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Secret Santa Seed Swap 2023 Saying Thank you !

so the other thread doesn't get too long please say thank you here !

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    I received a couple of cards just before Christmas, and just after. Thank you Sara for the cute kitty card with such a variety of fun seeds (carrot flower, datura, etc). I can't wait to try them!


    Iris sent me a Santa card with several new to me seeds - thank you! Blue pear tomato, zatta melon,cekirdegi watermelon, and classcs like buttercrunch and Grand Rapids lettuce. I'm excited to taste these!


    Emily (gardengirl 37232) sent me a cute red and white card filled with Chinese pink celery (wow!), red acre cabbage, and beets. Yummy stuff!


    Thank you all! I hope everyone has a good New Year!


    Mandy

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    Ok ref the note above about getting JQ Sens card returned back to me. Since I have not heard anything back, I will just mail it next year. Thank you! Happy New Year!!!!

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    Hi Stacy
    So sorry the card and seeds got returned. I have no clue why. The address on your card is correct.

    My address on the excel spreadsheet is correct.

    I did receive 2 cards that were sent to me by

    Margo and Colleen. Thank you to both.
    Love the cards and the seeds

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    Cards from Margo and Colleen

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    Has anyone got my cards yet. I mailed it out 10 days back. 😔

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    I have one overdue thank you to gardengirl37232. Thank you so much for the tennis ball lettuce, oregano, and black vernisage tomato.

    Today I received 4 cards! Thank you Ann (poppy) for the blue bachelors button, marjoram, pineapple pig, bear creek, lida ukrainian, rosella crimson, kimberley, and cosmic eclipse tomatoes.

    Thank you Melinda for the black moontty eggplant, and marigold yummy mummy.

    Thank you Angela for the florence fennel, summer savory, cumin, and cinnamon basil.

    Thank you Nicole (bluee99) for the jaguar marigold, purple meadow rue, red metamorph french marigold, annual clary, duck potato, and purpie beauty pepper.

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    I received this back in the mail. I double checked the address.


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    Thank you to Carol. I received a card yesterday with marigold and nigella seeds. I haven’t grown nigella in a fee years so excited to grow them. The marigolds will go in my marigold garden I plan this spring.

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    I received a bunch of goodies from Sara yesterday, in a card that was mailed on the 18th but apparently took the scenic route! Those included seeds for calendula 'Balls Improved,' hibiscus 'Roselle,' gazania 'Sunshine Blend,' blue mist flower, aster, and fuchsia four o'clocks. Many thanks, Sara, for such a scrumptious assortment!


    Since I only found time to mail four cards before Christmas, I plan to send out a few more over the next couple days. At least that's still within the 12 days of Christmas!

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    I have no clue why my mailman is sending them back. Address is correct.
    I’ll see if I can find the mailman today and check with them.

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    I just spoke to the post office. They have a new mailman and no clue why he has been sending my mails back.
    I requested them to talk to the mailman to not send them back.

    Hopefully anything coming in today onwards should not get sent back!

    So sorry for the confusion.

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    Received a pretty card from Darlyn Hall today with tobacco and marigold seeds. thankyou and happy new year to you

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    Iris thank you for the lovely card and pepper and tomato seeds! Got them today! 😊





    Sen

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    Sara, Got your card and seeds today. Thank you. Will be growing them all this summer.




    Sen

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    I received another card in the mail, that seems to have been slowed down in the holiday rush (I swear I saw it pending a few days prior, but the mailman didn't deliver until today. Thank you so much Jasmine (jas_il) for the snowy bridge card with Allysum and Persian Onion. Happy New Year!

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    jq_sen39 I will mail your card again. Hopefully you will get it. Happy New Year!

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    Thank you so much for all the wonderful seeds excited to try to winter sowing some, especially excited about stevia and horehound. Thank you Jasmine, Emily, Nicole, Iris, yotetrapper. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

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    I have so many beautiful cards and seeds! Thank you so much! Stacy what a cute stamp and card! Carol I loved it! Sara beautiful card! Melinda great card! Coleen wow thank you! I cant wait to take a better look when I have more time! I did not expect so many cards!! Thank you so much I can tell you took a lot of time and care in seed selection!


    Happy New Year! Hannah hanchanted

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    I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas and I can see we are all enjoying the cards and seeds making their way to our mailboxes :-) I want to say thank you to Stacey, I was excited to find Panama Rose seeds in the card you sent, I was born in Panama (Army child) thank you SoLovelyLily- love all the types of basil ! thank you Colcol, esp for the Purple Zinnia ! thank you Sen for the pollinator flowers ! I have lots of butterflies, including Monarchs that will love these ! Thank you Mandy, 4 o'clocks were my Grandma's fave, thank you feebean . esp for the Oma's Orange tomato and the Liebesapfel pepper seeds as my mom is German ;-) thank you Ann for all the fabulous veggie seeds ! thank you Sara for all the lovely flower seeds, I am going to wintersow them. Thank you Linda for the cutest Santa Frosty and Rudolph card & cucumber and flower seeds ! and thank you so much Melinda for the cucumber , flower and Borage Bianca seeds ( this one will be new to me , exciting ! ) I spent the first 3 weeks of Dec sick and receiving these wonderful cards and seeds have made me feel so much better, I hope everyone has a Happy Healthy and safe New Year !


    Iris

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    qt_sen39 ~ sorry the card i had mailed to u on 12/7 was just returned back to me today.


    sorry for your mail issue. i put the correct address as well. can i mail to you now that your mail carrier issue has be resolved?

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    Bluee19 so sorry about the substitute mailman just sending back my cards. I spoke with the post master at my post office and he promised me that it won’t happen again.

    The address on the spreadsheet is correct.

    Thank you for mailing again. ❤️

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    Stacy thank you so much for mailing again. ❤️
    Appreciate it!

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    Happy new year to all my lovely friends here! Looking forward to another amazing year filled with happiness and peace! 🤗🤗🤗

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    Ahhh Stacy ~ Happy New Year to you and ur love ones. Whats is your furbaby name?



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    Thank you Sara for the pollinators and Gogiberry, Melinda for the dwarf tomatoes, and colcol for the zinnias, globe thistle, beardtongue and coneflowers. 🥳 Happy New Year 🎊

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    Thank you Sara for cute let it snow card with Aster, petunia balcony mix, Ornamental pepper, Hollyhock and purple mallow seeds. Love everything specially petunia and hollyhock. Can't wait to grow them. Thank you so much.

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    Big Thank You too

    Colcol

    Sara

    Stacey

    Linda Roper

    Iris

    Jas_IL

    Emily

    Absolutely loved the cards! The selection of seeds from each was wonderful! I will be growing them soon. Thanks again! You all gave me some of my moat wanted! May you all be blessed and have a wonderful New Year!

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    I got back from vacation to some happy mail.


    Stacy Garcia, thank you for the nice Florida card with seeds for cosmic purple carrot, daikon radish, beets, and kohlrabi. These are great. Thank you!

    Sara, thank you for the three kings card with seeds for Goji berry, garlic chives, borage, pink hollyhock, bronze fennel, Johnny's celery, and chamomile. Sara, you clearly put a lot of thought into the package as even the seed packets were holiday themed! Thank you!

    Iris, thank you for hosting this year's secret santa and for the cute gingerbread man card with seeds for cekirgegi oyali watermelon (beautiful seeds!), and tomato seeds for mega trusses, rebel alliance, sunrise bumblebee, and karma apricot. Looking forward to reading up on and trying these varieties! Thank you!

    Angela, thank you for the lovely Christmas farm card and seeds for long white of Palermo zucchini, jewels mix nasturtium, mitsuba, and Russian tarragon. Looking forward to growing these. Thank you!

    Coleen, thank you for the cute Christmas stocking card and seeds for rebel starfighter VT16 tomato, kamatis tagalog tomato, diamond sweet pepper, dwarf red sweet pepper, mixed cherry tomato, Colorado river bean, painted pony bush bean, succotash dry bean, and lipstick bean. Wow, thank you so much for such interesting varieties! Looking forward to planting them out this year. Thank you!

    Kim, thank you so much for the super cute penguin card and seeds for tetsukabato moshata and camp joy tomato seeds. I will need to read up on these but looking forward to trying them out this year. Thank you!


    Happy New Year, everyone! Hope everyone has a fantastic gardening year!

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    Been a busy holiday season and finally getting to my final thank yous!

    Received cards and lots of seeds from

    Iris, Sara, Stacy and Nicole. Lots of seeds and lots of fun!

    Special thank you to Iris for the Elephant Ears Pepper. Was one on my top wanted list :)

    I'm in pepper heaven!

    Thank you all so very very very much!

    Wishing you all a most happy 2024 and good health!

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    Audrey thank you for the lovely card and the gardenia and cactus seeds! Super excited to plant them and watch them grow.

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    So, I fell behind on my thank yous. Been crazy busy here. While not feeling well right now, I'm actually sitting still and taking the time to finally write my thank yous.

    Thank you Solovelylily (Kim) for the Jo to the World card with Giant California Zinnia seeds and the Starlight Rose Zinnia seeds.

    Thank you jas_il (Jasmine) for the Joy & Wonder card with Celosia mix seeds.

    Thank you audrey_gw (Audrey) for the White poinsettia card with the Etlingera elatior seeds, Cananaga odorata seeds, and the Dietes iridioides seeds. I can't wait to look them up and find out what they are!

    Happy New Year!!

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    bluee19 our furbaby's name is Pepper. She is one of our 3 bottle babies that's been saved thanks to the one & only vet in our area who was willing to save a feral mom cat (Puddin'Tang pictured below) and her babies by emergency c-section (the babies were born a month early and the momma cat is in the house with us).


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    Omg Puddin Tang is so adorable! 💕

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    I received a couple more cards!

    Linda, thank you for the penguin and reindeer card and the seeds for sungold select II, Jimmy nardello, fresno pepper, rugosa friulana squash, pineapple ground cherry, and chinese pink celery. Looking forward to growing these tasty things!

    Audrey, thank you for the elegant poinsetta card with your story and seeds for Marianna's Peace, costmary (this was completely new to me but so fitting with the season), and lisianthus echo blue and echo lavender. I am delighted to grow these out!

    Thank you everyone!

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    Looks like 8 peeps didn't receive card from me. Hopefully they will get there soon!

    jq_sen39 I mailed your card again today. Hopefully this time you will get it.


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    It looks 5 people didn't receive card from me too. Some I mailed 2-3 weeks back.


    Darlyn Hall, sent me cute reindeer card with dwarf fairy candytufft and basil seeds. Love candytufft and basil. Can't wait to plant them. Thank you so much.


    Yotetapper, sent me cute christmas card with Basil purple dark opal, Cinnamon basil, summer savory and cilantro seeds. Love everything. These are new for me so it would be fun growing them. Thank you so much.

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    Got a card yesterday from Linda
    Thank you Linda loved the card and the seeds! Looking forward to growing amaranth, basil, stevia, calendula and marigold. 😊

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    Stacy
    I’ll watch out for your card and will let you know as soon as it comes. 🤗🤗

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    Received more cards from Linda and Lori, just keep forgetting to log in and say thanks.

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    jq_sen39 have you recieved mine that I had remailed to you yet???

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    These are the following peeps I have NOT heard if they got the card/seeds I mailed back in December:

    Mcc371

    heavenlyfarm

    Gary Fitzgerald

    HU-73752807

    Solovelylily

    l1oness

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    Hi Stacy
    Guess what came yesterday- your card!!!
    I cannot believe it took them so long to deliver.
    But thank you soooo much! Love all the seeds you sent and looking forward to growing them in the summer

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    Hi Stacy

    Guess what came yesterday- your card!!!
    I cannot believe it took them so long to deliver.
    But thank you soooo much! Love all the seeds you sent and looking forward to growing them in the summer

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    Nicole

    Thank you so much for the card and seeds!! I got that yesterday as well.
    Very happy that it came. Looking forward to growing the herbs, flowers and tomatoes!!! 😊

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    jq_sen39 ~ so glad you got them, I am just glad it wasn't lost or redelivered back to me. Merry Christmas and have a Happy 2024!!

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    jq_sen39 Thank you so much for letting me know you got it this time. I appreciate it!

    Happy 2024!

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    Hey Stacy, I thanked you for the surfer card and seeds back on Dec 16 on this feed, if you look back you will see it. Thank you, solovelylily

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    SoLovelyLily I found it! I didn't think Stacy with the E was for me. I thought there was another Stacey in the group who's name was spelled with an E. Thanks for letting me know you got it. I appreciate it!