Author Topic: Probably way to early but I would like to purchase...... (Read 4247 times)

tinkster · « **on:** January 19, 2007, 09:03:40 AM »

Momo Botan lotus for my container... if anyone is going to have any of these for sale, please let me know. Also interested in a deal on bunches of siberian pink cups.. I am making gifts this year for a few of my family and friends with all those tons of extra lotus that I just "know" I did not kill with all the brutal transplanting this fall

tinkster

El Jefe · « **Reply #1 on:** January 20, 2007, 06:04:27 PM »

Tinkster, I went looking on the net and I found that this lady has 10 for sale for $15.98, worth looking into, (she sells the same plants on e-bay( http://cgi.ebay.com/Momo-Botan-dwarf-lotus-tuber-plant-double-flowers-NICE_W0QQitemZ160075809493QQihZ006QQcategoryZ43541QQcmdZViewItem )for $3.00 more each) so may as well save a little by using the LINK BELOW.... Andy
Momo Botan lotus http://www.google.com/base/a/1330018/D13341809094565077773

tranquility · « **Reply #2 on:** January 21, 2007, 06:33:45 PM »

Tink,
I should have some come the first week of March... $12.50 each plus shipping...also should have Mrs. Perry, Rosea plena, Empress, and maybe a few chawan basu....
Lawanna

Timgod · « **Reply #3 on:** January 21, 2007, 06:58:16 PM »

I bought three different lotus from Bonnie last year. Very nice lady. Good size lotus. The smallest was 8 inches. The largest was 16 inches. All three did well.
Tim

Timgod · « **Reply #4 on:** January 22, 2007, 05:17:46 AM »

Here is a link to her site.
http://www.bonniesplants.com/Lotus1.html
It will save about a dollar over the ebay prices. That is how I bought mine. By the way, she evidently knows our own wonderful "Joyce".
Check out the whiskey barrel pics at the bottom of the lotus page.
Tim

tammie · « **Reply #5 on:** January 22, 2007, 07:38:47 AM »

Every plant I have ever gotten from Lawanna is alive, and thriving. Every plant I have ever gotten from Bonnie Hale is not.
Tammie

Timgod · « **Reply #6 on:** January 22, 2007, 07:55:17 AM »

Lawanna,
I might be interested in a few if you have extra to sell in March. I do like the prices you spoke of and wouldn't mind a few new varieties.
The ones I got from Bonnie were fine but I don't know if I was the exception or the rule. Perhaps Joyce will see this thread and give some more info as Bonnie indicates that they are friends.
Sorry you had a bad experience tammie dear.

Tim

tranquility · « **Reply #7 on:** January 27, 2007, 09:05:28 AM »

Tim I have never done business with Bonnie so I will not say either way....I have done tons of business with Tammie and her plants are top notch plants.......I will post what tubers I have here in early March after I get them all divided....
Lawanna

Bonnie · « **Reply #8 on:** January 29, 2007, 08:54:16 AM »

My suggestion..
If possible, purchase your plants from forum members.

Lawanna
Tammie
Lorenzo
Rebekah
Hobbyists such as Sean, etc which sell off extras....

happyoutsidegirl · « **Reply #9 on:** January 29, 2007, 04:11:48 PM »

Quote from: El Jefe on January 20, 2007, 06:04:27 PM

Tinkster, I went looking on the net and I found that this lady has 10 for sale for $15.98, worth looking into, (she sells the same plants on e-bay( http://cgi.ebay.com/Momo-Botan-dwarf-lotus-tuber-plant-double-flowers-NICE_W0QQitemZ160075809493QQihZ006QQcategoryZ43541QQcmdZViewItem )for $3.00 more each) so may as well save a little by using the LINK BELOW.... Andy
Momo Botan lotus http://www.google.com/base/a/1330018/D13341809094565077773

What a great place! I just spent most the afternoon in there browsing. I need lots of plants and don't have any water plants to trade but anyone that can beat Bonnies great prices I will gladly buy from. Lawanna has already beaten her on the momo Botan witch is on my lest. I also want some Chameleon, Lobelia Queen Victoria, And much more. Anyone with spair plants hardy down to zone5-6 feel free to pm me. I have a 16'x21' pond and not near enough plants.

Joyce · « **Reply #10 on:** January 30, 2007, 04:02:36 AM »

I'll have lots of Siberian Pink Cups later on this Spring.

happyoutsidegirl · « **Reply #11 on:** January 30, 2007, 04:28:56 AM »

;DI Last night I went to Lawanna's site,Wow she has lost of exelent buys.

,I'm so glad I found this thread.

Joyce, are they hardy to zone 5-6?

Joyce · « **Reply #12 on:** January 30, 2007, 09:57:26 AM »

Yup!

tinkster · « **Reply #13 on:** January 30, 2007, 05:27:01 PM »

thanks all! Great sites.. Lawanna I believe I bought two of you last year.. I get confused so many Things I got last year, but either way I would like to go with yours. I will definately want the momo and would love a yellow lotus also if any of those are yellow. I am hoping all my pinks survied the brutal transplant and then a brutally cold week this week.. the ones in the basement in tubs are not looking to good.

Joyce I would love to BUY from you in masses.. I am planning on giving away a several pots as gifts and I need them for myself and I dont like to wait ( I am learning a be patient really

) and I have so many areas I want them. So if after your done trading etc I would love to BUY, not just for postage since I am wanting big amounts, any you have left if not maybe tammie has bulk to sell??

tinkster

tranquility · « **Reply #14 on:** January 31, 2007, 02:41:46 AM »

Tink,
I will have momo botan...but, last year we had our goats get loose and they ate a bunch of my lotus tubers that were floating in barrels....My american Yellow and Perry's sunburst was included in their meal :'(.....So this year I will have to get me another yellow and red...as they also ate my unnamed red lotus too :'(.......If I get some this year...then I should have a few yellow and red by next spring....
Lawanna

Bonnie · « **Reply #15 on:** February 27, 2007, 05:20:38 PM »

Lawanna, are you taking orders yet?

tranquility · « **Reply #16 on:** February 27, 2007, 07:29:52 PM »

I will start dividing the lotus this weekend so I should have complete list of what and how many I'll have for sale early next week

Lawanna

marla · « **Reply #17 on:** February 28, 2007, 02:19:33 PM »

Quote from: tranquility on February 27, 2007, 07:29:52 PM

I will start dividing the lotus this weekend so I should have complete list of what and how many I'll have for sale early next week
Lawanna

Lawanna, visited your site, very well set up

. I have purchased online once and did not have great results(but I didn't research like I probably should have), I like the fact that you get such rave reviews here. How well do plants travel for a long distance, doesn't seem like I can find an online place close to home.

tranquility · « **Reply #18 on:** February 28, 2007, 04:18:01 PM »

Marla,
its all in the way that they are packed...and I ship all my plants priority....and if you have any questions on the best way to grow them...just ask...almost all aquatics have a water depth that they grow best in....just check on the depth and your usually o.k.....you would be suprised at how many pond plants are actually land plants that have been acclimated to water and then they change the name....for instance- money wort....If you buy it as an aquatic then it is called creeping jenny....also I send nice portions.... one of the reasons I started growing and selling aquatics is the puny portions I got when I ordered from some of the catalog nurseries.....and half of them wouldn't make it....I tooo only buy or trade with members on the forums....you get much better stock and if you have a question about something....you are much more likely to get the answer.....

Lawanna

marla · « **Reply #19 on:** February 28, 2007, 05:06:30 PM »

Lawanna, Thanks so much for your response. Yes the lilies I recieved last year were more like plantlets then tubers, really had to baby them and even then they didn't do to much. I love playing with dirt plants and seeing which grows well in the pond. Having high PH I've found even some aquatics tend not to like my pond. However my chocolate mint, that should be an annual here thrives in the pond and returns yearly. For quick color in the spring, I pop some violets in the rocks in the pond (after rinsing roots).

happyoutsidegirl · « **Reply #20 on:** February 28, 2007, 05:48:02 PM »

Marla, I love doing that too. Last year I was putting everything in the pond just to get more plants in there. I love it! So far the regular mint I put in the water along one edge is comming up and so is one of the ribbion grasses I put in. I can't wait to see what else is going to make it. Oh Ya the day lillie is comming up under the water!

happyoutsidegirl · « **Reply #21 on:** March 01, 2007, 09:40:40 AM »

Lawanna, I sent my order off last night

Did ya get it? I'm so excited

I wanted a bunch more but? :'(

tranquility · « **Reply #22 on:** March 01, 2007, 11:02:57 AM »

Debbie,
sent you an email this morning....
Lawanna

happyoutsidegirl · « **Reply #23 on:** March 02, 2007, 09:27:32 AM »

Thanks Lawanna got it. Oh I remembered something I learned on a different forum about discissing pot's in the pond! You take Silicone seal and put it on the out side of the pot then stick rocks on it. Let it set up for 24 hours and voila! We have lots of gravel with a bit bigger rocks mixed, oh a bit bigger than pea gravel, so I thought I would paint or smear the sealer on it then roll it in the gravel. Then place some rocks along the top lip of those Hospital tubs I told ya about. I have round ones and the oblong ones. How doese that sound? BTW do you have any of that lovlie Baby Doll Lotus? I have got to have one!

tranquility · « **Reply #24 on:** March 02, 2007, 10:32:01 AM »

so are you saying your gonna put rock on the outside of the pot to hide it? if so...just give it a few months inside the pond it will cover with algae...you really can't see the pots once they do that....but, if you want to do the rock around the pot I'm sure it wouldn't hurt....Sorry I don't have the baby doll yet...it is on my want list....I try to get a few more each year...I got several last year but, the goats got loose and into the pot that I had the tubers floating in and ate them

Lawanna

happyoutsidegirl · « **Reply #25 on:** March 02, 2007, 09:42:27 PM »

Yes that's why to descise it. Since they are blue or burnt orange they will stick out like a sore thumb. Oh wait? I know!!! Tomarrow I'll just put a big rock in them and stick them in now to start the process. Buy the time It's warm enough to plant they should be well on the way to green!

marla · « **Reply #26 on:** March 03, 2007, 08:00:57 AM »

Now that's thinking Deb.

happyoutsidegirl · « **Reply #27 on:** March 03, 2007, 08:11:02 AM »

Thanks Marla! The old gal still has a bit of ideas in her tired old brain

I thought these Bule round hosp. issue tubs would be perfect for my lillies.But man ugley

LeeAnne151 · « **Reply #28 on:** March 12, 2007, 11:30:40 AM »

Krylon makes spray paint now that works on plastic. Just spray them black and they won't show much. Easier than sticking on rocks to disguise them.

happyoutsidegirl · « **Reply #29 on:** March 15, 2007, 01:39:51 PM »

LeeAnne, now tha's using your head! Is it safe in the pond tho?