Do people still do plant exchanges here?

16 years ago

I have a new set of plants to exchange and I am wondering how active this site is these days. I am writing about it in this section, because I don't know how many people still bother to look at the Exchange section for this forum. No one ever responded to the messages I posted there years ago.

I have a lot of:

* Lemon balm

* Aegopodium podagraria 'Variegatum' (a.k.a. Snow on the Mountain/Bishop's Weed/Goutweed, see below)

* Phalaris (tall bi-colored grass)

* Perilla

* Lysimachia clethroides (white)

* Burgundy daylilies with yellow centers. Name??

* Dicentra Formosa (a.k.a. Small Bleeding Hearts)

* Tall pink phlox

* Several kinds of tall & medium high fall asters, lavender colored

* Wisteria

* Purple Loosestrife

* Two large potted forsythia

* Orange Campsis (trumpet vine)

Basically, I am looking for blue and white perennials as well as aquatic plants. Specifically, I am looking for:

# blue lacecap hydrangeas

# blue water lilies

# blue lotuses

# camellias

# nigella

# verbascum

# hellebororous

# hardy sedum

# Woolly Thyme

# Vinca minor 'Ralph Shugert'

# Hens and Chicks

# White digitalis

Because I am not comfortable putting plants in the mail, I would like to meet people for exchanges. I live near the Brooklyn Museum and I would be happy to meet anyone anywhere in Manhattan or Brownstone Brooklyn for plant exchange. I just finally finished building my pond and am ready for plants.

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Comments (3)

gee_oh_nyc
16 years ago
Yes, we still do! I have done 4 exchanges on here in the last 2 years and all have been very positive.
Until you mentioned it, I never even noticed the "exchange" tab at the top of the forum page. I guess I am just used to the messages here. But I've had some very good exchanges from this forum and from good traders.
I have some great blue lobelia (my favorite new perennial) but it is still blooming and would be better to trade when the stalks go down and the plant forms its basal crown in the fall. I also have some Geranium pyrenaicum... a sprawling hardy Geranium with white flowers throughout the growing season, ...again these would all be better to trade in the fall. I also have some nigella seeds ... of course they are annuals but as I'm sure you know, readily re-seeding annuals. If those are fair game for you, then I will have some seeds for blue and white Mt. Fuji morning glories as well.
I would be interested in your burgungy daylilies.
Any thoughts?
Let me know
George
brooklyn.gardener
Original Author
16 years ago
Great to hear from you George. I just saw the list of plants you have and I am sure we can make great trades in the fall. I am looking forward to it.

Where do you live in NYC? I am near the Brooklyn Museum.

Roslyn
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gee_oh_nyc
16 years ago
Hi Roslyn,
I have just tried to post but got redirected to an ad for pullovers... uggh, webtrafficking. It looks like it did not get posted so I am re-sending.
I saw your other thread about organizing a larger exchange for the fall. Hopefully I will be there (unless work prevents me-- sometimes I teach on week ends too)
If not we can organize an informal exchange for the plants.
I am in Manhattan near the 8th Ave/14th St subway station but I have participated in exchanges both in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
We can work out the details as fall approaches.

George