Awesome, Greg -- I'll try to grab some, then!

tomatoz1, I have some English Lavender starts that I started from seed this year and is about 2" tall... wasn't planning to bring any, but I'd be happy to repot a few for you if you'd like. Is that too small for you?

Oladon, nothing is too small! Thank you so much! I've had these lavender for so many years and I guess the voles knew it was time to replace them! I was devastated when the plants just “pulled out with no roots!” I appreciate you responding so quickly.

I'm not asking for dibs on anything, but I thought I'd mention my interests, since I've been potting things up over the last week and keep wondering how much to bring of what.

Popmama, your purple mountain sun daisy is first on my list.

Gardenchloe, if you ended up with any leftover penstemon, I'd love some.

Lizbest, I'd love some Husker's Red Penstemon, if it's still available.

Faith, I'd love some red hot poker.

I am so sorry but I'm not going to be able to come after all, unplanned trip out to see our daughter next weekend for a work function she put together. I will double my efforts for the fall trade, promise!

I don't know if anyone is interested, but I just transplanted the tomatoes I am going to keep and have lots left over. The are growing in Diatomaceous Earth granules, each with about 3 small plants per variety. If you happen to be interested, please PM me and we can figure out something. I have 15 heirloom larger tomatoes, 3 Dwarf, and 1 cherry.

Would love a larger tomato plant and a cherry.

Hi Tomatoz, I’d love a few tomato plants. Any varieties as long as they’re indeterminate (not dwarf). Thx!

Hello everyone,

I'm late to the plant thread party this year!

I do have a few things potted up to share and wanted to do a few more yesterday, but the rain changed that idea. Here's some of what I'm bringing so far:

Some strawberries

Chocolate nigella (a self seeding white with brown annual.)

A small lilac bush

Pink yarrow

Some small extra tomatoes. Not sure what yet. My neighbor has been babysitting some of my extras under his light since mine is full!

If anyone is interested I can bring oregano, Becky daisies and Skybirds never say die purple asters. The asters are my bees and butterflies absolute favorite plant in the fall!

If anyone would like to set some aside for me, I am interested in:

Sweet woodruff

Herbs: basil, parsley, dill, lavendar. Somehow I killed all of my starts.

Raspberries. I am putting in a row. I have 2 and would love 2 or 3 more.

Jalopena peppers

Eggplants

Aloe vera

Thanks everyone. See you soon!

Cat

I was going to dig up my Shasta Daisy to divide and will have a ton. Let me know how much you'd like if anyone want some.

I also have May Night Salvia

Red Blood Sedum

Blue Spruce Sedum

I have several unamed daylilies. I think they are orange, but they are out of sight when blooming so I can't say for sure.

All, my cuttings were completely unsuccessful. Blame it on the fact that wind storm blew them all over the place. I was hoping I'd see some of the Purple Mountain and Avalanche mountain daisy at the HS plant sale, but they had no perennials this year (sadface). So I have none to share at this time. Also, I just found out that I am going to have to work on Saturday, so I won't be able to attend. Maybe in the Fall.

I do owe some of those patty pan seeds to a couple of you. If you want to send me a message, I could put them in the mail or you could stop by another time to pick them up. I can always put them outside on my bench and you can pick up at your convenience.

I got my extra tomato babies back from my neighbor. He did a great job plant sitting! I will bring 1-3 of these varieties:

Brandywine

Black cherries

Sweetie cherries

Beefsteak

Yellow pear

Lg black heirloom

4th of July

Some of them are pretty small still, but I'm bringing them anyway!

-Cat

Cat, I'd be glad to cover the raspberries for you. If you are interested in more than "2 or 3", I can cover that, too. Mine are running well beyond the space I've decided is their domain, so I'm thinning them anyway. I'll also be bringing lots of Sweet Woodruff. It got a little (ok, a lot) carried away, so I'm going to pull it all and start over. Aloha wants a bunch, but there'll be more than enough to share.

Aloha, I'd love some May Night Salvia. It's not an official "dib", but just to give you an idea of who is interested in what. Thanks!

Since popmama will be unable to bring her pattypan squash seeds, I looked for some seeds from last year and will bring both green and yellow, if anyone is still interested. I'll also bring 2-3 each of my smaller tomato plants:

Pink Pioneer

Brutus (red)

Olive Hill (pink)

Owen's Purple (black/purple)

Dikaya Roza (pink)

German Queen (pink)

Gardener's Sweetheart (red cherry) (I have 5-6 of this one)

We are bringing:

Chives - 4 plants, These have pretty purple flowers but they will seed your area so if you don't want more chive plants then you need to take off and eat the flowers. OK, you don't have to eat them but apparently you can. They were dug up today but we have given away chive plants before and they seem really hardy so they should be OK. To whomever takes the one in the yellow bucket that we duct taped the bottom of, be aware the bucket is cracked. We apologize for this but didn't have a container big enough for it. We can bring more chives if there is interest. Please let us know

Catnip - 3 plants. For those with cats.

Purple (likely) aster - 1. This aster is probably purple. There is a small chance it is white and a smaller chance it is pink. But it is likely purple.

Generic purple salvia - 1. This flowers beautifully and for us it spreads all over the bed. Comes back every year. We have a ton growing in the lawn so if more than one person wants this we could dig up some more.

Purple broom - 2 root systems in one container. This looks very poor at the moment as it just came up. We had put these in a hot area and they have really struggled. I was actually surprised they came back this year as they were cut back for dead last year. They have pretty purple blooms in the spring but just don't do well where we put them. They are supposed to look like this.

http://www.thetreefarm.com/broom-purple

What we would like:

Ice plants of any color. Low growing white and purple especially.

Rock roses.

Tomatoes.

Zucchini.

Pumpkin.

I may try a shasta daisy or two (or 3) in my garden bed.

Skybird,

I just looked up your Geranium dalmaticum and I think I will try to get my hands on some during the swap. It looks really interesting. What type of area have you had success with it in? I'm wondering if it would do well as an under plant to my aster.

Anyone have any Hydrangeas they want to get rid of?

Y'all I'm moving out of state!! I have

-tons of seeds, flowers & veggies

-tons of Cannas

-houseplants, pothos, orchids, lots of Christmas cactus, a large sanseveria (mother-in-law tongue), asparagus fern, Swedish ivy

-geraniums, violet, white and orange-red

-hen and chicks

-sedum

-iris (potted, lots-named with tags)

-seacretia (sp?) Purple

-tons of cold treated spring bulbs

-Lots of big nursery pots(let me know if you want these, lots at my house in Thornton)

Maybe some huge elephant ears bulbs(loading up the car checking stock)

Dahlias

cocrazywoman, don't leave us!

If you must leave, I'd love to "help you out" with any of the following:

- flower & veggie seeds
- Sanseviera, Christmas cactus, orchids
- secretia (sounds interesting!)
- spring bulbs

Thank you!

Colorado is losing a beautiful gardener.

Wow, you certainly have a LOT of plants! I would love to help you get rid of some large nursery pots, and I can't wait to see so many of your plants! Thank you for sharing them with all of us. You are very generous.

I'm bringing a scarlet oak seedling, a Clemons oak seedling, a Crimson spire oak seedling and a Corkbark fir seedling.

2 penstemon strictus, 1 pot of mint, 1 anemone sylvestris, 1 variegated Solomon's seal and 1 Wave petunia (multicolored).

2 Golden sweet Marconi peppers, 1 red Marconi pepper, 1 Gary O'Senna tomato, 1 San Marzano tomato, 1 Chocolate Drop tomato and 1 Be my baby cherry tomato.

I'm looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow!

Barb

Cocrazywoman,

I'd love to take some of your dahlias, cannas or other bulbs.

Mmmmmm........ I have mine planted against the north side of a two story house so it gets mostly shade but does get "some" direct sun when it's high in the sky in summer. I believe it would do ok in part to, probably, full sun too with enough water. But I do think it would prefer just part sun rather than full sun! Don't know if you're talking about the annual or the perennial asters. The perennial ones would "overtake" it very quickly and probably kill it. Perennial asters will tromp all over just about anything! The annual ones planted next to it should be ok, but asters, both kinds, like FULL sun, so I think the Geranium would be happier in a somewhat shadier spot! It grows in a clump that gets somewhat larger every year. It doesn't spread enough to be considered to be a "groundcover!" Mine is in pretty heavy clay, so that, I believe, limits the spread somewhat. In "good soil" I think it would spread faster, tho in my opinion there's no problem at all removing any "parts" that are "going where you don't want them"--It spreads pretty close to the surface! It can start to get "leggy" and bare looking if just left to its own devices, so pretty much every year I cut it down almost to the ground after it finishes blooming! That keeps it short and compact--and "pretty," in my opinion! I only have two of them, so if you decide you want one it would probably be a good idea to get it in one of the "first two rounds" of picking!

CoCrazyWoman, Sorry to hear you're leaving Colorful Colorado. Hope you're heading for somewhere where you want to be! If you have any X-mas cactus that are anything but HOT pink, I'd be very interested--in either just some stems/segments to start one, or a whole plant! Am especially interested in white, pale pink, and yellow, but, like I said, anything except HOT pink! BUT--can't you take HOUSE PLANTS with you wherever you're moving to??? Also, If you have any big pots that are made of the "thinner lightweight material" I'd be interested in some of those! Already have a lot of different sizes of the heavier material--the "lightweight" ones are SO much easier to carry stuff around in!

Tomatoz - I have a packet of English lavender seeds for you! If I don't find you, you find me or I might forget them!!!

Skybird

I could use small to medium pots if anyone has lots. Years of giving away plants have used up my supply.

Cocraxy woman, I am interested in houseplants, orchids and dahlias.

I would love a catnip and mint if anyone has extras.

See you all soon.

Cat, I'll go grab another couple of mint plants for you. They are all getting tilled out in the next couple of days. Same story with the sweet woodruff, if anyone wants more of it than I bring to the swap, you are welcome to swing by the house in the next couple of days and help yourself. I let a garden get out of control, so I'm going to pull the good guys and till everything else back to the ground so I can start over.

Catnohat, I'd love to get one of your chocolate niegela. I've never heard of it before but it looks gorgeous and very unusual. Self seeding to boot. Sounds like my kind of plant!

Sure Stace. I will put a couple aside for you.

Swap starts at noon correct?

Skybird, thanks for the detailed answer. It sounds like not the right plant for our spot but it is pretty.

Catnohat, So glad someone wants the catnip!

I will bring our small and medium plastic original grow pots. Are those the type people are interested in?

mmmm12, I would love some medium/small square pots to replenish what I'm bringing today. Thanks for that offer.

I would appreciate any 2-8 inch pots.

I have 3 cats that LOVE catnip. I would take like 3 plants. So maybe I can hide one from them!

Just to check, no takers on toilet paper / paper towel rolls?

Okay, just dropped off 2 suvs full of stuff! Earmarked stuff for skybird, oladon, catnohat, gardenchloe and tomatoz1 are all marked. I did not separate out seeds. There are three boxes. I also left boxes and reusable shopping bags for everyone to take home the goods!! There are extra spring bulbs, tuberous begonias, elephant ears, pineapple lilies and a huge block of cannas. I have more large nursery pots (3 gal and bigger) if anyone wants to come by for them.

Enjoy the swap!! Much love and good garden wishes to you all!!!

Skybird- left you a big pale pink Christmas Cactus and a bunch of little cuttings, one is a green pot is yellowy/orange. I know there is a tagged white one also.

Gardenchloe-left you a bunch of bulbs, dahlias, a few bags of them!

Oladon-several bags for you!! The seacretia is from my Mom's garden. A bit stretched, but they root from sections easily.

Catnohat-a couple of bags for you!!

Tomatoz1- left you a stack of nursery pots and a big bag to take them.

Please swap if what I left you is not what you prefer.

Left extra pots and tons of seeds.

Cocrazywoman,

Thank you so much for the generous contribution to the swap (and the nags of stuff you saved for me.) We are very sad to see you moving away. I hope you find new and exciting plants for your new garden.

Gjcore,

Thank you and Leslie for hosting a wonderful swap. You two are great hosts. Your place is lovely.

Thanks all to the rest. It's super great seeing all of you as always.

gardenchloe

Many thanks to cocrazywoman for all of the gardening greats that you shared with us. I love the larger pots and they will be used for tomatoes this year. They are just the right size for the huge heirlooms.

Such a beautiful day for a swap with great shared plants. I hope everyone has a wonderful harvest of vegetables and flowers this summer. Hopefully the hail will stay away.

Many thanks also to Leslie and Greg for hosting the garden fanatics. I love these swaps! Thanks to all of you sharers for digging and labeling the plants. Looking forward to a great season.

tomatoz1, any tips for transplanting from the containers with Diatomaceous earth?

Echoing the others, but what a fun and beautiful day!

cocrazywoman, thank you so much! I'm not sure if we met last year, but either way, I hope you find lovely new things to grow wherever you're moving!

And definitely thank you Leslie and Greg for hosting -- and everyone else for bringing so many exciting varieties of plants!

mstywoods, I will definitely be making some of that crisp! It was soooooo delicious!

One question -- for the spring bulbs I got, would it be best to store them in a cool, dark place until fall, or go ahead and plant them out now, or something else?

Thanks to everyone for the great/educational experience. Special thanks to Greg and Leslie for hosting and Greg for the wonderful greens.

Mstywoods, my husband raved about your Strawberry Rhubarb crisp. And now to see the recipe it may have been gluten free and I could have had some! I am sooo bummed I didn't post in advance that I was gluten free so others could let me know if they made something gluten free and I could have tried it.

Olandon, Loved the potato salad!

Question for the person who brought the Shasta Daisies in the plastic bags. What variety are these? How big will they get and what type of environment do they want to be in?

Thanks Greg and Leslie for hosting! Thanks CoCrazyWoman for all your contributions! Sorry I missed you. Thanks everyone else for your great plants, good advice, yummy food, and camaraderie in all things growing.

Wonderful day and wonderful hosts!

It was great seeing everyone again.

Cocrazywoman, thank you for sharing so much with everyone! We wish we could have seen you one last time. I overheard several others talking about 40# of cannas and couldn't figure out until the free for all was at it's end when I came across the bags. Loving cannas but unsuccessfully overwintering 2 years ago, I thought I'd give it another try. That was a HUGE bundle. I'm going to give a chunck to Popmama and I have already given some to a neighbor. The rest of it will go in a place I know it will grow well.

Stace_s, thanks again for the abundance of sweet woodruff! It looks even better than the pics online. Now that I have it at home, I'm finding even more places to put it. I'm hoping it's half as invasive as it's been for you. The soil you have seems a lot healthier than where I'm putting it, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed it will do well.

mmmm12. Those are Shasta Daisy "Becky" (originally from Skybird's garden). I get 8-12 weeks of bloom by deadheading. Each bag of daisies should have about 20+ starts. All you need is a stem and some good roots. They like sun. I have some that get water and some that don't and they both do well. They get about 30-36" tall. They are one of my go to filler plants...looks nice and very hardy.

https://www.waysidegardens.com/becky-shasta-daisy/p/48307/

Lunch (and my dinner) was delicious!

Happy planting everyone!!!

Thank you Leslie and Greg for hosting another great swap! Your house is beautiful, Leslie, and absolutely perfect for the swap with the “inside space” so accessible to the “outside space.” Perfect setup! Thank you, Leslie for all your hard work in keeping the food organized, and the water pitchers FULL! It was definitely a day for lots of cold water!

Thank you CoCrazyWoman for the big, beautiful X-mas cactus—in the beautiful pot! The “pale pink” is one I’ve been wanting for YEARS! I know I’m gonna love it! And can’t wait to see the one you said is a yellowy-orange! I don’t have anything at all like that! I also managed to snag some of the other smaller ones, and it’ll be fun to see what color they turn out to be over winter! If they’re duplicates of the pale pink or yellowy ones I’ll just give them away at a future swap! Know that they will all have good homes! And thank you for your generosity in taking the time to bring so much stuff! Virtually everything was adopted by somebody by the end! The “big” pots we sort of divided up depending on who needed what sizes the most—I’m sure they’ll all be happily used! The very best of luck to you in your new home, and I hope you’re able to quickly reestablish some new gardens and get your hands back in the dirt!

Thank you everyone for bringing so many great plants to share and such good food to share—and thank you for bringing YOURSELVES for us all to have another fun day with Gardening Friends!

Have a great summer, everyone, and hope to see you at the Fall Swap 2018!

Skybird

P.S. I’m gonna sleep well tonite! I think the Olde Factor is catching up to me!!!

Oladon, I got a couple packages of dafs and I'm keeping them in the fridge until the appropriate time to plant them in fall--after the soil is starting to cool off some. You could plant them now but I doubt that you'd get any flowers this year! Odds are that they'd grow foliage which you'd need to leave on until it died down completely on its own so they could "build up" the energy to bloom NEXT year. I recommend you keep them COLD (and dark), in the original package so they'll have air circulation, and if they seem to start to desiccate over summer, maybe wet them down a bit, let them mostly dry off again, and stick them back in the COLD. Not too much moisture or they'll rot!

Skybird

Oh, so sorry mmmm12! I had a label on the cling wrap covering, but guess it got hidden. I didn't think to add that comment when I posted I was bringing it - I'll remember to do that next time! My husband has inflammatory issues, so I always cook gluten-free now.

For those who took the Meadow Rue (thalictrum aquilegifolium purpureum) - hope they make it! The sun and heat took their toll on them at the swap, but hoping they will revive for you with lots of water and a shade. Someone suggested maybe at future swaps, we separate our shade and sun swap plants and place them in designated spots - might be a great idea to do that!

It was our pleasure to host. Thanks everyone for coming over and bringing the delicious food and plants.

Today starts hardening off the tenders and picking spots for the divisions and cuttings.

Thanks, Skybird! Is there any downside to planting them now? It seems easier than trying to keep them cold, dark, and dry for the next few months!

mstywoods, that was me! They definitely looked sad yesterday, but they're inside and have perked up quite a bit today -- I think they'll make it! I've got the perfect spot for them when they're ready for it, but I figure I'll give them a few days of pampering indoors before that.

ANYONE who got one of the two INVASIVE GERANIUM TUBEROSUM! I think I forgot to mention yesterday that those things are SUMMER DORMANT! That means that they're going to GO AWAY at some point, and you won't see them again until they come up next spring! The little bulbs/corms that I put in the pots were very little and I don't believe any of them will bloom this year! Odds are VERY good that they will start to go dormant--will look like they're DYING!--very shortly after you put them in the ground! They'll be fine! Just mark well where you have them planted so you don't accidentally dig them up and/or wind up "transferring" some of the soil with the bulbs/corms into another spot in your yard (like I did with the soil I throw on a pile to "weather") where they will eventually start coming up and become INVASIVE there too! Clearly mark where they're planted and then just let them Do Their Own Thing, and wait for them to come up and bloom NEXT spring!

OLADON, there's no real reason why you can't plant them now, but odds of them blooming for you this year is probably pretty poor, so you'll just wind up "dealing with" the foliage for the couple months it'll take for it to grow and then die down completely before you can remove it. The ONLY thing I don't like about spring bulbs is all the "browning" nasty looking foliage AFTER they bloom, so I stuck mine in the back of one of the drawers in the fridge where-hopefully!!!--I'll remember to get them out and plant them in fall. So you can do it either way, but if you plant them now leave the foliage on them until it dies down COMPLETELY on it's own before you remove it! (It'll "pull off" very easily when the bulbs are "done with it!") The bulbs NEED the "energy" they get from the photosynthesis thru the foliage!

For those who got Misty's Thalictrum/Meadow Rue, just keep them wet in the pots for a week or two and they should all be fine. The leaves that are on them now may die off, but they should start growing new foliage pretty quickly! Thalictrum can be grown in wet (but not boggy) soil, so unless you let them actually stand in water you're not going to "overwater" them. Good idea to keep them pretty wet after you put them in the ground outside too. One other thing, after they finish blooming the foliage will gradually--in my experience!--start to look worse and worse, and as that happens I generally keep cutting off whatever looks bad and by late summer I have the whole plant cut down to the ground! That's just a matter of personal preference! After the "purple fluff," the seedheads, I think, are kind of interesting, but if you do not want seedlings coming up cut them off before they start to drop! Having said that, they do NOT reseed "prolifically"--like "Skybird's yellow columbine," so you won't have them everywhere if you leave the seeds drop! When you have seedlings coming up they're gonna look a lot like Aquilegia/columbine coming up--just to help you recognize them!

I'm still tired!

Skybird

Thank you for all of that, Skybird!

What a great swap. Thank you, Greg and Leslie for a spectacular spot for a swap and supreme hosting! It was great to see everyone. The food was terrific and what an assortment of plants! I didn't intend to come home with that much, but how wonderful!

Barb

Thanks aloha2009! That gives me some ideas. I didn't realize there were so many in a bag. It opens up an interesting possibility of putting them at my fence line to ring the yard in them. Or I'm wondering if choosing a spot in the yard where the grass is blighted with the white moth but still gets sprinkled could be filled in with a "bed" of them without having to create a formal bed. But then they might not all get water as they grew up. Hmmm. Decisions.

Whoever brought the strawberries (catnohat?), thank you for the bonus worm! :)