong Red
CU124 $3.00 1 - Sikkim Cucumber
CU129 $2.00 1 - Poona Kheera
CU132 $2.50 1 - Suyo Long
FB101 $2.25 1 - Broad Windsor
FB103 $2.25 1 - Aquadulce
LG109 $3.00 1 - Chinese Red Noodle Bean
LG110 $3.00 1 - Chinese Mosaic Long Bean
ML102 $2.50 1 - Prescott Fond Blanc
ML104 $3.50 1 - Petit Gris de Rennes
ML106 $3.00 1 - Boule d'Or (Golden Perfect
ion)
ML109 $2.50 1 - Noir de Carmes
ML110 $3.00 1 - Early Frame Prescott or 'P
rescott a Chassis'
ML114 $2.00 1 - Charentais
ML115 $2.00 1 - Valencia Winter Melon
ML116 $2.50 1 - Vert Grimmpant (Green Clim
bing)
OML107 $3.50 1 - Tigger
OML110 $2.00 1 - Collective Farm Woman
OML111 $1.75 1 - Israel (Ogen)
OML113 $1.50 1 - Casaba - Golden Beauty
OML120 $3.00 1 - Afghan Honeydew
ON103 $1.75 1 - Red of Florence
ON104 $2.00 1 - Flat of Italy
ON105 $1.50 1 - Yellow of Parma
ON106 $1.50 1 - Bianca di Maggio
ON108 $2.00 1 - Tropeana Lunga
ON109 $1.00 1 - Tokyo Long White - Bunchin
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ON110 $2.00 1 - Crimson Forest - Bunching
ON111 $1.25 1 - He Shi Ko - Bunching
ON113 $1.50 1 - Gold Princess
RD104 $1.25 1 - China Rose
RD106 $1.25 1 - White Hailstone
RD109 $1.50 1 - Pink Beauty
RD110 $1.35 1 - California Mammoth White
RD112 $1.50 1 - Japanese Minowase Daikon
RD114 $2.25 1 - Chinese Red Meat
RD119 $2.25 1 - Chinese Green Luobo (Qingl
uobo)
RD120 $2.00 1 - Szechuan Red
RD122 $1.50 1 - Purple Plum
RD125 $2.75 1 - Helios
RD127 $1.75 1 - Formosa Giant Luo Buo
SC101 $1.65 1 - Five Color Silverbeet (Rai
nbow Chard)
SC103 $2.00 1 - Oriole Orange Chard
SC104 $2.00 1 - Flamingo Pink Chard
SC105 $2.00 1 - Canary Yellow Chard
SC106 $1.25 1 - Vulcan Chard
SP102 $1.75 1 - New Zealand Spinach
SP103 $1.35 1 - Giant Noble
SP106 $1.75 1 - Gigante d'Inverno
SP107 $2.00 1 - Red Malabar Spinach
SQ101 $2.00 1 - Red Kuri (Hokkaido)
SQ104 $3.50 1 - Kikuza
SQ106 $3.00 1 - Black Futsu
SQ111 $1.75 1 - Delicata
SQ113 $2.00 1 - Sweet Meat
SQ118 $2.00 1 - Rouge Vif d' Etampes
SQ119 $2.00 1 - Jarrahdale
SQ128 $2.25 1 - Long Island Cheese

I tried to buy only the seeds with the shortest growing season.
That is why so many of them are from Japan and Russia.

Neo,
What a long list...lol...not crazy just planning ahead!
Great sight, guess I will have fun looking through everything. One of my favorite flowers Amaranth is an edible green, I haven't grown it in years. I love cooked greens, raw too, but I cannot get my DH to eat cooked ones.
With all of our farmers not able to make a living farming and more and more giving up the land, we better all start thinking backyard gardens like previous generations always had. What is a garden in a bucket?

http://rareseeds.com/seeds/Seed-Collections/

Jumbo Heirloom Package (Northern Selection)
A giant package great for large groups, schools and families; selected seeds for a sure supply of delicious home-grown produce. Contains over 30 types of vegetables and over 275 varieties! These seeds come in a heavy plastic bucket. Get 300 full-sized packets--all for one low price! Selected for cooler climates.

I have mine sealed up tight, so hopefully it will store for a while, until I have used
up all the other ones, and hopefully I will be drying the seeds this Fall as well.
Last years onions are going to seed now, but onion seeds only store for one year.
Most others store for 3 up to 10 years.

Neo, do you think the seeds will last any longer if you seal them with a food saver? I love mine especially for blanching veggies, they last so much longer in the freezer.
I will have to check into some of those seeds for the next season, do you grow lettuces year round? I wonder what kind of problems I would run into trying to grow it inside in the winter? I have many south facing windows in rooms we do not use.
Sorry I fell off the posting, you reminded me I needed to repot my lemon.... so my white clothes are now black...lol I never remember to change my clothes.

Wow Neo! We will have to call you Veggie Girl from now on! That is an amazing collection and I agree on all that was said about growing your own food even in containers. I am fortunate to have neighbors with a yen for veggies so we trade flowers for produce in summer.

Willowwind, I can't even speculate on the red spotted sprouts. They look like some bizarre Hosta. Is it edible?

No it is not edible. I will take pictures as it grows and post them until someone gets it.

Not edible, okay. And those two spotted sprouts are separate from the roundy green foliage behind them right? Different plants?

Is it the Voodoo Lily-Dranunculus vulgaris? Wild guess.... but they have spots too.
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/15478/

neo that is an amazing list! A lot I recognize, and several I am growing as well - but I have to say, your list is thorough! Hope you are planning on opening a stall - you will be introducing people to a lot of new things - excellent!

And WW - I haven't a clue what that plant is, but look forward to updates!

Pat, I look forward to updates, too.

Kathryn, let me know when the produce stand is open. You definitely have some yummies there. Where do you find the time, girl?

I have been off work since January, so I am working like a mad woman
to get things done that I know I won't be able to touch once I start teaching again.
Wanna see one of my digital paintings?

This one is from a photo of the mossy garden at the Bloedel.

Amazing!

You made my heart stop. Love Bloedel's and love fantasy art. When are the lessons going to be offered? ^_^ If you make prints I want one please.

This message was edited Jun 7, 2008 4:22 PM

Not a Voodoo lily and it is seperate from the sedum.

darn Willowwind! That was my best guess....so far.

Neo, I love trees, their pathways and the moss that grows on them. Your glowing digital version gets my glowing review too!

Thanks Carla, Willow, Poochella!
I love growing, photography, and painting nature.
Wish I could just stay home and do it full-time, but don't have any patrons. :)
Here is one that was inspired by some rocks in Brinnon, close to my cabin.
I added the water. . .

Oh my - I want HUGE print of that one to hang over my bed!

Oh my, how in the world did you do that, it is so calming to look at.

I think I make calm places like that so that I can "visit" them anytime.
Like going on vacation without all the hassle. :)

Beautiful, there should be a market for art like that....just wonderful Kathryn can I use that picture as a screen saver for a while?
Carla

Sure, Carla, but you won't get any work done. ;)
If you are like me, you'll just sit and watch the water.
It will hypnotize you. ha

Beautiful Neo

Thanks so much! I am on the move so much I sometimes just need something to stare at that is calming and relaxing....I have become a little hyper with my back and hip problems...lol

Neo - I can't imagine that you have any problem with those students of your's! They think you are soooooooooooo cool! My goodness - I am stunned.

Friends, I think we need to pass orb and sceptre onto to Neo - we have a new queen!

Hold your horses! No orb tossing here. Neo is new, as in green, fresh, unproven, etc., etc.
I truly, truly accept the compliment, but I know very little about plants, unlike the reigning royalty.
I only photograph and paint well, because it is my life's work, so that's different.

Some of the women who participate in a concept art forum had a competition last year.
The theme was fairy tales, so of course I looked for ones with flowers and wildlife in the themes.
I started working on this one, The Heron and the Hummingbird, but only did the rough before
changing my mind to The Flower Queen's Daughter. She has been taken captive by a dragon.
Well, we will have none of that! ;)

She is adorned by two blossoms, can you tell which ones?
Should be super easy for you guys!

Kathryn,
Whatever it is it is gorgeous, love the snake around the feet such beautiful detail...I would say Datura and Pansy? could be so many.
I would love to have the first one done in stain glass (or oils) to capture the sunlight...
You are very talented young lady!

This message was edited Jun 8, 2008 11:29 AM

Pansy it is, at least the part that caps her head, the pink blossom above is something else.
And then there is the dress, which is one blossom. Hint: Think things that hang down.
The hummingbird one does have a stained glass look to it, now that you mention it!

Is it those Burgmassia (spelling). I love that. Cocoa is right, you are so talented and so artistic.

Thank you very much for the compliment!
I only know common names, so Brugmansia is angel's trumpet?
Does make a pretty dress, but guess again.

Fuschia maybe, after looking closer?

Bingo! I looked at a close-up of a fuschia blossom
and thought it would make a lovely dress, albeit hard to dance in. ;)
My mother used to take hollyhock blossoms and turn them into dancing ladies for me.
I loved those more than any store-bought doll.

WOW,