Plantermunn,

It sounds like a wonderful plan.

I think mid- to late-April would be perfect.

Your wife is an angel for offering to host it too.

I agree, the pot luck is the SECOND best part, next to meeting and greeting all our Oklahoma gardening friends.

I'll bring stuff to swap, and probably can round up a couple of door prizes too.

Keep us posted on the plans and let us know what you need for us to do.

Dawn

OHHHHH YES YES YES!! I have no idea what I'll be bringing, but I will definately be there! I can work up door prize!

Another reason to look forward to spring!!

Plantermum... the sedum has done AMAZING this year, all I had to do was keep the termites from eating them!

Courtney

I picked up a few more sedum's this year. Two were called blue spruce sedum. One grows in a low mound. The other sticks up like little Christmas trees.

Then I have a yellow leaved one that grows almost flat to the ground. 'Ogon' (Sedum makinoi)

Then I got another Autumn Joy seedum. It has bigger flowers than my old one and they still look kind of pink. I may take a couple of starts from it after all the blooms open. I started a whole tray of the other one and a few pots of some of the low growers and the creepers.

Plantermunn,

Where do you live? I'd be interested in meeting folks, and would be able to do some swapping. But the schedule, here is usually very tight and trying to work something out between mine and my wife's is often really hardcolor >!

George

What if...you're not sure you'd have much of anything to swap (ideas welcomed, though), BUT...you'd love to come listen and meet people?
I think I'd fall in that category :)

George
I live near Wellston. But all the swaps I have been to were held in OKC. It is Kind of central to most of us.

Shankins

Mostly it is good food and visiting and an excuse for some to go into town.

Maybe you could take a rose cutting and put it under a jar. If it has roots in the spring you have a trade. You may have an iris that someone would like or a daylily cannas too. I have red cannas and would like a yellow one.We have even been known to swap a few house plants. Herbs too.

Some people even swap a few seeds. Then almost everybody has too mutch of one thing or another at the end.

If you have anything you could grow a plant in you could grow a plant in someone may like to swap for it. Especially if someone has a Hill Billy Eclectic style garden.

Mostly people bring what grows well for them. I have brought sedum every year and been able to round up a couple of other things.

I am always looking for small pots. Four to six inch size. I like to start little plants and gift them out. I am looking for blue and red bottles too. I want to make a bottle tree.

Sharon,

Oh, honey, the absolute VERY BEST PART of the swap has nothing to do with plants, but instead with meeting everyone and renewing friendships and talking and laughing and sharing and just being able to put a face with the names we see on the computer! The food is important too! Usually, in the days after the swap, messages appear asking for recipes of various items that were brought to the swap! (Gardeners can really cook too!!!!) I haven't made it to a swap since '06, I think, cause DS was graduating from the Fire Academy on the weekend of the swap in '07, and I have really missed seeing everyone.

For a lot of us, it doesn't matter if you bring a single plant or seed to "swap".....just bring yourself!!! Those who do have plants to share always have too many, so it doesn't matter if gardeners with less-well-established gardens have anything to swap this time or not. We know that in future years as new yards and gardens progress, those gardeners will have stuff to share. It all evens out over the years.

There's usually door prizes, too, which can be ANYTHING related to gardening. At the last swap I attended, I brought home a gorgeous decorated birdhouse made from a birdhouse gourd!

Terrence,

I like the term "Hill Billy Ecletic Style garden". heehee I think that describes MY garden perfectly. Someone (from the Tax Assessor's Office) who saw our garden at its' blooming peak in late spring or very early summer told me I had a "perfectly beautiful garden" and I had to tell her that by the end of the summer it was always a "perfectly wild jungle full of snakes". Next time, I think I WILL describe it as a Hill Billy Eclectic Style garden with snakes. Perfect description!

I am SO looking forward to a spring swap!

Dawn

Just bumping this up...