Hi Grey Lady, did you find Persian Shield yet? I bought a couple of plants last week. I took a few cuttings, they're now sitting in water on the windowsill. I'm also doing an experiment on how long they will stay viable in a little ziplock baggie in a dark box. If this works I can pop them in the mail to you. I've done this with unrooted fuchsia cutting and after a week in little ziplocks the cuttings looked good in fact they looked better than when I first bagged them up. Let me know if you're still interested.

Annette

Hi Annette, thanks so much for thinking of me! :)
I have not found any around here yet. I do keep an eye out but no luck.

I am definitely still interested.

This post was edited by greylady-gardener on Thu, May 22, 14 at 17:46

We'll see how this cutting in the baggie fares, it it's still looking good in a week I'll package the other cuttings up and send them on to you, they'll be unrooted but I've had great success rooting them in water.

Are you still at the same addy?

Annette

still at the same address. :)

what can we do to work a trade? My list is not up....I really need to work on it, but never get to it.

How about I take a rain check :). I was laid up for most of last year so except for the things I just have to have I'm not looking for anything right now, just trying to get my garden beaten back into submission, it's a jungle out there LOL. I'll get back to you in about a week.

Annette

Thank you Annette. I can send you postage if you like. :)

Looks like we were in a bit of the same boat last year.....my garden got ripped apart for a major renovation/reworking and then I had to stop and leave everything as it was.....bricks, bags of topsoil, bags of mulch....all sitting where I left it. This year will be better, but with a knee injury (crutches for over a month earlier in the year) and the diagnosis that the knees now will not recover to "normal" I am taking things a bit slower and learning to do things differently. It will all get done eventually. :)

Here's to a better year for us both! :)

I know where you're coming from, I'm a bit wobbly on my feet now so I had hubby make me a nifty little gadget to help me move around in my flower beds so I don't stumble on or trample things. It's made out of a replacement handle with a piece of rebar pushed into the end. Works like a hot d... :). Maybe something like this would work for you.
So far so good the sacrificial lamb cutting is still hanging in and still looking good so maybe I won't wait a week, I'll pop them in the mail on monday, cross my fingers and hope for the best, they'll be coming regular post so I expect they will take a week to ten days to get to you.
Annette

That is quite an ingenious tool....very handy hubby. :)

right now working on making things as level as possible out in the yard. one corner of the yard on the way to the gardens is very uneven (several years of greyhounds running around which dug up the little grass that is there)
just a brief walk on any uneven ground and the knees flare up and get worse than usual.

looking forward to the mail now! :)