Amy you are the WINNER! Congratulations

Dan can you trade a bulb of your starship enterprise or anvil of darkness? If you have both for trade I will post another nice iris I can trade as well.

BINGO TIME:

Garden Tools

Furniture

Ladies Clothes

Yard Sale

Surely someone has it, the first caller wins.

Bingo

Congratulations, Connie and Amy!

Shirley, I can swap both Starship Enterprise and Anvil of Darkness! Sounds good to me!

Connie, Yeah you BINGO WINNER......

Dan I will check the irises this afternoon.

Off to Work, everyone have a fantastic day...it's raining. We are so dry here we really need this rain.

Shirley, OH WOW! That is wonderful, That iris is so beautiful! Thank you so much!

Shirley, do you have any solid white irises? I'd like to try crossing a solid white iris with Anvil of Darkness and see what happens. If not, that's fine. I'm sure you'll find something I've just got to have...lol!!

Dan I will get up a list and you can decide which ones you want to trade for.

Awesome! Thanks!!!

Dan, your package is on the way. 9505513908466176001851

Good to know Connie, I'll be ready to get that rose in the ground. I'm looking forward to it!

I had Bingo, too, but shame on me for not checking in sooner. Congratulations, Connie and Amy.

103 degrees here as well. However, our humidity is not as bad as usual so it's fine for me - not so fine for the plants. They are looking for more and more water. Have a good weekend, everyone, and stay cool!

Jeanne

Shirley, Has your box gotten there yet? When I checked it said delivered and I am hoping it went to the right house!

Tammy, Thank you so much for my wonderful yard sale box. I love it all and especially all your special recipes. I can't wait to make them! The solar lamp is beautiful, what a clever idea! The aloe, Christmas cactus and succulent all made the trip fine even with all this heat. Thank you for the all the great seeds and vista gladiolus. The lady bug flag and flower lights will be so pretty on my porch and thank you for the candy, skittle candle and calendar planner! I am super excited with my box! Thank you again so much!!!

Hope all are safe whether it is flood or fire. We are just hot. The tree lilies are blooming. But I am to worn out from auction today to walk out. Maybe tomorrow night. Everyones boxes are great. And Bngo has finished up. Yea -- Connie. On to another month. Thanks Shirley for a fun June.

Annie ...I know Im a day late ... but wishing you a FUN and wonderful birthday weekend! We have just been super busy busy busy ... havent even had the time to get any photos all month. Cant believe July 4th weekend is next weekend already ...time is going fast!

Happy Birthday Annie! Hope you had a wonderful Birthday!

well, if we've got a birthday among us, we need a birthday cake! how about one made of dark chocolate, milk chocolate, and white chocolate? here ya go, Happy Birthday Annie!

Goodness Amy-I received my wonderful box and kept thinking I would like to get a picture before I posted it but never got it done. Ten licks for me. I hope to plant my plants when the sun goes down, it is so hot with the sun still up I don't dare attempt it. Thank You so much and I plan to try all my teas and relax while looking at my magazines.

Dan - Connie's (Sent)

Nicole - Shirley's

Shirley - Amy's (Sent/Rec)

Nikki - Dan's (Sent/Rec)

Tammy - Emily's (Sent/ Rec)

Amy - Tammy's (Sent/Rec)

Emily - Erica's (Sent/Rec)

Susan - Nicole's (Sent/Rec)

Connie - Susan's (Sent/Rec)

Erica - Amber's

Amber - Nikki's (Sent/Rec)

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I plan to dig all plants going to Game Winners and mail this coming week. Nicole I will send your yard sale box along with your wins.

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DL Frim Fram Sauce- (Nicole)

Iris Cabaret Royale - (Susan) (First one to post during Yard Sale Morning)

DL Baby Tiger Paws - (Nicole)

DL Double Bold One - (Dan)

Iris Devils Riot - (Amy)

Iris Thorn Bird - (Connie) BINGO WINNER

Dan I have these irises to choose from:

Blue Eyed Susan

Caption

Cabaret Royale

Mohawk Brave

Passing Cloud

Puccini

Ring Around Rosie

Spinning Wheel

Summer Olympics

Thornbird

I just looked up thornbird iris; it's gorgeous. Never grew bearded iris before but I'm looking forward to trying.

Some garden blooms from this evening:

Erica, Beautiful blooms!

Shirley, Shirley, Shirley! Do you know what you've done to me? I'm a huge iris fanatic, and now you're asking me to choose...lol! I've looked at them all and I'm torn between Mohawk Brave and Puccini. Can I interest you in a third rhizome? Lol, ah, such choices to make! It's a difficult life, isn't it?

Erica, thank you for sharing those pics! They're beautiful!

And now I'm going to take a moment to rejoice and brag a little. A little over 7 years ago I was leafing through my seed catalogs and discovered an apple called Pixie Crunch. They are supposed to be even sweeter than Honey Crisp apples, so I decided to purchase one. Over the years I've made all sorts of mistakes with my fruit trees and learned a lot along the way. As a result, I now have 2 Pixie Crunch trees, and 2 Honey Crisp, which are needed to cross-pollinate one another to produce fruit. I've gone through deer, frost, years of no pollination, and anything else which might beset a fruit tree grower, and this year only one blossom showed up, so I gave up on this year. Well, lo and behold, I now have an apple growing and yes, it's on a Pixie Crunch apple tree! I'll finally get to taste this type of apple, if the deer or birds don't whisk it away from me. I'm hoping! Keep your fingers crossed for me, this is the closest I've come yet!

Dan-You have the same problem I have...the birds always devour my cherries and grapes, so frustrating. Yes we can trade as many iris as you like. I have all my bearded irises planted at our Church. They grow like crazy there, must love the soil better than mine, it's really sandy. Then on the other hand daylilies do not like it. They just sit there and don't multiply at all. I can trade any of the irises I listed the clumps are huge so just let me know which ones you can trade.

Connie-Thornbird is one of my favorite irises, it is a space age iris and I love the colors.

Erica-Beautiful blooms, thanks for sharing.

Daylily "Wild Horses

Westbourne 'Little Lamb'

Red Eyed Fantasy

Woman At The Well

Jayeanne-Happy Belated Birthday (June 3rd)

Annie-Happy Belated Birthday (June 24th)

Sorry I didn't post these at the beginning of the June swap. A little something headed your way.

Shirley, I can trade any of these...

Let me know which ones you'd like to trade for, okay?

And if anyone else would like to trade some irises, let me know what you like and I'll let you know if I've got enough to trade after Shirley and I finish our trade.

Such beautiful pictures from everyone! Thanks all for sharing. :)

Anyone growing tomatoes? I have a problem with my red cherry size tomatoes.

The tomatoes look good but when I bite into them, they are bit dry/mushy. I don't know if the words dry and mushy can be used together but that's how it tastes to me :(

Am I over watering?

Oh wow, Connie's box arrived today! Not only did it include a sprouting elephant ear bulb, succulents, and that climbing rose I wanted, she include 6 PEZ dispensers, literal "handful" of sweet-n-low (that was funny!), 2 shell-shaped candle holders (already in my ocean-themed bathroom), a headband, a box of crystal light (YUM!), and a windchime made of shells! I loved it Connie! Many thanks for it all!!!

Dan, I'm glad you could use so many of the items. Sounds like that box was meant for you

I collect windchimes, love ocean-related items like the sea shell candle motives, and the plants were right up my alley. When I saw what the rose looked like, I knew I had to have it. It was a great box for me! Thanks again!

I will be posting the OBF July swap later today when get off work. Hope everyone is enjoying their summer. I have enjoyed seeing all the beautiful flowers. We have some great gardeners here.

I just cut the last cucumber I grew last year. Just left it on the counter, planned to dry the seed, then I wanted to see how long it would last. There were two and the other one started spoiling so I decided it was time to remove seed from this one, they had sprouted inside so I planted them, and made this delightful cucumber salad.

Fyi: It doesn't taste as good as a freshly picked cucumber but I didn't have to can or refrigerate it, and I am eating a cucumber salad one year after harvest. YES!

Sorry I've been so absent lately everyone, I did send out your package Erica I believe it was Wednesday I will give u tracking as soon as I get home tonight, it may be late when i get off e but I'll get it to you. I think I'm doing something wrong with sending because I was sending boxes for $6.00-8.00 just this envelope was $13& change and it wasn't even theovernight. I'm not sure, maybe I'm doing something wrong. Bt never the less it's on the way. I hope everyone is doing good and enjoying their new treasures

Amber

Oh Erica your picture post from last saturday....I just saw it, is the purple one a dahlia? If so do you know the name of it? I'm trying to learn as many of them as I can for next year I'm going to plant a whole dahlia and lilly garden, they have become my two favorite. Thanks, amber

Amber -- Thanks for letting me know you got my pack shipped. I was actually thinking I needed to message you since I hadn't received it yet. Glad I checked here first.

The purple dahlia, in my picture, is Frizzle Sizzle.

As far as shipping, I'd recommend ordering some flat rate bubble envelopes from the PO. They don't stock them in the post offices, so you do have to order them, but they are free to order. They cost $7 to ship and come with tracking, so often they are a better option than reg shipping. Flat Rate Bubble Envelope

Dan - Connie's (Sent)

Nicole - Shirley's

Shirley - Amy's (Sent/Rec)

Nikki - Dan's (Sent/Rec)

Tammy - Emily's (Sent/ Rec)

Amy - Tammy's (Sent/Rec)

Emily - Erica's (Sent/Rec)

Susan - Nicole's (Sent/Rec)

Connie - Susan's (Sent/Rec)

Erica - Amber's

Amber - Nikki's (Sent/Rec)

OK Erica and Nicole are the only two from this swap who have not received and I am sending Nicole's tomorrow for sure along with all the prizes. This July 4th holiday has been super busy with our plant business but that is a good thing.

Dan I would like these 4 irises:

Anvil of Darkness

Starship Enterprise

Edith Keeler

Your crossbreed

Let me know which 4 you want from my list.

Shirley

Lisa, which crossbreed are you talking about? I have two, Edith Keeler, and the one I'm calling Mardi Gras Ribbons. I want to make sure I send you the right one. Here are pictures of both...

I'll take another look at your list once I know if you want 3 or 4 irises it total. Thanks for trading with me!

Yes both of those for a total of 4

Thanks

Shirley

Shirley, that's great! I like knowing my bred irises are finding new homes and spreading out beyond my yard...lol! I went back through your list, and would like these 4:

Caption

Cabaret Royale

Ring Around Rosie

Spinning Wheel

They'll all do great in my yard, and will bring great genes into the pool!

HAVE A HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY EVERYONE!!!

Amber -- Your box arrived today. Thank you so much!

Yeah I have 3 delivery confirmations.

Nicole - 9505 5161 4748 6188 0053 62

Connie- 9500 1161 4746 6187 0045 18

Susan - 9500 1161 4746 6187 0045 25

Others to follow

Dan - Connie's (Sent/Rec)

Nicole - Shirley's (Sent)

Shirley - Amy's (Sent/Rec)

Nikki - Dan's (Sent/Rec)

Tammy - Emily's (Sent/ Rec)

Amy - Tammy's (Sent/Rec)

Emily - Erica's (Sent/Rec)

Susan - Nicole's (Sent/Rec)

Connie - Susan's (Sent/Rec)

Erica - Amber's (Sent/Rec)

Amber - Nikki's (Sent/Rec)

When Nicole receives hers this June Yard Sale will officially be complete.

Thanks to everyone for a fun June swap.

I received my beautiful thornbird iris tuber today

brittneysgran ~ Happy Friday!! thank you for the lovely box of yard sale items. I so enjoyed opening happy mail. The bird magazines, I am looking forward to reading since I have a bird feeder in the front of my place. I only wished I had more colorful birds that would visit my place :)

Thank you for all the lovely goodies and so excited to plant them and watch them grow. I hope to treat them well because I know they came from a loving home. Thank YOU again for the prizes and the lovely box. I so appreciate your time in digging them out and packaging them to send to me.

Take care!!!

Lisa! The iris is not only here, but planted and resting from his trip... thank you very much!!!

Shirley, Thank you so much for the beautiful prize iris! I am so excited and can't wait to see it bloom! Take care! Amy

Wonderful...everyone has received their box.

On to MNF July yard sales

Shirley

Shirley just wanted you to see salmon star.

Amber this is a dinner plate dahlia. Kevin floodgate always a stand out

Susan - Your Salmon Star is gorgeous and also your dahlia.