I want any that can grow where it gets hot in summer. so calif. also want bi color or unusual butterfly bush plants. actually most plants that can tolerate a hot dry summer (I do water of course) and that I can propagate later. I prefer with flowers. thanks so much! I have to trade: canna indica-bulbs canna green foliage yellow flowers-bulbs butterfly bush cuttings-lilac or black knight quince-cuttings canary island sage - seeds or cuttings horehound- cuttings or roots purple potatoe bush-cuttings native calif buckwheat bush rooted native calif huge bush or low grow tree maybe called Candy Bush? beautiful leather foliage and flowers like clusters, hard like candy gems! super drought resistant, cuttings only. mixed giant zinnia seeds

I have a very erect thornless blackberry (NOID and I have no clue as to variety so far) that is mature, but the canes are in excess of 6' tall. I will have several to move, so I can trade some. They will fruit better in the next year or two after you plant them, since the shock of transplant will probably set them back some. I would take some black raspberries and some Allstar strawberries. I also have a number of fig cuttings. Email me and we can discuss the particulars. I sent you email as well. Mark

Hi Kathy_ann, I have Frosty Morn and Carl from your sedum want list available for cuttings. I also have numerous named lilacs (not listed) though they are new and I have only positively identified a couple of them...will have to check on that later. I also have Harlequin butterfly bush (the one with the purple/red blooms). All of the above are cuttings. I 'may' have cuttings of some variegated things you might not have. Will have to get that together. I am interested in some of your sedums (will have to research them a bit as some are unfamiliar to me) or some pussywillow cuttings, or, or, or. Wowser...you have some really cool stuff? Are you into daylilies anymore? If so I maybe I have something of interest to you (again, not listed) in exchange for something you might already have rooted. I will be 'out' most of the day other than brief breaks to cool off a bit, but will get some info together for you this eve, once I get in and get cleaned up. It is gonna be a hot one today! You have several things of great interest to me. Hopefully I can come up with several things of interest to you too. Sue...chemocurl

Lilac blooms once, and may do so at a time that is not particularly hospitable to sitting out on the deck, depending on the variety you get. Once it has bloomed its isn't the most attractive bush and at least in our part of the mid-Atlantic prone to leaf-disfiguring diseases. The butterfly bush, by contrast blooms, most of the summer, but its foliage is weedy for close up. Attracts a lot of butterflies, bees and wasps. Consider chaste tree (Vitex) attractive summer foliage and spikes of color in the middle of the summer. It will get that big, if you let it, but is easy to keep smaller. (Cold winters will keep it small by "pruning" it for you.) Sadly its scent is a negative. 8 X 8! why plant Just one thing? That is enough space for 1 biggish bush and several smaller shrubs that would let you trade off bloom times, foliage and other things. So you could have a viburnum for spring scent and summer flowering caryopteris, which in my garden attracts many moths and butterflies. In a public park I saw a white butterfly bush surrounded by Gaura (a perennial) called whirling butterflies. The whole effect was quite nice. Gaura here bloom all summer.