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If anyone would like to join me in splitting an order, the postcard says 100 seeds for $40. Please list your name below and we'll see if we get enough interest.
Beth

This message was edited Jun 9, 2009 5:08 PM

meeee...

10 or 12 depending on how many people participate.

Thank you so much!

Susan
=^..^=

me too! I have 20.00 if we need it.. let me know..Debra

Let's try to get five people...

OK.. I'm in for 1/5 .. or1/4.. 1/3 if needed

I already joined

1 more person...I don't need any for myself but I do have the "magic" postcard.

OK, do you guys just want to go with the people interested already? I have the postcard but don't know how long it's good for.
Beth

Hi I would love to join. I have been trying to get these for years

Teresa

If you there's room for one more, I would like to participate.

Sorry to those that just saw the thread...these have already been ordered and sent to the interested people. No more available.

Snooze and you lose! I have to be better at checking these forums. Thanks anyway
Rose

MMMM ...when were they shippd out

They went out right after the holiday to those that had paid.

Does that mean I have mine lost.. or do you suppose it's in the mail... HAHA Ha or did I fall through the cracks earlier for ya'll ..... this is from my pay pal page
May 12, 2009 Payment To Beth Olvera Completed ... -$10.00 USD
seems early enough to get me in...
what do you think is up..

you remember this perhaps.. aside from me saying here...I wished in on this thread.. beween this...that and the ten..I thought it was easy
Wed, May 06, 2009
02:07 AM
hi Beth.. can I get in your weddingbell order...
yippee................
Thanks alot.. pleas let me know the particulars of it all... who what when where and how much... thanks a bunch for helping us to get these
all the best for spring... can I send you some extra rain...... Gordon
ByndeweedBeth
scio, oregon, OR
(Zone 8a)
Wed, May 06, 2009
09:03 AM
I'm hoping to get enough interest to order 100 seeds. How many are you interested in?
Beth
GordonHawk
Brooklyn, NY
(Zone 7b)
Wed, May 06, 2009
09:08 AM
oh.. I don't know..as many as it takes I imagine.. how many folks have expressed interest with you... we should be able to get enough.. how about a thread of it's own to solicit seed takers
ByndeweedBeth
scio, oregon, OR
(Zone 8a)
Thu, May 07, 2009
01:49 AM
Here's the thread
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/985041/

Hi y'all, I'm going to send 5 seeds each to Gordon, Roserairie and Fairyhunter of Wedding Bells. If anyone wants to pay me back, how about just passing the favor along to someone else along the road?

(I apologize to anyone else looking for these seeds right now - maybe you could contact J L Hudson and see if it would be possible for him to make these seeds available again at this price and then start your own group?)

Gordon, I can imagine how frustrating this must be for you, because Wedding Bells is truly both rare and gorgeous - but I'm sure Beth did not overlook you on purpose. If I had to go through some of the things that have happened to her lately, I don't think I'd be keeping everything straight, either.

May the sun come out and shine on all our morning glories - we've been besieged by rain and storms through May and June and now there's a tree that's crashed on top of our garden two nights ago grrr - I am ready for some sun!

karen

Karen, thank you so much. Really appreciate your generiosity. I started growing MGs a few years ago and absolutely love them. I have been looking for Wedding Bells - just love the color. I can send you payment for the seeds and postage. Sorry to hear about the tree falling on the garden. We've had a lot of rain here and it's been so cool.
Rose

Thank you, Rose, and yer welcome :)

Those saucer magnolias really do generate an awful lot of dead wood - talk about a sitting duck for those rains - looks like the deadwood must absorb twice its weight in moisture. My accident-prone DH removed some of it from the most critical parts of the garden yesterday, while I snoozed off some meds my doc gave me for a procedure...what a trip...scaffolding for window-caulking workers was descending upon our window while doc was waiting for the meds to kick in...we thought of offering them a free procedure lol. Anyhoo, DH was delighted to have at the wreckage while I was too incapacitated to boss him around and make a fuss about his climbing up into the rotten wood on that tree with a saw lolol. Fortunately, DH is well and in one piece, I'm getting back to *normal hah!*, and the garden was hardly disturbed - a 6' volunteer oriental lily came through without a scratch - amazing.

Beth, I hope things start improving for you.
Karen, Glad you're garden came thru unscathed and that
you're recovering nicely from your procedure..

Karen, hope you're resting up... sounds like you have a good man there!

Karen - So sorry to hear about the mess in your garden. Glad your dh is getting it clean up without having an accident. My dh does things that literally scare the daylights out of me! Lucky you to be sleeping through it all! I hope you are well on the road to recovery. I hope you get lots of blooming MG vines! I would be pretty frustrated to have had so much rain like you have had. Argh!!!

I have some of those seeds if anyone wants a few send me an sabe.... Debra
I have about 6 to share ..

Debra - If no one else jumps on your generous offer, put aside a couple (2-3) seeds for me! Come trade time (and I owe YOU), I'd love to try a couple of these seeds. If not, I am sure someone here will get lots of seeds from their vines! :-)

you got it girl..

Thanks Debra! :-) :-) :-) :-)

Hi GordonHawk,
I sent seeds to all who paid, so if you didn't get yours I would guess they got lost in the mail. I will see if I have any in my personal stash to replace them. I hope everyone else got theirs. I didn't keep any for me from this order but I may have some from last year, I'll see or send you a refund.

beth, i have enuff for gordon and becky.. let me share... k?
debra

I sent 5 seeds each out yesterday to:

Gordonhawk confirmation #0309 0330 0000 9337 8006
Fairyhunter confirmation #0309 0330 0000 9337 8013
Roserairie confirmation 0309 0330 0000 9337 7993

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I will send 5 each today to:

Beckygardener (Debra, if you have only 6 seeds, this will free them up for others who might sasbe you. I have enough for these 5 people plus myself, so I'm not accepting sasbe's on this one for now.)

ByndeweedBeth (we can't have Beth go without these seeds after all the work she's done to get the rest of us these seeds. My requirement to Beth is that she grow these out for hersef.)

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Also, I'm sending the seeds in bubble envelopes. Although my seeds did arrive in good shape from Beth, the white, #10 envie they came in was ripped and pretty beaten up. So maybe the po devoured Gordon's envie like that.

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Although I'm not expecting any reimbursement, Fairy & Rose offered to pay postage, so if my arithmetic is right, it's:

$2/5 seeds + $1.22 postage + $0.80 confirmation = $4.02

thanks, you two. no one else needs to send me anything for the seeds.

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Becky, a few years ago, DH got up on a ladder that he leaned on one humongous branch of a mulberry and proceeded to cut the other branch with a chainsaw. When the branch he was cutting fell, the rest of the tree lifted up after the weight from the cut branch was off it. As the rest of the tree lifted up, the ladder lost its support, and within a golden shaft of morning light coming down through the trees, DH, the ladder and the still buzzing chainsaw all fell separately and so slowly in unison.

An awful moment. But, DH landed on his feet with nary a scratch and lived for another day to fool around with our magnolia day before yesterday. I am planting more and more ferns. I still grow MGs, but ferns are safer.

Roserairie & Patootie, thank you - for the time we have on earth, I could not be sharing it with anyone better.

OH.. Sorry..so some were sent to me.. I'd asked about shipping.. and you said the ones who sent money got sent theirs... I took it to mean it wasn't me... yours were shipped on friday would have helped me understand.. I was in deed aboard.. I can take them getting lost..
Thanks Beth... I'll look foward to their arrival.. If I have any better luck with this round of peacock fern I'll send you some... do you have that fern already.. hope your procedure went as expected...
Thanks for the offer Debra. I seem to be covered with some .

lol Gordon - 'twas I with the procedure, not Beth (I hope not). Thank you for offering the Peacock Fern - http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/157170/ - but I see it's not winter hardy here in zone 7, so I'll pass on that one. Our tiny house will be bulging at the seams with pots of mgs, after autumn frost, if all goes well.

woops.. sorry.. I was reading all the posts and writting.. not thinking
well I know why folks try and collect the MG seeds..I thought it was for trades and such... now I see..after weeks of rain.. it was to preserve the order in the garden...I think the volunteers will soon inhabit the earth.. I had piles of them in pots I offered on freecycle.. and piles went up to the Bronx with a lady doing comunity greening..and work with a bunch of kids there..must have givenaway1000's.. and now after the rains.. there are many100's more.. Saving seeds though is difficult here. as they are so grown together .. there's no way of knowing just which ones they are.. on some I tried to mark the flowers.. butI'm sure it had limited success as far as purity went..
My fernlooks like the one in the first picture here short.. it doesn't take up much space..

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=peacock%20fern&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
it's coloration is like something from mardi gras .. but I've lost one before..if the weather was like it is lately here.. oh so wet..there would be little problem with them..

Karen

I was surprised to log on to dg yesterday and see this post that you were willing to send some of us 5 seeds. I really appreciate it.


Thanks again

Teresa

Karen and Debra - Thanks to BOTH of you for offering! It's genuinely appreciated!!!

Gordon - Cute little fern! What conditions does it grow in? Shade, part sun, or full sun? Moist soil or dry?

Gordon, if you do have success with the peacock fern, I'd love a little start of it - if there's enough to share with Becky first. Thank you for offering. I bet it would be pretty in a plant mobile swinging over the kitchen sink.

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This afternoon, I sent 5 seeds each to:

ByndeweedBeth
Beckygardener

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These little bubble envies only weighed 4 ounces, but yesterday the PO charged me $1.22 (with confirmation added) and today the PO charged me $0.44 (confirmation not allowed at that rate) - both rates for 4 ounces. I'm going to start bringing receipts like this in with me in the future and see if this doesn't prompt some kind of consistent fairness.

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Debra, hope you don't feel like I've trampled over you - it's just that I had more seeds than you did, so doing this my way enabled more seeds for all - and that's my story and I'm sticking to it - lol

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Alrighty - seeds are all mailed out - everybody enjoy :)

karen

Becky... well Isuspect you shouldask someone with a living one what it likes... to ask the killer of the last one..is risky.. Isuspect itlikes the shade.. Igave abit of the first one toafriendinthe Bronx.. and it's way away from the light.. there... just how much light it will also enjoy Ican't say... the first one wasmuch bigger than this one... andscaresmesome...butperhaps it's young enough to be happy with what it has..rather than having a problem with something new....well hope to get it going..and we'll find a bit of it for you..
Karen... my my ...a plant mobile sounds great... getting it turned automatically to a new side facing the light.. We'll see if we can get it going for you there...
it is the greatest colors...a blue/green on tiny ferns.. with a good amount of reds and oranges as a slight glow to it. as it matures.... real festive.. I was really taken with it when I saw it ....as a gigantic plant.. at Picabo's... moist... shady acres.. I have seen it at nurseries here abouts later.. on rare occasions

Gordon, the parade of colors you mentioned on the peacock fern as it grows makes it perhaps even more fascinating than a prism might be over the kitchen sink. Sooo, I took a peek over at www.google.com searching for just the genus, Selaginella + origin and then Selaginella + Jurassic. I don't think I'd get any cooking or gardening whatsover done if I stayed on google as much as I'd like to explore these directions grrr.

Who knew? The genus Selaginella was growing wild at the "dawn of the dinosaur age", along with lycopodiums (lycopodiums, also known as club moss, grow wild on woodland floors around here) and ferns and ...! Ya haven't seen a *real* antique until you've seen a fossil of one of these beauties. But, really, how incredible to walk the earth at the same time as these living fossils that go back so many millions of years.

If my memory is working, there were no flowers as we know them, back then - need to check on that - I think Angiosperms (flowers or predecessors of flowers?) came much later and that perhaps the earliest ones looked something like a magnolia.

As it happens, I do have a perfect spot for it, once some of it outgrows the mobile. I probably shouldn't brag about this, but our 100+ year old house has a dark, consistently moist cellar with a little stream running through it after a strong rain. I think a Jurassic twist down there might be just the thing.
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I got a dmail asking me if its too late to plant these seeds from a gardener in zone 5. Anyone who'd like to add to or differ with my response is more than welcome to chime in, because so far all I've managed to do with Wedding Bells seeds is murder them.

The seeds I had earlier were a little on the moldy side, but these look great, and like many morning glory species, should keep at least 5 years stored at room temperature and dry. There's more info in the MG sticky index under SEED / Storage . So, you could wait until next spring to start them.

Or - you could start any time indoors. Click on the DG homepage for Gerris2 for his thread on growing MGs indoors in the winter - very informative.

There are other great threads about growing MGs indoors in the sticky index. My plan for myself is to try to get at least one vine growing of each of the species and cultivars I would like to harvest identifiable seed from and hope I'll be in better shape to start earlier next year - not to mention sharing and get more folks involved in the "preservation and dissemination" of them....or just plain enjoyment.

Since I have little room indoors, I'll be growing them outdoors until frost in either qt-size recycled yogurt containers or 6" pots (bigger is better if you have the room). When frost comes, I hope to cluster them together within an area contained within a shower curtain on a desk near a heat vent (see http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/p.php?pid=4671334 for a better implemented and more elegant way to do this). Hopefully, seed will continue ripening for me and I might obtain a mature pod or few.

For zone 5, I don't think there's enough time for seeds of Ipomoea tricolor "Wedding Bells" to ripen enough that they would be viable, if you sow now - nor for me in zone 7. In my years of growing other cultivars of I. tricolor like Heavenly Blue and Flying Saucers, I have never seen a mature seed pod, unlike cultivars of Ipomoea purpurea or Ipomoea nil. Does anyone know more about how to obtain viable seed of any cultivar belonging to Ipomoea tricolor?

The sticky has more comprehensive information on foes, trellising and pruning that would be helpful to know.


Hope this helps -

karen

Thanks Karen, I'll take a look at the sticky too. I want to check that fern out too. So beautiful.
Rose

I forgot to thank the one person without whom none of us on this thread would have received seeds of Wedding Bells at such a low price: ByndeweedBeth.

Beth, thank you for going to the trouble of all the emails organizing this group purchase, and getting the seeds shipped to you, and then the repackaging - not to mention mailing everything out to us at your own expense.

If I had the same challenges and demands on my life that I'm aware of in yours, I know I'd have taken the simpler route and not done the same for others.

Wishing fair weather for the soggy and dousings for the arid,

karen

Well.. Karen... thanks for the background on the ferns ancient history.. some plants bring forth the times and conditions then.. in their displays and needs.... the horsetails remindmeof it also..do you have tem... I had them in containers outside for years.. then lost the last one last winter.. I'll look about for the peacock fern while I try andgrow some out for you... maybe it willbe quicker..
Yor lovely seeds came today.. thanks a bunch...we'll getthem righ inthe wet..
Beth..well thanks for the refund... but if you did send them to me .. I think you should keep it.. it's not your fault in that case.. and shouldn't be out more as a result..I'll be returning Payment...... if it is ok