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THE BLAZING HOT PINK HOLLYHOCK, Hottest pink ever seen.l0 feet tall. Up to 14 feet of height in the right soil. Great along fence to salute the world -- a real show piece! Or against house. Each stem has dozens of flowers the size of teacups. BIENNIAL means in temperate zones, plant in SEPTEMBER, it stays low til spring then shoots up. VISIT: ENCYLOPAEDIA OF HOLLYHOCKS WEBSITE! OTHER HOLLYHOCKS --the BURGUNDY WINE single. Also THE soft PINK SINGLE. Originally from China, these guard the front fence, sentinels that easily reach 14 feet can be seen from a mile away. (well, almost) Grow them with foxglove, canturbury bells for that English garden look.
DAHLIA PETAL ZINNIA - Big fat
Dahlia like petal. NEON magentaor
NEONOrange
blooms.
NOT QUILL PETAL. DAHLIA PETAL!
ULTRAMARINE blue MORNINGLORY, ANNUAL vine, some are PURPLE, some pink.Some are a pale blue. Most are ultramarine BLUE. Climbs anything, trees, bushes, fences. Freeze kills it, you peel it off easily. Compost it after you remove seeds to give to pals. THIS one makes my whole back yard a sheet of shocking blue. Not invasive as freeze knocks it out, California does have a mini freeze, 34 deg for a few dawns in a row.. If the glories are hanging there all dried up, you just pull downwards, it showers you with seeds & Reseeds itself. You may call that invasive! I say it's the lazyman's way to a gorgeous garden. I scissor any vines off lemon trees while it's climbing as it could shade the fruit process. Ditto apricot trees.
CACTUS
LOTUS - WHITE flowers 8" across, highly fragrant. Blooms two days two
nights, then turns into a fruit and more flowers come on plant. You get
fruits with seeds to plant though cuttings is how I replicated mine. I
give you a few cuttings in a pot, it grows into a massive plane up to 3'
across, 2 feet high.
SLUT-FLOWERS, really four o'clocks, (magenta
color &
fragrant, a brilliant neon color,) which look good with
that particular shade of electric blue of the morning glories nearby Doesn't
open til sundown, very FRAGRANT all night..bloom in alleys, no fine soils
required. Ask nothing in the way of care. They will grow in the cracks
of a sidewalk, or in vacant lots. They self-sow so their daughters grow
up in the streets just like 'em, blatent little nightbloomers. They put
down a root that turns into a tuber, so then they consider that they own
the corner! Hey, I don't call them slutflowers for nuttin!
Perennial CALLA LILLIES, (*LIVE LINK) like DIEGO RIVERA painted. Reliable from seed. Up by second year and flowering. Dies down to bulb in heat of summer, then is reborn in autumn, flowers all winter long in CALIF. SOME ARE THE GIANT ones, others dwarf. SEEDS AVAIL NEXT SUMMER. If you bring a lot of soil, I might give you a plant.
CANNA LILLIES (*live link) GREEN BUSHY LILLY, TORCH-LIKE spike of a flower, 7 - 10 foot high. LIFT BULB in winter, store if you have freeze there.
PINK LADIES- An amaryllis bulb which
seeds. And some CLIVIA LILLIES which
seed. and the AMARYLLIS 
Grows
from
seeds.
TROPICAL
GUAVA (*<----LIVE
LINK)a bush or tree,
only works where there's no freeze
Tart, sweet, oliferous, like gardenias you can eat! Amazing jams, pies.
The most savory fruit ever. Don't takethe plant below 35 deg. for more
than a few hrs. Bush about 7' tall in adulthood. One fruit perfumes an
entire room. Tropical. Will not work in zones 6, 7 without green house.
Only in 8, 9, 10 Easy to rig a green house: Four poles and some 5 mil plastic,
winter heat source, like a southern window? Southern side of the house.
UNFORT, no seed right now. If squirrels will leave me some fruit, I will
have by Xmas. Suggest you go to HOME DEPOT buy a few trees as this jam
will amaze your mouth.
DECORATIVE GOURDS for the Thanksgiving table.They're rainbow gourds all colors, tigers and stripes and polkadots and very warty. Last a year on table. Some people wax them, claim they last years.
SWEET PIE PUMPKIN. Tiny TOM Great
for pies. Very sweet. ONE pumpkin makes a pie.
NOT a big HALLOWEENIE size....but those taste lousy in pie. SWEET.
MOST AMAZING, the rare CALABAZA DE CASTILLA, the hefty grandaddy pumpkin, highly lobed, color of shiny, cafe au lait almost pink enamel on outside, dark orange flesh within, highly edible, favored by those who know. PHOTOGRAPH of it viewed by clicking on its name.. Only enough seed for twenty farmers' gardens. Not a drop more.
TROPICAL MYSTERY VINE - Umbrels of white, star shaped flowers, sticky, jasmine scented, large, glossy green leaves, heart shaped, grows up over fences. Blooms JUNE. Put in vases around house for scent. Baby plants avail.
TROPICAL ORANGE MARMALADE TREE.(*LIVE LINK)It's a citrus called KUM-quat not sold much in stores, inedible, meaning you wouldnt eat two in a row. SOUR, BUT WHAT wonderful MARMALADE you can make from this tree if you just pick out the seed and use the entire fruit for jam. Tree gets covered with little inch tall fruits. My pal makes this heavenly stuff, 8bucks a jar at the FARMERS MARKET. Needs zone 8, or warmer. Or to be grown under glass. South side of house, off a WINDOW, (to open it let heat in,) Sink four poles in ground, staple on 5 mil plastic. This has to be sent in wet peat like all citrus, planted immed.
UGLI
FRUIT TREE, (*live link,)(mutant citrus from the Caribbean.
Though some sources say it was hybridized by man, others disagree. Fruit
looks JUST like a grapefruit, and this variety I have ...a PERFECT GRAPEFRUIT,
no mottling on skin at all! Open it, flesh is orange, looks like tangerine,
sweet, not bitter. Skin great in marmalade, juice refreshing, not sugary
like orange, so great for diabetics. Zone 8 and above.No grapefruity
bitter thing going, at all. NOTE: I've just had horrific news. CITRUS SEEDS
go in the ground teh second they come out of the fruit! I now realize my
sending of the rare citrus, UGLI ..by seeds will never work.
I read a calif agriculture dept booklet, sez seeds ALL CITRUS SEED
is only good a few hrs, and cannot dry out. They recommend keeping it in
water when it comes out of the fruit! HOW I NEVER KNEW THAT.!!! http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/62657/
this bad news means that I can only send a wet seed in wet peat....out
or send a ripe fruit out. Or send a baby tree. It would be worth it though.
UGLI is rare, unusual and I want to share it, and I should have a fairly
good crop this year, a dozen fruits maybe, but i'm not willing to send
all dozen fruits out. So I might wrap in wet cotton and ship this next
year.
Calendula, shaggy yellow flower, 3" across, with healing juices in the flower petals .. SEEDS. Plan Sept for Spring bloom or Autumn for spring and summer bloom Don't like hot sun. Medicinal petals, can seal any wound. Calendula lotion very healing. Used it on Stumpy's tail stump after amputation. Made skin grow around the stump
Also brunsfelsia paucinia (*LIVE LINK)--the purple gardenia bush. Smells like jasmine. Have both seeds and cuttings. AS WITH MOST PERENNIALS need great care in the first few yrs, in seed stage. Optimum soil, green house conditions. Sort of like PURPLE GARDENIAS, popularly called YESTERDAY TODAY AND TOMORROW, as each day color changes, total three colors of purple, fragrant. TROPICAL perennial bush. NO FREEZE or it's over with. KEEP in greenhouse if you want. Gets 6 feet tall. Zone 8 and higher. seals any wound; Mush the petals into neosporin. Any WOUND WILL both heal and CLOSE!
BROCCOLI AND BEETS- ALL THE SEED YOU COULD want, (but this august, now now) for this rejuvenating blood building vegie. BORSCHT ANYONE?
ARUGULA & CHICORY, SWISS CHARD, MUSTARD. (soup greens)
CROCOSIMIA BULBS from South Africa every AUG/ SEPT. (we dig them up then).THE CROCOSIMIA BULBS are blooming now in SPRING and die down next AUG & SEPT. As now they are starting to come up, a foot high, can't move 'em. That bulb cannot travel with life green stuff stickin out or in bloom! SUMMERTIME we can do an order of those. 2-lb box. Send bigtime postage. HEAVY SUCKERS! SEEDS ARE AVAILABLE in JUNE. Every year a few dozen only.
AMARYLLIS - seeds.
RARE, BLUE POPPY from TIBET - A grower in ALASKA sent me her seed. This only grows where you have cool summers. Instructions included. Seed available end of year from ALASKA. Only grows in cold, damp climes.
MELIA TREE, Umbrella tree or CHINA BERRY From Himalayas, 'Mala' Means bracelet or rosary which they're used for in INDIA. These lush fragrant lilac flowers that cover the tree, turn into beads, six sided, like a SOLOMON STAR< huge religious significance. This tree will be useful for jewelers as it provides the beads used by rosary makers in India if you have a DREML drill that is. Could gold leaf them, too, or paint. FERNY foliage, lasting in vases, flowers are fragrant. Tree is deciduous. High Autumn colors. Any zone except sub arctic. FromHimalyas, Zones 8,9 best.
SAGO PALM - Remnant of Pleocine era, billions of years old. Found that rare mother plant that had a lot of EGG sized seeds, ready to go. Got a bucket of seed. Google growing conditions. . Hates FREEZE.
CUTTINGS, LIVE PLANTS/ BUSHES AND SEEDS - For cuttings you must come to the house. Get a bunch you owe me a bag of potting soil.
JUSTICIA
CARNEA
This is a gorgeous bush, tropical, shrimp flowers on steroids. CLICK
on URL Have cuttings.
BLACK BERRY VINES. You must come here to get them. No mailing.
TROPICALS: There are magueys and agaves
THIS UP ABOVE IS AGAVE, the one in the middle
HIT THIS URL TO SEE THE
MAGUEY.
And rousseauesque spider plants,
with hanging baby plants
hanging like xmas tree decorations from the mother plant.
and there are dozens of those!
http://www.blankees.com/house/plants/image/spider_plants.jpg
they stay low. Are bright. Have all green, too.
You can have quite a few of 'em.
So you can get some big jungly looking BEDS going.
* * * * * * * * Unless you're a book vendor and sending me PAID FOR used books, mysteries, great novels, etc., philosophy, history, thrillers, (in which case you get a gift of seeds free, sec I get your books) ... you either contribute by sending some stamps to me. A LOTTA stamps gets ya a lotta diff seeds , A few stamps is a few kinds of seeds. If you have freeze, then you can't grow guavas, brunfelsia, citrus unless you have clear area south of house for plastic tent. If you are in Los Angeles, I trade for a bag or two or three of potting soil.
IF you want peach trees, come in Dec, January get: Avocado,
FIG, BLACK WALNUT Loquat fruit trees can be lifted when heat dies
down. Bring enough potting soil to fill hole which YOU WILL DIG; and give
me a bag for myself, as a trade for all these plants and seeds. The soil
you bring must be POTTING SOIL as all the others are really MULCH. Most
plain soils from vendors (not your yard,) aren't finished composting and
kill plants! If you want citrus trees, lemon, lime, ugli, grapefruit, tangarine,
come any time. BRING A BAG of potting soil, I 'll toss in the pots.
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