Starting a garden, again, at a new house... looking for bougainvilleas, climbing roses, red yuccas, caladiums, jasmines, heucheras, coleuses, irises, cannas, hydrangeas, colocasias, and other heat-tolerant garden staples. Also want herbs such as basils, dills, yarrows, mints, lemongrass. Trees: Figs, Japanese Maples, Peach, Apricot, low-cold requirement apples, pencil cypress-y things.
Since I'm starting again, I don't have a lot of things I can readily get my hands on at my new place, and my old place is a few hours away (and currently in a state of neglect, since I've been in a rental for about a year), so I don't have a lot for trade that I can get my hands on very quickly, but am desperate for items for free or postage... but, if you're willing to wait a bit, and risk the mailing of the items in the summer heat, I have the following:
~Lady Banks thornless Rose - creamy white variety
~Bengal Fire Rose
~Lovely deep red floribunda rose
~Other roses, unknown varieties, very thorny small clustered pink roses and an antiquey cream, a climbing white simple frangrant rose, a climbing red,
~clumping bamboo
~daylilies - some of them quite nice
~chinese oranges - specify whether you want a faster growing standard, or a selectively bred twisty variety that grows much slower. Either way, they don't get very large, but the blooms in spring are excellent. Fruit is small and very oily. Good for potpourris or cleaning projects, or use in place of lemons. Very seedy.
~Pomegranates
~Live Oaks
~Giant Asparagus
~Agapanthus (I think)
~Fruitless double pink flowering apricot
~Iris Pseudacoros (I believe, currently growing in the shallows of a pond)
~An ivy which I repeatedly have to tear away from a palm tree. the former owners say this ivy is a chinese ivy and that it came from a cutting of one which was four hundred years old. This is important because supposedly if you make tea from the leaves of this type of ivy and drink it every day, you will live to be as old as the plant it came from.* (but then there people said a lot of things. Maybe you know what plant they're talking about here, in which case, I'd love to know.)
*results not guaranteed
~Virginia Creeper
~Pink Crepe Myrtle
~Dark Red Crepe Myrtle
~Pecan
~Honey Locust (because who am I to judge what you put in your garden)
~Bodark (because again with the non-judgement)
~Althea
~And some other things that grow in Zone 8 East Texas.
I probably have seeds, cuttings, volunteers, suckers, or possibly entire plants of any of these. But am willing to discuss with you... again, when I have the chance to visit the old place and examine what's currently identifiable.
At my current place I have plants big enough to take cutting or section from:
bougainvillea: antiquey white with a slight blush of pink
Hibiscus: double red
petunia: white
salvia: purple
red yucca
Iris: unknown variety/color, haven't seen them bloom yet, but it should be a bearded iris
Canna: full size, yellow with orange speckles, light green foliage
Purple Jew
Rosemary
