Florida plant (bulb) - x-posted to Florida forum
marcia_m
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Comments (4)Looked it up and that was it. Funny though that there was no mention of planting the bulbs that covered the ground. All sites said to propagate by separating the clumps. IT should make it here in Atlanta since it was just as cold in St. Augustine. There surely were some beautiful variations on the different sites other than the plain white! Anyway, with about 20 bulbs gathered, I am going to try. My other Amyrillis do very well here, so maybe they will cross. Maybe I can come up with some of the pinks! My amyrillis are deep red. Loved those other colors and flower forms. Now, to try to find some Florida Everglades tomatoes!...See MoreEdgewater Florida Huge Plant Swap Oct. 10th
Comments (0)I know this is still 3 months away but people get booked up so early and it can take awhile to get plants rooted from cuttings or whatever so I'm posting about it now. Please help spread the word and forward this information to anyone you think might be interested. It's going to be HUGE! :) Whistle Stop Park Plant Swap! The Edgewater Permaculture Society and Volusia County Gardeners Yahoo Group will be hosting a Plant Swap Party at Whistle Stop Park, 650 Roberts Road in Edgewater Florida, Saturday, Oct. 10th, from 9am-12pm. This is a public event, everyone is invited to attend. Admission is free. Bring anything garden related, please make sure seeds & plants are labeled. If you don't have plants to bring, you can bring, and receive tickets for food, supplies, or door prizes. There will be free seeds, stickers, coloring books and hand fans from E.P.S.. Because this is a public park No Selling Will Be Allowed! Once you arrive at Whistle Stop Park please go directly to the registration booth. Volunteers will be on hand to help you unload your car. After you have registered a volunteer will give you tickets based upon the amount of plants, food, supplies, door prizes and garden materials that you have "traded in." Typically, you will receive: 2-3 rooted cuttings=1 ticket 5 packs of seeds=1 ticket Each plant = 1 ticket Annuals (6-pack) = 1 ticket Each tree = 2-10 tickets, based upon its size and health Each shrub = 2-10 tickets, based upon its size and health Bag o bulbs = 1-5 tickets, based upon the type of bulb Books, magazines, tools, decorations, etc. = 1-20 tickets, negotiable After trading in all your plants and garden materials for tickets, you are encouraged to check out what the other gardeners at the swap have brought to trade at the Trading Area. Pick out plants and gardening materials that you would like to "adopt" and take them to the Check-Out area, where you will trade in your tickets for the plants that you have chosen. At some point we'll eat, and draw door prizes, you must be registered and present to win a prize. *For people who want to bring food, supplies, or door prizes FOOD: Sandwiches, or whatever, you may want to take into consideration that there are a lot of vegetarians/vegans in these groups. We'll also want sides, desserts, drinks, coolers & ice. SUPPLIES: paper plates, paper or plastic cups, plastic spoons or forks, napkins or paper towels, name tags or self-adhesive labels DOOR PRIZES: Anything - doesn't have to be garden-related. Handmade or store bought. *Some suggestions & rules *Again, no selling! No pets, no alcohol. Children are welcome. *It's a good idea to bring bottled water, sun glasses, insect repellent, sun block, an umbrella just in case, newspaper to lay down in your trunk, empty box to put plants in. Please email me at saultic_75@yahoo.com to let me know if you think you might be attending, if you can volunteer to help out (volunteers are needed to put up flyers around your town, help with check-in, loading, and unloading), supplies or door prizes you plan to bring, or with questions, comments, or suggestions. Thanks! See you at the swap!...See MoreTypes of Gardeners on Florida Garden Forum
Comments (63)What hilarity! Love the fun posts, and learning a bit about y'all in the bargain. For those who have ever read my few posts, I'm the clueless one, the transplant subset. If there's subsets of subsets, I would be the transient transplant. I spend my life following my spouse's work, geographically speaking. I pack houses, and unpack. I accumulate all manner of flower pots and containers, then downsize, give away, and move again. My gardening efforts are full of hearty enthusiasm, as well as serial plant murdering (I like to blame it on local plant ignorance and not my PJIC disease, *plants jump into the cart*). Since we never get to live in one place long enough for either the humans or the plants to put down deep roots, we transient transplants collect any and all plants fervently, via swaps, pinching starts at public malls and other venues, and the local garden center. Then, we moan and groan about disposing of our pot ghetto when the next move is announced. Transient transplants spend way too much time covering up and disguising the objectionable architectural features of our current rental digs. We creatively hang plants, put up fishing line trellises to cover up nasty window views, and annoy the neighbors with our homemade garden accessories, obtained in pre-dawn trash-day scrounging. These charming accents (yes, even the old commodes planted with petunias), feed our collector (#6) genes, which we fervently nurture upon arrival in our latest garden planting zone. We don't consciously try to be specialists (#7s), but once we latch onto a type of plant that we don't kill in the newest climate, we grow it in every color known to the species. Oh, and yes, we have even been known to dumpster-dive in #2 and #4's trash bins, where the plant pickings are amazingly healthy, lush, and green. We transient transplants have become experts at covertly watching your work through our mis-matched window coverings (read - sheets), knowing there's gonna be really good pickings in YOUR trash this week. This serves to help our garden budget go further, knowing we must fill up our pots and fronts of landlord's planting beds to overflowing in such a short period of time, before we have to frantically put it all back, to get ready for the next household moving cycle. When the next move is announced, we lovingly dig up, label, package, and mail starts of all these frantically planted pot ghettos to our Northern friends, for safekeeping until we get settled into our next digs. In actuality, our Northern plant recipients can't even remember our names, or why they are receiving these care-packages of dirt and mushy, frozen green blobs, resembling a refrigerator science experiment.......See MoreWhere did the FLORIDA forum go?
Comments (1)9.22.08: Due to technical issues, some forums may be missing posts from 9.20 and earlier. Our support team is working to resolve this issue and hope to have all posts restored soon. Thank you for your patience! was posted earlier today on every forum. It is located in the What's New on GardenWeb: banner. The posts at The Bulb Forum, were missing, but have recently been restored. I'm guessing that in time, they will have all forums restored. Sue...See Moremarcia_m
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