HAVE LIST / WANT LIST FOR PNW ROUNDUP EXCHANGE

I'm not sure about the geraniums. They would be pretty but I know she will not know how to take care of them. More to the point, she has a very difficult time getting around, so I was thinking shrubs and subshrubs would work well as she could hire someone to come in once a year to do the pruning.

Xeric grasses would work well, too.

Yes, I think those are on the list. I suggested to her that the large grasses would be a nice way to help screen the view of the neighbor's bathroom window. I do have some photos, just haven't had the time to download them.

Maury, I'm probably not going to come. I wanted to but so much here going on. With this heat, I haven't gotten things done here that I needed to and I'm afraid hubby will be mad if I run out all day Saturday, leaving him with all my animals to take care of on top of everything else! So I guess I'm saving myself for the round up in August. :(

I'm not going to make the farm tour. I got heat sick yesterday, and I'm still very weak and feeling yucky. Going to try to rest all weekend.

Is anyone interested in adopting some spider plants? (House plants but make a nice addition to a summer potted display.)

I also am going to get rid of all of this English Ivy. It is pretty but not what I want here. Any Interest before I tear it out?

And I will have some starts of this. ID, please from those of you who know.
It is about 24-30 inches tall and in full bloom now.
I think it is some kind of veronica??????

Sharon, I'd love some of the ivy, please. I was going to beg a little off Julie, but if you're pulling yours anyway then I'd gladly take some. The ivy that was under the hedge by my frog pond is just too scraggly, I think I need to start fresh. Really want to get some cover going over those rocks.

Ok! How much do you want? Actually, I might not get to tearing it out until after Roundup, so if you come here for brunch on Sunday, you can take as much as you want then. I am replacing it with daylilies so it can wait till then.

Not a ton- the corner I want it in isn't very big. I am planning on coming to brunch, so that will totally work for me. Thank you. :)

I'll take ivy as well if there is extra. I love it!

The blue spikey flower is so pretty. It's similar to liatrus so maybe is related.

Sharon - looks like a Veronica; which, I'm not sure.
Liatris is from the Aster family, Veronica - Scrophularia family. Both pretty & nice together as they have similar needs.

MHF
Please save me a pepper tree. I'll have lots to trade.

Pony, take a bunch of cutting from the Ivy and put them in water, they will root.

I would like some of the purple flower PN. I have a purple place as Laurie calls it Its really Purple Haze and I lost all my purple saliva during the winter, and they can take there place.

I have alot of Bee Balm I think its Marshal's Delight.

Sharon, that looks like a veronicastrum, although they are generally taller plants, and I would love to have some! They are very nice plants. I have one that blooms white, and I put a lavender one out front but I'm not sure it made it through the winter. http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.missouriplants.com/Whiteopp/Veronicastrum_virginicum_plant.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.missouriplants.com/Whiteopp/Veronicastrum_virginicum_page.html&h=650&w=459&sz=72&tbnid=zdL0azUFEv8fQM:&tbnh=137&tbnw=97&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dveronicastrum&usg=__cEI75zSs0b-tq-4RjJXk3p2rmjM=&ei=FkJ1SrjNLJSsswPao7XZCA&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=4&ct=image

I grow veronicas & veronicastrum. There are several differences, but you can usually tell by how the leaves are arranged; also - veronicasturms tend to be much taller than the veronicas. Although, I say that & have a white veronica that topped out at 4.5 feet. (!)

Veronicas have their leaves opposite, alternate.
Veronicastrum leaves are whorled around the stem.

Veronicastrum:

Veronicastrum again:

Veronica: not the best picture - I just whacked this one back about 2 weeks ago.

I have several Veronicastrums. For those folks that like tall low maintenance plants - this is it. the bees love them, and they rebloom as long as you deadhead the flower spikes. I bought mine years ago from a native plant nursery in the midwest. Digging Dog Nursery has a nice selection. I will attempt to gather seed this year.

Veronicas - I have several of these, too. The spicatas range in size - Icicle (white) is the one that is over 4', the only negative is they tend to flop - usually related to partial shade. Mine are in full sun - they flop anyway.

Veronicastrums are hardy to Z5. It's a wonder that any plant made it through last winter, Pix!

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Looks like veronica is the conclusion. It does reseed itself readily, so I should be able to share with whoever wants it. Tilly, I would be happy for some monarda as my seems to be pretty much dying out, probably with age. I love the smell.

Pepper trees set aside for Pony, Gwen and Thistledown. If I somehow missed someone who wanted one, let me know.

They should reseed. PNW I think ????
I planted mine last spring but did not get any flowers, and I thought they where goners over winter. but then all these babies showed up and grew.

Katye, Have a Q for you. I recieved this plant from a DGer last year. Not sure who had a spoon in it with the name on it saying it was 'Walkers Low' Know I'm not sure what it is LOL its not low mounding like I want. so what the heck is it, can you or Susy tell me.

The spoon

The monster

The blooms of the monster. It is well over 6'

Looks like good old-fashioned catnip to me...

Tils - the spoon says "Nepeta 'Walkers' Low'" which would be one of the Catnip cultivars. It's not named for its size, but after someplace in England.
However, Walkers' Low flowers blue, and your picture shows white flowers. I believe what you have is Melissa officinalis - Lemon Balm. It's of the mint family, too, and flowers white. Normally it grows about 3' high, but I discovered some recently that had made its way up through the Rhodys & looks about 5'.
You will know Lemon balm by crushing a leaf - it has a distinct lemon smell. I use it in teas, iced or hot. It is not invasive but you'll need to keep an eye on it, as it has a way of going all over. If you can dig it up & plant in a large container - all the better.
Catnip (Nepeta) has a very herbally smell when the leaves are crushed. If you start rolling around on the ground, and your cat demands a pinch, well, you'd better share! =:0)
Actually, many of the "ornamental" catnips are not favored by cats. Apparently, they do not contain a very high amount of nepetalactone, which is what they react to.
You know that cats are fussy about these things...

Thanks Katye. I now this thing is well over 5' and the cats loved it when it was small. I do not like it where it is, It does not fit. LOL
I did not get a smell off it, maybe I need to try again.
And how did you know where it came from ???

Hosta Jim came to my place today, He is looking well and brought me a Red Dragon Hosta Its so cool, says it has red stems in spring.

Yes, does look like veronica after looking at the photo again.. I thought I saw the whorled leaves the first time. That's what happens when I'm on the computer late at night.

Duh, I didn't look at the color of the flowers. Lemon balm tea is good for calming an upset stomach. Smells nice, too.

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MHF, Could you set aside a pepper tree for me, too? Thank you!!!

Tils - if it does not smell like lemon, then it most likely is a Catnip. The clue would be whether the cats showed interest.
I have not seen any white flowering catnips, but then, I never saw my great grandmother, either!
Also - I'm not sure I understood your question about me knowing where it came from - you mean the history of that particular catnip (walkers' low) or, that I know where it's from as in: who gave it to you?
In any case - you've got it, now! (who was using spoons as tags.....?)

Katye, never mine I read your post wrong about where is from.

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Catmint, catnip, lemon balm are all in the mint family. You can tell by smell and also by the stems - members of the mint family have square stems . . .

Mary, I gave away some lemon balm seedlings at Gordon's last year. But they weren't labeled - is it possible that your spoon came from something else?

spoons travel: they are known to run away with dishes.....

Those naughty dishes, always convincing some innocent spoon to run away with them.

No I think I figured out where I got it from only one DGer at that time used the the spoons and its her handwriting LOL as I have others from her. That I did get at Gordons that is what clued me in
Got it way before Gordon's, in fact it was the first outing to Heidi's

It does have a more herbal smell than minty, It does not spread just go's up. But then again I crushed leaf and gave it to Sassy and she turn her nose up at it, So I still don't know what it is.

Katye, to hard to explain. tell you at round up LOL+

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