I'm not being critical, just practical, but maybe this would be better on the exchanges page. Otherwise, we'll all be typing it twice when we start the swap thread. Which will probably happen soon anyhow, if past experience is anything to go by. LOL. We're a bunch of greedy gusses. And you're so right- it does help in the long dark days of winter.

I think we are as much greedy gusses as we are giving gusses. Give some, get some. I love the swaps - I can share my excess and get something someone else has in excess that I don't. Some of the plants I got at the first swaps I went to are now excess in my garden!

You know, after swapping and swapping we probably have all the same identical gardens!! LOL

Nancy the nancedar

I know I'm going to be bring some green hawthorns, maybe parsley leaf hawthorns too if they germinate. Otherwise I'm not sure what else I will bring yet. Mostly I wait and hear what other people want and if I have that I'll divide it.

Someone typically starts a thread in the Exchanges Section a couple months before the swap. Usually there ends up being 2 threads, actually, each with a limit of 150 replies, most of it special trades between individuals. The special trades eliminates rushing and grabbing for plants and knocking each other down, lol.

or 3 or 4... LOL. yeah- i should have said, everyone is super generous. i think it's part of the nature of most gardeners. nan- you may be right- we probably all have some similar stuff, but there's so much variety and varied interests, i'm sure everyone's is uniquely theirs.

I was thinking of not doing special trades this time - YEAH RIGHT

I still owe rooted fuchsia cuttings and some LoveChild I think. My cuttings were pitiful last swap, because of the drought. My goal is to bring bigger plants this spring.