Lorabell ... my guess with your plants is that you did trades and people gave you things BUT you also had a marked stash on the side of the special trades... Maybe?

Sounds like a great time was had yesterday. My schedule would not allow me to get there in time unfortunately. I hope to see everyone in the Spring!

Could someone please ID this unlabeled succulent? Some kind of Haworthia?

Lisianthuslover, we are hoping that during your leave of absence you have accumulated lots of interesting plants that you'll be able to share :-) .

Les, from the photo my first guess would be Aloe haworthioides, so not far off at all in thinking of Haworthia. If that's not it other possibilities could be Aloe aristata or humilis. I remember seeing this one at the swap - there were some cool succulents and cacti there that unfortunately didn't come home with me.

Vlad, am contemplating this Euphorbia grandicornis cutting and imagining how big your plant must be for this to be a cutting. I'm going to have to do some serious engineering to keep this upright and stationary while it roots! I love my Vlad/Christine dealer's choice assortment.

Lorabell has gotten all her plants ( I must have lost my mind there for a moment in overlooking them!). Brenda and Tammy, much thanks in helping me fix that!! Bonus was I got to meet Sylveebell at Tammy‘s, what a sweetheart.

Thanks to everyone for the great trades! Elsie, thank you so much!! Ralph, one of the moss roses opened, large pink, Cool! John, I don’t think you realize how much I / we appreciate you hosting this for us, thanks a million!

Lester, I brought the succulent pups in the round container along with the one you have pictured above. The only one I knew the name was the Aloe hawthornia pantagona ( if you chose one from the container). The one pictured stays a small size and throws out lots of pups, I use it in rock/succulent/ art designs.

John, Thanks once again for a wonderful Swap meet.

Eagerly Awaiting spring 2020!!!!!Hope I am better prepared for that!!!!

Karen, I brought the Clusia. I'm glad it's going home with someone who'd appreciate it! I'm sure it'll be especially happy in a greenhouse (though honestly it didn't seem to mind being a houseplant too much)

Tammy, thanks for posting the recipe! I only tried a little, but liked it and took a picture of it's name to look up later!

Thank you for the swap everyone :)

Hopefully next year brings an adequate (and well timed) amount of water to us all...

Sabji, Will you please post the name of the tall cacti that you gave me so I can google it.Thank you.

Lora: Lets not talk about memory LOL.when your dutch iris bloom,I will give you the colors that you don't have.

Karen, yes, the Euphorbia not_bovicornuta :-) is massive AND I am keeping it in a small container because I *know* what it is going to happen if I put it in a bigger pot :-). Yeah, it will be interesting to see what it does this year thought ... It is tough to root euphorbias when it is less than 90 degrees outside ... so I guess we are in luck with this crazy hot weather :-).

Good ID on the Aloe haworthoides ... I am making labels right now.

Glad you like the plants I brought you.

John, thank you again for an incredible get together. It is fantastic to spend an afternoon with friends, especially when those friends talk plants.

Karen, how do I grow those incredible bromeliads you brought me?

Vlad,

i think I put 4 varieties in the container of succulents- there were probably about 10 pups of the A. haworthia pantagona.

Elsie, it is a dragon fruit cactus. It is 4 or 5 year old.

Thank you very much.Been out playing in my rock garden all day long.Fun! Fun!Fun!

in a posting above I included a picture of what was identified as Actenia or its more recent name Mesembryanthemum cordifolia thanks to Les. However, I did not remember either of these names being on the tag with the originally brought back from a nursery in Savannah while on a trip to Hilton Head. Coincidentally she is back there this week and went back to the nursery and found that they are still selling it as Dorotheathus meezo. If you google this name, there are several web sites that argue that this id is wrong and that it really is an Actenia. Any thoughts?

Mezoo is what mine was labeled as, and I've seen online that there is a big debate over what it's called... I'm indifferent to the actual scientific name, so I'll just continue to call mine 'Mezoo' for the time being. There is a comment on here about it https://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderDetails.aspx?taxonid=369456&isprofile=0&

MBG has one of the most authoritative (and useful) online plant catalogs and in the link posted above by Jaimie they state:
"A variegated form of this plant has been widely sold and labeled as Dorotheanthus bellidiformis 'Mesbicla' MEZOO TRAILING RED, which as best we can determine is a very different plant. The species Dorotheanthus bellidiformis is quite different from Mesembryanthemum cordifolium. We have not been able to establish the validity of the cultivar 'Mesbicla' or how this species name and cultivar got associated with the herein plant."

More details can be found on the PlantZAfrica website operated by the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI).

Their entry for Aptenia cordifolia (L.f.) Schwantes describes: "The green leaves are fleshy, flat, heart- to oval-shaped, 60 x 25 mm long, and are widely spaced in pairs or singularly arranged." Whereas the entry for Cleretum bellidiforme (Burm.f.) G.D.Rowley (=Dorotheanthus bellidiformis (Burm.f.) N.E.Br.) says: "The green or maroon-tinted leaves are tongue- or spoon-shaped and more or less flat, with conspicuous raised, bladder-like, surface cells modified for water storage, which glisten in bright sunlight." Since our plants have indeed heart- but not tongue- or spoon-shaped leaves, calling it Dorotheanthus bellidiformis would be incorrect.

Who brought the awesome gymnocalicium? I just repotted it last night and he will be well cared and loved with me.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/2bpKjiM13nWnEvrV9

Aptenia was what i was told when i bought my first plant about 20 years back, and it's certainly the same plant. So it's been going as that name (among others, clearly) for a while. Hate it when they change plant nomenclature. I'm just happy to get it again- thanks, Ralph!

https://worldofsucculents.com/aptenia-cordifolia-variegata-variegated-hearleaf-ice-plant/

I originally had the solid form of this and it's more winter hardy - stayed around a few years for me and longer for my neighbor in her rocky slope. It did eventually bit the dust, but good to know if anyone finds the solid form again.

Hi Everyone --- off plant topic, but important!

I watched yesterday's recorded TV program the 'Doctors' and they were discussing 'explants' -- women are removing their breast implants. The women they interviewed said they had all types of symptoms: food allergies, pain, no energy, brain fog, etc. Some felt so bad they thought they were dying. Some of the implants are even causing cancer.

If your friends have implants, you might want to let them know about these problems so they can check with their plastic surgeon. Women have even died because of them.

Val

Tammy, I've got the recipe saved and will enjoy exploring the possible variations. And I'm really happy to try the Aristolochia again.

Vlad, those two bromeliads have been pretty easy in my greenhouse. The orthophytum will slow down growth in the winter and not need quite as much watering, but in active growth I try to water about twice a week. It lives at the sunnier end of the greenhouse, but the light in there is diffused by the twinwall so I think I would be careful about putting it in direct afternoon sun. Well draining soil mix is important (isn't it always?) and it should be fine in the pot it's in now for a while. After it blooms and starts to pup you'll want to repot. The xNeophytum Andromeda is a Neoregelia x Orthophytum hybrid by Lisa Vinzant, but the orthophytum parent on that one had a name change and is now a sincoraea, so after everybody catches up with that Andromeda will be a xSincoregelia. I treat it the same as the Orthophytum I gave you and it pups into a really great looking clump, even before blooming. I think it would be more red in more sun. There's some really interesting info from the hybridizer on an old GardenWeb thread. https://www.houzz.com/discussions/1772391/something-new-for-stephania#n=29

Jaimie, as I was perusing the benches just before the starting bell, I googled the Clusia and found a blog entry called 'The Plant That Ate the Greenhouse', so if nobody hears from me in the spring, you'll know why.

Well I tried posting while at work, but think Houzz ate my comment; so in case it isn't visible to anyone else like it isn't for me here it is again:

Vlad, that cacti was from me... My Mom gave it to me a few years ago in this strange cactus terrarium fish tank she had. We had a stupidly rainy day in April (2017, I got 8-9" rain at my house) which luckily for me flooded the place. The next day I went outside and happened to find the fish tank full of water. I managed to pull him out though, and he even bloomed that year!

Here's an album to not destroy Houzz with a direct uploaded image

https://photos.app.goo.gl/fmxSwtBS8Jq2ZQ9j9

Karen, haha... well he's not grown for a while, so I'm sure he'll appreciate taking over your entire greenhouse. Maybe you can hang orchids on him!

Also Karen, you should've posted a link for everyone else to appreciate your potential new monster friend!

https://sweetgumandpines.wordpress.com/2018/12/09/clusia-orthoneura-or-the-plant-that-ate-the-greenhouse/

Biggest cutting EVER!

Nice cutting. I would keep it on the dried side since it is a euphorbia and if they don't have 90 degrees they don't do anything...

Oh it's definitely on the dry side here in North Durham.

What is the best potting mix for mangave? JCRA gave them away on Saturday at their plant distribution.

I don't know Screenwriter. I would do same as agave witm maybe a bit more organic stuff... So maybe 1/2 and 1/2 rock/permatil to dirt.

Received a weeping Butterfly Bush in the Swap.. love it.

i am trying to ID and find the best location to plant it but both Buddleia lindleyana and B. davidii are called weeping butterfly bushes.

Any chance any of you brought and know which one it is?

Lorabell, it is buddleia lindleyana. Mine is still blooming; the 'flower' gets longer and longer as it weeps, blooming on the tip. It will set out runners, but easy enough to control.

I may have brought the weeping butterfly bush you have. It needs staking as it grows and limit number of center “trunks” so that you get a nice umbrella shaPe. Mine is about 8 feet tall With 4 middle trunks twined together and staked to grow vertically.

Thanks! How exciting!

Lester, Homewood Nursery has their crape myrtles 50% off today. They have 'Ebony Flame' which has black foliage! We got a 2-gallon pot for $15.

Vlad and Pam, I have four clumps of sedum 'Autumn Joy' if you still want them. Val

Reason # 17 why I love plant swapping!

You were serious when wrote ‘ large leaves’!

Very interested to add this large-leaved Kalanchoe to our collection of Kalanchoes.

Succulent lovers (like Vlad), saw the arboretum had this cutie on plant cart today... He's not hardy for me, so didn't get, but not sure if something one of you are interested in

Wish I lived near the arboretum so I could snag that one!

Reason #19,

Received a Jade cutting at one of the first swaps I attended. Today it’s blooming for me!

Assorted greenhouse shots today: https://photos.app.goo.gl/wdp3zM223uxibAYf7

That’s an amazing collection!

Lorabell, the leaves on that Kalanchoe will take on rosy tones if you grow it lean.

Vlad, am going to circle items from your photos and send them to Santa for my wish list. Lots and lots of circles.

Karen W, as Queen of Bromeliads, do you have Alcantarea odorata, very attractive pale grey, which was recently discussed under Name That Plant?

Les, I've been tempted by Alcantareas more than once, but most get so darned big that I'd have to build an annex onto the greenhouse. There are a few smaller species that only get to about 3 feet across, but I'd still have to throw things out to make room.

Anyone have any Sansevieria house plants they'd like to trade? I have a gorgeous variegated variety with white vertical lines I'd be willing to trade depending on if you have one that I dont already have. Please feel free to list the varieties you have to trade and I'll let you know if i need that one.

Some of you fellow NC plant nerds might be interested in this new license plate trying to get approved: https://ncbg.unc.edu/support/venus-flytrap-license-plate/

Anyone have a variegated monstera house plant or cuttings they'd like to trade for variegated hoya or variegated green and white agave house plant?