I want geraniums and will trade some of mine or something else from my list. I have: 'Brookside' - 24"-30"H x 24" W Rich sapphire blue flowers in late spring . The BEST BLUE. x cantabrigiense 'Cambridge' - 5-6"H, spreading - deep baby pink, great weed suppressing groundcover, soil: any but wet, sun to part shade, deer resistant 'Johnson's Blue' - H: 10", W: 2' - lavender-tinted blue flowers with pale mauve centers May to October, deer resistant x oxonianum 'Claridge Druce' - 12-18"H x 24"W - 2" deep lilac pink flowers veined magenta, late spring to early summer. Excellent groundcover. Self seeds some -- usually true. A very different type of geranium. Remains bushy even in deep shade. Semi-evergreen to evergreen depending on climate. Deer resistant pratense 'Mrs Kendall Clark' - sky blue (lavender blue) flowers with translucent veining sanguineum (Bloody Cranesbill) - 8"-12"H x 15" W flowers purple-pink to purple-red late spring through most of summer, full sun to part shade, spreading low ground cover (plant 3 per square yard), edger, easy - 'New Hampshire Purple' 8-10" - everblooming attractive purple flowers; colorful fall foliage; excellent groundcover for sun or shade. - 'Striatum' (syn. Lancastriense) - 10"H x 24" W - light pink with dark pink veins, May-June and may rebloom if sheared Looking for: 'Anne Thompson' x oxionianum 'Pearl Boland' 'Mavis Simpson' 'Midnight Reiter' 'Patricia' plenum 'Birch's Double' pratense 'Victor Reiter Jr.' riversleanium: 'Salome' 'Russell Prichard' sanguineum: 'John Elsley', 'Max Frei', 'Shepherd's Warning' 'Stanhoe' 'Sweet Heidi'

I don't usually trade plants, just seeds. But I'd like to get some red irises in my yard. True red, or deep red/burgundy. Ruffled or not, short and tall, I'm open. I would like to see a photo or get the name so I can look it up. If you have some available for trade, please look at the list of plants below, or let me read your wants list. I have my garden and two others I can raid if the following list is uninteresting to you. Plants I have available: Bearded iris, not ruffled, medium yellow, 24" tall. (not yellow flag, which is deeper yellow) photo available Agastache foeniculum, Anise Hyssop Agastache Honey Bee Blue Black-eyed susan Verbena Hastata Ladies Mantle A. mollis Starry False Solomon's Seal Horsetail, 18" tall, probably Equisetum hyemale or variegatum Geranium sanguineum, name unknown, fuchsia flower, forms mound 1-2 high by 2 wide. Creeping thyme Oregano Roman Chamomile (perennial) Feverfew, single and double Lily of the Valley Lamium, looks like Silver Beacon (silver leaves, pink flowers) Lamium, chartreuse Sedums, unknown, I can take photos Sedum, variegated, ~3" cutting available Hosta: Aug-Sept blooming, narrow leaved green Celandine poppy, Chelidonium species Astilbe, unknown color Siberian Iris, unknown color(s) We can negotiate what size plant/how many plants you'd like for your iris(es) And, I have many many seeds available, including heirlooom tomatoes. If you're interested in trading for seeds and some postage, I'm open to that too. Thanks for reading!

It looks like Hibiscus rosa-sinensis, 'Double Red'. Here is a link that might be useful:

My grandparents were all born in the 1880s and my last grandmother died when I was 12. She'd been in a nursing home for some time by that point so I was very young when I was visiting their homes. Both of my grandfather's passed before I was born. My maternal grandmother lived in an old duplex on Toledo, Ohio's south side--right near the big Haughton Elevator plant where my grandfather worked. Very industrial and I remember the neighborhood being very gray--dark, charcoal gray. There were railroad tracks that basically ran behind the house. During the depression, the homeless men who were traveling as hitchers on the train would stop and my grandmother would feed them--whatever she had--which wasn't much. Mom said that it was a daily occurrence. And there was a bar called The Showboat just a few doors down. Some time during my young adulthood, it morphed into a drag club. I never went there, but it was VERY important to my grandpa. LOL That grandmother had a small, dank kitchen with a freestanding gas (heating) stove, lino countertops with the banded edge, and (I think) green painted cabinets--and not many. It just felt dirty and old to me--much like that neighborhood. My uncle lived in that duplex apartment for more than 60 years. He had cerebral palsy and lived at home and never married. What I remember most about that house was the smell of his cologne, believe it or not. By the time he moved in the early 80s, the apartment had fallen into horrendous disrepair. My paternal grandmother was a charcter--my last remaining grandparent. Some time between 1915 and 1920, they sold their large farm in Tontogany, Ohio and moved to the "big city" of Bowling Green. Their house was a traditional 2 story, white, with a big front porch and two catalpa trees out front. I spent hours playing with the seed pods--"Indian cigars" as she called them. Her kitchen wasn't big, but it wasn't small. There was a wall of cabinetry that faced the country road to the east with a sink and symmetrical white painted cabinets. Certainly no dishwasher. LOL The floors were a speckled lino--all kinds of colors but basically white and the cabinets had black rubber toekicks. There was a typical 1930s wallpaper, red, blue, yellow with forks and spoons motif on all of the walls above white (?) ceramic tile. I want to say that it was banded in black tile, but...I don't know...maybe... There was a breakfast alcove with a wooden table and 4 chairs--always covered with a vinyl tablecloth. I remember a lot of red and white checks...LOL The stove and refrigerator stood by themselves on 2 walls, and there was a door in the back corner that led out onto a breezeway with a dirt floor that housed the old wringer washer and beadboard cabinets full of home canned goods. I grew up eating her quince jelly and peanut butter sandwiches. We had her jelly YEARS after she passed away. I can STILL taste it. And lebkuchen. Always lebkuchen. And on your birthday, she would sit down at the big upright piano in the living room and belt out the most raucous "Happy Birthday" you ever heard. She'd been a piano player in the silent movie houses and was quite good--sitting there in her flowered shirtwaist and gingham apron with her white-white hair pulled into a tight bun.... My mom always told me that I reminded her of that grandmother.... I like that.