Tini, this is my rose which I think is similar to the one you offered me. It's never bloomed this well before! I got it from that Hinsdale house

Thank you all so, so much! I've been planting things like crazy and my garden is filling up! I can't wait to see it in a year or two once things fill out a bit. This event was so great! If you need another volunteer/helper next year, let me know!

Both of these flowers came from the swap in previous years, one I haven't seen in at least 5 years. It's neat that they're growing together. Oerickson, I think this is Chocolate Soldier which you gave me many years ago. I guess a seed sprouted and it's back!

Hi all,

Does anyone know of other plant swaps in metro Chicago, Evanston, or Skokie?

Does anyone grow grapes and/or can recommend a place to get Concord grape plants? I'd prefer to buy from a nursery/grower if possible, rather than a retail store.

Thanks!

Not aware of any other swaps unfortunately. Check out with Pesche or Meinke nurseries? I usually get specific items on line. Starkbros is very good and has grapes.
This is Jagodka/ name translated berry/, det cherry type tomato, planted May 20 in the container. I think it will beat Sungold this year by earliness

I currently have three grape Vines. I have the tags in the garage somewhere . My daughter gave us two a few years ago and the other has been here over ten years. Most of the grapes are eaten by the squirrels and company before they reach maturity. Planning on building an enclosure to stop that from happening. All of mine were bought locally between Menard's and Home Depot.

I got this plant from swap and it has no tags so not sure what plant it is. Can you please identify it? Thank you


One more note for those who got christmas cactus from me. I think you might got pink instead of white blooming one by mistake. Red should be ok. I recently purchased pink one and it looks instead of white by mistake I took cutting from pink. Sorry about the mix up.

Jasmine, if the plant is edible, it looks like lemon balm or perhaps a mint. Of course, don't eat anything you're not 100% sure about.

Thanks Verdant,
It is not mint nor lemon balm since leaves are much bigger than the mint or lemon balm leaves. It doesn't have any aroma so it is not an herb. So it must be something else. Hope some one else could identify it.

I don't want to plant it on the ground since do not know what it is and how big it will get.

Foxglove

Ellen, thank you.

Seedrat, what kind of plant is that chocolate Soldier? Is that the very double purple? Love the color! Thanks.

Aw, that double flowered is Barlow black. Darn I was mistaken too we did grow chocolate soldier for sure but alas. ..

Prairie Plants in Schaumberg need a new home :

http://westcook.wildones.org/2...

(A LOT more listed than what I copied and pasted below.)

Posted June 20th, 2017 by Stephanie & filed under Uncategorized.

Native Plant Rescue–Schaumburg, IL

We received notice that Dennis Paige’s gardens will have to be dismantled per order of the condo association board. Below is his letter and list of plants that are available. If you would like to rescue some plants, you need to contact Dennis so that he can let the condo association know that someone will be on the property. You can see a video here of Dennis’s gardens as featured on WTTW: Flower Man

If you would like to help out with the plant rescue, please complete this form here, and we will forward your information to Dennis: Native Plant Rescue

Contact person: Dennis Paige

Greetings to protectors and admirers of the native plant communities,

I am looking for individuals and groups connected to help relocate hundreds of native plants that were established on condominium property in Schaumburg. For 20 years I introduced a wide variety of native woodland, mesic and wet prairie plants on the property including over 175species of forbs, grasses, sedges, shrubs and trees adopting a Chicago Biodiversity Recovery plan.

Currently, I am retired in Colorado but through a recent visit to my hometown of Schaumburg, I discovered that the condo association plans to strip away all of the entire native plant gardens I introduced the past twenty years. Through thoughtful careful planning/application this project received several awards locally and regionally and major media coverage. I was honored to bring nature back to a residential association with remarkable beauty and wonder.

Check out the video presented on Chicago Tonight annually since 2011. This place was an co treasure but the Board did not want to spend a few extra dollars to keep this exceptional place around.

Before relocating, I trained Tall Grass Restoration, Inc. for a year and a half to take over this project. They finished up the year last year but were not hired to return. Without an ongoing ecologically applied practice on the land, the sites were neglected in the hands of a conventional landscaping company that the Board wished to hire.

If you are interested in rescuing these plants I need to know the time and date to pass this confirmation to the condo

Picture of Dennis's garden
Picture of Dennis’s garden
management. Very important to note: only native plants which include sedges, grasses, and forbs can be removed not any non-native biennials and annuals which are currently be installed on the property. Trees and shrubs must not be removed either.


Below is a complete listing of native plants introduced the Condominium Association.

This is not a time to become angry over this change but to be proactive in what can be rescued and restored in a home where they have a chance to live in an ecologically friendly location.

Currently I am writing a book about this wonderful 20 year experience titled:Kneeling For Natives: Memoirs of a Soft Revolutionary Landscaper which I hope to finish in the next 2 years.

I know the weather out there is tough for transplanting but each digging into these complex soil communities will bring a wonderful return to your sites. Please bring gallon containers and dig up the earth also not just the plant.

Take care and peace with the prairie earth,
Dennis Paige
Native Plant Introduction List (1996 –2015)



Native Plant Designed Habitat (NPDH): (w) woodland (p) prairie (wt) wetland (seasonal)

Flowering cycle if applicable:



Plant type NPDH April May June July August September October

Actinomeris alternifolia w _____________

Wingstem



Adiantum pedatum w _______

Maindenhair Fern



Aguilegia canadensis w,p ______

Wild Columbine



Alisma subcordatum wt ___________________

Water Plantain



Alllium cernuum w,p ___________

Nodding Wild Onion



Amorpha canescens p _____

Leadplant



Andropogon garardii p _______

Big Bluestem



Andropogon scoparius p ________

Little Bluestem



Anemone canadensis p _______

Meadow Anemone



Anemone cylindrical p ________

Thimbleweed



Anemone quinquefolia w _________

Wood Anemone



Arisaema triphyllum w ______

Jack In The Pulpit



Arisaema dracontium w _______

Green Dragon



Asarum canadense w _____

Wild Ginger





Plant type NPDH April May June July August September October



Asclepias incarnata wt ____________

Swamp Milkweed



Asclepias purpurascens p ______

Purple Milkweed



Asclepias syriaca p _______

Common Milkweed



Asclepias tuberosa p __________

Butterfly Milkweed



Aster ericoides p ____________________

Heath Aster



Aster azureus p __________

Sky Blue Aster



Aster dumosus p _________

Bushy Aster



Aster ericoides w,p __________

Heath Aster



Aster laevis p __________

Smooth Blue Aster



Aster novae-angliae w,p,wt _____________

New England Aster



Aster saggitifolius w ______________

Arrow Leaved or Drummond’s Aster



Aster sericeus w,p _____________

Silky Aster



Aster umbellatus wt, w ______________

Flat Top Aste



Astragalus Canadensis p _______

Canadian Milk Vetch



Aureoloria grandiflora w _________

Lance Leaved Gerardia



Athyrium filix femina w _______

Lady Fern



Baptisia lacteal p ______________

White Wild Indigo



Baptisia australis p ______

Blue False Indigo





Townsquare Condominium Native Intro Plant List (1996-2015)



Plant type NPDH April May June July August September October





Blephilia hirsata w-wt ________

Hairy Wood Mint



Bouteloua curpendula p ________

Side Oats Grama



Bromus pubescens w ______

Woodland Brome



Bromus kalmii p _______

Prairie Brome



Bruchloe dactyloides p _______

Buffalo Grass



Cacalia suaveolens wt __________

Sweet Scented Indian Plantain



Calamagrostis canadensis wt _________

Blue Joint Grass



Caltha palustris wt _______

Marsh Marigold



Campanula rotundifolia p _______

Harebell



Caenothus americanus p _______

New Jersey Tea



Carex albicans p ______

Blunt-scaled Oak Sedge



Carex aquatillis wt _____

Long Bracted Tussock Sedge



Carex bicknellii p _____

Copper Shouldered Oval Sedge



Carex blanda w _____

Common Wood Sedge



Carex buxbaumii wt ________

Dark Scaled Sedge



Carex cephaloidea p _____

Rough Clustered Sedge



Carex Comosa wt ______

Bristly Sedge



Townsquare Condominium Native Intro Plant List (1996-2015)



Plant type NPDH April May June July August September October



Carex crawei wt _______

Early Fen Sedge



Carex cristatella wt _____

Crested Oval Sedge



Carex frankii wt _____

Bristly Cattail Sedge



Carex granularis wt ______

Pale Sedge



Carex lurida wt _____

Bottlebrush Sedge



Carex pensylvanica w ______

Pennsylvania Sedge



Carex scoparia wt ______

Pointed Broom Sedge



Carex spengelii wt ________

Long-Beaked Sedge



Carex stipata wt ______

Awl-fruited Fox Sedge



Carex stricta wt ______

Tussock Sedge



Carex tetanica wt ______

Common Stiff Sedge



Carex vulpinoidea wt ______

Brown Fox Sedge



Cassia hebecarpa p ______

Wild Senna



Caulophyllum thalictroides w ________

Blue Cohosh



Chelone glabra wt _________

Turtlehead



Cimicifuga racemosa w _______

Black Cohosh









Town Square Condominium Native Plant Intro List (1996-2015)



Plant type NPDH April May June July August September October





Claytonia virginica w ______

Spring Beauty



Coreopsis palmata p _________

Prairie Coreopsis



Coreopis lanceolata p ___________

Sand Coreopsis



Coreopsis tripieris p _________

Tall Coreopsis



Desmanthus illinoensis w ________

Illinois Bundleflower (Sensitive)



Desmodium canadense p _______________

Showy Tick Trefoil



Desmodium illinoense p

Illinois Sensitive Plant



Dodecatheon meadia w,p _______

Shooting Star



Echinacea purpurea w,p _______________

Purple Coneflower



Echinacea pallida p ____________

Can anyone identify these plants.

Oerickson, you told me the wrong name then! Every time I walked past that plant I would start singing "Buffalo Soldier, dreadlock rasta..." but thanks for the correction

Linnea I plan to save seed! Also, my Midnight Reiter geranium seeds finally sprouted, so I will hopefully have some for you next year (or later this summer if we want to do a meet for that and irises if you want some. I know you probably can't make the iris swap, but I have a lot of purple, and purple and yellow)

Verdant Apt, thanks for the alert about the native plants. That info got passed around through some emails too, and it seems the people near Schaumburg did a great job getting the plants out.

JQSen,
#2 is strawberry plant,
#4 might be a Veronica
#5 is Mitsuba, a japanese plant that is edible http://latimesblogs.latimes.co...
#6 looks like Lysimachia FIrecracker, a nice plant for tough spots but it spreads by the roots and will slowly take over (in a tough area, probably quickly in a nice area!)

Just some update.
Iris swap is a go. Sat July 15, 3 pm or so.
Those who do not trade irises are welcome to drop by, it is at our house, see gardens, talk plants. Light refersments, good music.
Some NOID iris rhizomes if you want to grow them.

Ellen thanks for the update.

I obtained this plant at the swap a year - or two - ago last spring. I thought it was a Digitalis Lutea, of which I already have one. Though the leaves looked similar (at first), as it’s grown, it’s obvious it is not. And when it bloomed, even more so.

I took pictures over a span of time to hopefully make it easier to ID.

A close up of the flowers show that they are little orchids! When the flowers opened and I could compare it to my existing woodland foxgloves, I saw that they are tiny orchids, flowers only half an inch in size. Not showy: very subtle. I was hoping that I had one of the rare prairie orchids that are native to the Midwest.


It's been ID'd yesterday as Epipactis helleborine. Turned out it IS an orchid! What a novelty! But non-native and potentially invasive. I plan to pull it out. It’s pretty in its own way, but I don’t want trouble later. Anyone nearby want it? I'm in Buffalo Grove. (but don’t get mad at me later). PM me if so. I had someone who wanted it on my FB page, but he's in the UK ;)

Flowers forming but not open yet:



Seed pods forming at bottom, new flowers still opening at the top:



Closeup of flowers:

I guess I'm glad I didn't see your post for a couple of days, as I always forget that plant's name and never seem to bookmark a page for it. I knew it was a non-native orchid! :)

I have it in my yard (but I don't think I brought it to the swap as the ones I've tried to transplant just die...but maybe 8 years ago I may have tried?) but it's not aggressive. However it does pop up where it wants to, and it will do so forever (kind of like ostrich fern, I'm finding! Although those survive transplanting). I, too, wish it were one of the special native orchids.