i am in! have plenty of bulbs left over.....come on yall! betty sue

count me in clay_lady

just bumpin this up so we can get some more players (I hope!)

Hi,

I would like to join in. Do we have any say in what we want to get?

Hema

bump bump

This will be my first swap but I have ordered some summer bulbs that should be here in a another couple of days and I would love swap so as to maybe try some different things than I ordered. Please be patient with me in explaining how I proceed. And for a first question, what is bump bump?

Leslie

I would like to join

I have a few to spare that I haven't planted yet.Only I'd want certain ones because crinum will take over your whole living room during the winter.lol.I need a conservatory,that's only if I win the lottery and that's not going to hapeen,I don't waste my money on it.
I did one last fall I think worked very well,it cost me about $12 total in extra postage,but I think everyone liked it.Jody

Can send Apaganthus bulb (Lily Of The Nile) or possibly amaryllis bulb. Will you have something to trade me that will do well in Zone 9?
Licia (Lisha)

Okay, need just one more participant and we will have the 8 people required for the swap!

Count me in (such a tempting email). lol What do I need to do?

Leona

Hi all, we have the 8 participants needed so let's start the swap! Pack your bulbs, if dormant you can send them wrapped in dry crinkled newspaper or bubble wrap. If they are a little bit sprouted then wrap them in sphagnum moss or peat moss or (last resort) shredded newspaper. Moisten packing material till it is as wet as a wrung out sponge, put material and bulbs in a Ziploc bag.

Put bulbs in box or large bubble envelopes- you can send several envelopes/boxes if you need to. Put GW B Swap on the outside of your package or envelope. (don't put Bulb Swap; I live in CA and they occasionally confiscate, bulb shipments that are labeled as such.) Unlabeled,bulbs get to me fine!

Please put a return address label (preferably the sticky backed kind) in the package. Include at least as much postage as it cost to send your package. If your package weighs less than 2 lbs because you sent teeny bulbs please include about $3 additional return postage in case I have to send you bigger bulbs back.

Include a list of what you sent me and a wishlist (bulbs you would prefer to get, or would prefer not to get.) That way I have some idea of what to give you, provided of course that anyone sends that in.

Email me for the address to send bulbs to. I am NOT gonna post my home addy here in this forum; made that mistake about a year ago and got inundated with junk mail and spam!

Thanks very much to each of you for participating.
Happy Swapping!

Oh yes, for those of you who have small (under 2 lb.) packages and send the $3 extra postage, I will return to you any unused postage when I ship your bulbs back.
I am not trying to profit, just don't want to get stuck with the bill from insufficient postage to return bulbs.

Thanks.

This swap shall now begin! Let me know if the email I sent with my addy and other details did not reach you.

i got the info! looking forward to it!!thanks again!!betty sue ...

I am overwhelmed with swaps and will be late getting mine in sorry carol

Leslie/ Goldylocks
"bumping" is just posting to get the thread/subject bumped up so it won't disappear to the second, third etc pages on Garden Web. Each time a post comes in under a certain subject, that subject is bumped toward the top of the first page (newest posts listed first.)

I think I actually read in the GWeb rules that it is frowned upon, but not strictly enforced or harshly punished by Spike the great cyber guru who monitors the place.

Have fun in your swap ladies!