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WANTED: Trees and Shrubs Wishlist- add yours

20 years ago

Bakemom's post has me inspired to hunt for more tree and shrub seeds to sow. So lets list do a wishlist thread for trees and shrubs.

My wants are:

American Fringe tree

Elderberry

Whitch Hazel

anything good for wildlife would make me happy. :)

What do you want?

Comments (34)

  • 20 years ago

    ahh....mt laurel would be mine....along with named butterfly bushes...red horse chestnut...i could go on and on...:))

    pam

  • 20 years ago

    Every year I'm looking throught the catalogues and the Mock Orange, Flowering Almonds and Lily of the Valley Tree always pop out at me. Recently, I've grown to like withchazel.

  • 20 years ago

    Oh, what a good idea!
    Number one on my list has to be hazelnut, I really want to have them growing here! After that,could be anything.., shrubs, I would love to have a big "snowball"-type hydrangea or viburnum. Do blueberries count? Anything edible.
    I love any kind of tree, so I can't pin that down, but I'd really like to try Japanese maples. The list goes on forever!
    If I have seeds on someone else's wishlist, should I post here, or email them? And is it okay if they are seeds that I received from someone else in trade? Sorry, I don't remember how this works, and I would love to share!
    Angel

  • 20 years ago

    RIght now the only tree I am looking for is Dwarf Red Buckeye and the only shrub I need is a native flame azalea. I found seeds for the other two shrubs I wanted by searching the members exchange page

    Penny

  • 20 years ago

    I would love to find seeds (or better yet, cuttings) of Buddleja lindleyana.

    Kathy

  • 20 years ago

    Angel
    Most people do get more seeds trading than they can use at one time and many people do trade extra seeds that they have received. If you have extra seeds that you aren't going to use why not trade them for something you can use.

    Penny

  • 20 years ago

    Oh I love this idea. Being a newbie there are trees and shrubs I see that I would love try. Mt. Laurel. Azelias and Burning Bushes.

    Tammy

  • 20 years ago

    tnmomsix and mallowmallow - I have Mountain Laurel. I understand this is very difficult to grow from seed, but if you're interested I'd be happy to send them to you. They're freshly collected last week.

    SingingCrk - I have fresh Japanese Maple.

    If anyone is looking for Tulip Tree I have them by the bucketfull right now, with more still to fall.

    I'm not really looking for trees or shrubs right now, but had some of my wishes filled on the last wish list post. It was great.

    Please contact me if you're interested and we can set up a trade.

    Jenny

  • 20 years ago

    Hazelnut would be awesome! I am looking for any hardy to zone 6 tree, bearing edible fruit or nuts. Now THAT'S a challenge...lol....

  • 20 years ago

    Yay, someone is sending me a few hazelnuts! I think I'm going to try some of those you get at the grocery, too. No luck last year, but other people have done it!
    MrsGalihad, I have been drying some elderberries that were left on the bush/tree since you started this thread. They were tiny little shriveled up things when I found them, so I didn't try to separate them, and I don't know how many seeds are in a berry. I only have 25-30 of them, but if no disaster befalls them (like kids or dogs!), I can send them to you. I also have five seeds of "white fringe tree" from a round robin trade that I'd be glad to share (don't know if it is American fringe tree or not). I think I have some other things on your wants list, too.
    Gardenmadness, how about wild plum, hickory, or black walnut? If you need any, let me know!
    Jocpinct, I am going to email you! :o) Thanks!
    Angel

  • 20 years ago

    I would love to have Beautyberry (especially White and Early Amethyst)and Snowberries, Oleander and Confederate Rose. Also, any Spicebush, Elderberry or Viburnum.

    Thanks,
    Cherie

  • 20 years ago

    HomegrownSC,
    I have white beautyberry and carolina allspice I could trade or you could SASBE, whichever you'd like, just email me, ok?
    Lori

  • 20 years ago

    OK, I changed my mind and decided I do have a tree wish. I'd like to have my own pine nuts, which I understand can be harvested from Korean Pine. Anyone have some?

    Jenny :)

  • 20 years ago

    You have mail.

    Mary

  • 20 years ago

    I am looking for actinidia kolomicta 'artic beauty' saw it at a nursery but wasn't willing to pay $50 really want this I know it's just wishful thinking hoping that someone has seeds to share sighhhhh.
    singing clark I have viburnum highbush cranberry e-mail me maybe we could strike up a trade. Patty

  • 20 years ago

    hi jenny..thanks for the offer on the mt laurel...ive emailed you and would love to trade...

    pam
    mallowmallow

  • 20 years ago

    Pam (Mallowmallow) I have a beautiful purple butterfly bush named 'Queen's Robe' I'd be happy to share with you.
    Just let me know.

    Raney

  • 20 years ago

    My email is on the fritz! Something must be up with MSN....

    I have trades pending with mallowmallow and SingingCrk and would love to trade with ilovefarac, it just seems I can't get my emails to go through.

    I'll keep trying, but just wanted you guys to know I wasn't ignoring you!

    Thanks.

    Jenny

  • 20 years ago

    Hi, Jenny! I got your email! I'm not on msn, but I can relate - I've been having trouble with mine, too, I have to hit send five, sometimes ten times before it will go through without an error. I hope people aren't getting ten copies of my emails!
    I will email you back soon - hopefully once :o)
    Angel

  • 20 years ago

    tnmomsix i think i have the burning bush you want. it was here when we moved in but it looks exactly like the pictures of burning bush. it has seeds right now. do you want some? sandy

  • 20 years ago

    I have a hugh list of wants. Anything that has flowers or fruit. And (here is part of my list) :
    Musa - ANY/ALL
    Japanese Maple - ANY/ALL
    Picea pungens glauca (Colorado Blue Spruce)
    Pinus aristata (Bristlecone Pine),
    Pinus cembroides edulis (Piñon Pine),
    Pinus densiflora (Japanese Red Pine),
    Pinus mugo mughos (Mugo Pine),
    Pinus parviflora (Japanese White Pine),
    Pinus pinea (Italian Stone Pine),
    Pinus ponderosa (Ponderosa Pine),
    Pinus thunbergii (Japanese Black Pine)
    Phantom Miracle Tree Podocarpus gracilior (African Fern Pine)

    I will post the seeds I do have.

    mkruby7

    Here is a link that might be useful: Trade's - Haves and Wants List

  • 20 years ago

    I would like Japanese maple, burning bush, camelia, and smoke bush. I have seeds for Rose of Sharon (althea shrub) that has white and pale pink blossoms; deep burgundy crape myrtle, and another crape myrtle that I think has white blossoms, but I'm not sure. I have a pink crape myrtle that I haven't plucked seeds from, but if anyone is interested in that, I'll gather some.

    Barbara in Virginia

  • 20 years ago

    As soon as I posted that I have pink crape myrtle, I went out to gather seed only to discover the pods have already opened and spilled them. Sorry. I should have checked that before posting. I do have the others I mentioned, if anyone wants some.

    -Barbara in Virginia

  • 20 years ago

    Looking for gooseberries, red and white currants, and fig seeds.

    Will do self stamped exchange envelope for seed.

  • 20 years ago

    My main wish list is a camelia---I have mallow mallow I can send anyone, mixed colors of Rose of Sharon and also Confederate Rose seeds. Dale Florence SC

  • 20 years ago

    My wish list is,
    japanese maple-any,
    burning bush
    smoke bush
    butterfly bush- white,dark pink

    I have purple rose of sharon.
    Will do sasbe...Thanks Pauletta

  • 20 years ago

    WOW!
    This is great! I have been over at the "seed exchange" on GW, and my biggest desire was for tree seeds. Not many people had them--although, after lots of trading--I did get a few. I have some tree seeds to trade; please let me know how many.
    TREES (I harvested them)
    Mimosa Albizia julibrissin (pink)
    Catalpa speciosa
    Large Maple tree ready (Believe it is Sugar Maple)
    Spruce Picea pungens glauca (very few)
    Horse Chesnut Aesculus Hippocastanum (White)SPECIFY from 2-5 seeds (seeds are large--like a golfball)

    I also have lots of rose of sharon, some of them from doubles. It would be a mix.

    Trees that interest me: (FUNctional ones with berries, fruit, or nuts--or something for the birds!)
    Thank you!

    Allspice (can I grow that in zone 7?)
    Hazelnut
    actinidia kolomicta
    Podocarpus gracilior
    Chionanthus virginicus--Fringe Tree
    Kalmia latifolia--Mountain Laurel
    Aesculus pavia-dwarf red buckeye
    Liriodendron tulipifera tulip tree
    Symphoricarpos albus snowberry
    Nerium oleander
    Viburnum carlesii
    ANY of the Pine Nut Trees: Pinus koraiensis, Arucaria arucana, Pinus armandii, Pinus jeffreyi, Pinus peuce, Pinus edulis, Pinus cembra var. siberica, Pinus siberica, Pinus siberica f. humistrata, Pinus siberica f. coronans, Pinus siberica f. turfosa, Pinus lambertiana, Pinus cembra, Pinus pumlia.

  • 20 years ago

    My wish list
    Burning bush
    Hydrangea
    Boxwood
    Japanese Maple
    Thuja "Green Giant"

  • 14 years ago

    I am looking for the following Trees

    Montmercry (sp?) Cherry Tree
    Santa Rosa Plum
    Golden Delious Apple

    I had success this year starting a July Elberta from a cutting under Intermittent mist and getting it to root.

    Mike Hughes

  • 14 years ago

    Hi there...this looks fun! Trees & shrubs I have (and most are not on my list because I need to update it) are

    pomegranate
    espiranza 'yellow bells'
    oleander dark pink
    texas lilac
    china berry
    texas native pecans (wild pecans)- not sure how to grow these though
    got some japanese maples (more than I can use) from a trade
    mock orange (more than I can use)from trade
    blue berry 'powder blue'(saved the seeds from the berries that felland couldn't be put into muffins)
    pineapple sage (one of the 3 most visited plants by hummingbirds)
    texas firecracker bush -limited seeds because you gotta catch them when they pop & I was out there for hours but had a blast doing it!

    On my wish list
    nuts or berries of any kind
    a bunch of other stuff I can't think of right now

  • 14 years ago

    I am always ready to trade tree and shrub seed.I have about a square foot of seeds in soil stratifying in my fridg so this year I am going to try to winter sow a little of each. My wife would be so happy to get the dirt out of the fridg. Seeds that i have in enough quantity to trade are;

    American persimmon
    Ash( white i think )
    Tulip tree
    Trumpet vine
    Osage orange
    Black walnut
    Calory pear
    sycamore2010
    sweet gum 2010
    honey locust 2010
    2010 seeds may be out there fresh 2011 but i need to look
    wax myrtle from trade
    hemlock from trade
    honey mesquite from trade
    Seed amounts from trade will be smaller

    I am looking for tamarack, witch hazel, american hazels, ironwood, hophornbeam,yellowhorn, pin cherry,Mt ash, Coprosma, adenium, and probablt anything i dont have. Please check out my lists for things i forgot to list. Thanks Ric

    Here is a link that might be useful: ricjo22's exchange list

  • 14 years ago

    I have witch hazel seeds if anyone is interested.

    Here is a link that might be useful: Tradelist

  • 14 years ago

    squirrelspur I am definately interested in witch hazel and texaspinkpixie i think firecracker bush is witchhazel as well. I would like to trade with you too. I will e-mail you both soon
    macmikeal I love montmorency cherries too. I bought one cheap in late spring one year. It bore fruit this year. turns out the graft had died and i have a huge potted cherry of the type used for grafting to. now i am looking for cherries i can graft to it.

    Here is a link that might be useful: ricjo22's exchange list

  • 14 years ago

    Good post! I'm badly in need of some shrubs for windbreaks along the garden fence, but I want them to do double duty and provide food for me or at least the chickens. It has been kind of tough, most things either want to grow into trees or colonize into thickets (though I have a few places for such plants here and there...) Let me know if you've got any seeds that might fit that bill.

    Right now I'd also be interested in seeds of:
    Autumn Olive (Autumnberry)
    Saskatoon Serviceberry
    Aronia
    American Hazelnut
    Spicebush

    I have to trade:
    Elderberry (dried berries)
    Redbud
    Catalpa

    And I could probably go out and gather black walnut, pignut hickory and burr oak if anyone is interested. I can also save some unknown but very tasty variety of pear. I know seeds won't grow true but you could get lucky, and wildlife isn't picky - deer, rabbits and birds all love pears!

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