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Anyone have cuttings or starts they would want to trade for family heirloom seeds?


I have heirloom white half-runner beans, tomatoes, and heirloom okra. My great-grandmother’s aunt gave them to her in the 1930s and they have been passed down ever since. They are the only beans my great-grandmother or grandmother ever grew. She always planted them on Good Friday and they would take about 7 weeks from seed to harvest. We are in Zone 8A/7B in North Georgia. We are able to get 2 and many times 3 crops of them throughout the summer. The heirloom okra has been in my dad’s family for generations. It isn’t clemson spineless, it’s a fatter, stockier kind. I also have walking onions. they haven’t been in my family for generations but were in a friend’s family forever. After this summer, I’ll have a salad tomato seeds. An old preacher gave them to my grandmother. In our climate, they will bear fruit until about November when we get our first hard frost. Super meaty and are a great salad tomato or small sauce tomato. He called them a Russell tomato but I have yet to find a variety online with that name that fits this tomato. Closest thing it resembles is a Thai egg tomato but it’s meatier for sure.

I also have lots of other things I can share as well. Here is I’m looking for whether it’s cuttings, rooted cuttings, starts, etc:

Hardy Kiwi (male and female)

Snow Bank (white) Blackberry (yes it’s a thing!)

Honeyberry/Haskap

Raspberries of most any color

Dwarf sunchokes/sunroot (less invasive)

Salmonberry

Thimbleberry

Tayberry

Gooseberry

Currants (Black or white)

American hazelnut

Bing cherry/Benton cherry (or a variety that would be viable in our climate zone)

good permaculture fruits or veggies of most any kind really

I’m glad to also make a label and email to send out to cut out the work! Anyway, just thought I’d throw it out there! We just moved into our new home and I’m limited on funds but would like to get a good garden going and I’m glad to barter or pay shipping or what have you!

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Come help in a Hawaiian fruit forest


Aloha all- I’m looking for traveling volunteers to give our family a hand. We have 24 acres, some of which is cliff ocean front. Mature gorgeous fruit trees like durian, mango, longon etc. we have tent camping with really comfy clean cot set ups, and newly purchased tents. We provide all meals (with the actual good food I feed my family- you won’t be living off lentils like some places do it!) and also fruit and cold drinking coconuts at our fruit stand.
We ask for 20 hours a week, as 4 five hour days a week. We give rides and take your guys to beaches at least 1-2 days a week.
We have a couple fun people in their 20s currently.
Let me know here or @lilinoefruitstand on instagram

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Using Science to Inform Gardening Decisions

Gardening has long been an activity where science has informed its practitioners. Consider the decisions about what plant might thrive in a particular place, or how to manage a particular pest in as benign a way as possible. Using science at some level, whether observational or through experimental findings, (hopefully) has helped you to be […]

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Event Recap: A Celebration of Culture, Community, and Inclusivity at the Lunar New Year Market 2025

With crisp and sunny weather on our side, UBC Botanical Garden hosted its third annual Lunar New Year Market on January 25 and 26 2025, marking the Year of the Wood Snake in a bigger, and brighter way. The event successfully brought together visitors, vendors, and performers from all backgrounds to celebrate this important tradition, […]

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Cistus Nursery Dressed in Frost

  A frosty morning at work last week had me scrambling to take as many photos as possible before it melted. The beauty of snow and frost has not lasted long this winter. Not that I’m complaining. But it is really lovely on Sauvie Island, a rather bucolic and agricultural portion of the greater Portland area. That Cistus Nursery is here makes me feel very lucky. This post is just for visual fun as I don’t have identifications for many of these plants in Sean and Preston’s garden, but I hope you enjoy them all the same. Here then is a look at my place of employment on a rather frosty February morning:
Muhlenbergia dubia, very much like my favorite Muhlenbergia rigens. This is at the front of the path and is stunning in just about all seasons.
Arctostaphylos x media ‘Point Arena’, a gorgeous low-grower. Sean graciously gave me one last summer, I am super-excited to see mine grow.

Oh, hey, how did that happen? Muhlenbergia dubia from the other side. It’s so dramatic it deserves a second round.

Crataegus x lavallei ‘Autumn Glory’
Some fabulous arctostaphylos or another. There are quite a few in this post.

Those frosty margins! I love this.

Possibly Rhamnus californica.

Garrya elliptica, silk tassel bush.

More fabulous spiky grasses.
Pinus contorta var. latifolia ‘Chief Joseph’ tucked in along the driveway.

Helianthus ‘Lemon Queen’

A gravel path lined with grasses and lavenders.

Carex secta on the stairs up to the house.

A lovely place for a rest.
Mahonia x media

Mahonia fortunei

More mahonia. They look really lovely this time of the year, most of these just finished blooming.

Another arctostaphylos.

In the crevice garden.

More crevice garden treasures.

Rhamnus – possibly Rhamnus californica ssp. tomentella

Conifer love.

Lyonothamnus floribundus var. aspleniifolius, the gorgeous Catalina ironwood tree.

In the desert island garden.

Another stunning arctostaphylos.

Yucca rostrata and friends in the desert island bed.

Garden art.

More arctostaphylos.

Agave ovatifolia ‘Frosty Blue’

As you see, a quick post this week just to keep the love going. I thought a change of pace would be interesting and a visual pause, something lovely in this world. 
OK, find me this Saturday at the Benton County Master Gardeners Insights into Gardening conference, I’ll be speaking at 2:15. It looks like a lot of fun with many excellent speakers covering a myriad of topics. There is a vendor section as well as a raffle, looks like a fun day out.
That’s a wrap for this week at Chickadee Gardens, as always thank you so much for reading and commenting, we do love hearing from you all. Plus it’s a community, let’s stick together. You can also find me on Bluesky Social (trying to move away from Facebook bit by bit) at @chickadeegardens.bsky.social. Come join the fun!
Happy gardening, everybody.

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