*If* I get someone to help me dig (which: not so awfully likely) and IF Deirdre has room, I may be able to bring some lilacs and Carolina Alspice to Chehalis, but in general, if anyone wants what I can give, that means they need to come and dig. I do have shovels, spading forks, and pots if you don't want to deal with bare root plants, but I am outnumbered by garden these days.
Explain this Carolina Allspice...it is a bush, a small tree, does it have spice/seeds ?
I was grouching about it back along, it's this flower:
which, in seedlings, may or may not be skunky (the scent does not breed true, and is not a simple SS/ss/Ss thing) the leaves and wood are alspice scented, and I planted it for use in potpourri, back when I did that as a Farmer's Market vendor.. It's a nice understory shrub, with bright yellow fall color.
Also, looking out the window, avilable for the digging: Pineapple quince (root suckers, but this is not a grafted plant), at least one or two Hamamellis mollis (Yellow Witchhazel), species Siberian Iris, and two thuggish shrub honeysuckles, Lonicera fragrantissma and Lonisera amurensis, both of which would be grand parts of a mixed barrier hedge and have edible berries that the tweety birds like. And oregano, God save us all, I can contribute oregano to feed all the bees there are in August. Several very nice if prone to root- running geraniums which I can share but am not actively trying to get shed of, and one horribe thug which I'd only recommend if you're trying to green up a traffic calming circle (Claridge Druce). Speaking of horrible thugs: Summer Wood, an insect-discouraging artemesia, and Motherwort, a nice friendly calmer and encourager of milk flow and bearer of beastly seed-burs. I'm encouraging mints and lemon-balm for the chickens, so that's what's going into any holes I can encourage.
I also have a bunch of bearded iris in gallon and two gallon pots which need rescued and sent on to real homes, because as much as I love them they're too much work to keep weeded when I am not supposed to lean over and my knees and hips have lost their "squat" gear.
OH: and for the crazy-brave, I have a Long John Silver climber in a pot which has reached the point where next fall it will be setting off 10-20 foot long canes and getting ready to bloom its head off. Would do well on an ugly fence or outbuilding but would not put another one on a house.
(Multiply by a thousand or so, blooms from late june until August-ish)
because it didn't survive. It was transplanted in spring/summer. I think fall transplants work out better for me. AND my front yard is all freshly tilled and ready for planting. I could come up Tuesday or Thursday during school hours. Send me a message...
