Ha, had found one of the 3- already set aside for frausnow.
Heavenscent, Robynsnest, would you like pink/rose/peach mixed Hollyhocks- I've got plenty.
CLOSED: Fall Frenzy Piggy Swap #4
tcs1366, I would Love to have the Double Reds. I can just picture them with the white! Thanks
mygypsyrose, I found some seeds on the Hot Lips, it appears that I picked most of them too soon because the seeds inside are light colored, but I did find some pretty dark ones. I will send them to you. Will the light ones mature off the plant? Prob not is my guess. There are still some blooms that I will watch like a hawk and save them for you.
It was so much fun to check the plants for seeds, I believe I am hooked. After trying to get the little seeds out of the pods I have a much better appreciation for all of the diligent work you guys are doing. This is definitely a hobby of love.
I have to go fix some lunch for DH and his 87 yo mom (she has lived with us for several years, and has dementia, so she can't do anything for herself- not even bathing). I just can't tear myself away from this trough!
Love to oink
Fairy, Fairy, where art thou seeds?
There you go a-flitting, a-flitting in the breeze.
Sometimes you come down and oink,
though cloven you claim not to be
But seeds for fellow piglets,
you haven't yet down-ploinked.
All the hungry piglets, no fairy seeds in their trough,
are a-crying wee wee wee
until your seeds they see!
Goodness already to #4. If you are requesting seeds from me please Dmail I just can't keep up with this thread! Im still reading #2 lol!!
LOL! Perenniallyme - I am rolling on the floor!! Can't compete with that... wee wee wee
LOL!! I think we are all ready to pounce on Fairy's seeds!
LOL Choking on my coffee.
Don't worry when she gets a chance , she'll get it up. Think I was the last one to get theirs up last year. : )
Thanks Chele - guess I must be working hard at avoiding doing any work.
Lynn --
>>tcs1366, I would Love to have the Double Reds
I had 12 seeds... i've got 6 set aside for you.
Fairy .... wee wee wee ... hurry!
I remmebr last year I always felt I had to hold on to the piggy in front of me's tail or I would get lost. I did losts of times, had to stop and clean the mud outta my face before startign back up and grabbing another oinker to run with.
Cheap facial, but have decided I don't look as good in mud as I do in pink skin. ; )
I added 4 more 'Tidal Wave Purple' Petunia packs to my list.
toofew
Starlight, better a good roll in the mud than to choke on your coffee. Think you should go back to your old ways.
toofewanimals, Oink Oink for the Tidal Wave Purple Petunias please?
Lynn, one is marked for you. :o)
Please D-mail me if you are interested in anything else.
thanks,
toofew
Alright I'm pimpin...
I can't figure out why nobody's wanted these seeds
The only reason that I've figured is because they have the name foxglove in their name...
But, they are NOT like regular foxgloves at all.
The South African Foxglove, Ceratotheca triloba http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/897/
They branch out and give you 2 inch lavender flowers slowly up the stems from summer until almost frost. Here's a picture of the flowers
and plant
I already have some Ceratotheca seeds, but I'll help ya pimp by saying that they really are beautiful plants and easy to grow. Hummingbirds like it too! :)
Oh, forgot to say that they take anywhere from Full Sun to Part Shade and are very drought tolerent. The UGA trial gardens had some growing in a small area between cement sidewalks in full sun and they looked happy.
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Yes please on any and all Hollyhocks.
Robyn -- I should have one or two extra HH to toss in your trough.
Allium Purple Sensation is a seed that deserves pimping. It's a deep purple violet 4" ball that acts as a punctuation in your garden, but makes a wonderful cut flower too. Erect and pest free, it needs no attention, a truly carefree plant. Although it takes two years to bloom from seed it takes no room in your garden during that time if you plant it by late growing perennials and self-sowing annuals because the leaves die back by early June .
Of course my best pictures of this are on my old computer that in the shop right now
mao
I forgot to say that surprisingly this of all the plants in my garden gets the most admiration from men. So make your DH happy and plant it for him even if you don't like it.
moa, I'll try one if you have plenty. 2 years to bloom is really good for a bulb! Very pretty!
Mao - I'd love to try it too.....oink oink
Oh Boy, a man-trapping plant, I can use one of those! lol :)
Mao -- I'll take some.
now - for more seed pimping....
wanna talk about a hardy annual... It's been COLD, below freezing a few nights. One night of frost, and it is currently snowing... and my English Marigolds are still in bloom.
even though they are an annual ... they certainly seem to be a hardy bugger.
Deer resistant too. Attracts Bees, and butterflies.
Bloomed all summer long, more quickly if dead headed.
also Drought resistant, so suitable for Xeriscaping.
Very bright and cheery Yellows and Oranges.
I've got A LOT of seeds... but 18 lil baggies made up and ready to go to a loving home.
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/211/
I think it's kind of fun when not everyone posts their "haves" at the same time. (To me) it's less overwhelming to not have to sift through all the lists at once which is part of the reason I've been adding mine in stages. And as an aside I also think it's MUCH easier when you add new seeds to list the new ones seperately at the bottom of your existing list and mark them as "new". That makes it sooo much easier for people to know which seeds were just added and which ones they've already looked through.
klstuart - do you have any more brain celiosa? I have a celiosa but it's not the big fat brain one that I really want.
Danita - you have me down for Kosteletzkya virginica and I don't think that's one I need (although I may have gotten caught up in the frenzy and asked, LOL).
singingwolf - I have you down for the Red Fox veronica and the Lemon Balm.
Danita, cheles, and tcs- I've saved them for you.
Sorry about that Lala_Jane, it was meant for the name below your's. Thanks for letting me know!
Thanks moa!
you got it Deborah ... .your lil zip-loc is gonna be full by the time we are done.
Good Pimping!
mAO, Can I have one of your beautiful Alliums?
tcs, you sold me on the English Daisies. Oink
You've got 'em Lynn
Does anyone have Salvia guaranitica - giant blue or the Blue and black Salvia? If they do may I have some please. This is for my RWB garden, My nephew comes home this month from his second tour in Iraq and I want to surprise him with what is going in my garden for him and the extras go in his mothers garden. Get this, he is officially discharged with honorable from the Marines and early next year he goes back to Iraq and will be working for the Army.
Robin if you don't find the Black & Blue I have some Victorian Blue which is really pretty. I winter-sowed it last year and had beautiful full blooms the first year.
Kudos to you AND your nephew!
Thank you so much, I would like to try it. And thank you for my nephew, I am quite proud of him. (Even when he is a brat and calls me grandma) But I still love him.
TCS thanks on the white hollyhocks :)
Gemini, I got your request for the red okra :)
common milkweed, monarch butterfly host plant
I thought I read in someone's list that they had regular mandevilla seeds (not mandevilla laxa), but now I can't find them. Did I really see that? I am looking for some pink or marroon ones. I prefer those over the orange or yellow ones.
Tonya
Danita.. Thanks for helping me pimp my seeds :-)
Lynn... Thank You!!! I'm glad you were able to find seeds. It took me forever to find out how to do it. I finally came across someone that described it in a post on an old thread and then went outside and found them! Next year I plant to have a stash :-)
Robynznest,
I have a beautiful Black & Blue that I purchased at a nursery this summer. If I can find some seeds, I will save them for you. I got a bunch today, but the seeds inside are not black, so I think I was too early. Darn. I did grow one from a cutting, and I have some cuttings that are rooting. I will send you cuttings if you would like them.
I've been doing some last minute voting in the DG photo contest, and I came across a lovely photo of Celosia spicata (wheatstraw celosia)... in PURPLE! I've only ever grown pink ones ('Flamingo Flower' and 'Pink Candles'), and I would really love purple ones... does anybody have these?
(Hoping whoever contributed that photo might be on this swap, LOL.)