Drat! OOT. i will miss showing off my big matching knee replacement scars!

Brenda, I'm getting my right knee done in Nov. Is therapy painful and a long, drawn-out process?

Woo hoo.

Hope to attend once again. I love this swap!

Hope to attend!

I visited Cedar Creek Gallery in Creedmore for the first time. They have incredible plants from $2.00 to only $5.00. Examples I bought: Seemannia 'Little Red,' Sinningia eumorpha, Aloysia gratissima 'Punky Brewster,' Dicentra eximia, and Spiranthes cernua. It is also an art gallery with amazing pieces.

So glad i came to check on the swap details!!

Is anybody interested in doing a pre-swap this fall? If so, I have these to share:

Orostachys ‘Dunce Cap’

Gardenia ‘Ogon-no-Hana’ cutting

‘Miss Ruby’ butterfly bush cutting

Aromatic Aster

Orange daylily

Clerodendrum ‘Blue Butterfly’

Ruellia ‘Chi Chi’

‘Evita’ gloxinia

Walking iris

I would like:

Anemonella thalictroides

Anemonopsis macrophylla

Arisaema triphyllum – Jack-in-the-Pulpit

Calycanthus ‘Aphrodite’

Dictamnus albus

Dierama

FUCHSIA Sanihanf ‘ANGEL EARRINGS Cascading’

Lotus seeds or the old flowering stems

Phlox stolonifera ‘Bruce’s White’

VA blue bells

BTW -- thanks so much for bringing the yucca to the swap years ago. The flower display this spring was absolutely incredible!

Val, I would love Gloxinia Evita. I can bring you Arisaema triphyllum. Will be dormant tubers, two years from seeding. I may also be able to bring you some fresh seeds, if I get a chance to go collecting this weekend.

Karen, it is yours. Arisaema is a great plant.

I plan on making it this year, finally!

On a similar note, since I saw in some previous trade threads some folks traded garlic-- what varieties do you guys prefer to grow here? Tis the season to start planning/planting for winter stuff

Val, I just learned that I can't make it to this swap, so I'll have to pass on Evita but remind me next time if you're still looking for Arisaema triphyllum.

Sorry you will miss it. I will hold 'Evita' for you, Karen.

I don't know anything about garlic, Jaimie.

For individual swaps we have the following.

Vigorous swamp plants that thrive partially submerged or in wet soils, but also do well in regular moist garden soils:

Arundo donax 'Peppermint Stick'

Colocasia 'Royal Hawaiian Aloha Oe'

Iris ensata 'Variegata'

Saururus cernuus

Other hardy garden plants:

Canna 'Erebus'

Cyperus involucratus

Hibiscus syriacus: 'Blue Satin' and white-flowered

Jasminum officinale 'Frojas'

Ligustrum japonicum

Phytolacca americana

Viola odorata

houseplants

Ananas comosus: heirloom (with spines) and modern (spineless) varieties

Crassula ovata

Euphorbia tirucalli - species (all green)

Fucraea foetida/gigantea 'Mediopicta/Variegata'

Huernia, black flowers, possibly schneideriana or macrocarpa

Huernia zebrina

Kalanchoe luciae a.k.a thrysiflora

Philodendron selloum

Stapelia gigantea

Zamioculcas zamiifolia

looking for

Butia capitata

Cyperus papyrus

Pontederia cordata (blue only)

hardy succulents

evergreen ferns

caudiciform / pachycauls

black plants

Lester, I have a huge pickerelweed. I also have a spring cutting of daphne Marianni, daphne odora ‘Rogbret PP21820.' For another variegated plant, I have a gallon-size Aucuba 'Suruga Benten' too. Let me know if you would like them. I would like the Huernia zebrina, Zamioculcas zamiifolia, Iris ensata 'Variegata,' and the Jade plant.

I am getting e-mails saying I have comments, but nothing is showing up here. Is something wrong with Houzz?

Screenwriter, your suggestions sound very interesting. Good to hear that you have a variegated Daphne cutting that survived since spring - we are very eager to add one to our collection.

One thing we would like to clarify is Pontederia - we got something labeled as such from an earlier swap and it turned out to be Peltandra virginica. While their leaves may look similar, the latter is an arum (monocot) and has the typical arum spadix flower and the former has a spike of regular dicot flowers. So if you have seen the flowers of your plant and they are what they should be than we are interested (we prefer blue to white). Otherwise we are also very interested in Seemannia nematanthodes 'Evita' (formerly known as Gloxinia) - hopefully you have more in addition to your commitment to Karen W.

Lester, it is definitely Pontederia and is blue. I have more 'Evita' to share with you.

Tammy, your message isn't showing here. What plants would you like?

There is definitely something wrong with this messaging board - we are getting notifications about comments from Camellialover in this discussion that we don't see here.

Val - i didn't comment. I just liked a few posts. I did look up some things and am interested in some of what you have, but am scrambling to get ready (it's been a rough week) so i think i'll just take my chances with the general swap. Thanks for checking in, though!

Lester, I want to confirm I have Pontederia cordata, Gloxinia 'Evita,' and Daphne 'Marianni' for you. And you have Crassula ovata, Huernia zebrina, Zamioculcas zamiifolia, and iris Ensata 'Variegata' for me.

Screenwriter, we are interested in all items you offered in your first post, including Aucuba 'Suruga Benten' (fascinating change of color in juvenile leaves) - we didn't mean to exclude it by not mentioning it explicitly in our response. Apologies for the confusion.

Lester, I pulled the rest. Is the Colocasia still available?

Colocasia 'Royal Hawaiian Aloha Oe' is very vigorous (grown in very wet areas or sealed containers) and there is plenty of material but we didn't get to dividing it because of lack of interest and we left early on Saturday. But please remind us before the Spring Swap.

P.S. Incidentally we got it from Ralph, R.I.P.

I had several of the Colocasia ’Aloha’ at the swap if you picked up one in the general swap… it was also a offspring of the one i received from Ralph….

So sorry but I'm not able to make it this time. Have fun and I'll watch for the Spring swap.

OMG!!! I completely missed the swap. John. Lora bell, Screenwriter, Les, Missed you all. Hope to see you all in spring>

We missed you too, Sabji. In the Spring you brought Lotus seeds. What color is the mother plant?

Hi val, the lotus is pink. Mine did bloom this year.

It's been posted - Saturday May 3rd from 10am til 1pm. Everything else is the same.

Thank you, John! If start time is at 10am, does that mean you will be ringing the bell at 10am?

Thanks, John! You’re the best!

pcgjohnson - I will plan on ringing the bell at 11, but I sometimes get distracted...