Showing posts with label pass along plants. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pass along plants. Show all posts

Monday, March 30, 2009

Cheapskate Garden Tip 2


Orange Lily
Erica_Marshall


Passalong plants are a friendly garden tradition of sharing plants, a tradition much favored by cheapskate gardeners and by gardeners nostalgic for old fashioned and sometimes hard to find varieties.
Day lilies are great passalong plants, that gardeners share by giving away divisions they dig up.


Save seeds, dig divisions and volunteer plants, and root cuttings from your plants, and give them to fellow gardeners, and ask them for passalong plants in return. My grandma sent me my first passalong, her Rose of Sharon seeds, from Indiana, all the way to California.
Dig up Iris, Canna and Day lily divisions to give away, save Zinnia, Coreopsis, Marigold, Purple cone flower and Salvia seeds, dig up volunteer Johnny Jump-ups and Four O’Clocks and trade with friends and neighbors.