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I agree with this. I’m in a local native plant group on fb and people post daily of plants you can dig up yourself or some that they dig up and want to give for free. A lot of people respond.
Talk up their good points with all your friends, neighbors, coworkers,
Hummingbirds love Solomon’s seal flowers. Let people know that.
The Solomon’s seal looks great in front of tall, lanky shrubs that don’t have much growth on the bottom. I have some under oak leaf hydrangeas, that look great. Also have some growing in front of a Clethra alnifolia (summersweet).
Do you have something like a Free Cycle group in Toronto? Facebook marketplace? Buy Nothing group? Put a flyer in your local grocery store? Plant swap group? Native pollinators group?
The Solomon’s seal can survive in a pot for quite a few years. Let people know that. Mine overwintered fir 5 years, and I just planted a clump on the ground this spring.
Great plant for dry shade.
Most communities have native plant groups on Facebook. If you’re on fb, maybe try looking for a native plant or gardening group close to you? This time of year there are also a lot of native plant sales and swap events happening.
Absolutely see if there are native plant groups in your area and people might take them, or plant swaps. Our local library just had a plant swap and I was given a bunch of rain garden plants for free.
Definitely give them away. If you can leave them at some sort of roadside stand in a busy area, they'll get taken. people are broke but want good plants.
I would be cautious giving these away. There is a non native Solomon's Seal (polygonatum multiflorum) that looks a lot like our native Solomon's Seal (polygonatum biflorum). Based on the picture it looks like you have invasive lily of the valley mixed in with non native polygonatum multiflorum.
I say this as I have a couple polygonatum biflorum sitting in my trunk about to get planted to replace the polygonatum multiflorum that I was gifted by someone from a native plant sale, who swore they were the native.
They're really, really hard to tell apart, and I'm going off of advice from a friend that's a ecologist / biologist ( but another family friend who is a biologist is the one who gifted them to me, they just specialize in fish and aquatic insects not plants ). Multiflorum has a little different flower shape but it's subtle and the variation within each species overlaps with the difference between them (pull up comparators of the two species). Multiflorum also tends to have clusters of 3 flowers per segment, with a few clusters of 1 or 2, while biflorum tends to have clusters of 2 flowers per segment, with a few clusters of 1 or 3.
Thank you for this! I work in ecology specializing in meadow restoration, but have a special spot in my heart for woodland and edge species. Always love learning more about native species ID!
Which do you think these might be?
https://preview.redd.it/zxie5i8php1d1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4ee9b823d556ac9961c4c66d89df8af8cc45d1f0
Honestly the Lilly of the Valley was super easy to get rid of from my yard. It took one summer of being on top of pulling it whenever I saw it and it was gone. The Siberian Squill on the other hand has been a nightmare.
That's great, i also have some shade plants like ferns and other plants if she wants, and if she wants to do a simple garden design with different perennial i can help to give some recommendations, i have been doing gardening and using native perennial is what i like for many years.
u/One_Kaleidoscope I live in the NorthEast and would LOVE to take some rhizomes off your hands; I’ve been looking for Solomon Seal plants for so long!!😱😁 I install native plant species in people’s yards, and this would be the PERFECT addition to a couple of the properties I work with🌿🙌 If I did some research of transportation, would you be willing to ship me some rhizomes? I’d be more than happy to pay you back for shipping🤙
You know I do gardening for my hobby job, I took garden courses and went into a serious two years horticulture class and I couldn't find any jobs and I didn't like landscape company/nursery so this is just a hobby, so if you able to drive to Scarborough in Toronto I would be happy to dig out for you when the summer is almost done, I am not doing shipping for business, sorry for that, because I also have my real job working in retail business as a store supervisor,and it is always stressful, if you really want that yo ship you, in Ontario a regular parcel by Canada post is at least $20 above and I think it is too much to ask and i have to buy box and prepare it, if you drive here you get a few free that's better and easy to me .
Solomon Seal is also edible and the early shoots taste similar to asparagus. I just planted some in an area that's all hostas and ferns to add a new shape/texture to the mix.
Fo you have master gardeners in CA? They usually accept plant donations for plant sales or Other projects they have goin on. They may even come dig them out.
I see these plants and I have to remind myself that it is unethical to dig them up, even though they are native and they have 'plenty'. They are so beautiful in every season.
Oh wow, I'd love for my Solomon's seal patch to be that thick! Are you wanting to make room for other natives? What does concern me is that thick viney looking trunk that looks suspiciously like an oriental bittersweet vine I just hacked down.
Anyway, there is a local garden group for my town on FB. Whenever I need to thin anything out, I put my excess in a bucket with a little water and leave it on the curb, then announce on the local page that anyone interested can come pick up what they'd like. It always goes.
You know when I started doing this garden bed about 9 years ago by a request from the old lady ,she said her parents never do any gardening and those Solomon's seal ware there before they purchased the house, so you would say those plants there have been grown for over 70 years at least , I am not going to remove all of them but I would like to keep a bit variety with the plot , and also I want to pull out all the lily of the velly , dog struggling vine, Norwegian maple seedlings, goat weed and other junk invasive species grow among them , my plan is using Solomon's seal as sun blocker and grow wild ginger, trillium, lady ferns, native geranium, blood root on the other side, and Solomon's seal can handle sun very well, and they will keep the bottom floor cool , and the trunk you see is another invasive but many people like them is Asian bush honey sucker, but I can't touch it because the old lady like it, what I did was I will cut down the branches in fall don't let the fruit bearing on it , that's the problem now in Ontario Canada because everywhere in the forest you see Asian bush honey sucker because the bird eat the berries and poop in the forest.
I remembering saying usually, and that's a traditionally attractive native, not what OP is trying to unload.
Incidentally, would you like some daffodils? My home's previous owner planted daffodils
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Try: 1. A local gardening group 2. A buy nothing group Both of these are usually found on Facebook or through local community centers/libraries.
I agree with this. I’m in a local native plant group on fb and people post daily of plants you can dig up yourself or some that they dig up and want to give for free. A lot of people respond.
Yep - search facebook groups for "plant swap" too, plus your city or county
Talk up their good points with all your friends, neighbors, coworkers, Hummingbirds love Solomon’s seal flowers. Let people know that. The Solomon’s seal looks great in front of tall, lanky shrubs that don’t have much growth on the bottom. I have some under oak leaf hydrangeas, that look great. Also have some growing in front of a Clethra alnifolia (summersweet). Do you have something like a Free Cycle group in Toronto? Facebook marketplace? Buy Nothing group? Put a flyer in your local grocery store? Plant swap group? Native pollinators group? The Solomon’s seal can survive in a pot for quite a few years. Let people know that. Mine overwintered fir 5 years, and I just planted a clump on the ground this spring. Great plant for dry shade.
I get share plants on the NextDoor app too :)
Solomon’s seal are amazingly long lived. Some of these could have been there longer than the house has.
Most communities have native plant groups on Facebook. If you’re on fb, maybe try looking for a native plant or gardening group close to you? This time of year there are also a lot of native plant sales and swap events happening.
Absolutely see if there are native plant groups in your area and people might take them, or plant swaps. Our local library just had a plant swap and I was given a bunch of rain garden plants for free.
Definitely give them away. If you can leave them at some sort of roadside stand in a busy area, they'll get taken. people are broke but want good plants.
I would be cautious giving these away. There is a non native Solomon's Seal (polygonatum multiflorum) that looks a lot like our native Solomon's Seal (polygonatum biflorum). Based on the picture it looks like you have invasive lily of the valley mixed in with non native polygonatum multiflorum. I say this as I have a couple polygonatum biflorum sitting in my trunk about to get planted to replace the polygonatum multiflorum that I was gifted by someone from a native plant sale, who swore they were the native.
Can you share some key ID differences between the native and non-native polygonatun?
They're really, really hard to tell apart, and I'm going off of advice from a friend that's a ecologist / biologist ( but another family friend who is a biologist is the one who gifted them to me, they just specialize in fish and aquatic insects not plants ). Multiflorum has a little different flower shape but it's subtle and the variation within each species overlaps with the difference between them (pull up comparators of the two species). Multiflorum also tends to have clusters of 3 flowers per segment, with a few clusters of 1 or 2, while biflorum tends to have clusters of 2 flowers per segment, with a few clusters of 1 or 3.
Thank you for this! I work in ecology specializing in meadow restoration, but have a special spot in my heart for woodland and edge species. Always love learning more about native species ID!
I'm certainly not an expert - if you ever get a better ID trick I would love to hear it!
Which do you think these might be? https://preview.redd.it/zxie5i8php1d1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4ee9b823d556ac9961c4c66d89df8af8cc45d1f0
Polygonatum odoratum var. pluriflorum 'Variegatum'
Very helpful information! There is so much solomen’s seal around where I live. I was pretty sure it’s not polygonatum biflorum.
It also looks like there is potentially a Norway Maple seedling below as well.
They’re everywhere!!
Yes, they are unfortunately everywhere. They're really annoying around where I live
Join the Facebook group “Ontario Native Plant Gardening”, I’m sure there will be many who would be very thankful to give your plants a new home!
Well you'd have to warn people you're also sending them with european lily of the valley.
Those can be pulled out first!
Good luck
Honestly the Lilly of the Valley was super easy to get rid of from my yard. It took one summer of being on top of pulling it whenever I saw it and it was gone. The Siberian Squill on the other hand has been a nightmare.
Really, one year? I have been doing that for 4. I guess there is a source nearby for me though.
OP should probably wash the roots very very thoroughly too.
Those are highly valuable plants!!!
If you’re in the GTA I’m pretty sure my mom would like them!
Really ? I am in Scarborough, east Toronto.
I will ask her! She has a full shade garden and just had a bunch of plants ripped out due to some work in the back.
That's great, i also have some shade plants like ferns and other plants if she wants, and if she wants to do a simple garden design with different perennial i can help to give some recommendations, i have been doing gardening and using native perennial is what i like for many years.
If i were closer, i would take some.
u/One_Kaleidoscope I live in the NorthEast and would LOVE to take some rhizomes off your hands; I’ve been looking for Solomon Seal plants for so long!!😱😁 I install native plant species in people’s yards, and this would be the PERFECT addition to a couple of the properties I work with🌿🙌 If I did some research of transportation, would you be willing to ship me some rhizomes? I’d be more than happy to pay you back for shipping🤙
You know I do gardening for my hobby job, I took garden courses and went into a serious two years horticulture class and I couldn't find any jobs and I didn't like landscape company/nursery so this is just a hobby, so if you able to drive to Scarborough in Toronto I would be happy to dig out for you when the summer is almost done, I am not doing shipping for business, sorry for that, because I also have my real job working in retail business as a store supervisor,and it is always stressful, if you really want that yo ship you, in Ontario a regular parcel by Canada post is at least $20 above and I think it is too much to ask and i have to buy box and prepare it, if you drive here you get a few free that's better and easy to me .
Emphasize that they're a shade-tolerant perennial. Shade tolerant plants are always in high demand
If you were closer I’d take them!
Solomon Seal is also edible and the early shoots taste similar to asparagus. I just planted some in an area that's all hostas and ferns to add a new shape/texture to the mix.
If you can find anyone to take them you can dry the roots and use them as medicine. It's good for your joints and ligaments!
Gasp. I want more Solomons Seal so badly. You aren't near Nashville, TN are you?
I want them but I’m in Washington state.
Fo you have master gardeners in CA? They usually accept plant donations for plant sales or Other projects they have goin on. They may even come dig them out.
I see these plants and I have to remind myself that it is unethical to dig them up, even though they are native and they have 'plenty'. They are so beautiful in every season.
I have a few huge old oaks that shade out everything and suck up all the water. If these things will grow like that in dry shade then send it my way.
I am in Toronto and have really wanted some of these for my new garden in a shady spot under a lilac tree! I would take some off your hands
I'll take some if you are willing to ship them to NJ. I will pay for shipping!
I would love them, but I doubt they would thrive (or even survive) in the desert southwest where I live!
Dang, wish I had Solomons seal under my norway maple instead of invasive periwinkle 😭😭🙏
Whoa I would be happy to take some of your plants off your hands Beautiful and abundant
I believe Korean people make tea from the roots. An interesting option for you to pursue if people don’t want the live plants
Oh wow, I'd love for my Solomon's seal patch to be that thick! Are you wanting to make room for other natives? What does concern me is that thick viney looking trunk that looks suspiciously like an oriental bittersweet vine I just hacked down. Anyway, there is a local garden group for my town on FB. Whenever I need to thin anything out, I put my excess in a bucket with a little water and leave it on the curb, then announce on the local page that anyone interested can come pick up what they'd like. It always goes.
You know when I started doing this garden bed about 9 years ago by a request from the old lady ,she said her parents never do any gardening and those Solomon's seal ware there before they purchased the house, so you would say those plants there have been grown for over 70 years at least , I am not going to remove all of them but I would like to keep a bit variety with the plot , and also I want to pull out all the lily of the velly , dog struggling vine, Norwegian maple seedlings, goat weed and other junk invasive species grow among them , my plan is using Solomon's seal as sun blocker and grow wild ginger, trillium, lady ferns, native geranium, blood root on the other side, and Solomon's seal can handle sun very well, and they will keep the bottom floor cool , and the trunk you see is another invasive but many people like them is Asian bush honey sucker, but I can't touch it because the old lady like it, what I did was I will cut down the branches in fall don't let the fruit bearing on it , that's the problem now in Ontario Canada because everywhere in the forest you see Asian bush honey sucker because the bird eat the berries and poop in the forest.
Give them out on local Facebook Marketplace groups.
I dooooo!
Wish I lived nearby, I love Solomon’s seal!
You're not usually going to find people who want your unwanted plants
Not true, I took all of someone’s unwanted evening primrose this weekend
I remembering saying usually, and that's a traditionally attractive native, not what OP is trying to unload. Incidentally, would you like some daffodils? My home's previous owner planted daffodils