I would like enough of these plants to fill a hanging basket. I realize these are annuals and there may be a problem shipping them, so then I would have to settle for seeds.
I have orange crocosmia, Black and Blue Salvia, obediant plants, and candytuft to trade. PLMK
woodspirit there is one that's an annual but there is also one that makes a big tuber and is perennial. just so you'd know. barb
thanks, barb. Does it look like the annual when it blooms? If it has a big tuber, it sounds like a perennial, I agree. I'd love to have one.
yes it does. it's hard to describe but it's sort of like this big round thing ( i sent one once that was almost 6 inches in diameter). and out of the sides come these runners all around. they can get up to 3-4 ft. long and will even go up a fence. so it would prob. be great in a hanging basket. send me a picture if you do it. they are blooming now so can't say how it would look this year. but next year for sure it'll do it's thing.
got my start from a texas roadside. one little tuber a long time ago and now i have them everywhere. not a nuisance plant and i will always have them but they do reproduce pretty good but are easily dug up.
Is it possible we could do a trade? I have worn myself out trying to find plants or seeds, even those listed in the top of the Plantsfiles.
Maybe just postage?
Woodspirit, I mentioned an online source for you to find your plant in another thread, and I need to tell you that the plant that I mentioned does not transplant well at all (at least in my zone.) I can get them established, but moving them is another thing (I was told by a nurseryman in NC that it is because of the taproot.)
The plant that I am talking about (and now I think we might be talking about different plants) is Callirhoe involucrata. Here is the link to it at HCG:
http://www.highcountrygardens.com/catalog/product/28030/
This is a perennial.
Just wanted you to know so that you didn't spend a lot of time searching HCG for it and find out it was not the right plant.
what is the genus name for this since wine cups is the common name is it the one i posted on your other thread or a different one?
The only plant I know of that has the common name of Wine Cups is Callirhoe involucrata, and they are a hardy, invasive perennial. http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/adv_search.php?searcher[common]=Wine+Cups&searcher[family]=&searcher[genus]=&searcher[species]=&searcher[cultivar]=&searcher[hybridizer]=&searcher[grex]=&search_prefs[blank_cultivar]=&search_prefs[sort_by]=rating&images_prefs=both&Search=Search
I *think* I've finally gotten rid of them, but a few years ago I could have sent you acres of them.
There's quite a few PlantScout vendors that list them: http://davesgarden.com/products/ps/go/695/
now looking them up and everything i want one hehe
this plant has no problem being moved. it produces these bulby things underground but they are easily removed if you get too many and the flower is just too good not to have. i call obedient plant invasive because of all those runners and you always miss some. these are single rhizomy bulby things and easily removed. it is native to texas.
Hey Barb thanks for the information. I think I am going to try this too.
Yes, it is Callirhoe involucrata.
High Country Gardens does have it; I'm not sure what size they are but they have a contact number
Annie's Annual finally contacted me and they have a 3-1/2 x 5 pot.
But I am still interested in the tuber, which muct be a perennial.
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woodspirit the leaves on mine are not like the picture you are showing. they are full and are in the shape of a 5 pointed star like a maple leaf sort of. frostweed where are you? i think your picture is of an annual that is produced by seeds. the one i have is not produced by seeds but by those bulby things. they do something under the dirt and voila! presto chango a new one.
i am sure someone has these plants that would trade with yall. i am using my plants now for a big project of my own. i just wanted to say that mine's a perennial and is wonderful and all that negative stuff is not about this plant. lol.
thank you so much mamajack. It's look like either one would give me the results i want, but I would love ther permanence of a perennial.
well woodspirit i am going to dig one up and see how it would look in a hanging basket. i think it would look good myself esp. a big one. or several small ones. it will look crazy wild i think. i am not your traditional type flower displayer. hehehehe
hmmm, I think you are a bit of a kook. That's what gardening does for you - makes you a fun person.
in my case it's genetic. long line of 'em in my family. once in high school i had a pair of orange gingham pants. the 70's, what can i say. i ravelled them and left the strings past my knees. like hula skirts in orange gingham around my legs.
So is the one HCG has the perennial?
where is josephine? the plant on high country looks like my plant. but my plant has these tubers. let me get her.
Lordie, now my head is spinning. I don't know about perennial vs. annual - I thought both were perennial - but there is a trailing variety and an upright variety. Let the festivities resume......LOL!
patrob i didn't want to read it from someone else. i wanted it straight from a texans mouth. i have heard this plant slandered other places and i just wanted folks to know that it was a very worthy plant. that's the only reason i got involved here in the first place. hehehehe
I'm with you, mamajack. When you see a swath of these in bloom, it takes your breath away. I've planted them in every garden I've owned and I WISH they were just a little more invasive! Mine politely fade away after their show and let other plants take their place, then return each spring. I love them.
well pat i just read your link. sounds like my plant for sure. i never cut them back though. and i have never seen seed although i have never looked.
Barb, those Aggies claim to be Texans, though Robert and I and all our family are Texans of a much different persuasion (Go Raiders!). I think TAMU knows their wildflowers. I love winecups, but I have never dug them up. They are all over our pasture, but I am thinking now I will put some in a pot or hanging basket.
And then there's Ladybird's Wildflower Center: http://www.wildflower.org/plants/search.php?search_field=winecup&newsearch=true&family=Acanthaceae
Who'd have ever thunk there'd be so many kinds of winecups?
i bet they are beautiful out there. the color is so brilliant.
Hey mamajack, would you be will to mail me a tuber?
well wood i would send you one but it would be a small one. they grow fast though. sounds like patrob would be a better trading partner for you since she has so many and she might have a bigger one to send.
OK, sounds like a good idea. thanks......Betty
