[SCA-AE] OT... trade flower for thread?

[Ruth Morrisson]

Greetings from Myfanwy!
I make no promises (it's currently way too hot and humid to even  
*think* about gardening) but I have some irises that really need to be  
divided.  What kind?  Purple (honestly, they started out as three  
plants in styrofoam cups that someone across town dug out of her yard  
and was selling and she didn't know what they were either).
You don't even need to trade thread with me -- if I get any time to dig  
them up before Pennsic I will try to do so.  (I started out with three,  
divided them the next year, and now have a 3' x 2' clump).
I would offer you daylilies as well, but I don't think this is the  
right time to divide those, since they're blooming at the moment --  I  
have 'Hyperion' (yellow, old fashioned variety) and the standard H.  
fulva (the orange ones that grow wild along roadsides everywhere).
If they're interested in old roses, I may be able to dig up some  
suckers, but I don't actually know if they're from the understock or  
not.  I've been considering trying to root cuttings but haven't had a  
chance to do anything about it (and would have to be really careful  
about blackspot -- even the York rose seemed to be developing it this  
year).  If they're willing to wait a year or two, I'd be willing to try  
doing it though.

On Friday, July 14, 2006, at 07:25  PM, Linda wrote:

> Dear people,
> This is way off topic, please forgive me but...
> I just found out that a dear friend of mine was flooded badly this last
> month. Besides destroying all that was in their basement to the floor
> joists, it also destroyed her beloved garden.
> She and her husband had made a huge flower garden which filled their
> entire yard. It was the work of at least 15 years and was her joy in
> life. They both have health problems now, as well as money problems,  
> and
> this has just about beaten her.
>
> I don't have anything but ferns and daffodils to give her.  BUT I DO
> have some coats & clark sewing thread that I can trade for a spare bulb
> or small rootlet of any kind of flower you want to thin out of your
> flower gardens.
> If you have room in packing for Pennsic to put in one bulb or plant, I
> would be very happy to trade you for a small spool of black or white
> thread.
> I'll be at merchant booth #25 again this year...the brown Slavic fabric
> house on wheels: Dragon's Magic....(the Polish fabric merchant)
>
> I know this is too much to ask for mostly everyone in the pre-Pennsic
> frenzy, but if I can only get a couple bulbs or such to help her start
> over it would make a big difference to them.
>
> Thank you muchly.
> Maria Pienknoplotno
> Aka Maria P
> Aka DansMom
>
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Lady Myfanwy ferch Rhiannon
Ruth Morrisson
myfanwy at nauticom.net