Do any of you grow Myosotis (forget-me-not)? I've got Cynoglossum, which is also known as forget-me-not, and love them, but would like to get some of the Myosotis type for early bloom. Those pics of them blooming around the ankles of late tulips has had me longing to do that for years!
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Hey, they say you shoud plant Monkshood as soon as the seeds are ripe, in your defense lol I've tried those several times with no luck, I have some blooming now they are so pretty, I have the tall ones that get about 5', I just love them!
Trying to clean all of these seeds right now and trying to get more plants in the ground before I REALLY have to stop, I don't even want to think about planting seeds right now lol I'm sick of plants after this summer LOL I have planted all summer even in the heat! I just hope I don't end up with this many for next year LOL I'll be in the swap for this year but if I'm not giving a lot more than trading someone smack my hands :) I still have seedlings that I'm giving to the nursery that I go to, they are busy so they asked me to hold onto them for a while lol
Hey Seandor, nuts are seeds too!
Your right, Tuink! I just love starting plants - I just don't have enough room for everything! For instance, I have six latana plants - I grew each from seeds, and I can't bear to treat them like annuals . . . so I bring them inside. And I have six brugs (well, I managed to give away about six) and all those brugs have to come inside. And then there are the geraniums - well, I grew those from seeds too - so, I guess I will bring those inside . . . sigh . . . how do you get tough enough to toss them when you struggle soooo hard to get them to grow in the first place?
star, I emptied my jars of tomato puke (..well, it might as well be, lol) today, and it worked like a charm! So glad you posted that link. I've got the prettiest clean tomato seeds drying on paper plates now.
I've just about got all my seeds cleaned and bagged. Whhheeewww! thats a relief!
Have any of you saved seed from Park's Whopper marigolds (or other large flowered hybrids)? I figured there will be some varying from the originals, maybe not as uniform in height. I actually wouldn't mind if they got a little taller. They were really pretty, so I've saved a lot of seed from them.
Way to go gemini! Now just make sure ya let them dry for three weeks before puttign in fridge. I didnt let mine dry long enough first time i evr did and lost the seeds. I follow shoe now and he said three weeks.
We need to get this seed frenzy swap started, I gettign antsy and ready to rumble.
LeBug, th epetunias are goign for the acedemically challenged kids to grow for Mothers day. Gonan have them make a bunch of big baskets since things are relaly really bad down here with folks out of work and this way they wil have somethign to give. Gonan take a lot of seed and alot of plants.
I thought you weren't going to start the swap until Dec.? lol I'm still cleaning seeds and freaking here :) I'll be planting still for Thurs. and Fri. if the weather is like they say it's going to be lol I'll have all kinds of plants heaving out of the ground this year!
I have lots of petunia seeds to send ya Star, it's a shame I can't send dirt too lol Where are you going to plant the 'seeds' That's a lot of tunies :)
Meredith, have you heard anything?
my neighbor and I have a lot of these ..... they look a bit "sad" because we were in teh upper 20's
no frost yet... but quite cold for many of the plants.
Dang did I say December. Wow gota wait another whole month. AGggggggggggg the anticipation is gonna make me bite my fingernails off.
Thought it was gonan run from November 1st til like begining of December sometime so foks could have for Christmas.
But if everybody wants to wait til December 1st that fine with me. Been along time since last January and I got antsy pants. hehehehehhee
Gonan start the petunias in the classrooms in cups and them kids wil probably dump a ton of seed into their cup. LOL I wish you could send me dirt too. I hate to think of how many bags of soil it gonna take. I go the baskets donated already for them.
Star -- yanno, you can get the thread started, so peeps can post Haves/Wants
granted, 4 weeks is a long time ... but it will give some folks a good heads up.
ya also figure... many will be pretty busy just before Thanksgiving, which is only 4 days before December 1st.
this was me [well, my stuff] going out to work in the yard today.... it was a great day... sunny, mid-40's with low winds.
I probably spent close to 5 hrs out there today.... gathering seed, pulling weeds, cutting back dead plants.
heres my basket with glass jars, later came the camera and clippers.
It was a great day.
How nifty, wish I was as organized as you. I just gather as I walk by and see somethign ready and stuf fin my pockets til I get back inside. Love yoru basket. : )
Yep, Figure most folks be busy with Thanksgiving Holiday and travel, so best to wait til the first.
I sitting here freezing. Can't belive I having to turn furnance on this early. I went to three gas stations today and they was out of gas. Just glad was able to get some for home heat though th eprice wil break the budget big time.
Star -- i'm ususally not that organized... i just go out with baggies in my pockets [sometimes a marker to write on the bags] and my gloves.
but today -- since it was our first COLD night -- i was on a mission.
Tonight, again, is supposed to be 29° [like last night - though still no frost warning] so many others may be toast in the morning... much of the plants around my house, are still OK. where the same plants out back in the field got 'nipped'
My "nasties", scarlet milkweed, Celosia Wheatstras, Braz. Bachelor buttons - mostly bit the dust.
So, tomorrow i will probably have to get the Scarlet MW and Nasties around my house.
Can you believe it snowed last night in New Jersey?
Can I have a snowball. Wonder if they started the contest yet. They have this thing every year where folks from down here drive to the nearest state that has snow and brings back a snowball. first person to bring one back gets 50 bucks. a fun thing to do but cost ya more in gas now a days though I guess.
I could get into a good snowball fight. Would love to go tobbaganning. Well, I can dream I guess.
We had our first frost!
It did snow yesterday and was really windy! I was shocked :0
Therese, are those marigolds tall? They look like big ones. Will you be gathering seed from them?
I found something kind of cool today, my cigar plant (Cuphea ignea) has some seed pods developing! I read somewhere they could be grown indoors through winter, so I brought a pot of them in. They're still blooming their hearts out, and look prettier than they did all summer! I thought it strange that I saw no evidence of pod formation while outside where insects and hummers could get to them, but now that they've been indoors for at least 3 weeks, they're producing seed. Now I'd like to try some of the other species of Cuphea, especially the bat face kind, any of you growing them?
gemini -- yes i will and yes they are tall, i'd say 3+ feet.
i [we- my neighbor and I] have many of them, in yellow and orange.
they are still blooming, but i will be gathering heads... some are already dry, as i gathered a few for a gal this morning, but i will get MANY more in the following weeks.
make a mental note, and remind me later... though i can pop something into TradeTracker to remind myself if you want some.
this image isn't the best... but the flower bed is roughly 80' and probably 80% of it is Marigolds and Zinnias.
Neal I have both the Cigar and Bat Face in the GH right now. My neighbor gave them to me at the end of summer and to be honest neither of them are looking that great. They looked beautiful all summer for them...I wonder what I'm doing wrong. I have a feeling I'm screwing something up with the watering. :(
You guys are starting to make me nervous with the swap talk. I don't know if I'll have my act together enough to send much for the first swap, but I'm afraid if wait until the 2nd one all the "good stuff" will be gone. I really DO want to contribute more than receive this year, but still... .....LOL!
Boy I hear you on the overwintering problems. I save way too much myself...much more than I have room for. But if that's not bad enough I'm known locally as "The Plant Lady" and it's not unusual this time of year to find something new everyday on my front porch. I started out by bringing the houseplants inside which have filled every nook and cranny of my living space. Currently the basement is home to 6 huge pots of cane begonias, 1 wandering jew, 36 geraniums (which I can thankfully store bare-root) a pot of mexican heather, and 3 pots of angelonia (that I hope to propagate in the spring,) 11 HUGE Boston Ferns, and about 4 dozen canna bulbs that I dug up yesterday. Oh yeah and the dahlias too. LOL I just looked outside and noticed that someone else just dropped 2 more Bostons off today.
I have one set of empty shelves left. How in the world am I ever going to fit the over 200 coleus, (no, that wasn't a typo) 8 elephant ears, 1 banana tree, 2 Cuphea, 2 fuschias, a pot of persian shield and one of purple heart that are still in the GH on one stinking set of shelves in the basement?
Oh my. I think I might have a problem.
>>it's not unusual this time of year to find something new everyday on my front porch.
oh my heavens!! I only have 1 plant, OK, 2 that i bring in.
I have a Hibiscus in a pot .. DH purchased it when we did our landscaping, not realizing it's a tropical plant and would not survive our winters. [it is actually still out side and we've had a few COLD nights... but it still looks good.
then -- at our place in Wisc, i potted up a Variegated Spider Plant ... last year i brought it home and kept it in the family room ... this year, since i wasn't expecting it to get so cold so fast -- i did not bring it home, and when i saw the forecast going to be 24° earlier in the week... i called a gal that lives up there to grab it for me. I will bring it home this weekend.
DH would just about kill me if i started loading to basement with plants ... well, the kids would too, since that is 'their area'. I get the Dining Room once i start sowing in the late winter.
OH L_J, do the peeps show up in the late spring to ask for their plants back, or do you just inherit them all?
I just find that so bold... i could never do that.
Great, Therese! Yep, I believe I would like to try those marigolds, I could use some height where I have in mind, and I like the loose, airy quality to the blooms. Very pretty and effective use of all those annuals there!
La, when I lived in a home that was visible from the road, I'd find plants on my porch too! I know what you mean about all the stuff coming in for winter, but it sounds like you've got it worse than me- I've culled down a bit on tender stuff. Do you bring whole coleus plants in, or just cuttings? I have much better luck with cuttings, and they take up less space. By January they've grown enough to take a bunch more cuttings from, that I use in beds and planters. The Cupheas that I brought in are growing in a sharply draining potting media, and I let them dry completely between waterings. Its in an East facing window and it has surprised me how much its blooming with lower light than outside. Have you noticed any seed pods forming? I'd LOVE to get some of the bat face type going!
I was just out back collecting and sprinkling seeds... and i took a closer look at these... they seem to be about 30-36" high. I have some with small [traditional] red & Yellow flowers ... then the BIG flowers, that are either bright Orange or Bright Yellow.
Oh no Therese, these plants are gifted to me. This all started a few years ago when my "collection" was smaller and I had much more room. It broke my heart to see some of the things that people just tossed out at the end of the year and I took them home and adopted them. Well my reputation has grown and now people just drop their plants off here when they're finished with them at the end of the summer. Hmmm. Come to think about it that's how I got my last 3 dogs too. Apparently I have something stamped on my forehead that says "will adopt all strays." LOL!
Neal my coleus plants started out as cuttings, but since I was doing so many of them I had to start at the end of August... which naturally means that the first ones I rooted are pretty good sized by now. I may have to start over with some of the bigger ones when I get them in the house but I don't have near the luck rooting them in the winter as I do outside when it's warm.
I will check for seeds from the Bat Face...any idea where I'd find them? For that matter where do I find them on the Cigar plant? I'm going to guess they're quite small?
>>Come to think about it that's how I got my last 3 dogs too. Apparently I have something stamped on my forehead that says "will adopt all strays." LOL!
well, if you have the room.......... Good for you. I too hate seeing peeps toss things away. What always gets me is Mums.
They get them for the fall to put in their porch or whatnot... then pitch them. If i had room, i'd gather them all up and plant them.
La, it was kinda hard to describe, so I just ran and snapped a couple of shots. It looks like the developing seeds busted through the base of the tubular blossom.
Kinda cool how they stand upright. I would assume the bat face Cuphea does something similar.
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Oh Mickey Mouse plants!!!!!!!!! I love the bat face cupheas!!!!!!!!!!!!
Genini.. I just from the co-op ordered some of the Cuphea Summer Meledy Mix wich has th epinks and purples and wil be glad to share some with ya.
Folks, I got another dmail from another Ike victim. Told them about the Seed frenzy/piggy swap and wil let them know when we start, but here is just a coupel of thinsg that have been asked for. Haven't really looked close at the list, but if anybody has some of these, wil ya hold them for this Ike victim.
>>but here is just a coupel of thinsg that have been asked for..... if anybody has some of these, wil ya hold them for this Ike victim.
Star --- did you post the list?
or you are probably doing it the same time i am typing....
Opps. I guess it woudl help if I included that. LOL Dahhhhhhhh frozen brain here.
"I lost this fall's crop of: blackeye susan, mexican hat, cosmo, hummingbird vine I think that is also called cypress vine, coneflowers, mixed lot of sunflowers and zinnia.
My basil got smashed and flooded-I was going to get one more round of pesto and some for the freezer then let it go to seed. I so enjoyed each fall's crop of seed and the hope for next spring. "
And also they lost Daylilies, so whoever it was that has some extra seed. I have some and if you have some we cna help with that for them too.
I have BES, Mex Hats, Cosmos, Eastern Coneflower, Stella D'Oro day lily seeds.
Great, would you mark them for Ike victim Pull Tab. I would appreciate it.
They been busy cleaning up from storm still and just saw the Ike thread and was hoping they wasn't to late, have told them abotu the swap and we would help them.
Will do Star!!
Oh wow Neal, very cool. I surely should be able to see those if they were going to seed. My bat face looks healthier than my cigar so I've probably got a better chance with that one anyway. I'll give them the once over tomorrow. ;-)
Oh yes yes yes!!! star, love those Summer Medley Cuphias- they're just gorgeous! They do look like Mickey Mouse don't they! And I've got zinnia and cosmo seed (several kinds of each) I can set aside for the Ike victim.
Lala_Jane . . . . I feel so much better! I thought I was totally nuts until I read your post. Since I know that you are totally sane, it means I have a long way to go before I have totally lost my mind!
I would love a picture of your basement when all the plants are in ^_^
Will save ya some of the Chuphea Gemini. There are also another new one out called Tiny tempest. Unfortunataely it is only by vegatatively propagation. I was given one to try and it looked great for awhile, it only gets about 6-8" high and was cute while it lasted.
I have had the Bat face late in the season start to die back and look icky and have brought it inside and overwintered it and kept it going for awhile, but generally I just treat it at as annual here though some folks have big bushes and overwinter it outside. No luck fo rme yet that away.
AHHH-somehow I missed the new thread-man-now I have like hrs of reading to catch up on;) Will read it B4 I start throwing out suggestions...
Hey Fairy, good to "see" ya- glad you found us!
star, I had no idea that the plant commonly called Mexican Heather was a Cuphea till I started searching! Those are something I've always noted at the garden shops and thought they were pretty, but hadn't seen any "full grown" ones in local yards and plantings. For some reason had never thought to look 'em up.
OK-so are we listing here or when the actual thread opens?? And is it goint to be in the swpa forum or trading forum?? I have a bunch of seeds:) I need to get the rest collected-I need some paper bags to just dump em in-it is some salvia and some nicotania. I am gonna collect a few heads from a grass I have-no clue what the name is, is a tight cute little mound w/ about 18" plumes that get a reddish color-sorry I know not very helpful:( But I do really like them:)
I like Seeding Frenzy and vote for Ansofan's box pic:)