HAVE LIST / WANT LIST FOR PNW ROUNDUP EXCHANGE

I would love one. Thanks

I have a very short yet very broad "want" list, being brand new here in the PNW:

*Any & all hydrangeas
*Any & all hostas
*Any & all fragrant plants, especially for hummers

I have lots to offer but can't ID most of it! So I am going to just post pix of plants available if you tell me they could be propagated by cuttings. For instance, I've counted more than 50 rhodies that came from the seller's great-uncle's place in Washington. But they're not in bloom. How do you propagate them?

There are heath plants, I think. Curly willow, definitely, and some kind of Japanese maple?

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That maple is quite a large tree, by the way.
I have St. John's wort everywhere. Is it a weed here?
Anything in this pic that anyone wants a piece of?

How about here?

How about here? That plant in the foreground looks like an astilbe but gets tall & has multicolor foliage. I don't think it's a bamboo. Ideas?

Heather? Is it propagatable? Also, lots of shrubs. I have gone out on a limb & ID'd the forsythia. The rest are mysteries.

Gosh, I'm sounding like a real idiot. Please understand that I REALLY know plants. In Zones 5 & 4. And shrubbery is a limited topic in those zones. Plus, even if something looks vaguely familiar here, it's monster size.

So here are some more things that might produce cuttings?

There is lots of pieris. Many roses. Lavender (do cuttings work?). Rosemary.

This is beautiful, glossy & thick. No idea what it is.

More heather? The thing with the blue berries could be mahonia? Or holly? It's quite lovely & appears to be throwing off babies whose new foliage has a pink cast.

Is rose campion just a weed or should I collect some seeds?

LOL Summer, no worries... I'm a native here and don't know what most of that stuff is. ;)

The plant on the far left in back in post #6970921 is Lychnis Coronarea, as far as I can tell. (AKA Bloody Mary) It's a favorite of mine. If there are any seed pods ready to go, I'd love to have a few. I do have some plants, but they're still babies and I traded away the last of my seeds.

I'd also love to have cuttings from any red roses you'd like to share. :)

LOL we cross posted. Lychnis Coronarea, Rose Campion, Bloody Mary... not a weed here, but very prolific spreader if not dead-headed. I love them. :)

Many, many kinds of ferns. This seemed especially pretty.

Yep, the seedheads are about ready.
How about Missouri primrose? Had anyone offered that already?

Hey Summer, The post 6970935, Does not look like heather, but I would like some.Looks cool..
But I would be willing to trade a large Hosta for a large one of those. Take a pic when I get home .

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Oh right, I was going too fast there. It's a conifer. I have LOTS of very nice junipers, a Hollywood (contorted) conifer & other assorted ones. How to propagate for you?

Oh, and I have red-twig dogwood that must go because it is smothering the Hollywood.

Wow. Lots of mature plants. You must be having fun!!

The big one in 930 almost looks like a Grevillea (an Australian plant), but that's just a guess. In 935, you're right - Mahonia. We have a short one and big one that are native. The shrub in front of it is a cypress - chamaecyparis pisifera. The lychnis is proliferate here as is the bracken fern in 950 (I pull them up all the time. They spread by rhizome. I think I read somewhere that it's one of the most widespread plants in the world.)

Things do tend to be bigger here because they don't have the extremes of temperature and drought.

Here's some info about PNW natives:

http://www.kingcounty.gov/environment/stewardship/nw-yard-and-garden/native-plant-resources-nw.aspx

http://www.nwplants.com/

http://www.treefrogfarm.com/nativeplants/

http://www.rainyside.com/features/plant_gallery/nativeplants/

Kathy

And did you see all the beautiful grasses? I can just chop off chunks for swapping, right? I do so want to show up with something.

CURLY WILLOW FOR ALL

Tilly, I will save a nice fuschia for you!

thanks Pony! Yes, these fuschia's start easily from cuttings, and are very happy to layer in the right circumstances (which I apparently have!) I just love them for their late season color, and they are so graceful!

Summerkid, you are going to have so much fun learning your new world! Rumor has it that heathers start fairly well from cuttings although I have never tried them. We don't have time to get a good start of cuttings of the hydrangeas that Mom and I have to share, but if you want to take some fresh cuttings home with you, we can bring them on Friday night (Thinking that if we wait until Saturday we will never remember!)

I potted a few ferns that had happily started themselves in the greenhouse that I will bring to RU as well. I figure that anyone who doesn't live in the woods might appreciate them.... Kathy...I read your post several months ago about getting rid of sword ferns and just laughed....I left the cute little things in my gardens when I first built them and have been moving them ever since! When you live in the woods, they are a wee bit too happy!

Summer...don't be over worried about bringing something to roundup...your presence will be just fine! Hopefully it will be successful enough that this will be a "first annual" and we can do it again next year. At that time, you will be much more familiar with your wonderful new world (not to mention, you may find that there are several things that are "happy" enough that you will have bunches to share!) Your late summer pics of your garden are just as wonderful as your early ones were!

Thanks Jem, I would like a Red Dog wood, but I do not want cuttings. As of now I do not have the time, nor the set up. As I am trying to get the old GH rebulit, to bigger and better. But alas no time no money, but do not want to start anything that I know I can't do. Potted plants I can handle.

Tilly, We are taking a quick trip to our E-WA house before roundup, and we have a psycho red twig dogwood there. If it has a nicely rooted layer, we will pot it for you and bring it home. Otherwise, I can guarantee you that we will have one next spring! The darn thing is taking over the boulevard between the garden and the road!

Mary - I've heard that dogwoods can just be stuck in the ground and watered until the rain starts. Nothing to do . . .

Julie, I'm finding that the smaller sword ferns aren't so hard to get out. I just have too many big ones that are going to take some digging. I will do that this winter when the ground is wet, I think. They take up way too much of the landscape.

Summerkid, that's so thoughtful, but, seriously, our plant swaps become just as much about conversation as about the swapping. I wouldn't worry about showing up with stuff . . .

Kathy, You are right...smaller sword ferns are gravy to move....the problem is that they are cute until one day you realize that they are smashing everything around them...then it's too late! I have dug some that I swear were 50+ pounds when I finally got them out. Now I am much more careful about where I let the cute little buggers get their feet in!

:-)

I was amazed this spring when I cut them all back to the base . . . my beds were HUGE!

I love curly willow. I have no idea where I could put curly willow... but oh yes, we wants the curly willow, precioussss....

(Sorry, Golem moment.)

LOL Summer, I have been here for 24 years in this same place. And have been working on it hard for the last 2 years, and I still don't know it all. I am bringing what I have to share, I will not dig my hole yard up just so I have something to bring.
Here's a story for all that think that..
When I first got on DG 2 years ago, Had no clue but loved talking with others. then we had a member who was part of Herons Wood Gardens and Started her own. Which is Heidi owner or Dragon Fly Farms. We all decided to meet and tour her place. I was such the newbi, but wanted to meet everyone. I had nothing to share to mean anything. But I came home with a car load and spent the rest of the day and the next potting them, they came in bags, boxes and what evers. All the DGes love to share. And I Know that all that where there that day will tell you the same. I at the time felt bad. But I have been scolded and rewarded in the same since.
All that means if you have it share if you don't we will.
I hope that came out right LOL
Off to bed

You all can take cuttings from my garden while you are here. I have lots of saran wrap and paper towels to wrap them in. I have a bunch of hydrangeas and a few coneflowers in the EZ Cloner. I don't know if I'll have roots by next week, but I'm trying.
One week to go !!! EEK!!!!!

Julie, I would love to have a hardy fuchsia. I have always admired those.

I have lots of yellow and green variegated Acorus. Surely someone with a shady pond or spot under a downspout, or otherwise wet area could use some. Let me know, and I'll bring it along.

Lynn, Your pink Calla lily is blooming! I put it in a blue pot and it looks pretty nice.

If one of those cone flowers is successful, I would happily take one home.
I have no idea what all I have requested and from whom. I have kept track of what people want that I have, and I'm labeling with names so I remember who to give them to. Also bringing some extras for whomever.

OOOh, I can't wait to see my new pink Calla lily. Thank you!!!
I have some Echies that I started from seed that are still little babies in their pots. If I don't kill them all before the RU, you can have your choice. The ones in the EZ Cloner are Pink Double Delight. I'm really hoping that they will root.

Yes, there is still one week of watering to keep everything alive before the event. I have lost a few things this Summer by forgetting I had moved the pots in the shade of a bush and consequently not watering them.

Holly -

Don't give up on them!! The first thing they let go of is the top, but the roots may still be doing their thing . . .

Julie, yes on the hardy fuschia for me, please.

And summer, I'd love some of the missouri primrose.

Thanks
Gwen

Does anyone have any special needs, diet or otherwise?

I'm bummed....I really wanted to come but we are going the next weekend to see my Dad and move his furniture downstairs as he is being released on the 28th. and can't get to his bedroom upstairs.

I can't fit two trips to Washington into two weeks.

*snif*
Somebody exchange a ginger plant (or a donkey pot) and think of me!

Ginger

I actually do have a ginger root which I bought at the grocery store that is starting to sprout. I have been thinking about planting it in a pot to see if I can grow a house plant. I could do this in honor of you, Ginger. Anybody know how to successfully grow ginger from the root like this, and what growing requirements they have?

That is so nice. Even just the thought is good enough!


Ginger

Ginger - so sorry you can't make it. But better to be a good daughter . . . we'll think of you.