brenda you got some of my pulmonaria! the reason i was digging amethyst out was because she was hogging my poopr pulmonaria's space. it's a nice plant- enjoy! looks like this thread is gonna max out before the swap. that's gotta be some sort of record!! vickie- i love most of the rex begonias, and some of the more unusual other cool foiliage ones(but not the angelwings so much). you're probably thiinking of the place where i said i was intersted in a hardy begonia that had long tublar, or sorta anyhow, coral red flowers. pdn has it, but i don''t know the botanic offhand. was hoping it speads like the other hardies and someone who bought it would be willing to share. no biggie if not- i'll probably eventually buy it. i don't think brenda had hardy fsuchias- i was looking for them. she's got gartenmeister which is z 9, i think- so a cool basement one here. lovely, though. i looked up sophie cecile and it says & has pix of rose pink blooms. not fond of pink, really. dana- on a plant dig/save today and there were maple leaved viburnums everywhere. so i got a few there- no worries about bringing one for me. thank you much. if you've already dug it, i can take it or you can pass it along to someone else. alicia, thanks for the seedling. i only need 1, though. gotta go get the dig stuff potted up. tam

I just stumbled upon this site a few minutes ago. I don't know how this works exactly. I love plants, have thousands probably all over the place. A lot are trades to I'm not always sure what they are. I have the tall sanseveria, the miniature one that grows 4-5" tall and the green and yellow one if you are stil interested. I live near Winnipeg and we've just gone through -39C (with windchill) so my plants stay mostly indoors. Sometimes I risk a cutting outdoors during the summer or put the mother out so long as I have healthy cuttings in the house so if I forget them outside, I'm not too sad about it. Are you interested? (I have no clue how I'll find this site again. Do you have email. Email me at : smile.l.e@shaw.ca

Sorry, I was following the other thread and missed seeing the posts here. karen_w - I will bring several different rose cuttings ( I have Pope John Paul, Mardi Gras, Felicia, Hansa, Peach Drift, Easy to Please, Easy Does It, etc, etc) I would love the Pink Pet and Millenium Allium. lorabell_gw -Is the Alpinia hardy here or does it need to be brought indoors? If it can stay outside, please bring some for me. Jaimie - I will bring an Arundo Peppermint Stick and Mardi Gras for you. Bring me anything you like. Fragrant, shade loving are always welcome. But anything is fine.

According to this interesting video about Arundo propagation, rooting takes place at nodes, so internode cuttings are actually good propagation material. This suggests that if a stem is severed at ground level, without any roots, it is likely to end up being cut above the root node and the next higher node may be above ground when such a stem is planted vertically. In such a case a spurt of growth from the stem's remaining reserves could occur but it would not be followed by root formation and the stem would die off. Those stems that survive would be likely cut deep enough to preserve enough of the root node to be able to form new roots. So to obtain more successful propagation of Arundo, two paths could be followed: 1, deeper digs and divisions containing larger chunks of tubers with roots and rooting nodes; 2, stem cuttings with exposed nodes laid flat on the rooting medium, like in the video. The stems that we received at the swap seem to fall in the crack of not having enough roots to be bona fide divisions on one side, and not having a buried internode to be able to root as cuttings on the other side.