 akebia's GardenWeb Exchange Page
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Seeds I have to trade:
- ***STILL WORKING ON THIS LIST***
- ***Innumerable vegetable seeds*** and some flowers (Dianthus, etc.)--particularly for the maritime NW (zone 8a). Just ask.
- I mean, really, I have a _20-gallon container_ of seeds. LOTS of short-season tomato varieties. Corn. Pumpkins. Melons. Wayyy too many to list off the top of my head.
- TONS of sunflowers, but you'll need a good trade to get some. :-)
- Have many, MANY seed packets from 2011 as well as 2010, etc.
- I have found that seeds as old as 8 years still germinate. You just have to plant them more thickly.
- If you want to trade, I'll hunt through my 20 gallons for the most recent stuff or whatever you're looking for.
Seeds I am looking for:
- ***STILL WORKING ON THIS LIST***
- TEMPT ME: It's not hard.
- ***Peony poppies*** SOMEBODY ACTUALLY CAME INTO MY YARD AND SNIPPED OFF ALL THE SEED CAPSULES, LEAVING ME NONE AT ALL! :-( Waaaah!
- Australis baptisia
- Bread poppies; any cool poppies (nothing illegal, you understand)
- Red sunflowers, green sunflowers
- Rhubarb, rainbow, pink-stemmed, and/or any other kind of Swiss chard
- Shallots
- Garlic
- French beans, haricots verts
- Hellebores
- Whatever (not crazy about yellow, but try me, anyway)
- Also bulbs, corms, rhizomes:
- species tulips!!!
- Fritillaria!!!
- white/pink daffodils or weird ones
- Nerines
- Other interesting and/or weird daffodils, bulbs, flowers, seeds, vines, etc.
- I'm easily tempted. The weirder, the better.
Plants I have to trade:
- ***STILL WORKING ON THIS LIST***
- >Arisarum probiscideum (sp?)!!! - mouse plant, small amount for very good trade, only
- >Kerria japonica (double-flowered)
- >Lonicera pileata - privet honeysuckle shrub
- >Yucca recurvifolia
- >Sedum 'Autumn Joy'
- >Various sedums, one with interesting leaf, yellow flower
- (can send photo)
- >Leycesteria spp. "babies" - Himalayan honeysuckle shrubs
- >Clerodendron trichotomum "babies" - Harlequin glorybower trees
- >Helianthus maximilianus (?)--Maximilian sunflower (perennial)
- >Sisyrinchium--yellow-eyed grass
- >Japanese iris--pale lavender
- >Echinops - globe thistle (steely blue)
- >Perovskia - Russian sage (shrubs)
- >Lonicera fragrantissima - shrub
- >Hostas - will have to see what comes up this year, but I
- had 'Christmas' and, oh, what's the big, bluish-leaved one? H. seiboldii???
- >Macleaya cordata - plume poppies (to 9 feet--very structurally cool)
- >Thalictrum - a very tall variety, about 8 feet, lavender flowers
- >Aquilegia - some multicolored hybrids; some all deep blue (luck of the draw, I guess)
- >Aegopodium - Bishop's weed, variegated (but make sure it's not invasive where you live)
- >Small, MAROON-FLOWERED geranium
- >Ajuga reptans (very dark purple/almost black leaf, very blue flowers)
- >Euonymus fortunei - two kinds; one is winter creeper (green/white with pink tinge in winter), the other is yellow/green with bright pinky red in winter
- >Tons of small, unscented, groundcover violets. I know there's some V. jooi in there (rare), but I can't tell which until they flower
- >Vinca minor
- >Some kind of very attractive polygonum - hot-pink-flowering, 2.5-foot perennials for partial+ shade; spread but easy to pull out
- >Bluebells (blue, an occasional and unpredictable white)- If you really want these, send a stamped, self-addressed, 50-gallon barrel. :-)
- PNW NATIVES
- >Iris tenax (have read that it's OK to move now, in April)
- >Ribes sanguineum 'King Edward VII' "babies" (limited
- number)--red-flowering currant (nonfruiting, showstopping; good trade only)
- >Camassia quamash (spring only, and only for important "want")
- >Allium cernuum (pink nodding onion)
- >Woods (?) rose--must go out and check species of native
- >Oxalis oregana
- >Armeria maritima - pink sea thrift
- >Fragaria chiloensis, both native (white flwrs) and 'Lipstick' (hot pink flwrs)--nonfruiting, evergreen strawberry groundcover
- >Dicentra formosa - Pacific bleeding heart
- >Achillea millefolium - yarrow
- >Could probably turn up some tiny seedling Western red cedar (Thuja plicata)
- >Oh, there's more. Can't think of them at the moment.
- EDIBLES/HERBS
- >Culinary thyme (regular)
- >Golden thyme (culinary, too)
- >EGYPTIAN WALKING ONIONS (limited supply--good trade only)
- >Good rhubarb
- >Culinary oregano (not sure whether Greek or Italian; prob
- Greek)
- >French sorrel (for local trades? not sure how will hold up in mail)
- >Late-summer, neighborhood favorite raspberries (name unknown)
- >Limited number of Triple Crown Thornless blackberries
- >Possibly cuttings from white dessert/table grape (delicious but name unknown)--just stick them in the ground now, in spring
- >Lemon balm
- >Two good mints
- >Feverfew
- DO U PROPAGATE?
- >Akebia quinata
- >Akebia trifoliata (unusual)
- >Morella californica (Pacific wax myrtle)
- >Vaccinium ovatum (native evergreen huckleberry)
- >Meyer lemon
- >Japanese honeysuckles (two varieties--one named but can't think of it) - the unnamed one is a hummingbird magnet
- >Gooseberries (Poorman? Might still have variety names someplace)
- >LOTS MORE. WHAT do you want? I might have it.
- ***STILL WORKING ON THIS LIST***
Plants I am looking for:
- ***STILL WORKING ON THIS LIST***
- INDOOR
- Rat-tail cactus
- OUTDOOR
- >Kinnickinnick (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi)
- >Salal (Gaultheria shallon)
- >Ferns
- >Mosses
- >Hellebores
- >Blue-star creeper
- >Other groundcovers, like *Asarum caudatum (native ginger), various *Oxalis and *sedums (no 'Autumn Joy,' thanks), etc.
- >Shallots
- >Garlic
- >Other edibles, esp. Holboellia, Actinidia, white alpine strawbs, weird stuff
- >Anything lime green foliaged/blue flowers or with green or "black" flowers or OH, COOL STUFF, ya know?
- >Crinum lily (sp?)
- >Other lilies - especially Erythronium/other PNW natives but also Asiatic if they smell good
- >Galanthus nivalis - snowdrops
- >Hepatica of any kind
- >Irises - particularly IRIS UNGUICULARIS (winter iris)!
- >***PENSTEMON, esp. PNW native, but anything, really
- >Fuchsias
- >Green-and-blue hosta varieties, like 'June' or 'Captain Kirk' (I think)
- >Noninvasive vines
- >Other interesting and/or weird daffodils, bulbs, flowers, seeds, vines, etc.
- ***TEMPT ME: IT'S NOT HARD TO DO.*** (Tip: I'm not crazy about yellow flowers, but lime-green and all other colors OK, and even some shades of yellow.)
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