I have an abundance of amorpha canescens and amorpha nana(dwarf leadplant) ...1 yr.old starter plugs.
Please see my wishlist or make an offer.
Peggy
Have:Leadplants
Hi Peggy,
I would like to have some if you'll do postage,I'm just trying to get started out and don't really have much.You can look at my have list.
I Dmail'd you about the Scutellaria parvula Michx , but you never replied.
Thanks Synda
I'm looking for trades only at the moment.
If you don't get a rhyzome of the iris Clarance, let me know the ladies don't dig the iris around here till in July, it seems to hot to me but its not my iris, and I'll get you a start of it. It seems to grow like a weed here, I have some but its just been in the ground a year so to young to dig. Susan
That'd be wonderful. I want to plant it at the grave site of a dear neighbor of 25 yrs. that was like a father to me...His name was Clarence.
July-August is pretty much when everyone in the USA digs TB irises. so that's normal.
name a color of iris, and I'll send you some names to chose from, if you'll send some to synda. I know her
I have to ask what is a lead plant? Susan
I have a list of irises I'm looking for on my members page.
Susan,
there's a picture on my trade page. It's a Texas native plant for hot dry areas and a good butterfly plant.
I need a plant like that it would love my ground, my ph runs around 7 to 7.5. and it likes the hot and dry. A perfict plant. lol, I have told everyone to save me some of their Clarence for you. Susan
well, sorry then. I have only starring TB iris on your list.
last fall I moved all 18 in that bed, got rid of 4, and have 11 labeled boxes with the clumps in the boxes. the other three the labels (boxes) gave way before I got them planted. sorry, will have to await bloom to find out which it is. it's not growing well for me, only had a few from it.
- maybe I can ID it that way, let me check.
Well, here is my lead plant....does it match yers?
Mine is growing in our prairie. It is toxic to livestock. It is a neat plant though and I just pulled pods off of it too that I would be happy to trade.
It gets a whitish flower that looks almost like a lupin but not and the foliage is pretty cool too surrouunding the flower like a leafy table.
I am not sure of the botanical ID, but the common name "leadplant" is what the DOC told us it was..
My soil is gold sand where it grows and is pith poor!
Peggy (and Blossombuddy), I'd be interested in some of these plants. What types of things are you looking for?
ptilda, I sent you a Dmail.... I have a good amount of the seed from the plant in the pic. It is not domestic. Its a wildweed here.
Interesting thing on mine is if you cut it, the leaves will turn black. Which makes it an easy spotter if you have it in your hay like we do on occassion! The animals will not eat it unless its a last resort.
But anyway, just a FYI! Oh and DOC is the Dept of Conservation! LOL!
Here are the pods as you can see mine are black and the seed inside.
May I ask why on earth would you want to grow it?
Sorry the pic does not show the seed to well. They are little tan BB's!
Red, dint mean to hijack your thread.. these ladies should go to you first.. let us know if your out!
BB
that baptisia you have growing in your pasture. I have those too...the blue and the white. Plants offered in this thread are amorpha.
P
hey Red, if yer talking that plant above, the blooms are actually yellow on it not blue and white and that is what the DOC told me was a lead plant in this prairie.. dont know its full botanical.
Can ya post yers so we can compare?
I never planted any babtiste out in the prairie here... that was growing here when we arrived.. so its a wild weed here.
It gets beans, see pic too. It turns black when it dies. The leaves are actually a silver greenish color too.
Sorry my cam did not do it the proper justice.
When I first saw it I actually thought it was a lupine of some description, but the foiliage is like a table on it. Its one of the weirder ones here.
Next time I take a shot of it, I will mow around it, maybe that wil help set it off to see it?
Well, send (thats send!! not sent...!) Ptilda some of yours and she can then have more to play with!!
This message was edited Aug 25, 2009 7:54 PM
And I'm all about playing with new, fun seeds! :)
there's yellow baptisias too. Forgot I have yellow too...two different species.
Ok, I went to look at my baptista in the garden.. the leaves are similiar, but the plant is built a tad different. The one in the garden is Baptista Australis and has blue lupine like flowers. The one on the prairie is not the same. Still do not know the correct botanical ID on my prairie specimen, but the one on the prairie is a native and with the whitish flower.. So ok, they are in the same familia!
Are yours similiar then when we are talking lead plants? you got me cornfused there Red!
I tried taking a pic of the australis, but it was deep in competition with the grass around it.. my lovely weedy beds right now.. ugh! SO I did not bother to bring it.
Anyway, I am sending her the prairie plant seed from mine and it is on its way!
babtista australis - photo taken 9/11/09 - in my garden
8/27/09 - photo...
Here is a really old photo of my babtisia australis...(not the lead plant I sent the pods out on, but the domestic...it also goes under the handle of false indigo...
