North CENTRAL TX RU **April 5th ** in ARL>>> (TRADES #2)

Peg - Sounds good! Do you want both Euonymous, or just one? Both are still available, so they're all yours if you want them!

Edited to say: I'd love to get both of your yuccas, if nobody else has requested them yet.

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Anyone want Bubba Desert Willow? I've had it for a few years and it's not bloomed or grown much. I think it would be happier in western soil. You'd need to have a hole ready, I don't have a pot for it. I'm just going to dig it the night before the RU and put in a trash bag/box.

Lynea, I would love to have it, but how big is it?

You got it, Josephine! It makes me so happy to actually have something you want after all the beautiful things you've given me! It's only 3-4 feet tall. It hasn't grown taller since I bought it. I think it gets too cold here as well for it. Just when it gets to growing our frosts knock it back down. I moved it the year before last to a more sheltered spot and it didn't help..so it's time for it to go :0)

O.K. I will be happy to give it a good home, I have one willow but it is the light pink, and I love the deep burgundy of the Bubba, thank you very much.
Do I have anything on my list that you need?

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I started two desert willows from seed last winter, over the summer they grew to almost 5 feet and had a lot of blooms. A hummer came up a fed on the blooms with me looking at the blooms close up. About 1 to 2 feet from my nose. My soil is that awful black sticky stuff. I planted them in Nov and they are putting on leaves on the lower part of the trunk despite the rabbits chewing on them.

Got you down, Josephine. Thanks for the offer, I'm going to decline. I'm focusing on redoing/moving the beds instead of adding much this year.


WildcatThicket, If they're suppose to grow 5 feet in a year, then this one is really unhappy.LOL I've never seen one growing in east Texas...but sometimes a girl has to try anyway :0)

I don't know how fast they are supposed to grow are how long it normally takes to bloom. Mine grew from seed to nose high and bloomed in July their first summer. I will say they were growing in potting soil not my blackland muck. I will see how they do now they are in the black stuff. Just today the buds started opening.

edit: I lost mine mind.

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Jen pat you can have both.......

I am looking for some mid size leaf non varigated ivy, I need about 6 plants. Anybody have any to trade, I didn't see any on the list.

I'm slowing getting things potted up.


Adding to my list (3) giant cut leaf rudbeckia


I went back through the trade list. May I get the following, please.
Jenepat, Beefsteak Plant, Bush Morning Glory
Sheila, easter lily
Anna, woodfern

Datura, I have english ivy, is that too large of a leaf?

cocoa_lulu, the woodfern is yours.

Cocoa_lulu - I'll set aside both a beefsteak plant & a bush morning glory for you. Keep in mind that the beefsteak plant was recently rooted, so it's still small but doing very well. The bush morning glory seems to be doing good too, but is still a baby that I started indoors from seed this winter.

I have a few more of each of these if anyone else would like them too.

Cocoa_lulu: I just looked over your list again. Can I get one of your Rose of Sharon's?

Does anyone want a Bur Oak seedling? I thought I had picked up all of the acorns last fall, but obviously I missed one.

I also have a Zexmenia seedling for the taking.

Carla

I'll take the Zexmenia seedling, Carla, if it's still available!

Have enough oak seeds growing in my compost pile!! LOL

The Zexmenia is yours, Stephanie.

Carla

Carla, I'd love to have the bur oak seedling! It's one of the oaks that is resistant to the oak wilt that is rampant here.

Thank you, Carla!!

Got you covered on the Easter Lily Cocoa. Could I have a Red Buckeye seedling if you still have one?

cocoa lulu - I don't see the ivy on your trade list..can you tell me which variety? I need it for topiary work on a med. sized project so the large approx. 3" leaves are probably too big, I need something anywhere from needlepoint to 2".

Anna, Jenepat and Sheila, thank you! The requests are yours, I go add them too my list :0)


Dature, I took a ruler outside and the largest leaves are 5" across, so I think it would be too big, sorry.

Thanks for going to the trouble though, I appreciate it!

Pat, the Bur Oak seedling is yours.

Carla

Thank you, Carla! I am planning to bring a variety of plants that are not on my trade list, so perhaps you will find some plants on my table at the swap that you can use. I have too many projects going on right now, and I'm running out of time to get ready for the RU!

Pat, I'm having that problem too! Our water heater went out Thursday, and that basically brought a screeching halt to a lot of things for a few days. It's back on now. But this swap is just two weeks away, and I'm way behind. :(

Was it a butane heater....sorry couldn't help myself.lol

Bwahahahaha!

WildcatThicket - I'd love to get one of each of your Rose of Sharon, if you still have them available. Please let me know what I can bring for you.

Also - If anyone can make recommendations for nice shrubs/bushes (preferably ones that flower), or anything else that you might have to share. We decided this past weekend to clean out an area of disgustingly overgrown shrubs and would like to replace them with a collection of more interesting (and contained) items. The area is probably about 20 ft long and 3 ft deep.

This is a pic of the shrubs we're cutting out (this pic was taken after we shaped them a bit last summer).

Would salvia greggii work? It might be too short. What height are you aiming for?

jenepat I have your name on two of the Rose of Sharon. I will have to look at your list.

Thanks WildcatThicket! Just let me know if there's anything I can bring you.

Anna - how tall does salvia greggii usually get? I'm thinking 3-4 ft at the smallest, probably 6 ft at the tallest for this area. I like the pretty colors of salvia. How long do they usually stay in bloom for?

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Omg Stephanie! Its Oenothera, the only thing I have ever grown from seed. I bought the seeds from T&M. this was back in the day ... when I tried to grow seeds and utterly failed at it. This plant even bloomed for me and had big yellow flowers. ... and I remember the pink ones growing on the side of the road. Actually there are fields of the pink ones growing out back right now.

Try the Thread #3..... http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/966680/

I have hyacinth bean seeds, some standing cypress seedlings, some triple yellow daturas, some Siberian wallflower seedlings. My daughter Sherill will be coming with me. She is Blues Maven. We'll be bringing chips and dips. Shirley

Great Shirley...glad you guys will be able to make it.

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/966680 // Here is the current trade thread. You may want to repost your goodies there.

Also the final head count page... http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/967052/ Please confim on it that you and Sherril will attend.

And the food thread.... http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/967046/ Sign up for something ....I know we still need some 2 liter bottles of drinks and plastic cups.