I don't think anyone here would ever be mad at 'any' amount of seeds! lol The more types offered the better!!
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Thanks Meredith.
OOOO-Can I have the Gentian??? PLease Perennial???
Stacey
You're quick on your little cloven feet Stacey. Yes you may.
I don't have hooves;) I flutter per say!!LOL
Oooops. Sorry. Must have just imagined.
perenially me, I'd love the lilium martagon (turk's cap) purple!!!
Do any of you have Snow on the Mountain (Euphorbia marginata)? I love that old fashioned stuff, and it does look snowy and cool among other plants. Anything our grandmothers may have grown tickles my fancy.
I have an older pack that I could find for you.
It's yours Danita. Will update later or I'll run out of edits.
(the purple martagon, that is)
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Thank you!!! :)
Cool, thanks, Danita!
Tcs... Thanks for asking, fared well, heavy and high winds are knocking us off line today though.
Artemis... beautiful pic and a clever idea, waiting til snow comes. : )
For the pepers and tomatoes especially, look fo rones that lot sof initials after them Like VTMFW the more of thos einitials you see, the better disease resistance for your tomatoes.
Hope everybody has their babies covered for this artic blast startign tonight for the next couple of days.
>>Artemis... beautiful pic and a clever idea, waiting til snow comes
I too, think i will be out there just before a big snow fall, sprinkling Poppies.
I just updated my promised seed list, so make sure I've got all your wishes down.
I also added some older (2002 -2004) commercial packs that someone gave me that I don't need. Check out my Have List:
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/p.php?pid=5785279
Just a note...When you update/edit your Have & Wish lists, make sure you scroll down to the bottom of the post and delete out all the old update messages (like "This message was edited Nov 15, 2008 4:23 PM".) It just clears up some clutter on an already overwhelming thread! :)
Danita
How likely are the 2002-2004 or '05 vintage commercial seeds to be viable? I found a bunch of those in a drawer, but thought they probably weren't any good. Haven't thrown them out yet, so if anybody might be interested, I could list them.
Many seeds stay viable for much longer than people think. No guarantees, but my guess is that maybe 50 percent of the seeds per pack would still be viable. I'd be sending a full pack so they can be sown really thickly to compensate for any "duds." They're free so it's worth the gamble, I think.
I didn't include any that I knew had an extremely short shelf life.
After all, scientists have grown plants from seeds that they found in the Egyptian pyramids! Seeds are amazing! :)
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Oh, forgot to mention... As long as the seeds weren't kept in a really hot area like a shed. That kills them fast.
I've been away most of the day but am back online for a bit... ran out of edits this morning, so couldn't update my posts!
Fairy, sorry about that... looks like one of the edits I thought I'd made didn't go through. I've got you down for the Hot & Spicy basil and the Bolivian Rainbow pepper, and I've got RatherB down for Burgundy Gaillardia.
Terese and Frausnow, those balloon flowers are lovely! And they look pretty much like the "blue" ones I have, so I think I'll let somebody else claim those seeds. (Hmm, how did I just now think that I should check my little balloon flowers for seeds... after all, they bloomed, and I'll bet I didn't deadhead them... possible that I even marked which ones were white, LOL.)
Frausnow, I don't think I had any Red Hot Poker on my list. ?
Critterologist.....ooops, sorry! The request for Kniphofia uvaria Red Hot Poker was meant for CordeleDawg! LOL
JoAnn
regarding Balloon Flowers... I've read they could take up to 3 yrs to bloom.... BUT i WS'ed some seeds this past season... and i did get 1 bloom on this tiny little plant. I think the plant stayed so small because it was sorta 'swallowed' up by larger plants.
anyone else get first year blooms on this plant?
Same here except I got about 3 different ones with a single flower. : )
tcs - can you put me down for some Asclepias curassavica, scarlet & silky. Thanks!
~chele
Danita, thanks for the seed-life info. Which seeds have a very short shelf-life?
I got 2nd year blooms on my balloon flower this year-nothin last year...
FWIW -- I'm down to ONE packet of Asclepias curassavica Silky.
perenniallyme,
Here's a list that gives some idea.
http://www.hillgardens.com/seed_longevity.htm
However, it does depend on many factors and each seed is an individual. Some will survive longer than others in the same pack.
Even though that list says salvia seed last for only 1 year, I've grown salvia seeds that were 5 years old and gotten at least 80 percent germination. I think the trick is to give them a pre-soak in warm water overnight. I do that with all my salvias anyway and it gives 100 percent germination with fresh seeds and they come up evenly which makes it easier to care for them.
BTW, I'll only be sending in the old packs if someone asks for them.
I just wanted to mention I've had the same kind of first year flowering from Maltese Cross - low growing plants that had a few tiny flowers here and there but no where near what they looked like the second. I think I've had it with others as well, just can't think of any off the top of my head. It's funny that you brought that up tcs. I was just thinking today that it would be nice if we could have a resource on dg for making lists like that. Which seeds germinate easily on the counter, which take 3 years to flower or only 1,and can be grown equally as well as an annual, etc. etc. I know it would have made my life easier if I had access to lists like that when I first started trying to grow from seeds.
Okay, not one person has asked for my Seahore Mallow and I think this is one of the cutest plants. It's a perennial that blooms a long time in the summer, various pollinators love it, and it is easy to grow in average soil or moist areas.
Don't you want one? :)
Another view
I saw it listed Danita, was trying to find some information about it . Wondered how it woudl do in the heat since I a bit below you and in a bad drought area. I thinkit lovely. : )
Thanks Danita! Guess I'll do the same, but maybe I'll first check and see if you're getting any oinks for yours.
PS. regarding the old seeds
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Gemini, I have snow on the mountain growing here and can save you seed for next season or send you plants in the spring if you would like. I must say, once you put it somewhere it takes over and you can never get it out. It is old-fashioned and beautiful though, I do love it too. JLMK if you're interested; sorry I don't have any avail. seeds right now.
Your terrible... Ya just had to show that second pic huh? Now I want some. Oink!!!!!!!! Oink!!!!!!!! Oink!!!!!!!!!! LOL If ya have enough that is.
Thsi is how we all got in trouble last year. hehehehehehe : )
edited to say inthe morning I will start thread #4 for all of us on dialup.
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starlight, I only water mine occasionally and they did fine even with the drought. They just stay a little shorter in drier soils. They are native to the USA southeastern coast so they are well adapted to the heat and humidity.
Putting your name on one! ;)
is a Mallow and a Malva almost the same thing?
When i googled Malva, a link to Daves Zebra Mallow / French Holly Hock came up .
I have a baggie that stated, Malva [Pink] -- any ideas?
Danita I thought about asking for some because I am not sure if they will survive winter here yet. I am thinking they probably will, so far I've had good luck with a lot of plants that only have a hardiness rating of 6. However, you never know what mother nature is going to deal out until she deals : ) I just wanted to say to anyone that gets it, that mine 'almost' flowered the first year from seed. Almost all the plants had budded out and one was even barely starting to crack open and show some pink. Then bam! the frost wiped them out. : ( I was so excited checking them evryday for at least a month. Hopefully mine really are seashore mallow I didn't buy them so you can't be 100% sure until they flower. At least not if you've never seen them in person, perrhaps you could look at a pic of my seedlings and tell me if you think that's what I have. I am just going to give the link to my journal on it because there are two pics in there, one of them with their first leaves and one of them in fall budded out. p.l.m.k. what you think : ) http://davesgarden.com/tools/journal/viewentry.php?rid=173014
Danita - I'd hate to think that you have poor little seeds needing a home. :-) I actually didn't think they were hardy this far north - but pf says they are and I LOVE that pink color! Write my name down too!
~chele
I think of malva as being related to hollyhock, but with many more much smaller flowers instead of fewer big ones.
PS Also smaller plants
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Danita - anything else you can sell us "northern" people? :-) Sometimes I get envious of everything you can grow that we can't.....then fall hits and I'm in love.
~chele