Open Greenhouse & Plant Swap, Saturday, May 6, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., 602 Ronele Drive, Brandon, FL 33511
Along with our normal plants, we also have a rain barrel and a limited number of wooden pallets, plust bamboo that can be cut to stake plants.
Some of the potted plants we’ll have available on Saturday:
- Firebush is my all-around favorite native plant because it’s always alive with bees, butterflies and hummingbirds.
- We also potted up some non-native rain lilies which aren’t as spectacular as the firebush every day, but when they bloom, they’re show-stoppers.
- Potted aloe plants that came from the last swap
Also on the free plant list for April:
- Native elderberries are covered in berries but they also spread by runners so we have lots to share
- Bleeding heart and pagoda plants, both of which do need to be contained because they spread underground.
- Lady palms, a slow-growing hedge that’s tough as can be once it’s started
- Crinium lilies are beginning to snap into bloom now, and we have plenty of babies to share.
Cuttings
- My amazing sister will be bringing more plumeria cuttings. She asked her husband to label them for colors this month.
- Ever-bearing mulberries with fruit that is just now starting to ripen, to the delight of children and birds. They’re super-easy to root and set fruit nearly year-round.
- Coral Porterweed gets butterflies all year long and hummingbirds when they’re here in the winter. It’s also very attractive and very easy to root.
- Dark blue salvia and lavender or red firespike. There’s one big red firespike you can take as a you-dig.
- Jacob’s ladder is one of the few things we grow that doesn’t benefit wildlife, but it’s an attractive plant that works beautifully in a pot or as an inside house plant that doesn’t need much light or love.
Seeds
- Blanket flower
- Native spiderwort, another favorite native that thrives almost anywhere it gets enough sun
- The cosmos growing here are a new favorite, they attract lots of bees and butterflies even though they bounce when a critter lands.
- Candlestick senna is a show-stopper plant when it blooms but it’s also the larval food for sulfur butterflies, which are gorgeous on their own and here for most of the year.
- Bachelor buttons are super-cute plants that attract all kinds of bees and butterflies.
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Is this an opportunity for us to share as well? I’m in the area- and very interested, but I don’t want to show up empty handed- I can find shareable plants- that was my plan this weekend to divide some of my clusters up.
Absolutely! For the best selection, show up before 11:30 or so.
You are such a gift to this green planet!
Would love a neem plant
We’ll have them for sale!
Hi,
I would like to visit open house on 6th May, is any appointment or anything I need to visit ?
No, just show up! Thanks for asking!