Seeds I have to trade: PLEASE READ: My trading needs. I have several medical issues, so our trade may be delayed slightly (probably not at all). If you can live with the potential of a small delay, lets trade. I will come right out and say I have had a head injury. Therefore, in order to keep myself organized, please hit REPLY in our correspondence; that way, all the information is right there in the most recent e-mail. My short-term memory is not good, so if all the info is replied, I can see who you are immediately without having to look you up every single e-mail. Adding a link or address to your trade page is helpful. Please put your shipping address in an e-mail as soon as possible so that I can make a bubble mailer out before putting the seeds in packs. Then, I can put the packs directly into the mailer. I will do the same for you from my end. I find this very helpful in getting things out quickly. I thank you in advance for your understanding. Normally, I wouldn't write this out, but I seem to be putting it in every e-mail, so I thought I post it here. ONE MORE THING: My address seems to cause confusion. People quickly look at it, and write Lincoln. My address is not Lincoln and things are returned to sender. 5 of those letters are in my address, but it is a different name entirely. I use bubble mailers (often recycled). IF WE DO A SASBE: If I send a SASBE to you, I make the envelope in such a way that all you have to do to send it back is peel off the outside paper and the ready-made bubble mailer is underneath all made out with postage. IF we were unsure of the postage, I tuck various stamps inside, then you can put on exact postage and keep the leftover. If anyone wants to go in on a large pack together, I'm game! I plan to buy a couple of "industrial-sized" packs this year. Seeds I have to trade: I will update this list as often as I can. UPDATED 1/16/08 ***No seeds shipped where they are prohibited.*** Please note that many of my trades are not for the recommended 25 seeds. I do this in hopes to share with more people, and because I do not generally need 25 of something myself. For example, who needs 25 Maple trees? I try to make the appropriate call based on supply and the plant(2005-06 was my first year trading, I joined 2005 October). I hope this is not inconvenient. If you need the 25 of something, I will be happy to oblige as I am able. Thank you. ~Robin ~*! Specials & Picked them myself % Commercial Seed *Very Limited @ Number of seeds per trade # Number of Trades VEGETABLES Beans (String or "green") Top Crop (%)- (Green) @25 #5 Purple-pod Pole (Trionfo Violetto) (&) (Romano Type) OUT Eggplant Casper White (%) @7 #2 Romanesca (%) @7 #5 can do more Black Beauty (%) @7 #2 GARLIC BULBILS *& @15 #5 (from the tops of my garlic) Mesclun Salad Mix (greens) @25 #5 Peas OUT POPCORN (&) THESE WERE SURPRISINGLY EASY TO GROW! GIVE THEM A TRY! BLUE SHAMAN (This grew great sold cobs & stalks) @35 #30 Strawberry Popcorn @35 #10 GREAT flavor (somewhat different) and the ruby striping on the leaves adds a nice accent to fall decorating with corn stalks (about 5') Tom Thumb Popcorn (only grows to 4 ft so it doesn't block the sun for other garden plants) @35 #5 SUNFLOWER Peredovik—this is the kind pressed for oil and made for human consumption. Wildlife loves it too! Request amount, I have POUNDS. Squash Lumina Pumpkin (white)@5 #2 Grey/Green Zucchini @ 7 Tomato & Peppers I will have a lot of HEIRLOOM SEEDS TO TRADE IN '09 Yellow Pear Tomato @15 #10 "Neighborly" (I call it that) Oxheart Tomato Large, meaty,(according to the neighbor who gave me the tomatoes) made the most fabulous sauce with this one--tastes great! @15 #10 ITALIAN VEGGIES: Melanzana: Tonda sfumata di rosa "Romanesca" Cardo Gigante di Romagna Cicoria Rossa di Verona a Palla Dente di Leone (Tarasacco) Cappero Inermis Translation: Eggplant (round, white with purple blush) Giant Cardoon Radiccio Dandylion (I do not know if it is different than the ones we all mow down) Capers H E R B S If you are looking for something particular please ask, although I have a wide variety, I do not have lots of trades of any one thing. I have many basils, please ask. I have a rather long list of herbs that I will e-mail to you. Anise Agastache -mildly minty one FLOWERS A N N U A L S Morning Glory "Blue star" (&)(White with blue star) @15 #10 Morning Glory "Milky Way" (&)(White with pink star) @15 #10 Morning Glory Tri-Lobed Leaves (lt. Purple with lavender star) @15 #10 ***I am hoping to have a great variety of Morning Glories to offer next year! Bells of Ireland @15 OUT Marigold "Cracker Jack" (large) @25 #10 keeps bugs away OUT Marigold Mix (size & color mix) Forget-Me-Not Blue Firmament @25 #5 Dwarf Blue Balloon Flower (only balloon flower in neighbor's yard-good chance to come true) @25 #25 Dianthus don't know type--they are pink and low(only one in neighbor's yard-good chance to come true) @25 #5 P E R E N N I A L S Astilbe Mix (do not know colors) @25 # 10 Centaurea Dealbata (dk lav w/ whitish ctr--leaves palmate) Pyrethrum (Painted Daisy) @25 #25 Rudbeckia (Black-Eyed Susan) @15 #10 White Echinacea @15 #10 Liatris-Purple @25 #10 Helenium rusty-colored (forgot the name, but it has one)-- whole seed head Spiderwort MIX (Commelinaceae ?) purple, pink, white Rose Campion @25 #10 Rose of Sharon (grows into a bush or tree) Mixed colors, some double flowers Coral Bells @15 #5 (medium maroon leaves) Stella d'Oro Daylilly (only daylilly in neighbor's yard-good chance to come true) don't know hybrid in for or not, but I see others offering them so I am hopeful @10 #2 Dark Purple Iris-Tall (Siberian/Japanese) @20 #20 WILDFLOWERS --I can get my hands on cattails and other plants that grow in such an area (seed collection), just ask! Cichorium intybus Chicory @25 #10 I grow it as an ornamental Centaurea amercana (I think, not sure) @25 #10 (have picture if you want to see it) the butterflies love it, and a number of times, I saw goldfinches on it eating the seeds! Cirsium vulgare- Bull Thistle Erigeron-so nice I bring them in for display, daisy-like Wild Daisy Wild CONCORD GRAPE VINE @10 #5 (The real deal-so fragrant & tasty!) TREES Mimosa Albizia julibrissin (pink) !ready! Catalpa speciosa !ready! @10 #30 Cornus kousa in Fall Large Maple tree (ID-think it's sugar or rock) ready Blue Spruce Picea pungens glauca (very few ready) Horse Chestnut Aesculus Hippocastanum !ready soon! SPECIFY from 2-5 seeds (seeds are large--like a golfball) I can get acorns of both red & white oak Black Locust Robinia pseudoacacia I DO HAVE OTHER things to trade, I do not post them because I don't have many. However, I am willing to trade from them if you don't mind getting 5 seeds in a bag for some. Elaeagnus umbellata--Autumn olive native to Himilaya I believe. VERY prolific. My daughter and I picked a few pounds in 10 minutes! Berries ripen in October, and taste different than other fruits, somewhat tart. This plant may be banned to some places. Seeds I am looking for: I am interested in seed preservation. I will gladly help grow something out and return seeds to you. At times, my medical issues put a damper on my efforts, but if it does, I will let you know. I am willing to send photos of progress. I have gardened and saved seed for many years. I am willing to trade beads for some of my hard-to find wants. Please e-mail for pictures if interested. My daughter & I had Lyme disease summer '06; it really slowed down the gardening. I couldn't go out in the sun with the medicine I had to take. The alpine garden 2006 was a no go, so I have put it on or this year 2007; any seeds of alpines would be great! Put in my cranberry bog this year 2007! It is going well. 2006: 2 theme gardens this year: Amish, and Native American. The Native American garden was a success. I had to postpone the Amish one due to Lyme diease. Looking for: Heirloom Brandywine Pink Tomato Seeds Snap Pea Seeds - Amish Snap Lettuce Seed - Red Amish Deer Tongue Romaine or the green Amish Nuttle Bean Seeds - aka 'Gnuddlebuhn' Amish Pumpkin (Found it! Thanks traders!) Amish Melon (Found it! Thanks traders!) Anything else Amish (I have Amish paste & cherry tomato, carrots) Any Native American edible, ornamental, or plants for dye ***SPECIALS*** Cucurbita okeechobeensis-gourd any rare or endangered item that I could contribute to saving (no digging of wild plants please) ARCTIC SPECIES Cloudberry (bakeapple) Rubus chamaemorus Bilberry: Vaccinium myrtillus & Vaccinium Uliginosum (bought some in '07) Crowberry Lingonberry (bought some in '07) Arctic Kiwi, Siberian Gooseberry Actinidia arguta Kiwi Fruit Actindia chinensis Issai Kiwi Actinidia Purple Kiwi Actinidia Purpurea LOOKING for: Rubus ... {cloudberry, thimbleberry (got it), salmonberry (bought it)--all different Rubus species} Ericaceae Vaccinium ...(cranberry varieties (Oxycoccus palustris), blueberries, bilerry, lingonberry, crowberry, etc.) UNUSUAL Vegetables TREES: Franklinia Alatamaha(Found seed for it! Thanks traders! *unsuccessful *), would like more--very hard to start, also flowering or with interesting foliage or bark SHRUBS: Scrophularia macrantha "Red Birds in a Tree" "NM Figwort", Butterfly or bird attractive, heath, heather V I N E S: Asarina scandens Snail Vine going to buy one type, still looking for the other (bought some in '07) White Fragrant Trumpet Vine Thunbergia fragrans Silver Vine Actinidia polygama Wooly Dutchman's Pipe Aristolochia tomentosa Japanese Wisteria Wisteria Floribunda different colors Creeping Gloxinia Asarina erubescens OTHER: Hermodactylus tuberosa "Snakehead Iris" Flowers for Hummingbirds have some, need some Late Bloomers Thanks so much! WISHFUL THINKING FOR PLANTS OR SEEDS Amelanchier alnifolia (Saskatoon) (got it!) Amelanchier stolonifera (Quebec berry) Arbutus unedo (Strawberry tree) Arctostaphylos alpina, A. rubra, A. uva-ursi (Bearberries) Berberis aristata (Chitra) Berberis darwinii(Darwin's barberry) Crataegus etc. Elaeagnus angustifolia (Oleaster), cordifolia, etc. GOT THE ANGUSTIFOLIA TYPE-THANKS LINDA! Elaeagnus multiflora (got a lead on this one) Empetrum nigrum (Crowberry) Fig (bought one) Fragaria moschata (Hautbois strawberry) Gaultheria hispidula (Creeping snowberry)GOT ONE! Need more. Gaultheria humifusa (Alpine wintergreen) Gaultheria mucronata Gaultheria ovatifolia (Mountain checkerberry) Gaultheria procumbens (Checkerberry) GOT IT! Gaultheria Shallon (Salal)GOT IT Gaylussacia baccata (Black huckleberry) Hippophae rhamnoides (Sea buckthorn), any buckthorn Lonicera angustifolia (Honeyberry types) Lycium barbarum (Boxthorn), L. chinense Chinese boxthorn Mahonia aquifolium, etc. (Oregon grape) Malus baccata mandschurica (Manchurian apple) Mespilus germanica (Medlar) Mitchella repens (Partridge berry) Morus nigra (Black mulberry), Morus, etc. Myrteola nummularia Podophyllum aurantiocaule Podophyllum hexandrum (Himalayan may apple) Podophyllum peltatum (American mandrake) Prunus angustifolia watsonii (Sand plum) Ribes Rosa villosa (Apple rose) Rubus arcticus (Arctic bramble) (Nangoon) Rubus canadensis (got it!) Rubus chamaemorus (Cloudberry) Rubus crataegifolius Rubus elegantulus (Showy Blackberry) Rubus ellipticus Golden evergreen raspberry Rubus geoides Rubus hispidoides (Bog Dewberry) Rubus laciniatus (Oregon cut-leaf blackberry) Rubus lasiococcus (roughfruit berry) Rubus leucodermis (Whitebark raspberry) Rubus loganobaccus (Loganberry) Rubus nepalensis (Nepalese raspberry) Rubus pedatus (Five-leaved Bramble) Rubus paludivagus (Cape Cod Blackberry) Rubus phoenicolasius (Japanese wineberry) Rubus nivalis (Snow Bramble) Rubus spectabilis (Salmonberry) ORDERED IT Rubus trivialis (Southern dewberry) Sambucus nigra (Elderberry) or S. caerulea (Blue elder) Schisandra rubriflora (GOT seeds for IT! Thanks Abbie!) Sorbus domestica (Service tree), etc. Vaccinium ovalifolium (Black huckleberry) Vaccinium oxycoccos (Small cranberry) (got "bandoleir" cuttings) Vaccinium praestans (Kamchatka bilberry) Viburnum edule (Mooseberry) {Got Seed, thanks ALAN!} Viburnum lantanoides (Hobbleberry) Viburnum lentago (Sheepberry) Ziziphus jujuba (Jujube) (got it!) Plants I have to trade: Willing to swap plantlets in spring and fall Hosta Black-Eyed-Susan Siberian/Japanese Iris Wild Virginia Rose ~*! Kerria japonica (Japanese Kerria)--Flowering Shrub with pretty golden, double flowers Lilac: regular purple or white ~*! Lilac "red" with spear shaped leaves--will try to propagate some for trading next year '08), dark purple (may be for next year '09). GARLIC BULBILS *& @15 #5 (from the tops of my garlic) Wild Onions (we love them in soup) can be invasive Buttercups can be invasive Lilly of the valley white or pink Flowering Almond it comes up like a single stick, and develops into a shrub--it is woody, pink flowers in early spring, flowers are multi-petaled rooted forsythia rooted Cornus amomum, Silky Dogwood I can send weeping willow or forsythia cuttings (will try to root for next year's trading) Red Raspberry Blackcap Raspberry ~*! Purple-flowering raspberry Prostrate Raspberry/blackberry Wild Blackberry Wild Alpine Strawberry (from my sister's in Vermont) Lipstick Strawberry (ornamental-rarely sets fruit, but beautiful) English Ivy ALL COLORS OF wild VIOLETS!: SPRING only. dark purple with a range right through to pale purple and white, ALSO, I have some violets that do NOT have heart-shaped leaves, they are spear shaped ~*! I have acquired viola pubescens--the yellow violet that has leaf and flower on the same stem, and is taller than the regular violet. I am hoping to have some to trade for 2008. SPECIALS~*! (have very few, want to trade for what's on my wants list) Purple-Flowering Raspberry Japanese Kerrie Shrub Alpine Strawberries Purple-flowering Raspberry Basket Flower (yellow/yellow) Helenium Kerria japonica Plants I am looking for: If I cannot get the seeds for these, I'd love the plant! ***Especially Cloudberry*** Damson Plums Prunus domestica insititia I am really into edible fruit--especially the small berries White Alpine Strawberry If you know of a fruit not mentioned, please offer! Rubus ... arcticus (arctic bramble), chamaemorus (cloudberry/bakeapple), illecebrosus, loganobaccus (loganberry), Ericaceae Vaccinium ...(cranberry varieties, blueberries, bilerry, lingonberry, crowberry, etc.) Looking to start a Blueberry "SOD" section--need the low bush blueberry vaccinium angustifolium Any others?
I would love some Catalpa, Weeping Willow, Mimosa, and Dogwood, if you have any. Really would love the Catalpa! I don't know if I have anything on your want list, but I do have some plants and shrubs you may like. Trade for the Catalpa and Weeping Willow, I have African Violets(purple/white and purple), and large White Lilies(beautiful), Pink Christmas Cactus, Red Christmas Cactus, Rose of Sharon(white with pink center), Liriope Silvery Sunproof, several different kinds of Hosta, white Peonies, Giant Reed Grass, and homemade Fudge. Private Message me for email address Cathy
Mimosa & Lavender Chiffon Rose of Sharon Soon as I find out how to harvest mimosa and lavender chiffon rose of sharon, I will have some to share. BJ (Betty in KY)[/b]
Seeds Robin; Your list made my jaw drop! I don't have any of what you listed, but recently harvested seed from a perennial Hibiscus. The blooms are rose and almost dinner plate in size. I would like some garlic bulbs and Siberian Iris, if you're interested. I also have some semi precious gen beads to tempt you. Gardengater
