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Fri, Apr 29, 11 at 8:21
| I really want to try making some succulent mosaics (like this http://ny-image1.etsy.com/il_570xN.239017513.jpg ), but first i need to build up a stock of mother plants to take cuttings from. So any easy to grow succulent that grows easily from cuttings (which seems to be most of them) or pups and stays low/mat like would be wonderful. Ideally i'd like to make 1-2 big trades and get 1-3 cuttings/pups of as many ID'ed species/cultivars as possible. IDs not necessary, but very much preferred. Sempervivums, haworthias, sedums and eschevatias seem to be the most popular for this stuff. |
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| I have many many....many..lol..many sedums I could trade..my list is actually not updated as I have lost a few, and have alot more to ad, but for some reason GW won't let me in to edit it. I would be very interested in a trade, and in your mushrooms as well. |
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- Posted by infiniteohms 5 Me (My Page) on Sat, May 14, 11 at 8:47
| smokeymist, just shoot me a email and we can work something out. Thanks! |
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| I have sempervivum whirlygig and tomentosa, as well as lots of sedum sarmentosum that I got from smokeymist (great trader, love her!). I would also be interested in your mushroom wedges or spores. I am recently on a mission to grow mushrooms for my hubby. |
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| claysoil you are awesome, thank you. Want to trade again ? lol Claysoil is also an awesome trader, you will not go wrong there. I'll send you an email infiniteohms...:o) |
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| I have masses of a particular cultivar of Moss Rose(Portulaca grandiflora). If I am not mistaken, I see Portulaca in the mosaic picture you mention (http://ny-image1.etsy.com/il_570xN.239017513.jpg). The kind I have is unusual, or seems so to me, because the blooms are only maybe 1/2", and not the 1"-2" blooms I see in pictures of other cultivars on the Internet. The color of the blooms is a sort of bright yellow-green, which reminds me very much of blooming Mustard in my vegetable garden. Anyway, what I have started out in a tiny pot on my mother's front porch some 25 years ago. Somehow the plastic pot was moved to the ground, and the pot, deteriorated by the sun, cracked and started to fall apart. After that, the little roses started to slowly spread. I use it as a ground cover now under some of my individual, specimen trees, like my Paulownia Royal Empress. I also have it in pots here and there around the garden, and it has begun to spread out into the loose gravel in my driveway! Propigating this cultivar of Portulaca is so easy! It's very shallow rooted, and comes up with just a slight tug. You can almost dislodge a few sprigs by breathing on it a little too hard...which is one reason it spreads so easy! All it has to do is touch the ground, and it's off again! Whenever I want a new start of it, I'll pull a few sprigs out here and there, and just throw a little soil on top of it in it's new location. In just a couple weeks it's sending up new shoots, and in a month it's filled out, and looking very pretty again. And when it spreads out a little too much, as in the case of my driveway, a few swipes of the lawn rake is all it takes to pull it back into submission. Another thing that is unusual about these little roses, they don't die out like the annuals they are supposed to be. All descriptions I've read on the Internet say the Moss Rose is supposed to be an annual, that dies out in winter, and readily comes back from seed the following spring. But mine doesn't die completely, the new growth dies back, and I'm left with a solid matt of old growth that is a darker green. It lasts all winter, until the spring, and in February/March it's up and going again with the Daffodils. I live in zone 7b, and it rarely gets much colder than the upper teens, but we did have some snow twice this last year, and it didn't make any difference to the little roses. Please let me know if you think this will meet your needs, and good luck with your project! |
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| I've sent you an email, and am still interested :o) |
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| Do you just keep turning the mosaic so they don't all 'right' themselves as they grow? Neat structure! |
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