Looking for starter plants of bacopa monnieri & gotu kola (Centella asiatica). I want these plants for their medicinal benefits. I have various tropicals I can trade, or maybe we can work out some other sort of trade involving non-plant items via email, if I don't have a plant you'd like. Please let me know if you have these plants and are willing to discuss a trade, thanks!

I have: (herbs) Purple Opal Basil seedlings (1 1/2in) Sweet/Plenty Basil(started the seeds together, so unsure which is which.)(1 1/2in, or rooted cuttings) Oregano (cuttings or seedlings) Cilantro (rooted section) Mint (I think it's sweet mint - started from a friend's donation, not peppermint, don't think it's spearmint, not orange or chocolate mint, so new mint for you perhaps?) Society Garlic (section) Green Onions (rooted) (perennials) foxtail fern (section) lantana (seeds or cuttings) bougainvillea (variegated and non; cuttings) Purple Queen (section) Gardenia (sucker, or cutting) Ipomoea Batatas black heart sweet potato vine - cuttings Ipomoea Batatas 'margarita' sweet potato vine - cuttings (sweet potato vine must be brought inside and kept dry when it gets cold enough for the foliage to freeze, this preserves the tubers, and new growth will begin the next spring. If you could get it enough sunlight, it could theoretically thrive indoors through the winter. I don't have a sunroom like that :( Azaleas (bright pink flowers, suckers or seedlings (cuttings also available), not sure which, have been thriving in a tiny pot for months while I try to pick a place for them in the yard) (other) If you'd like to include seeds in the trade, that's an option for me. I do need to update my seed list since I participated in a couple of round robins last fall. Here is a link that might be useful: trade list

Centella asiatica is a medicinal herb, so you may get better responses in the herb forum. I know little about except that it can be grown as an annual. It is a tropical plant and subject to frost, so overwintering would require a green house environment. That means both light and sufficient warmth so I doubt that a garage would be sufficient. You could probably treat it as house plant. Here is a link that might be useful: Growing Gotu Kola

Daseyduckworth, Have you seen the new post above shouting?? If you read through my many THOUSANDS of posts here in herbs, gardeningm fruit trees, alliums, and in the now very active Harvest forum, you will soon realize that frustratiion and continual repetion can get to anyone, no matter what they are on to help calm them down. Today, from 11am until now, I have been just here, and the Harvest forum, emptying my poor overtaxed 63 year old brain over and over again. Thats still a whole day, that I don't feel as totally wasted effort or negative input. But if you feel that I am way too angry and wish to chastize me, go right ahead. I made mention to the term 'Spoon Fed' recently, which was never originally stated by me, but was a quote from me to another person under teh am context. Another recent poster had made that remark in my defense that a big trend towards continual, and almost daily repeated questions seem to be coming here. We all get hot under the coller and some more than others. If we were kids in school trying to learn by jusy sitting there waiting for us to be told what to do, do you think the teachers would want to pull a single student aside and try and cram more knowledge into a single brain. Not today, its just too much for the lowly teacher, unless they have the time, energy, and prolonged patience. I have nearly none left at times, and with definate renal failure ever closer, and no other medical direction to turn for help, I find that sometimes people DO want to be spoon fed and simply do not know to do a few seconds of simple research. US health care here is Medicare, and inappropriatly named that, as it should be called MEDIKILL. Insurance companies now control the doctors, and dictate what we are allowed to take as treatments, as opposed to our trust in a doctors knowledge and decisions. 22 medications per day, and triple the amounts of insulin are in my future now. The insurance company said I can't have more, the doctors say yes I need more. Who wins? Its surely not me... Another typical example of person asking for an item they have not been able to find and source to buy from in Canada.. I posted a direct link to a company that sells that same exact item in small bulk sizes, but at a little higher cost of a tiny little box. I dont make the prices and shipping/tax, the sellers do. I get back a very negative overtone reply about its just too expensive to buy a tiny little amount to be used in home canning, and have to pay extra for S&H...! If your doing ONE SINGLE home canning project, then YES, but if your planning on doing a LOT, and for YEARS, and NEED this very necessary item, and you dispute and shoot down the original, thoughtful,and helpful person who is just TRYING THEIR BEST to help others. My 'terse' reply to that was, you can buy it anywhere you like at any price only you want to pay, I only offered a SUGGESTION.. A SUGGESTION of a source in MY USA, where they sell it in a little larger bulk amount at a LOT cheaper overall cost but you still pay a bit more for it Canada. That same, (now a complainer) has been lamenting about not finding it anywhere, and has been shot down by every single place they look at. I do LOTS of stuff in a big way. If I need supplies that are not perishable, I buy a LOT, because I use a lot, I hate to run out. Frugality only goes so far, and if an herb or seed needs to be located, I try to provide MY favorite SUGGESTION, again, SUGGESTION about where to find something. The word SEARCH is VERY powerful now with a World Wide Computer linked network. 20 years ago, you had to resort to phones, letters, and phone books, or word of mouth, begging, and futility. Say I wanted a big amount of Angel food cake mix for making them anytime, and one that has no sugar added, I would do a SEARCH first, before asking a very broad based and quite common question on a forum that has many many mismatched people, subjects, and virtually, no way to combine informaton that can be put in a few simple words. A tiny little bit of xtra effort by the questioner, saves a lot of extra energy for others, if most of the info is already published publicly, and is easily found even here, even with a terrible Search feature that pulls up way too much for a quick reading. I think that about 85% of the people who use computers to find information don't really know how or where to search for ANYTHING. Every single web browser today offers very powerful search tools. One recent situation I needed a specially made specific electronic component recently (among my MANY hobbies and other interests). Went on the internet and spent two days with hundreds of possible sources, with no luck. I simply did a tiny bit more digging only to find that part is obsolete and now renumbered/renamed. I still needed it, but now, its only available and sold in England, not here. I paid extra, nearly TWICE the cost of each component, just to get 4 of these little parts, averaging price of .79 cents for 10,000 quantity, or $12.00 EACH for 1-10 pieces. Do the math, and obvously a 10,000 pc. quantity is way too many for my needs, but I must bite the bullet and pay dearly at a much higher, inflated cost for only what need. A final 'and not so winded' note, an 'herb forum', is a place to find herb info, but just asking a simple repeated question is going to get to a few people if the members here read the same thing over and over every day.. Doesn't ever use anyone use a scroll button or a mouse, or even know what they do? Oddly, I found me feet here in about 5 minutes of speed reading a few hundred posts!