Plant Swapping Do the Member's here swap Plant's

[Cheyenne 09]

Plant Swapping Do the Member's here swap Plant's or Cutting's with Each other. :)

I was Just wandering if any of the Member's here Swap Plant's or Plant Cuttings with the other Member's here and if so is it Occasionally or on a regular basis.:)

Cheyenne 09 :)

[Miranda]

Yes, we do swap things, Cheyenne - it's been mainly seeds but we've also swapped cuttings and bulbs.

I'm interested - were you thinking of anything in particular?

[Cheyenne 09]

Yes i was thinking of thing's like Perennial Plants and Shrubs that sort of thing
just for example. Pelargoniums, Geranium Ibericum Johnstons Blue, Buddleja davidii' Nanho Blue' Pale Blue Flowers. Lilac's, Bamboo's. :)

Cheyenne 09 :)

[Miranda]

Make a list up, Cheyenne, and put it on the seed swap thread. I'm sure everyone will be interested to see what you've got. I certainly will.

I'll make a new list up as well.

[digger]

Yes i think i shall join in also

[sue1002]

Yes, it won't be too long before we can start collecting seeds again and making up our lists.

[Cheyenne 09]

Hi Miranda, sue1002, digger :)
Have any of you Made up a Plant list yet i posted my Quick List in the Plant Swap Thread and have since been working on my Full Plant List. I have also been to the Plant Nursery today and have New Plant's to add to my list. I also like a challenge when growing or looking after my Plant's so sometimes i pick up Really sick Plant's at a Plant Nursery's or Garden centers and then bring them back from the brink of Death do any of you do the same. I also like to pick up a Good Plant Bargain. :)

Cheyenne 09 :)

[sue1002]

Hi Cheyenne, I will have more of an idea once the plants have flowered and seeds collected later on in the summer and will make up a list of what is available then.

I have been known to pick up perennial plants from garden centres at the end of their growing season which have survived another year but if I see any that look past it when others of the same variety are all healthy I do tend to steer clear of the unhealthy looking ones.

[Cheyenne 09]

Hi Sue1002 :)
Let me know when you do your List Sue1002 Thank You. What i sometimes do when at the Plant Nursery or Garden Center is i look in the section that has Reduced Sick or Nearly Dead Plant's as the Prices for theses Plants are usually under £2.00 so i pick up Sick plants at Bargain prices and just sometimes the Nursery haven't watered them Enough or watered them Properly and sometimes there not as sick first look.The other day i picked up 4Lavender - Hidote - Evergreen in 2 litre pots for £3.92 so they were 98 pence each and all they needed was Pruned and they had some slugs in the dead wood area which i Removed they are now healthy Plant's anyway let me know if your Interested in anything. I will post a Complete Plant List over the weekend. Have a nice weekend :)

Cheyenne 09 :)

[Paul Narramore]

I can see problems sending cuttings by post. How well would they travel? Mind you I did buy in the spring three tiny bare-rooted roses from a nursery in California and they soon bucked up and have flowered.
For cheap plants we tend to go to a local school fete where plants cost pennies. I also visit a local one-man nursery where clematis, for instance, cost £2.99 each and he has a vast range of them. Notcutts is like an expensive exhibition which I wander round to get ideas of what to buy elsewhere.
I do a lot of swopping with gardening friends. I've just grown a large number of Morning Glory 'Grandpa Otts' and just about every seed has germinated. So I've been giving these away too.

[sue1002]

Cuttings travel by post surprisingly well Paul, Miranda and I have swapped some and they have arrived in perfect condition, just wrap them up with a little soil inside a plastic bag or bubble wrap and put inside a small box just big enough so they don't rattle around too much and they are ok.

[digger]

Hi sue1002, I am at the moment attempting to strike a cutting of arctic queen for you mate as soon as it is ready i shall post it straight away.

[Miranda]

Yes, Paul, they do travel surprisingly well and the plants I've had from Sue have been just fine. The furthest a plant has travelled to me was from Finland - two rooted cuttings of Citrus hystrix - and those were fine too.

As far as buying sick looking plants goes, I'm loath to do that as I don't want to introduce any unwanted viruses or pathogens in to the garden. I always go for healthy looking plants.

[sue1002]

Thanks digger, the cuttings I took last week of the Avant Garde still look healthy, none have died off yet anyway, I also took a couple of the C. cirrhosa 'Wisley Cream' after I inadvertently broke the top off whilst training a wild piece into the archway.

[Cheyenne 09]

Hi Paul & Everyone
As Miranda and Sue1002 already said cutting travel well. I used to send cuttings down to one of my Sisters that live in England all the time and they Traveled without any problems even just wrapping them in Damp Kitchen roll and then in a small plastic bag and inserting them in a Padded envelope and posting them they Arrived in perfect condition weather they had roots on them or not. It's a good way of getting Plants that are not really expensive as some Gardeners can't afford to spend lots of money on Plant's. I find it really hard Not to buy Plant's while out at Garden centers or Nurserys.

Cheyenne 09

[Paul Narramore]

Well thanks for that advice, it's nice to know they travel so well. I think I'd be happier getting them rooted first before posting them off.

[Cheyenne 09]

My Garden Plant for 2007

Phyllostachys nigra' Black Bamboo Slim black canes and small leaves

Phyllostachys aureosulcata f. spectabilis' Golden-groove Bamboo.

Chinese Bamboo with White strip Running Down the Middle of the Leafs

Bamboo Fargesia Rufa

Pleioblastus viridistriatus (auricomus) - The best golden variegated Bamboo with bold green and yellow striping.

Magnolia x soulangeana' White

Magnolia x grandiflora' Evergreen

Japanese Maple 'Acer palmatum var. dissectum Inaba-shidare'

Rhus typhina ' Tiger Eyes ' Stag's horn sumach

Acer Negundo - Flamingo

Acer

Arbutus Unedo - Strawberry Tree with Attractive strawberry-like fruits

Lantern Tree. A stiffly branched evergreen shrub with toothed narrow dark
green leaves. Attractive lantern-shaped scarlet to deep carmine-pink flowers.

'Viburnum opulus Roseum (Sterile)' - Snowball Tree - Gorgeous Snowball-like clusters of white blooms Fragrant

Buddleja davidii Santana variegated Royal Red Flowers.

Butterfly Bush' Buddleja davidii Black Knight' Sumptuous deep blue flowers.

Buddleja davidii' Nanho Blue' Pale Blue Flowers.

Buddleja davidii' White Flower's

Rhododendron 'Goldkrone' Yellow Flower's

Rhododendron White Flower's

Rhododendron Red Flower's

Rhododendron Dwarf - Dora White Flower's

Rhododendron Dwarf - Red Flower's

Fushsia - Riccartonii - Single Flower's with Red Tube's - Sepals Dark Purple Petals

Hydrangea - Blue

Mahonia x Media, Lionel Fortescue

Smoke Bush - Cotnus Coggyria- Royal Purple

Tree mallow (Lavatera arborea)

Desfontina - Spinosa

Lilac - White Flower's

Californian Lilac 'Ceanothus - Blue Flower's

Cordyline 'Australis Red Star' - Cabbage Tree, Reliable attractive leaf colour.

Yucca gloriosa 'Variegata'

New Zealand Flax 'Phormium Bronze Baby' - Arching, bronze-purple, sword-shaped leaves, and spikes of tubular, red flowers in summer.

New Zealand Flax 'Phormium Rainbow Queen' Phormium Maori Queen' ' Broad, bronze-green leaves with rose-red margins, fading to cream, and spikes of tubular, red summer flowers

Camellia With Red Flower's

Polygonatum - Multiflorum Clusters of green-tipped, white flowers in late spring, followed by small, round, black fruits

Lysimachia Punctata - Alexander- Dotted Loosestrife - With Yellow Flower's.

Hypericum - Rose of Sharon Yellow saucer Flower's

Geranium phaeum var. phaeum Samobor' Dusky Cranesbill - The Flower are as close to Black Flowers as you can get.

Geranium Green leaves and Black Flower's.

Geranium Ibericum Johnston's Blue.

Geranium With Blue to Purple Flower's

Helleborus ' niger' "Christmas Rose" ' Wonderful bowl-shaped White flowers.

Campanula Blue

Agapanthus African Lily 'Agapanthus africanus' Stunning deep blue flowers.

Aquilegia golden variegated Plant that has Blue to Purple Flowers.

Day Lily 'Hemerocallis Red Flower's

Day Lily 'Hemerocallis White Flower's

Ox-eye Daisy 'Leucanthemum vulgare' White Flower's.

Hebe ' Summer Blue

Hebe ' Sapphire

Hebe ' Tri Colour

Lavender - Hidote - Evergreen Aromatic Scent ' Purple Flower's '

Paeony's Red Flower's

Paeony White Flower's

Wisteria ' floribunda' blue violet flowers.

Clematis Amandii Evergreen with White Flower's

Clematis ' tangutica' Cheerful, yellow, lantern-shaped flowers with fleshy lemon peel-like petals

Clematis Miss Bateman Elegant, white, early summer flowers, initially striped green, with contrasting chocolate-red centres and mid-green leaves.

Clematis ' H.F. Young

Clematis ' Madame Baron Veillard

Japanese Honeysuckle Yellow Flower's

Blue Passion Flower 'Passiflora caerulea' Fabulous white and purple flowers.

Papaver Orientale - Patty's Plum

Papaver Orientale

Himalayan Blue Poppy 'Meconopsis betonicifolia' Spectacular, saucer shaped, bright blue flowers with golden centres in early summer above rosettes of toothed, hairy, bluish green leaves.

Delphinium

Foxglove 'Digitalis

Foxglove 'Digitalis ' Majestic spikes of white, tubular flowers ' in June and July held above rosettes of hairy dark green leaves.

Phlox ' Perennial '

Physalis Chinese Latern

Black Lilyturf 'Ophiopogon planiscapus Nigrescens'

Carex Red

Carex Evergold - Golden Sedge

Blue Fescue - Festuca - Elijah Blue

Evening Primrose 'Oenothera biennis' Yellow Flower's

Houttuynia

Campanula Carpatica ' Blaue Clips ' Bellflower - These beautiful Carpathian bellflowers are perfect for softening the edges of a sunny raised bed.
Producing a profusion of blue, bell-shaped flowers.

Rose's Just a couple of them

Pegasus (Ausmoon) - David Austin Rose - Apricot, Peach, Orange, Copper - Fragrant

Blue Moon (Hybrid Teas) An excellent rose of lilac, mauve. Upright and strong necked. Fragrant. Still the best of the 'blue' shades.

Golden Showers - Yellow Flower's. Fragrant

Native Bluebells Wild Hyacinths - Hyacinthoides non - scipta Blue Flower's.

Lily 'Lilium ' Yellow Flower's

Lily 'Lilium ' Red Flower's

Montbretia Crocosmia - Lucifer Arching sprays of bold, tomato-red, funnel-shaped flowers on sparsely branched stems.

Hazelnut

Grapes- Green - Purple

Strawberrys

Raspberrys

Pelargoniums

Regal Geranium Chocolate Flower's.

Scented Pelargonium's

Orange Fizz

Englands Rose

Houseplant's still to add more here

Bird of Paradise 'Strelitzia reginae'

Aloe Vera 'Aloe mitriformis' Harmful if eaten" Attractive rosettes of bluish-green.

Peace Lily ' Spathiphyllum Large arum-like' white flowers

Fushsia - Royal Velvet

Banana Musa ' Bananarama '




Best wishes Cheyenne 09 :)

[Neil Bromhall]

I'd be interested to hear how your cuttings and seed swap has been going.
What are your successes and were there any failures?

Were there any problems with sending by post?

[sue1002]

They've been going fine thanks Neil. I've swapped seeds with others and am now enjoying seeing the little seedlings coming up.

I haven't had any problems with either seeds or small plants through the post, they travel quite well.

[Miranda]

Everything I've had through swaps has been great, Neil.

Sue and I have sent one another a few little plants as well, and those have gone through the post fine, as long as they're well wrapped up. It's lovely to get seeds and plants in the post from the person who has grown them :-)

The furthest I've ever received a plant from was Finland. It was a rooted cutting of a lime plant and the person had wrapped it very carefully and packed it in a candle box. That was about five years ago and the plant is still going.

Are you tempted to join in, then, Neil?