Let’s Swap some plants! Ric & Holly’s

This is the Plant Swap thread for those coming to the Spring Swap at Ric & Holly’s on May 16th.
It may be a bit early for some of you but I know some of you are getting ready to start your seeds, either inside or out. Many of you are trying propagation of a different type. So now is the time to start.
Some of you may want to make prearranged swaps, or post Have and Want lists.
Have and Want lists let people know what plants you are interested in, or give you an idea of how much of a particular plant to bring. It also gives you a chance to look up unfamiliar plants people are bringing and see how they would fit into your garden.
It's not necessary to prearrange all your trades, There will be lots of on the spot swapping. You may also find that what you think of as a common plant is on someone’s wish list. So just pot up your extra plants and seedlings, come and enjoy. Holly

The swapping is fast and furious I have 2 more swap threads
first an extension of this one for swapping and chatting.
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/979020/
and this one for organizing
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/973418/

This message was edited Apr 24, 2009 6:43 AM

Sedum: Autumn Joy.

I need to thin several beds. Nice divisions for absolute planned acceptance on a give-a-way basis. Dmail to discuss and reserve a nice planting.

I could use 18" - 20" divisions of any flower but not as a condition of trade. One division of two or three different flowers is all that I could use.

I am in the process of trying to start leaf cuttings of my begonia.
If they take here is a list of folks ( in order) that has showed interest.
1. Critter
2. Sallyg
3. Holly
4. Buttoneer
5. onewish1
No guarantees as this is my first real attempt at propagating Rex begonias, and some have offered to trade one of their begonia starts for one of mine. I just want to have some idea of how many to propagate and bring.


This message was edited Feb 25, 2009 7:36 AM

Ladygardener, For the 2/21 swap, I wrapped cuttings in moist paper towels, then put the stems only, leaving the tops stick out, into ziploc bags and rubber banded them shut. When I went home on 2/21, I left the left overs in their bags & today, unpacked them. All of them had made new roots in several days in that environment. You could try that with one of the begonias to see if it would might speed up their rooting. I will try it with a Begonia leaf, tomorrow, myself.

I'll be editing this post for my swap lists... :-)

Divisions & (hopefully) rooted cuttings:

hopefully will have various thymes and greek oregano to share, will need to pot them up this month.

Obedient plant (pretty pale purple flowers) -- the clump really tends to spread after a couple of years, but they're easy to dig out, and they haven't seeded themselves all over my yard

Scented Geraniums (pelargoniums) -- took cuttings, so cross your fingers. (interest: LadyG & onewish)
Attar of Roses, Cocoa Mint Rose, Snowflake Rose, Peach, Lady Mary (strawberry), Cinnamon, Lime. Also sowed seeds for Coconut.

Honeysuckles (not the invasive Japanese kind -- Lonicera americana and Lonicera sempervirens)

Can bring houseplant starts if there's interest (will root some swedish ivy and other foliage plants; also have Episcias that could be trimmed, and looks like I'll have some little trailing African Violets also).


Annual & Veggie Seedlings:

I'm starting seeds of everything from basil & tomatoes & peppers to all sorts of flowers... I even have a few sprouting seeds of an African bottle tree (bonsai, anyone?). I'd like to get an idea in advance this time of how many tomatoes to try to bring... I either bring too many and end up pimping them, or I bring too few and end up with disappointed faces when I've run out. Feel free to make specific requests (red/pink/gold/black tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, etc), and I'll put your name on some extras.

Basils: hope to have Italian (my favorite), Hot & Spicy (Sumatran), Purple Ruffles, Serato, Blue Spice, Thai 'Siam Queen', Minette, Lemon, and Lime. I've also got seeds left (collected and from my Marketplace offer) for most of those as well as for pink-flowered chives and fernleaf dill.

Tomatoes:
pinks: Potato Top, Black Mountain Pink (first year for me), German Queen
oxhearts: German Red Strawberry, Joe Thierman's Australian Heart (first year for me)
reds: Wisconsin 55, "Friendship" (unknown round red from Italy)
Pasters: Polish Linguisa (huge fruits), "Fingerling" (unknown ID but very productive), 'Black Pear' (mahogany-black, first year for me)
other: Hillbilly (aka Flame, bicolor, first year for me), Yellow Brandywine (gold), Black Russian (maybe)
cherries: Dr. Carolyn (gold), SunGold, Black Cherry, Chocolate Cherry, Wild Cherry

Peppers: will have an assortment of hot peppers, mostly tex-mex types, ranging in heat from Pizza Pepper (should be very mild) to Tabasco. Hoping for a few extra sweets; looks like 'Sweet Pickles' came up well, and that one is nice for containers.

I picked up some BIG self-watering african violet pots for $5 each at Ollie's. I'll plant one up for the gift table and will probably have some spares if anybody wants one. The inside pot is 6 1/2 inches across at the top, 5 1/2 inches across the bottom -- really too big for most AVs, but perfect for ferns, gingers, anything that might like even moisture.

LadyG, I've got you down for scented geraniums, jasmine (if I can get one to root), and veggie plants for your co-worker. I'd love to try your hardy geranium, too, and I think I've already oinked for the begonia & trailing coleus.

Doc, I've got some penstemons and salvias in my winter sowing pots, columbines too... will those work for your "less than 24" tall" plants? I'll also (hopefully) have extra basils that might give you some texture and fragrance in your patio containers, and you might like something like a Tabasco or Sweet Pickles pepper also. I could pick up a Rosemary for you if we get down to DeBaggio's before the swap, but that's up in the air at the moment. Please put my name on a division of 'Autumn Joy'. :-)

If anybody wants hostas (either Patriot or a lookalike, green with a white border), please let me know... there are some big clumps that I should probably divide this year. :-)




This message was edited Apr 1, 2009 10:17 AM

Jill, I will be interested in a Jasmine cutting, I might just get lucky wintering it over in the house next winter.
I'll be able to start some coleus cuttings, they are great used in combo containers to tie everything together.
The plant swap statement that Gita made on the other thread is so true for me too, I also start seeds and give the left-over plants to the girls at work. I have all my seeds ordered that I plan to start for myself, but sometimes it is too early to tell what I will be able to bring.
I'll be adding to the list if it ever warms up enough to get out side and see what has self-sowed and needs to be dug out to make room for another plant that would be better in that spot.

Chantell is tutoring me with the jasmines, so I'm quite confident! I also have a new Stephanotis, and I have a very tough jasmine (need to ID it I suppose) that's bounced back repeatedly for me... will try to root cuttings of those also.

I can't make too many promises yet either... last year, a marauding mouse chomped a lot of my seedlings!

I know my Daylilies need seperated, but will have to tackel that job a bit at a time, I can't dig like I use to, and thay are planted along the driveway where they pushed a lot of the old gravel driveway to level off the area for the cement driveway, so digging is a real chore.

Just one of the colors I have.

LG if you have enough I would love one of those begonia cuttings

Onewish1 I added your name to my list, I may just take a few more cuttings and this time dip them in some rooting powder, I forgot to do that with the ones I am starting now.
Glad to see you joining us, I have been reading quit a few of your posts lately.
Chris

spying on me eh???

:)

If I knew I would have started my rex begonias up... I have a red black & maroon and purple black & white... never tried to root any from it yet though

might be too late by the time they get going

and the bottom of this photo ... they never got real big for me (just kept sticking my coleus in the containers to fill space)

onewish- just curious (and spying) What are those two things tied to stakes? One looks like a tree-formed coleus, if that's possible.
I wish I could tak Autumn Joy but at this stage I have all I can use. A gardener with new beds could really benefit from a good clump of Autumn Joy.
doc- if you've read about the not chocolate daisy here, that is one tough perennial that will make yellow daisys from summer thru frost. My first year, it was up to maybe two feet tall. Taller last year but competing with bushes behind it.

I am attempting to make standards out of tall coleus... I have seen it done... my first try at it... they look straggly at the moment but that's to be expected being inside all winter... hopefully they get better once outside

Yep! you caught me, onewish. I think some coleus trading may be in order too.
I also have a lot of Sedum, I have one that is very close to Autumn Joy, they root really well and I like to pinch them out in spring to get them to grow fuller and help with the flopping open problem later in the fall and of course I just hate composting the nice pinched out pieces.
Pic of coleus over wintered cuttings, same plant, the lighted colored one was put into natural light in a window for a month.

I could always use some daylilies.

I know I'll have a number of houseplants and tropicals that I've been propagating over the winter. I also hope to have lots of veggie seedlings and seedlings from WSing. I'll have to wait until spring to figure out which perennials needs to be divided.

Tropicals:
Elephant Ear Tree (Enterolobium cyclocarpum)
Night Blooming Cactus (Epiphyllum oxypetalum)
Dragon Fruit Cactus (Hylocereus guatamalensis)
Starfish plant (Caralluma schweinfurthii)
Winged Beauty Vine (Dalechampia dioscoreifolia)
Miniature Passionflower (Passiflora citrina)
Zombi Apple (Passiflora maliformis)
African Hosta (Drimiopsis maculata)
Peperomia NOID (pink leaves)
Epiphyllum hybrid NOID (yellow)
Philodendron 'Pink Princess'
Abutilon 'Gold Dust'
Ctetnanthe 'Tricolor'
Dracaena marginata
Ficus benjamina

amazing how they change color with different light

Ooh! Kubileya, I'd love to have a Pink Princess philo. I just got a big Xanadu philo, looks like I might be able to remove a division when I repot it... or I'll find you some other goodie in return. :-)

SAVED - cuz I don't what to go ISO MY space...LOL and this thread is getting looonnnngggg already

Have:

Brug - Xena - going to Karen
Brugs - will have other named good sized/fully rooted brugs avail - names will be listed as we get closer
Night Blooming Jasmine - will attempt to root a hand full of cuttings

PROMISED:
Brug - Dr. Seuss - going to Gita
Semps - Judy


ISO:
Brugmansia Eternity
Spice Bush - again....I promise to coddle it more this time!!!


This message was edited Mar 25, 2009 12:06 PM

Hey you lot, I am on Myspace & Facebook. Look me up. Judy Showers. Thanks.

Chantell - good idea to "save a space" - I have nothing to trade, promise away or do nuthin' with - however, I have TIME to come up with stuff ^_^

I'll be starting MG's here shortly - so with any luch I'll have seedlings, also several other vines and climbers - I'll even be organized and mark what they are ^_^

If anyone wants me to start Silver Lace vine cuttings I can - and also some Stephans Jasmines - when I dig up the violas in the back I'll be happy to set some clumps aside - (Odorata White Czar & Odorata Queen Charlotte ) - same for BES and Alaskan Daisies - a HUGE noid hosta (white/green), and a maiden hair fern....I'm thinking there will be lots more - I'm redoing the flower beds and stuff has got to GO! I also have white, purple and blue Siberian Irises should anyone want me to dig some up!

Will be bringing lots of MG seedlings that I have started and is now coming up, some "regular" ones and a mixture of Japanese

This message was edited Mar 29, 2009 6:26 PM

Still far ahead...but I know I already have:

--Lots of rooted and growing Angel Wing Begonias (aka Cane Begonia) ,
--some rooted Red Epis, (one for doc)
--and some rooted White NBC. (doc--the bigger one is for you!)
--some rooted Swedish Ivy
--some rooted Beefsteak Begonia leaves
--LOTS of rooted Spider Plants--including a few of the Curly one the Jill had...(Hawaiian?)
--Will dig up a lot of those little Sedum-type groun dcover thingies that invade everything and
multiply from the smidges of it's stems an leaves...Don't have a name--but I did bring it
last year also.....
--Rooted leaves of the dark, maroon Begonia I got from Jill 2 years ago.... It slowly died--but
I kept pulling off all the leaves and rooting them....
--I expect to have a lot of volunteers from the "Broken Colors" 4"s."....IF I can tell them apart from
the Grandpa Ott MG's....think I had it figured out last Spring......
--Will have some extra seedlings of both Daturas... Hope!
--Maybe 2 pots of large-leaf, variegated Hosta...NOID?
--Will take cuttings of my Ric Rac cactus--those long, skinny, leafless shoots it grows in the
low light in my LR during the Winter. When rooted--it will grow regular "leaves".

There will be a few more things when I see how much of all the seeds I seeded come up. Tried not to over do it....Maybe some stuff from my beds??? Will add and edit as things happen....

For the Gift table--a nice size, 6" pot, of Beefsteak Begonia...(so far...)
For Holly---a surprise gift plant......

Gita

This message was edited Mar 22, 2009 3:37 PM

This message was edited Apr 5, 2009 8:09 PM

didn't know what a beefsteak begonia was.... wow are those nice!!!... don't really know you guys yet and enabling already

LOL

Rob (DH) and I have decided to give this a try hoping that my seedlings will turn into something decent. He helps me with the grunt work, but these meetings and trips might get him interested in the actually planting and all the care that goes into the different species.

I am especially hopeful that my blushing susie vine will be as successful as it was 2 years ago. It was mixed with morning glories. I soon found the morning glories becoming too invasive for the area where I planted them. Now I give instructions to Rob to dig out any heart shaped flowers near the beds. Live and learn.

Most of the plants in my beds are too new to divide, but I need to start lots more to finish the landscaping so that it is not all boring flat lawn.

I have some shrubs that I could bring cuttings from (if I was sure how to do it.)

sand cherry
wisteria
purple smoke bush
varigated weigela
lilac
lilac jolee
crape myrtle
beautyberry
caryopteris blue mist
limelight hydrangea
everblooming hydrangea
rose of sharon
weeping cherry tree
purple pear tree
kwansan cherry tree
weeping willow tree
red crabapple tree

My hostas might be getting large enough to divide. Need some instruction on how to divide and transport them.

My daylilies and other perennials were put in last year and will be ready to divide and collect seed from somewhere in the future.

I have about 30 hybrid tea and floribunda rose bushes that I am going try to propagate (with help from some experts).

Rob and I will be planning to stay over after the swap and take the advice of HollyAnn and Ric on where to stay and what to see.

If this info is on the wrong thread, I will edit it out and copy and paste somewhere else.

So happy that I discovered Dave's Garden and all its members!! (almost 2 years ago when we first moved in)

We are also planning to visit the Philly Flower show either with the bus ride that is being arranged in town or by car on Wednesday after which we will stay at my daughter's house across the river in New Jersey.

Hopefully I will get to meet some of you (who I feel that I already know)

Teri

Here's mine on 2007.....
Not a great picture!

wow is that pretty... I had a blushing suszie last year as well.. mine didn't get nearly as huge as those.. but going to do them again this year... along with the alata seeds I picked up this year

oh man... Gita... something else I am going to "need"

http://www.hydrangeashydrangeas.com/propagation.html
Link for hydrangea rooting. Not sure how early in the spring you can start that though. That blushing susie is very cute.

This'll be my space (Not my Myspace LOL) I'll edit and add as I figure it out.
HAVE
=Bigroot geranium, G. macrorhyzzum, http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/2784/ A pink hardy geranium, two pots of cuttings looking good. -Gita,
=white Oxeye daisy, common wild type- jen
=yellow Datura doubles- ton of babies now
=Raspberry -Heritage- clumps
=Pigs' ears kalanchoe
=Minnow daffodils - for claypa
=Double daffs for doc?


=Seedlings one or two, from a European fan palm ( I think) "Somebody" smuggled these back from Rome without regard to seed quarantine. They are just one tall pleated leaf about six inches tall, but the second leaf is coming up. 1- miatablu
='medicinal' Aloe
=Lychee, grown from seed, eight inches tall.

=gold edge Mexican Oregano (Plectranthus) , a couple maybe, http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/56154/

=Homegrown young dogwood, American holly and Japanese maples, pretty small , like two feet or less

= Siberian Iris, blue/purple= for ladyg and anyone else, I have tons.

Removed honey locust

WANT
Buttoneer's celandine poppy
ladygardener, coleus if avail, and begonia , if not being greedy here

More prepared space to plant in. Ideal weather when I'm ready to work. Gentle overnight rains.



This message was edited Apr 3, 2009 11:39 PM

This message was edited Apr 5, 2009 10:38 PM

Staking my claim for my list.

Didn't get to list anything before a new thread was started.
Here's my list.
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/p.php?pid=6391776

This message was edited Apr 17, 2009 8:20 AM

And here's my spot!

Oh Sally, I completely misunderstood you. LOLOL. Ok this is my "spot."
Plants I will be bringing:

Hawaiian Spider Plant
Walking Iris
Tradescantia blushing bride
Huernia schneideriana
Cryptocereus antonyanus
Bilbergia nutans (Queen's Tears) I have to divide this. It is rootbound
Some Geranium cuttings
Tall Heliopsis
Greater Celandine Poppy
Campanula (maybe)
etc. (others to be added)


This message was edited Apr 4, 2009 8:42 AM

Sally, can I claim one of the European fan palms pleeeese? It might be as close as I'll ever get to Italy :-/

miata- never say never, though! All you need is money har har. When is Dave's going to start organizing tour groups??!!??
I would love for you to have one- very appropriate!!!!!!!

I keep hearing the Mission Impossible theme in my head imagining the "person" smuggling the seeds ^_^

Yeah 'someone ' is just that wild, ten seeds buried in the suitcase. But those sniffer dogs! Who knows?? Plus a pine cone. I heard too much in my college days about Med fruit flies etc. to feel innocent...I mean "someone"

Ric got nabbed by the sniffer dog. On our way back from Austria several years ago Ric picked up an apple from our airplane lunch and put it in his backpack. While we were waiting for our luggage before we went through customs this cute little Beagle came up to Ric sniffing and wagging his tail. Ric said to the handler that we had a beagle and did she think he smelled Buddy on us? The handler said "NO" and off we went to have our bags and things checked, they weren't very friendly either. LOL
I'll be waiting for a while to see what grows and what doesn't before I do my haves & wants list. Here are the plugs I got through my HGHA Co-op instead of planting seeds. There are hundreds of plants here lets just wait and see how many I can keep alive.

love the boots!

They looked much better last summer. They are the last pair of steel toed work boots I wore before I retired, my co-workers were laughing at me as the sole was cracking and they were getting pretty scruffy and I wouldn't get new ones as I wanted these as bad as I could get them. This spring I will pick up a few new plants to replace the ones I lost over winter.

very cool