Seed and plant swap

Paulownia · 04-04-2016 12:41pm

Anyone got a glut of skunk cabbage? I have recently discovered that someone came into our garden and dug up snowdrops daffodils and leucojum. Has anyone else experienced this dastardly behaviour?

melissak · 06-04-2016 3:37pm

Paulownia wrote: »

Anyone got a glut of skunk cabbage? I have recently discovered that someone came into our garden and dug up snowdrops daffodils and leucojum. Has anyone else experienced this dastardly behaviour?

i did that to my mother in law, only snowdrops and daffodils.. I am dastardly.in fairness they were too close together

Paulownia · 08-04-2016 4:12am

melissak wrote: »

i did that to my mother in law, only snowdrops and daffodils.. I am dastardly.in fairness they were too close together

Presumably she will bring her trowel next time she comes for lunch too

melissak · 22-04-2016 10:19pm

Paulownia wrote: »

Presumably she will bring her trowel next time she comes for lunch too

Probably..

Day Lewin · 28-04-2016 2:59pm

Appealing for a herb that I used to grow: Salad Burnet

It grew so easily that it flourished in a caked rockery and self-seeded from year to year.
It has a delicate strand of dark-green leaflets, and the dinkiest little dark red flowers that you ever saw.

Mine disappeared during some rebuilding and I've been looking for seeds or plants to start it again (A very useful little herb it is, too: and very pretty on fish, with a faint taste of cucumber)

Mysteriously, it seems to be unavailable: no seeds, no potted plants, anywhere I've looked.

So, has anybody got some? Even one little plant or a few seeds?

I can't offer much in exchange except loads of goodwill and good karma, and unto half my kingdom in houseplants LOL

Big grin!

looksee · 28-04-2016 3:52pm

http://www.chilternseeds.co.uk/item_1509_salad_burnet_seeds

http://www.theherbgarden.ie/index.php/shop/seeds/category/43-wildflowers?page=3

I don't have any, but a quick google produced the above.

Day Lewin · 03-05-2016 8:42pm

Thank you - i have ordered seeds. Though the postage seems very steep, I'm waiting in hope!

Bobby1984 · 12-05-2016 2:06pm

Does anyone know where I could get cuttings from a Photinia Red Robin plant. I only want 15 - 20 cuttings and I could swap some strawberry plants if someone wanted them.

Thanks

wildlifeboy · 12-05-2016 2:33pm

ill take your strawberries for the red robin cuttings

toddunctious · 12-05-2016 2:59pm

I've lots of echium blue steeple they are varying sizes from 1-5ft
Summer fruiting raspberry canes
Snapdragon mostly pink/purple
Purple bearded iris
Pale yellow Irish primroses
I'm based in Dublin 3

pwurple · 14-05-2016 4:09pm

Does anyone in Cork city want lemon balm or garlic? I have about 100 spare garlic plants, no room for them.

Free to a good home.

tringle · 17-05-2016 9:59am

Looking for some Courgette plants in Nenagh area, mine all perished. I have spare plants of tomatoes, chives, cucumber, various brassicas and nasturtiums or am happy for someone to pick through my "seed book" as I have learnt seed doesn't keep great. Thanks Tracy

Technophobe · 18-05-2016 12:36pm

Not too late to resow courgettes; they will soon catch up

kathleen37 · 10-06-2016 10:15am

Hi there,

I'm looking if anyone would have, or know's where I could get via mailorder

dwarf RHODODENDRON "Lemon Dream"?

As every, I appreciate the help

Many thanks

Paulownia · 10-06-2016 12:21pm

kathleen37 wrote: »

Hi there,

I'm looking if anyone would have, or know's where I could get via mailorder

dwarf RHODODENDRON "Lemon Dream"?

As every, I appreciate the help

Many thanks

There is one called Lemon drop but it's not dwarf, notable for a rather untidy growth habit and the fact that it flowers in spring and again in Autumn .
I have it, nearly 6 feet tall and very untidy. I'm trying to pluck up the courage to top it in the hope it would bush out!

paddylonglegs · 15-06-2016 8:06pm

Question regarding hellebores. Garden centres are selling them off cheap as they're looking a bit worse for wear. Will these die off like a perennial but revive then in the spring? I need some cheap plants to fill a long planter but don't want to waste my money if they're just dying

emo72 · 15-06-2016 8:08pm

paddylonglegs wrote: »

Question regarding hellebores. Garden centres are selling them off cheap as they're looking a bit worse for wear. Will these die off like a perennial but revive then in the spring? I need some cheap plants to fill a long planter but don't want to waste my money if they're just dying

They are perennials. They will grow every year.

paddylonglegs · 15-06-2016 8:27pm

emo72 wrote: »

They are perennials. They will grow every year.

I knew it sounded thick when I was typing, just wanted to double check!

On that note, some good bargains b&q/woodies, picked up hellebores for €3 from €16

paddylonglegs · 21-06-2016 10:02am

So I got my cheap hellebores. They are looking a bit worse for wear, should I cut these back completely or just deal with the worse looking leaves?

Silver Breeze · 17-07-2016 9:29am

This large hebe with purple flowers is wild along the outside of the East Pier in Dun Laoghaire.

Last year, I took cuttings, grew them on and now I have too many plants.

Cuttings have not flowered this year, but will next year.

Free to take in Dun Laoghaire.

Best, Bob

evolving_doors · 09-08-2016 2:10pm

Olive tree!
Probably Needs a bit of pruning/planting, produces small fruit every year (like the size of an apple seed!). About 80cm high!
Dublin Cityish

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dave4565 · 08-09-2016 10:10am

Hello would anyone have Oxygenating Plants for a pond in ROSCOMMON MAYO or SLIGO
area ? thanks Dave

pwurple · 08-09-2016 12:32pm

Righto, I'm looking for beetroot seeds. Bolthardy would be the ideal, but I'll take any.

I have loads of seeds I can swap, postal or otherwise.

Nigella (love in a mist), a couple of types of sunflower, I've peas, rocket, fennel (tall). Can do cuttings or divisions as well. I've about 200 fennel plants which I propagated last year to fill some back or border gaps. Didn't expect them all to take, so I've about 50 spares. Lots of baby strawberry plants as well from runners.

Graces7 · 13-03-2017 8:58am

Anyone with spare sweet rocket please? Lost mine in the house move and miss it .. starting a new garden here and it is a MUST!

pwurple · 13-03-2017 12:40pm

Loads of rocket here. Where are you based? I can post. PM me.

Chuchote · 09-04-2017 3:38pm

Anyone have dahlia Bishop of Llandaff in Dublin, preferably south city?

I have Daubenton's kale - a cottage kale which is perennial and is propagated from side shoots, and hardly ever flowers. Very nice with rashers for breakfast.

Chuchote · 09-04-2017 3:39pm

tringle wrote: »

Looking for some Courgette plants in Nenagh area, mine all perished. I have spare plants of tomatoes, chives, cucumber, various brassicas and nasturtiums or am happy for someone to pick through my "seed book" as I have learnt seed doesn't keep great. Thanks Tracy

Lidl have courgette plants at the moment if you don't get a swap.

nlrkjos · 12-08-2017 8:20pm

I'm looking for to buy "Harebell" seeds or plants, I can get them online but would prefer to buy from a garden center, I'm in Cork but anywhere in Munster would be fine...or maybe a genuine Irish website out there would have them, the online I found was in Germany.

mountainy man · 13-08-2017 1:07am

A quick search found this site based in Galway, I have no connection to them ect. ect.

http://www.seedaholic.com/campanula-rotundifolia-harebell-wildflower-732.html?___SID=U

recedite · 13-08-2017 11:02am

mountainy man wrote: »

A quick search found this site based in Galway, I have no connection to them ect. ect.

http://www.seedaholic.com/campanula-rotundifolia-harebell-wildflower-732.html?___SID=U

Quite an impressive catalogue there, and very reasonably priced too.

nlrkjos · 13-08-2017 11:59am

Great site...just spent €50 on some seeds and the bees and butterflies will be well fed next year, I have large part of my garden (40 sqm) sown with different types of bee/butterfly friendly plants, its more organized than wild, but it attracts them from March right up to October, and the local beekeeper always drops me a comb of honey every now and then as a thank you. He was the one who told me that harebell is a great flavoring for honey !

Thanks a lot MM.

Chuchote · 15-08-2017 7:54am

I have a Boston ivy looking for a home - would anyone like it? This is what it looks like in autumn

jaffa20 · 17-08-2017 8:23am

mountainy man wrote: »

A quick search found this site based in Galway, I have no connection to them ect. ect.

http://www.seedaholic.com/campanula-rotundifolia-harebell-wildflower-732.html?___SID=U

Yes seedaholic are great. It's where i buy all my seeds and have had no failures with germination.

cobham · 13-10-2017 3:08pm

Carex Ice Dance on offer

I am changing a bed and digging out 4 clumps of the above. There are lots of mini plants within the clumps and could make up 100 or more new plants. PM if anyone interested in taking a decent amount off me, Dublin 14 area.

sabrina.t · 08-11-2017 12:46pm

I have 9 solid green spider plants I grew from seeds that I can swap for seeds/cuttings of indoor or outdoor plants, if anyone is interested.
They're all healthy, roughly 10cm tall.
I grew them in compost, each in its own little white plastic cup so they come with the plastic cup, not in a pot.

I bought 20 seeds on Ebay, I read they're not viable for long so I planted them all and 19 grew... I have no space for 19 spider plants though

Also, my Bonnie spider plant is making pups so I'll have those to exchange in sometime too, they're still very tiny now.

I'm based in Dublin 10, PM if you're interested and I can send pictures.

Sabrina

Silver Breeze · 18-11-2017 2:18pm

I have plenty of Canna tubers (like this: https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?PID=324 )

They grow tall, with red-orange flowers,very dramatic.

FREE!!

Collect in Glenageary, PM me for address.

paddylonglegs · 18-11-2017 9:43pm

Silver Breeze wrote: »

I have plenty of Canna tubers (like this: https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?PID=324 )

They grow tall, with red-orange flowers,very dramatic.

FREE!!

Collect in Glenageary, PM me for address.

Would LOVE these to add to my tropical style collection. Won't be in glenageary anytime soon, would cover postage and packaging if you had the time....

Graces7 · 24-03-2018 3:00pm

All so lovely and tantalising.. that ivy! I m starting to sort some growing here;offshore West Mayo. Overgrown and nothing much here.. Maybe some vegetables but this year, flowers for the beauty of them. There are some marguerites gone wild and some bulbs I cannot ID until they flower.. have been cutting away a huge tangle of brambles and finding treasures like a large patch of daffodlils

looksee · 26-03-2018 4:47pm

Now that is one place you could plant montbretia without it going totally uncontrollable, I would think!

kylith · 29-03-2018 4:39pm

I have some phormiums that need dividing; one variegated and one 'jester' variety which is red.

Graces7 · 29-03-2018 11:12pm

looksee wrote: »

Now that is one place you could plant montbretia without it going totally uncontrollable, I would think!

We shall see! There is a lot of it here, behind the cottage.
But the neighbouring farmer of course used the place for grazing when it was empty.

At the front, I sorted out a huge mess of bulbs with that type of leaf but much bigger. No idea what they are..Have a lot spare.

Longing for colour and my usual favourites; sweet rocket etc.

ccardoso33 · 13-07-2018 3:03pm

Silver Breeze wrote: »

I have plenty of Canna tubers (like this: https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?PID=324 )

They grow tall, with red-orange flowers,very dramatic.

FREE!!

Collect in Glenageary, PM me for address.

Don't suppose you potted up any of these? Trying to fill the yard with perineal flowers and edibles! Hate the look of the concrete

ccardoso33 · 13-07-2018 3:05pm

I've got some prickly pear cactus, tiny baby succulents, wandering Jew, spider plants and aloe Vera, all grown by me. Would be willing to swap for other indoor plant cuttings. I also have a couple of allotments so pretty flexible on trades!

ccardoso33 · 13-07-2018 3:06pm

Silver Breeze wrote: »

I have plenty of Canna tubers (like this: https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?PID=324 )

They grow tall, with red-orange flowers,very dramatic.

FREE!!

Collect in Glenageary, PM me for address.

Don't suppose you potted up any of these? Trying to fill the yard with perineal flowers and edibles! Hate the look of the concrete

monty_python · 04-04-2019 12:30pm

Anyone have spare tomato or bell pepper plants?

uck51js9zml2yt · 04-04-2019 1:24pm

I've a friend in North Kerry with 80 bare root green beech trees for sale if anyone wants any. They were excess to requirements.

Pm me for details.

Technophobe · 04-04-2019 1:42pm

monty_python wrote: »

Anyone have spare tomato or bell pepper plants?

what have you to swap?:D

loads in Lidl this week or soon either

monty_python · 04-04-2019 3:35pm

Technophobe wrote: »

what have you to swap?:D

loads in Lidl this week or soon either

Very little. I've beetroot and Swede seeds and other seeds

recedite · 05-04-2019 7:04pm

I bought these purple pampas grass seeds for a laugh when I was buying a phone charger from the same place.

So not believing they would be purple, I was hoping for ordinary pampas grass, at least.

A couple of weeks after sowing now, and my propagator looks like a small bowling green.
Its green and it looks like very fine lawn grass, so far.
I'm thinking that is exactly what it is. Whats the bets folks?

BTW, the phone charger didn't fit, it was an obsolete version they sent me.

OwlEye · 05-04-2019 8:36pm

Probably getting a bit late now, but looking for some Dracunculus Vulgaris as all but one of mine have perished. I have a few Typhonium venosum corms and pups to swap should anyone have any.

Seed and plant swap

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