Stephanie - thanks for sharing your experience with the Turk's Cap. And I'm excited to hear that about the Four Nerve Daisy. We just got a little bit of it at the Fall RU, so we stuck it in a small terra cotta pot. It didn't do much over the winter (of course), but after reading your post I'll be excited to see what it does this season.
North CENTRAL TX RU **April 5th ** in ARL>>> (TRADES #3)
Here's a pic of some, not sure just how many are in this grouping, from Weston Gardens in south FW. There's yellow lantana on the left, then the TC to the right.
Jenepat, I will bring you a big clump of grass so have a hole ready! I hope you will love the Four nerve Daisy as I do. Stephanie is right on. Eventually there will be little seedlings (but not to drive you crazy)
Thanks Coco_LuLu for the zuc. Anything you'd like form me? I have a few little fennel plants.
Ted....could I get a few of your coleus again this year? I did manage to save about three but they are pretty sorry looking! Take a look at my list and see if there is anything there you can use.
OK I haven't been to an RU before... do I need to bring a table or something? Chairs? What do you guys bring besides yourselves and plants and food and door prizes? Maybe a strange question, but I hate to be unprepared.
You covered it. No need for a table as there will be tables there. You can bring a lawn chair if you'd like, but there are picnic tables there so there are places to sit.
If you don't like it you can always plant it for the butterflies! :)
They will get it before you get fennel; unless you kill the poor little swallowtails..........enough guilt to keep you from using pesticides?
I found a huge patch of moss verbena (purple). I can bring cuttings (they root very easily) if anyone would like some of them. They make great hanging basket plants.
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I would love to have some four nerve daisy and some of the alamo vine please.
Check my list to see if I have anything for you.
I hope that everyone will check my link to the Disastrous fire in Orange that left so many disabled and senior people homeless and with nothing to their name.
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/965836/
If anyone coming to the RU wants to bring anything I will gladly take it to Orange. The only clothes that are needed now are ladies size 4 - 5X tops and 4x bottoms, ladies size 10W shoes and ladies size 14 - 16 slacks. No more walkers are needed unless they are the kinds with the seats in them.
If you will be bringing anything to the RU that takes much space let me know in advance please so I will know how much to prepare for.
Thank you,
Charlene
Charlene - you talked me into some purple moss verbena. I'm always looking for interesting hanging basket ideas...especially ones that can take a little bit of dry soil! Let me know if there's anything else I can bring for you.
And what a great idea on helping the Orange fire vicitms. Very generous of you to offer to collect items at the RU.
I just walked outside and found a wonderful surprise. Last year TarRogers (Ted) gave me the most beautiful cockscomb I have ever seen. They get as big as a large cabbage and are a very deep red. They are tiny seedlings, but there are bunches of them. Let me know if anyone wants some and I'll pot 'em up for you.
Charlene
Charlene, I would love a cockscomb or two.
Charlene.....I would love to have a couple CC seedlings. Check my list please.
Charlene save me some. LOL I do not have any now.
Sheila,
Can I have some of the white yarrow? I have started the lime cutting. Is there anything else you want, besides it and the seeds?
Thanks.
Aardvark7,
I would love soem house leeks, I saw a great thing where a metal chair is covered in all sorts of succulents. Want to try my hand at it.
May I also have some of the lilies you have so many of and some blue eyed grass
Thanks.
I have you down for the BB salvia and hummingbird bush. Please advise if there is anything else.
Lizzy
StephanieTX
I have the purple oxalis and would be happy to dig up for you.
Lizzy
I hope to bring some of the things I've winter sown that have sprouted and already have their 2nd set of leaves. Not sure what all I'll have, but most are perennials and self-sowing annuals.
Datura12
Could I ask for the elephant ears and the coreopsis? Please advise if there is anything I have you would like?
TARogers,
I would love some more of your coleus if you don't have any takers. and a Dutchman's pipe.
I have bee balm and spider lilies (trying to keep to the rule of not having to winter over)
Lizzy
Lizzy...Do you have more of the October Skies Aster? I will still take the cutting and seeds but I was lucky to find a 4 foot lime tree at the Botanic Gardens Plant Sale yesterday for $20. You are asking for perennials...do you want the tall Maximilliam sunflowers, or goldenrod for sun, or a start of toad lily for the shade?
Sheila,
Of course I have more of the october skies aster for you. I will dig some up. No seeds, only plants.
I;ll take all of what you are offering! Beinghte little piggy that I am!
OK Lizzy, I've got your Blue-eyed grass and Hens and Chicks. I have about 40-50 of the Philippene lilies (only 2inches high now, but supposed to bloom in first year in late summer, ~3ft tall) and I can spare some of those. Then I have those rain lilies coming up everywhere, hundreds of them - I can probably go fix you up a bag full of those bulbs if you want them. Do you want both lilies? No problem, they need a new home - just let me know. Stacey
Stacey, if you have extra rain lilies, I would love to have some!
Thanks Lizzy, I will have those for you.
Pattie... You never picked an item from my list. Do you want a water lily? I know I have at least one I can fish out of the water for you.
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Stacey,
Bring it on! I'll take both lilies! Is there anything you would like besides the hummbird bush and the Black and BLue salvia?
Lizzy
Ok Lizzy, I'll bring you a bunch of lilies. Both of those. ;) But I'm good with the hummer bush and salvia - I might have to trade you a small child to fit another plant in our van, and I can't do that because they are already teasing me that I love my plants as much as I love them. Plus the two little ones were a two for one deal, so I got a good deal on them so their keepers.
Patty, I'll bring you a bunch of rain lilies. :)
Sheila, you are bringing me monarda, remember, if it's big enough. And poppy seeds. That's plenty! Besides, I already have a yard-ful of beautiful plants from you. :)
I spent this rainy afternoon sorting seeds and seeing what I have left. I have a few of the yellow (native) columbine, coneflowers, moonbeam coreopsis, and a few other things, if anyone is interested, Also, last fall TJ gave me a ton of castor bean seeds, red and I guess the others are, um, well, not red. Anyway, there's more there than I have room for.
Thanks, Stacey. I was looking over sedums today. I have several different kinds. Are you looking for something in particular, or shall I just bring some of all of them? Most of mine are low-growing and creeping, but I can start Autumn Joy too.
Ted, I do not know if this phygelius will root by next weekend or not. I will bring it, rooted or not. But if it doesn't work out, I will watch for a division later this spring and get it to you. This stuff is supposed to spread pretty easily, so I can always layer one. But it's a bit early for it yet.
Is anyone interested in any houseplants?
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Pattie....Ok, guess we are good then.
Patty, I JUST got a whole boxfull of cuttings of Autumn Joy on Monday, so I'm OK with that one. The low growing, creeping ones are what I'm looking for - hardy in 7b. I've got a hillside 'rock garden' scenario, with multiple faces and sun exposures and I need some 500square feet of erosion control! Anything that can sink its teeth into those slopes and cover the ground will be great.
charlenesplants, I would like a cutting of the moss verbena. I have the perfect pot for it. Anything you'd like of mine?
Stacey, then why I don't I bring you some of this. http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/53276/ This sedum grows everywhere at my house, from blazing hotspots with baked hardpan soil, to full fairly dark moist shade, and even down into my little water garden. It won't bloom in the shade, but it will still grow. In the sun you'll get that carpet of little yellow flowers. Roots in about 30 seconds.
I have another groundcover I could bring for you to try, too: creeping St. John's wort. It resembles creeping thyme, but grows much better in these parts. This is the one I have: http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/53122/ . It will also grow in shade (and not bloom) or sun. It needs a little more water and takes a little longer to get established. But once it's going, it covers better.
Pattie, if you have a couple sprigs extra of the golden carpet, and it would be good on a stone walkway, I would love to try it.
Sure, Sheila. I don't know how it would do on a walkway, but it's nice cascading over rocks in a border.
Patty, I think those will work very nicely. I've never seen the Creeping St. John's Wort before - pretty yellow flowers!