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Seed and plant swap

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 590 ✭✭✭Paulownia


    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?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,873 ✭✭✭melissak


    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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 590 ✭✭✭Paulownia


    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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,873 ✭✭✭melissak


    Paulownia wrote: »
    Presumably she will bring her trowel next time she comes for lunch too

    Probably..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,686 ✭✭✭Day Lewin


    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!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,770 ✭✭✭✭looksee




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,686 ✭✭✭Day Lewin


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 268 ✭✭Bobby1984


    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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,170 ✭✭✭wildlifeboy


    ill take your strawberries for the red robin cuttings


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 178 ✭✭toddunctious


    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


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,449 ✭✭✭✭pwurple


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 868 ✭✭✭tringle


    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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,069 ✭✭✭Technophobe


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 813 ✭✭✭kathleen37


    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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 590 ✭✭✭Paulownia


    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!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,549 ✭✭✭paddylonglegs


    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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,317 ✭✭✭emo72


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,549 ✭✭✭paddylonglegs


    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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,549 ✭✭✭paddylonglegs


    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?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 110 ✭✭Silver Breeze


    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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭evolving_doors


    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

    Olive_tree.JPG


  • Registered Users Posts: 74 ✭✭dave4565


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,449 ✭✭✭✭pwurple


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    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!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,449 ✭✭✭✭pwurple


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


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭Chuchote


    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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭Chuchote


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 378 ✭✭nlrkjos


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 985 ✭✭✭mountainy man


    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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭recedite


    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.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 378 ✭✭nlrkjos


    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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭Chuchote


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

    0109478.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,550 ✭✭✭jaffa20


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 833 ✭✭✭cobham


    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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 19 sabrina.t


    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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 110 ✭✭Silver Breeze


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,549 ✭✭✭paddylonglegs


    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....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,770 ✭✭✭✭looksee


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,736 ✭✭✭✭kylith


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


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 37 ccardoso33


    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


  • Registered Users Posts: 37 ccardoso33


    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!


  • Registered Users Posts: 37 ccardoso33


    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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,683 ✭✭✭monty_python


    Anyone have spare tomato or bell pepper plants?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,268 ✭✭✭✭uck51js9zml2yt


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,069 ✭✭✭Technophobe


    Anyone have spare tomato or bell pepper plants?

    what have you to swap?:D

    loads in Lidl this week or soon either


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,683 ✭✭✭monty_python


    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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭recedite


    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.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 110 ✭✭OwlEye


    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.


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