last gardening for a little while

[jinian]

I went to the Arboretum Society plant sale down at Sand Point today. It was in the same giant hangar as the library book sale, and it used every bit of the space. Overwhelmed by plants! Most of what I got was from Green Man Gardens, which seems to specialize in native PNW plants. I also found a miterwort (those amazing flowers are about three millimeters across) and a Nootka rose, plus some golden-podded snow peas.

Have I planted all the stuff I got from lirrin yet? Of course not. So it's especially annoying that I have to go off antihistamines now for allergy testing Tuesday. I'd better find out exactly what's going on after the testing, because this is going to be awful.

For my last gardening session, I finished clearing space around the base of the cherry tree. I had a big bag of mystery bulbs from lirrin, some of which had sprouted in an obviously crocuslike way, some of which were a fascinating bright yellow, and some of which were otherwise. All of them are now in dirt, and I have no idea what's going to come up where, or even what the options are.

Also, I planted this year's primrose acquisitions in the big dirt by the Prominent rose in back, since it's being eaten by something and needs buddies. Poor thing. It would really stink to find out it was there (it got mowed last year) only to lose its one little cane to some invisible chomping nasty.

The giant pink rosebush is still half sulking from its pruning. I've never seen a rose grow happily on one half and lag so far behind on the other. The good news is that the slow side is coming out with new canes near the graft, and they look very much like the other sprouts that are definitely from the flower stock.

• There are an awful lot of Italian prune seedlings to be had out in back. Our two trees produce more than we, the landlord, all our friends, all his friends, and all the neighborhood wildlife can eat, so if you have space for a smallish fruit tree this is a good one. It'd take a long while to get big enough from this size, of course.


• My snow peas (Oregon Giant x Sugar Pod 2, I expect) could stand to be thinned, so if anyone wants some four-to-six-inch pea plants, let me know.


• There are half a dozen more volunteer foxgloves still in the pea patch, and they should move so I can get my golden-pods in.


• I can still spare some of the great many poeticus daffodils that we got from eub's old place.


• There are always squills. I'm not digging them up without reason until they finish blooming, but a fun car trip for them would be a reason.


• In the indoor plant department, I have happily rooted cuttings of my temperate hibiscus, which has beautiful, idiosyncratic, double peach blossoms. The cuttings of the red tropical hibiscus are thinking very hard about rooting and would probably be fine if planted now. Those ones are mad, however, and you have to watch out they don't try to bloom before growing leaves.


• I have Swedish ivy for you, rubricity.


• Jade plant similar to squills. I think everyone has this already.


• Cuttings off the guppy plant are available, too. None are made at the moment, but they're supposed to root easily.

Probably there is other stuff, I don't remember.

Comments

If you're offering plant matter

[lirrin.livejournal.com]

I will always take foxgloves, and temperate hibiscus sounds just fun. I've never heard of a squill. I'm sure someone's going to revoke my gardening permit for that one.

I have no jade plant anymore, I killed all mine, even the 5 year old in the giant pot. I wouldn't mind another.

plants!

[rubricity.livejournal.com]

As soon as my lease is signed I will gladly take some plants (and not just the swedish ivy you have for me including possibly peas if I can figure a dog safe area to plant them).

I just have some weird supserstition about assuming permanence before it happens which is why my plants from Lilith are not yet in the ground (but I am taking care of them).