CLOSED TO TRADES. 10/7/2013 I'll post a new thread if/when I decide to put other stuff up for grabs and thank you to all who participated! This post was edited by NKUSigEp on Mon, Oct 7, 13 at 10:52

This is a seed swap for Midwest Natives seeds- Prairie, woodland, savannah. Newbies welcome. These are the rules .... Mail in a bubble envelope. (Which will be mailed back to you ) 1) Send me packs LABLED WITH YOUR GW NAME and the name of the seeds. As usual, send as much info as possible on the seeds... 2)please lable "Midwest Natives Swap" on envelope. 3) Please send in bubble wrap envelopes.. as I will reuse these to send your seeds back. 4) Anyone else wanting to donate "Bonus" seeds please lable them as "Bonus" and I will distribute them to other swappers or newbies. 5)Please include a return address lable and enough postage to return envelope. it will need to be at least as much as it cost to send. Minimum of 60 cents 6)Deadline for mailing to me will be Feb 15,2005 all seed packets need to be sent in by this time. Please include: * Return postage * Address Label * Garden web name * List of what you sent and also wish list (maybe youÂll get a wish or two?) * * * bonus seeds* * * Ginseng- 10 strat. seeds (commercial Grower.) I will return seeds the end of Feb, You will get back the number of seed packs you sent plus bonus seeds. Happy Swapping.

I have been killing of invasive plants, that are smoothering out native plants THis is copy/pasted, but it's all I have time to put basically Im looking for anything that isn't going to cost much to ship (like seeds) medicinal plants like echinacea(spelling) or just plain native to illinios anyways here, my post I made earlier Im interested In obtaining plants native to The midwest. I have wild plum here, but most stuff Is drowned out by invasives, and if it wasn't for the forest preserve I probaly wouldn't be able to find any of those either Im just interested In plants that aren't common, but native. I've never seen a persimmon wild, but they are native I see very few hickory tree's, but I noticed one in some ones yard, but not in the wild. (maybe once in a forest, but still Im not sure, and thats only one area) This is unfortunate it seems every plum, that I found wild is in one area, most of the edle berries grown in the same area, this is too bad I plan on growing them, and spreading them around,, and pears also(all Mine died since they were in gallon pots) at least some of these seem to grow very easly, but in the wild they are over taken by buckthron, honey suckle, even a tiny bi annual garlic mustard which releases toxins to compete (In it's natural range britan) to kill off germinating saplings (oh also Goldeen rod is bad.) alittle boring seeing the same plants..... crowding out the scenery

Hi, Ohio Valley-ers! http://cincinnatibirds.com/mwnp/ I am wondering if anyone here plans to attend the Native Plant conference in Dayton starting Thursday evening? (see link above) I understand they are offering a reduced price of $130 for all three days or you can sign up for single sessions (I think)for as little as $25. I would like to hear Judy Burris speak on Butterfly Gardening. And also the sessions about how to plant a wildflower garden on your property. So, is anyone planning to attend? Maybe we can meet up if its not to late for sign-ups? Here is a link that might be useful: Midwest Native Plant Conference 2009 info