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Hello! I live on about 7 acres of Wisconsin woodland near a watefowl refuge. I enjoy all the nature here, and gardening and especially LOVE my woodland plants. I love to play at landscaping, our land is mainly hilly and woodsy, with some areas we've cleared and I love to move plants around and learn about them and craft and cook with them etc. Winters are long and cold here, but Spring is absolutely glorious!
My 'wish list'
I'm especially looking for woodland plants I do not have--such as ferns--i have very few ferns and love all varieties.
also looking for flowering vines
would love shrub & vine rooted cuttings
I would love to get 'berries' or berry bushes any that are edible or could be used for making jellies & jams--I'd like a nice edible currant, some cultivated--not wild--raspberries and blackberries and goose berries. ( i have the wild stuff--and the birds always beat me to them, I'd like some 'bigger' berries)
fruit tree or vine starts--small trees that are shippable
I'd also like herb starts--just about any herb--i love herbs!
am also interested in trading for named cultivars of perenial plants--i am building up a backyard nursery and would like to get some things that I could actually put a latin name to!
Evergreen rooted cuttings or viable seeds, or seedlings--any nice healthy evergreen tree or shrub plant.

Plants I have to trade:

GROUND COVERS-
lavendar phlox
a small sedum (perhaps dragons bood??-it has reddish/bronze/green leaves and yellow flowers.)
Sweet woodruff ( this is the herb used for making may wine, low growing, with pretty little white flowers, spicy aroma)
Lilly of the valley*currently I'm out of trades of this.
violets--white, purple, yellow
Wood Anemone--small flowers in spring--pinkywhite--gently invasive, can be used between plants in a shade garden.also is fantastic in a mass--I have big patches of this in my woods--wow is it beautiful in May!)

SHADE PLANTS:
*many of these are native wild woodland plants--I have my own woods-they are taken legally.
wild geranium
Jack in the pulpit
solomons seal
false solomons seal (no more this year)
Large white trillium--ask first
bloodroot
mayapple
yellow loosestrife (works in sun too)
Jewel weed when in season-plants-late may/june
horse tail
columbine-*I'm not going to trade this again til next spring
wild onion --I think this is ramps--a lilly looking plant.
hostas-I do not have the names of these, some varigated, some plain --all pretty.
( I do have some other wild woodland plants--you could try me with a name of a plant and I could let you know-a picture or link to a picture might help as some of my plants I have not id'd yet in the woods.)

SUCCULENTS:
A large pink flowering sedum
hens & chicks,
sedum ground cover mentioned above also a lime green small sedum

SUN/part sun LOVERS:
Lambs ear
various Iris
black eye susan
larkspur/ delphinium-lovely blue from a freind in montana possibly wild there? *out of trades currently for this
shasta daisy (?)
day lillies of misc. colors.
pink & blue spiderworts--I've heard it called Job's tears also.
yellow tiny flower on a tall stem with leaves like those of delphinium --flower looks like a tiny ranunculus (I cannot trade this this spring only have few at present)
a small wild variety of blue jacobs ladder(greek valerian)--
Red Monarda Bee Balm (striking!)
Yucca (which I find yucky, but inherited--its not my kinda thing)
Peonies--most likely red-(perhaps some pink)* If you have white or pink or yellow etc--I'd love to trade!

HERBY PLANTS:
chive-regular and garlic chive
oregano
tansy
dianthus
pink yarrow
wild white yarrow
red/orange poppys (seeds in july)
wild motherwort
hyssop
wild onion might be 'ramps' the coveted 'bad breath onion'

bulbs--
tiny spring blue and white flowers--look like mini blue bells or mini hyacinths--very little, spring up with grasslike leaves in april, spread out to cover areas of lawn in sun & shade. some I think are blued eyed grass--others are something different all pretty.
daffodils

Rooted Cuttings of vines/shrubs (when available--none left currently)
gold mound spirea
red flame spirea
bridal wreath spirea
forsythia
weigela
pink clematis
purple clematis
white clematis
burning bush
weeping willow tree rooted cuttings

Baby trees--if you want them-
I have in my woods baby-walnuts, oaks and shagbark hickory, also what may be sugar maple--I can only access these early in spring and will not go in the woods again then until after frost due to ravenous mosquitos.

I do not at present have exact names of cultivars-im starting to try to research this--may have them soon at least for some. Much I have is from trading with freinds or inherited from a former owner or from my woods. I cannot always trade all of these--you would have to check with me--I don't like to let any one plant get 'low'.