What goodies are you just dying to have - what have you recently added....what new plans for the ole yard come spring???? For those of us in colder zones what are you doin' to keep those tender babies alive indoors??? Let's not lag "here" now just cuz it's cold....
Sooooo....what's on everyone's "want" list...
What I want is my Gardenias to survive! They are now covered in blooms....
The easy way to put in what I want would be to copy a seed catalog into the thread. Come winter, when I sit down with one of those I create a wish list that just will not end.
I want my currently green MG seed pods to turn brown with the seeds becoming little happy MG producing factories before the freeze gets them!!
I want to figure out a way that I can use a laundry soap plastic jug to water my trees/shrubs/plants slowly. I have tried cap on and the cap off...one hole poked into the bottom and multiple holes... .. either the water runs out too fast or doesn't run out of the jug at all.... I know there is a principle of physics here that I just ain't getting!! I just can't get the darn things to drip....slowly.... this is important come winter because we have been in a drought.
Santa's coming!
My Christmas wish is for a pond vacuum or that piece of equipment where you tighten it up against a small tree or shrub (like an adjustable wrench) and lean on it and the tree/shrub lifts out of the ground with no digging!!
Last -- I am collecting things for a totem.... I found a bird and a ball and some fillers (all handmade pottery) and I am trying to find a good topper.... So my last 'goodie' is to locate the objects for the garden totem!
Roberta - you and those sweet gardenias!!! Believe it or not my 'shooting star' had the nerve to produce a bud...what the heck was she thinkin'????? Hello??? We're having frost for goodness sake!! Yours WILL be fine...I know it!!!
Kathy - I hear ya...that's how I feel about Tops Tropicals site...just send em' all to me.....I'll just sell the house...LOL
Rosie - if you truly NEED MG seeds just say the word...believe me I have more then can be used...
Thanks - I am keeping my fingers crossed for two LYK MG pods that I have been nursing. I think the others will be ok. This is my first go around with them and the LY kaleidescope are for a trading buddy. I hope they will be ok. Thanks for the offer tho!!
What I want is a list of what plants are the most fragrant which month of the year. It would be so cool to have lovely fragrance from spring thru fall, I would not complain if there are any arctic plants that are fragrant Dec thru Feb LOL.
I fell in love with my few Crinum plants this year! The scent was truely to die for. I just bought C. Jagus var. Scillifolia its said to have a vanilla scent. I will still be looking for more as my Xmas present to myself.
Take Care alll!!
Caren
Kathy -
Edgeworthia and winter daphne will perfume your yard --even in the snow!
Kathy,
If you haven't already that would be a wonderful thread to start...most fragrant for particular months...wowzers THAT would be a perfect list to have.
HI Caren!!!
I dug up my gardenia 'fragrant pathways' and brought it inside. I'm hoping it will survive so it will bloom next year.
I'd really like to get some fragrant houseplants that don't need a lot of sun. Logee's has some I'm interested in.
http://www.logees.com/prodinfo.asp?number=L1924-5
http://www.logees.com/prodinfo.asp?number=B3031-2
The sunniest room in the house is the dining room and I have no more room for any plants in there, I have a tray and a jar of coleus I'm rooting, 2 trees, wandering jew, dumb cane and a philodendron, on the floor, on a china cabinet, in the corners, any space in my dining room is filled.
Jen - some of the hoyas have blooms w/a very nice fragrance - Hoya lacunosa http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/56314/ would be one - my Sweet Olive is blooming for the first time now...scent doesn't carry but if you're by it...you know it...very nice111
My birthday is right after Thanksgiving and I think I will get that fragrant Tabernaemontana my boss is mistreating......(and mis-identified, but what else is new?)
I have got many of the true ylang ylang seeds in the past year- none have taken. After watching them go from 15 gallon to 45 gallon to 95 gallon this past year at the nursery......I think this one deserves investing in "tree size." I want to expand my fragrant Brunfelsia collection, I have a Whitfeldia elongia in the bag, I am waiting for my Cubanola domingensis to make me a pretty flower, and I have a few surprises up my sleeve. Sniff sniff, night night (there is still a moonflower out my door tonight.) ;-) F4F
Just posted this in a thread I'd started months ago but will post here too - an ebay seller has a Tabernaemontana listed now at a decent price http://cgi.ebay.com/Rare-Fragrant-Jungle-Foliage-Tree-Tabernaemonta-Pachy_W0QQitemZ270307557245QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item270307557245&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1205|66%3A2|65%3A12|39%3A1|240%3A1318
Chantell, have you purchased from this vendor? Price is good, for sure.....however. This year I bought my first double petal tuberose bulbs.....it never did much for me. And that plant is supposed to bowl you over. Is it variety or locale or soil? I've smelled SEG's Tabernaemontana- they are WOW! Spicy, sweet, and strong in the humid air. A lot like my favorite Brunfelsia- B. americana. It has some "made up" cultivar, but that is often true of plants from HI growers. ~ Talk (sniff) soon!
No, I haven't...just "happened" upon the listing and thought I'd share. I've got both the double and single tuberoses...I like them...but not nearly like I love my Maid of Orleans, for example...speaking of spciy/sweet....ahhhh.
What is the SEG's Tabernaemontana? Does the SEG stand for something? Probably a "duh" question...but just wondering...LOL
Missinggrosie you need to treat the jugs as IV bags. You need a regulator. Micro tubing works great and you can get ajustable emitters.
faun4 I've had the same problem with Cananga seeds; yet they come up by themselves under the parent tree. I believe they need light and chopped leaves for mulch. In a few weeks I should know if it worked. Tag's gone and so is mulch from wind.
My want list? That what we're experiencing now is the worst that it will get this winter! That I'll not have to have carried 2 7-ft betel nut palm in and out all winter. That one of the kadamba seeds I planted would germinate-and darn the birds that pooped the Ficus seeds into that pot and faked me out. Also, darn those stupid blue jays that hammer in 5 seeds in each of the 100+ pots of plants in the backyard. Each and every seed comes up as weeds. They're not live oaks and so are useless.
Really wish of plant wishes? Viable seeds of Oud aka Aguru aka Lignum Aloes aka Eaglewood tree, Aquilaria malaccensis and relatives.
Nice question! I hope you're the wish fairy or at least one of Santa's helpers!!!!
IV Bag....if we want it to run faster we just raise it higher!
Is there no way I can just punch a hole in the bottom of the jug and fill it up at the top......screw the cap back on...sit it cap to the top....hole on the bottom... and have the darn thing leak SLOWLY?? Heck, if I have a pin hole or crack in my MILK jug...it sure as heck has no issue leaking....good and slow too!
I have frequently watered young seedlings in the vegetable garden with the slow leaking milk jug method. I especially use it on tomatoes and peppers. It insures that there is minimal evaporation and the water goes to the plant for which intended.
Kathy ---exactly.. I have read that it works.
my problem is that 1. it just runs out too fast...(no slow drip system) or it doesn't run out at all. I don't know if it has to do with the cap --?leave it on or off? Leave it loose or tight? Material made from.....hard plastic or flexible soft? Big hole at bottom or small.. one hole or two.. or ten something isn't working right. I know it must have to do with physics or volumes and pressures etc., but I just can't figure it out.
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a tuberose and a NBJ are my wish list. Any fragrant houseplant too.
I have 2 Hoyas trying to start little blooms, 1 with big 3 -4" leaves sent to me by a fellow DGer unlabeled that has a single peduncle, and a H. lacunosa with many tiny beginnings of buds (oh how I love that butterscotch scent!!)
Maybe I have just been lucky. You are right it is just physics. I got the idea 25 years ago for the slow leak jug watering from Mother Earth News Magazine. I use a soldering iron to melt a hole in the bottom side of jug and fill with water. Then I screw the cap on. I loosen/tighten cap until the water is trickling the way I want. My problem these days is that so many jugs come with snap on cap instead of screw cap. It is hard in this area to find a screw on cap.
I use the big chlorox, the Costco Milk, and the big jug that the high eff detergent comes in. They all screw so maybe I should just mess with the cap.. is your soldered opening large or small? Can I just do this with a nail hammered through the bottom?
I never thought about using detergent bottles. I am lazy I always make the holes with a soldering iron. It is easy to do that way and it makes a nice clean hole with no plastic edges sticking in. The mag had suggested using a hot nail, that is why I use a soldering iron. The hole is probably bigger than what you make with the nail.
ok I will try it and it sounds like you just have the one hole
is that right. Is it a big as a pencil or like a lollipop stick diameter?
Birdie - check out this thread we had last spring re tuberoses http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/842761/ I purchased from this vendor when they had a 1/2 price sale - I was VERY pleased!!! http://www.touchofnature.com/specials/spring1.htm & I'd be happy to share some NBJ cuttings with you when you're ready to root them. H. lacunosa's scent reminds me of an expensive French perfume...absolutely amazing!!
What size lollipop LOL. The holes are real close to the size of the standard childs sucker or tootsie pop
Got it!!
Thanks so much.
Check out this system - I have done this for houseplants and it works very well. Different sized bottles can be used based on the size of the plant or pot.
http://www.yougrowgirl.com/garden/dripsystem.php