Is anyone interested in houseplants at all? I have an Epiphyllum oxypetalum that I actually want to get rid of. It is just too big for me. I know that's their tendency and that they have gorgeous flowers, when they bloom, but I've had mine for four years and all it does is get bigger and more sprawly. The pot that it is currently growing in actually has rooted pieces that broke off. So whoever gets it will be getting four plants I think. I'm told that the flowers will be white, but I don't have the patience for it. I guess I prefer my houseplants small and tame. This thing is big and wild.

dawiff: I would be interested in the Epiphyllum. I have a couple that I'm trying to get to bloom; might as well try for three.

Most of my houseplants are big and wild anyway - It gets crowded in here during the winter.

Claire

Hi Kids,

I'll be there. Since my garden is still new and very much in the formation/experimental stage, I will not have much to offer but I should have a few things to share. BUT...just like dawiff, I have a few house plants I would like to pass along. If anyone is willing to adopt a Corn Plant, please let me know, I have a forest of them in my house.

sooey

Is there any interest in white wood asters, Aster divaricatus, which are beginning to bloom now? Or does everyone who likes them already have 600, and everybody else hates them?

I also have a field full of some kind of wild strawberry - little white flowers that do go to berries which are gobbled up by the critters before I can get to them.

And then there's lily of the valley (which looks really ratty this time of year)....

Claire

It just occurred to me that I could dig some Hyacinthoides hispanica (Spanish Bluebell) bulbs, probably blue although there were some pink and white ones in there.

Claire

Indicating "interest" in any Hyacinthoides hispanica that happen to show up

Claire, I am very interested in the Aster divaricatus. I have a fairly new bed that goes from dappled at one end to full shade at the other, and I'm trying to fill it with natives. Sounds like they would be perfect for that area. The Epiphyllum is all yours.

Speaking of houseplants I also have a Bowiea, a strange little houseplant that looks a bit like an onion, and puts out a long fluffy tendril. It has been slowly getting bigger over the last three or four years since I got it. It's very easy to care for, but it's another sprawler. Does anyone want it?

Hi all,

Back from New Hampshire and ready to think about the swap. If enough people are interested in visiting Katsura after, I'll call John and see if we can get a full tour. Since it is a Saturday, we should probably arrange it in advance.

If you send me an email at lisa at zoompuppy dot com, I'll send my phone number, address and directions. Let me know which way you will be coming from!

Lisa

I'd be interested in a visit to Katsura if John is giving a tour. I might not go otherwise (too much temptation and my garden is full now). Has any thought been given to the start time of the swap?

Claire

I have several Viburnum dentatum seedling/saplings (3 to 4 ft tall) that I have to move anyway. If there's any interest I'll bring them to the swap.

These are not your compact fancy cultivars; they're the local wild strain that flowers and fruits in a very relaxed fashion. The seedlings came up in the wrong place and I moved them to a holding area. Now they're outgrowing the holding area. A nice shrub for a native shrub border/hedge.

Claire

I've got seedling oakleaf and 'tardiva' hydrangeas, and some seedlings of a ligularia with enormous, dark, mysterious, leaves with red undersides; will dig and pot if there's interest. Also have lots of lady's mantle, and maybe some first year foxgloves.

I'm a little pressed for time because I'm leaving town for an extended period on Sept 22, and have a ton of things to do to get my garden somewhat ready for winter before then, so I'll probably only dig things that I know people might want. Email me via my member's page if there's anything you'd like that I've blabbed about on the forum and haven't mentioned here.

Can't wait!
DtD

Claire, the viburnum dentatum seedlings would definitely find a home here in my garden. Do you think they will be able to cope with dappled shade? Or do they really need lots of sunshine? What kind of conditions do you have them growing in now in the holding bed?

DtD, if you've got the time, I've got room for an oakleaf hydrangea too. But if you don't get around to it because of your trip, don't worry.

dawiff: They should be fine in dappled shade - the wild ones are growing in thick underbrush in a pine-oak-cherry setting. My holding bed is part shade in the company of osmanthuses, ditch lilies, a rosa rugosa and siberian irises.

Claire

I forgot to mention that I'm interested in the tour if that can be arranged. If it doesn't work out, I'll probably be relieved, to be honest, because I don't think it would be polite to get a tour and not stuff my car with plants from Katsura. (kidding)

Also, Lisa, I emailed you - let me know if you didn't get my message (ngalbraith). The web mail client I use lost at least 1 message today.

Hi Lisa, I tried to email you to find out the location, but there isnt an email addie listed on your trade pages, if you have a second, would you please let me know where you are located, I keep really wanting to come to a swap, but they are a bit far for me to travel !

I hope everyone has a wonderful time !

Sept 13 is getting close - any details on the swap (time, directions, food...)?

Claire

Dtd, for some reason your member page did not show a link to email you. I would like to express interest in one of your ligularia if possible. Thanks!

Hi Lisa

Looking to confirm the details of the swap for next weekend. Also, I emailed you for directions about a week ago or so but haven't heard back from you. Not sure if you got the email or not....

Can you send directions? You can email me through GW mail but I'll also try to resend to the email address you posted.

Thanks
Michelle

I've potted up most of my hydrangea volunteers: several (4? 5?) oakleaf babies, 1 h. paniculata 'tardiva' (I grow these as small trees, limbing them up, other people cut them back for a bushier effect), 1 with mop-head type leaves, probably a nikko blue, but .. who knows?

Also 3 or so ligularia dentata, and 3 salvia lyrata 'Purple knockout' (native, atypical of the salvia family, low rosettes of reddish foliage, flowers are nothing to write home about, at least in my garden, where they grow in pure sand in the cracks in our brick patio - but seeds are goldfinch magnets. I thought thyme2dig might like those because of the color of the foliage.)

I have 3 husky seedlings (2 or 3' tall) of Japanese snowbell tree (styrax japonicus) and will pot some if anyone is interested. It's a lovely small tree with a graceful, spreading habit, white flowers when you need them most (summer) and clean, glossy foliage.

Anyone need common thyme? It's become a bit of a pest here. I could also dig some sweet autumn clematis - I have no idea how it likes being moved, but it seems to be made of steel and, I need to remove a lot of it. (This offer only for people coming from colder zones!)

More to come as the digging gets going - weather permitting. Apparently we're in for it this weekend, so I may have to finally clean my house.
Rudbeckia? Joe Pye weed (chocloate or otherwise)?

You're right! I would be very interested in a salvia. Thanks.

Hi all!

Sorry for being away from the computer this week. I'm sending off responses to all emails tonight with directions. Plus I think I will go through the list and identify plants with and without interested responses. Don't want anything to slip through the cracks. Look for another post soon!

Lisa

Ok directions email is out.

If you didn't receive is please email me. lisa at zoompuppy dot com

I'll let y'all know if any bounce. I'm going to go through the plants on this list and see if any offers haven't been claimed, to make sure nothing falls through the cracks. Be back in a bit!

Lisa

perilla
chocolate eupatorium- interest expressed
rudbeckia
Rudbeckia hirta 'Indian Summer'
Clethra alnifolia - Summersweet - interest expressed
Chocolate Chip Ajuga
White Creeping Phlox
Leucanthemum vulgare - Oxeye Daisy
Coreopsis grandiflora
asclepias incarnata "Ice Ballet"- interest expressed
burgundy colored shade plant
Anise hyssop - Agastache foeniculum - heavy reseeder- interest expressed
Peonies - interest expressed
-Siberian Irises - purple
-Double Ditch Lilies - fluffy orange
-Bearded Irises - purple and white
Shasta, V. plicatum tomentosum -- interest expressed
-Monarda Claire Grace - lavender
-Monarda Coral Reef - coral - interest expressed
-Phlox maculata (Wild Sweet William) - pink
- Blue Vervain (Verbena hastata)
stachys hummelo
variegated sedum seiboldii (reverting to solid a bit) - interest expressed
jack frost brunnera - interest expressed
native ginger
european ginger - interest expressed
rose campion - interest expressed
vitex- interest expressed
Epiphyllum oxypetalum - interest expressed
Corn Plant
Aster divaricatus - interest expressed
Hyacinthoides hispanica- interest expressed
wild strawberry
lily of the valley
Bowiea
oakleaf and 'tardiva' hydrangeas- interest expressed
nikko blue
ligularia- interest expressed
lady's mantle
foxgloves- interest expressed
salvia lyrata 'Purple knockout' - interest expressed
Japanese snowbell tree (styrax japonicus)- interest expressed
sweet autumn clematis
Joe Pye weed- interest expressed
common thyme

Ok here is the list of everything mentioned in the above posts. I wanted to put the list out there so nothing would be missed. But I didn't want to associate names with anything, because I didn't want anyone to feel pressured that they had to bring something, just because they mentioned it on the thread.

I'll update this list as people finalize what they are looking for, or if I have missed anything, please post and I'll correct. BTW if you notice anything on the list that has an 'interest expressed' but nothing mentioned about it above, that's me :).

Lisa

"Shasta, V. plicatum tomentosum -- interest expressed
I'm afraid I have to withdraw this offer. The viburnum was fine in early to mid-summer, but lately some of the leaves have been looking bad; maybe a rust.

I picked most of the bad leaves off (to go to the dump with some unpleasant peony foliage) but the viburnum is not in swappable shape. I'm hoping it's just the humid rainy summer coupled with a location by a retaining wall with poor air circulation. I'll move it somewhere more open and hope that it will be fine next spring.

Claire

Hens and chicks
I'm redoing the bed where they lived and I can't really find a good place for them now.

If anyone is interested, I can bring them along.

Hi Lisa

I would like to attend the fall swap on Saturday, can you forward me the address/directions. I'm fairly new to gardening and to Garden Web and can bring some plants to swap although they may not be the most exciting. I have the following which I grew from seed:
Monarda
Rudbeckia Autumn Glory

plus a few others I don't what their name are!! I sowed a lot of seeds in the Spring and some have not flowered yet.
What I enjoy the most is interacting with other gardeners and talking plants for a few hours!

Thanks

Margaret (Cleomelover)

Margaret,

Can you email to lisa at zoompuppy dot com. I'm happy to send along directions. Can't wait to meet all the gardeners!

Lisa

Hi Lisa and everybody else, it's looking like I will not be able to make the swap. I've been up to my eyeballs with other things and after 5 months of gardening in high gear, I petered out in August. Well that, and I started raising Monarchs which completely distracted me from gardening!!

Hope the swap goes well!!

RE food: I can bring a box of pastries from the Blueberry Muffin in Cedarville to stoke the energy (and waistlines) of attendees.

Claire

I'm planning to bring some food as well, and probably some paper plates. It looks like out of all the stuff I have to share, the only thing that's been claimed (ok, that someone has expressed interest in) is the houseplant, Epiphyllum oxypetalum. So I'm not going to bother digging any of the others, unless someone posts soon about wanting them.

FGirl, I'd like some hens and chicks. I don't think you even need to pot them, just dig them and bring them dry in a container or pot without dirt. I do have some edging a bed, but they don't seem to multiply very quickly. I'd love more.

Alison,

I have no idea how I missed your post when I went through to make the list, but my eyes must have skipped it. Anyway, I'd love a piece of the Barbara Mitchell and Autumn Joy sedums. If it is too late, no worries. BTW that clethera was the only thing on my list that anyone expresed interested in. I think the MA gardeners are getting picky!!!

To everyone - I'll make one more update to the list, so everyone knows what is desired and what isn't. If you have any interest in anything, please post, so people know what to pot up!

Lisa

I would be interested in Rudbeckia hirta 'Indian Summer'

Fgirl, were you ever able to identify the burgundy colored shade plant? I'd be interested in one of whatever it may be!

I'm interested in the perilla, but don't know much about it except that it is an annual. Would I just plant it now and let it self-sow? Does it readily self-sow in zone 5? Any info is appreciated.

Alison, I would be interested in a pink daylily, and Claire, I am definitely interested in a pastry!

Is a trip to Katsura on the agenda?

I think we were all holding back on expressing interest after last spring's swap thread! Also, it seems most new gardeners who have room for old standards are probably not thinking about planting now.

Dawiff, I googled Cryptotaenia at last. Can you tell me if yours is the native, green canadensis, or the red-leaved japonicus? Both look nice, but I'm not sure if I have space for the taller native one.

T2D - yes, you could plant perilla now, or just leave it in a small pot without bothering to dig it in. They'll be setting seed soon, and will self-sow wherever they happen to be. I should admit I don't know how far north it would self-sow reliably.

I've got assorted perennials that I haven't listed that are already in pots; I'll just bring them and see if anyone can provide them a new home. These include one each of staples like mum, sib iris, caryopteris, & gold creeping jenny ... can't recall what else is out there.

I will confess..........anything that doesn't have a "taker" will definitely find a home in my yard. If you want it gone, I have a home for it. Dawiff can attest to the barren spots with plenty of room for plants (old standards included).

I even planted lots of Lily of the Valley years ago with hopes that it would take over as everyone warned. HA! I'm still waiting....

I completely forgot to find the name of the burgundy shade plant - let me go search but I'll bring some anyway. It's late developing reseeding annual IMHO. Let me find the name.

Alison - my hens produce LOTS of chicks so you should have some luck.

I'm wondering if we need a few folding chairs - I have a couple that live in my car's trunk and I'll bring them if I don't need the room for plants.

Claire

Ok, I will get out there this week and dig up the Barbara Mitchell and the Autumn Joy sedum, and maybe pot up some of the NOID pink daylilies.

DtD, the Cryptotaenia is japonicus, with reddish leaves. I bought the mother plant last year at the Sister Plant sale, and it has self-sown in a few spots. The babies are still smallish. I didn't know there was a native one, I'll have to check it out.

Ooh, I would LOVE to have a Cryptotaenia japonicus, dawiff, if you can manage it. And next year I'm going to the sister plant sale, one way or another.

I can bring a folding table or two as well if they're needed. And of course something yummy to eat!

I'm so disappointed that I cannot attend. However, I have a big shopping bag full of Baptisia seed pods. Is anyone interested?

If so, with permission, I can drop them off at Michelle's (fgirl21) home on Friday. Would that be OK with you, Michelle?

~ Hilda

The latest weather forecast (Weather Underground) says

"Saturday
Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the morning. Patchy fog in the morning. Humid with highs in the mid 70s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph...becoming northeast in the afternoon. Chance of rain 50 percent."

Sunday is about the same. Are we still on for Saturday the 13th?

Claire

Hi Kids,

I'm looking forward to our swap tomorrow. I'm sorry that I will have nothing to offer from my 'almost' garden, but it will be nice to meet all who attend. Please let me know if I can bring anything, goodies, chairs etc. I also have a good sized corn plant that needs a new home. It's all ready to go if anyone is interested. Let me know and I'll try to fit it into my car.

sooey

Weather.com is now predicting morning clouds/afternoon sun, so I'm hoping we're still on.

I have two Barbara Mitchell daylily divisions, and five of the NOID pink daylilies potted up, as well as three Cryptotaenia seedlings. I didn't get to the Autumn Joy sedum, the bees like it too much right now, and I don't like the bees. I'm planning to completely redo the bed it is in next spring, so I might bring it to the spring swap.

Here is a picture of what the NOID daylilies will look like when they bloom. They are all small fans, so might need even a couple of more years till they bloom.

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Looking forward to the swap.

Alison

Hi Lisa,
I think I sent a request for directions to the 'zoompuppy' address. It did not bounce back. If I come, I'm bringing some autumn joy.

Hope you don't mind my 'dropping in' nearly unannounced.
Marie/Idabean

I'm going to use waterproof ink on my plant labels (If I get around to writing them up!) and maybe that will help keep the rain away. I played hooky part of the day today and got most of my pot ghetto into the ground, so I'm looking forward to getting these remaining plants out of here in the morning.

Can't wait to see you all; some new faces and some oldies but goodies.

Oh my Hilda I missed your post! I'm so sorry!!!

Hi fgirl21,
Will you please send me directions and timing?
I have Ajuga, Chequers Lamium and Forget me not and sedum kamtschaticum.
Lisa I thought I posted back interest in Brunerra and Euro. Ginger but I dont see it. If it wasnt me you were thinking of I will be on the waiting list!

Wish I could join you all. Have fun -- and share the details later!
ML

Emailed directions to you gfult

I think lots of folks are on the road, but just in case anyone is worried, I have a fairly large front porch, and a useable garage. So we are on, rain or shine!

Lisa

Posted by fgirl21 on Fri, Sep 12, 08 at 21:13:
Oh my Hilda I missed your post! I'm so sorry!!!

Dear Michelle,

Not to worry. Maybe they'll last until next spring? Hope you all have a wonderful time today!