Sumatra Hatching Eggs--Will Trade for TREES & VINES!

[sewchick]

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Did you get a blue spruce. I have one that is full grown. I will look around for a young seedling if your interested. Tons of popular trees here. Black locust trees too. Nice looking trees. I would gladly send you some for the shipping cost. I don't need eggs. We have some kind of vine on the clothes line that grows nice will take a picture of that. It is in the sun and very hearty. We get very cold weather here. Very cold!!!

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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Did you get a blue spruce. I have one that is full grown. I will look around for a young seedling if your interested. Tons of popular trees here. Black locust trees too. Nice looking trees. I would gladly send you some for the shipping cost. I don't need eggs. We have some kind of vine on the clothes line that grows nice will take a picture of that. It is in the sun and very hearty. We get very cold weather here. Very cold!!!

I'd love some blue spruce and/or poplars...let me know if you find any that will survive shipping and a quote--my zip is 98840.

Thanks!

~Heather
Rare Feathers Farm

 

[cthrash1]

Ok... Be watching for your little Willow in a few days...I sent it out this morning, well wrapped in a sopping paper towel, and with a ziplock sealed around it with rubber band so I don't think it will leak.... There were several nodes getting ready to bust out more roots when I wrapped it. So maybe a week more in water should be enough.

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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Excellent--THANK YOU!

 

[sewchick]

I will go out tomorrow and look around. I have been quilting some customers quilts and haven't been out to the yard or house. I asked my husband about the blue spruce and he said they do not seed well here. We have domestic ones. I will look for some anyway and the poplar too. You do know poplar trees have a nasty fuzz that comes off. Looks like it's snowing in the summer!!! They also have sticky buds that is real hard to get off your floor if you happen to step on some not to mention they ruin shoes. Gross as old heck. Nasty, nasty trees good for burning wood in the spring and fall. Too soft for winter. And they don't tend to live long here. Not sure why. Have you thought of a red oak? They grow fast. When I first moved here ours was about 5 feet tall. 15 years later it is way above our roof. Heck of a thing. Gorgeous though. Bright red leaves. It's a hardy tree. They are the best shade trees in my opinion.

You might try the arbor society. They give out free trees.

http://www.arborday.org/shopping/memberships/memberships.cfm

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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Do you mean cottonwood trees? Our poplars are all hybrids and don't produce anything other than lots of leaves in the fall...

I have belonged to the arbor day foundation since 2006 and every single tree they have ever sent has died. So I don't think I'll be renewing my subscription--I think I've single-handedly killed about 350 trees from them, LOL They either are shipped at the wrong time of year (too hot or the ground is still frozen) and/or they send trees based on our zip code which is 98840 and that's at 600-800' elevation and IN TOWN. We're out of town 15+ miles and at 2500' elevation.

 

[amyquilt]

Can't help with trading, but here's some links for some good prices (IMO) on fast growing trees:

http://henryfields.com/poplar-lombardy-buy-5-get-5-free/p/07063/

http://henryfields.com/Black Hills Spruce Tree/p/76193/

http://henryfields.com/weeping-willow-niobe/p/08737/


Hope that helps

 

[Bananas]

Since nobody's suggested any vines, I think for the fast-growing vine you need a trumpet vine.

They grow ridiculously fast and are hardy down to -30 degrees. They also have beautiful and unusual flowers.

I can probably get you at least seeds, if not a start.
Trumpet vines can be invasive, so you need to be very careful with it, but if you want a rapidly spreading and cold hardy vine this might be your best bet.

Let me know if you want me to get you seeds or cuttings.

 

[cthrash1]

Has your tree arrived yet?

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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Well, I got a honeysuckle. We have some in the back yard already and wal-mart had a white one on sale for $4 and it's like 4+ feet tall. So I planted that next to the southern most run. I'd be most interested in starts, if you have any? I still need a few to go around the other southern run as well as the two western runs...