Obsessive plant collecting that sounds familiar. First obsession roses, the truly disease free roses of course. Very easy to grow and if mail ordered on their own roots. Well, even I couldn't kill them. Next obsession summer blooming clematis. So that whilst the japanese beetles are are eating the roses you'll have pretty blooms with little effort after suppling something for them to grow on. Third obsession daylilies, ones like Going Bananas which bloom a nice soft yellow and continuos bloom once they start. Healthy foliage as well. They grow petty much by them selves.Plant obsessions aaargh! Any way your right about some geraniums. I use geranium Rossanne in back with Clems they hide the bare stems. I see the flowers but the foliage isn't right up front where it might be annoying.

Thank you Ellen and Esther for hosting yet another nice swap. dirtdiver, thank you so much for the kind offer. I almost grabbed the monarda you brought but since my name was not on it so I thought it might be for somebody else so I left it there. Anyway yesterday I have picked up the Monarda you brought for me from Ellen's place. Thanks Gonativegal, somehow I missed your plants. I am really sorry for that. I thought to email you but your email link was not on GW. Thank you so much for taking time and bringing it for me. I really apologize. Happygardener, Thank you so much for the lots of egg plants, celery, and for sage. Yesterday I could plant them in my raised bed. can't wait to see them grow. Motria, thank you so much for the Monarda raspberry wine Doris, nice to meet you and thank you so much for lemon balm and Monarda. Every time I see you, you look different not sure next time when I see you if I recognize. :) Linnea, thank you so much for penstemon, phlox and aster can't wait to grow them. Jasmine

IâÂÂm trying to ID this plant. Though I have not been to the swap in the last two years, due to conflicts on that date, IâÂÂm wondering if past participants can ID something for me. Therefore if someone brought this plant, if would have been from 2011. It may just be a weed. ItâÂÂs very tall now, because I remembered planting something from the swap in that area, so I let it go though I did not recognize it. Maybe 5 feet, and still getting taller. Growing tips are always bent over. Getting a lot of sidegrowth and branching now. The white fluffy things are just the flowers of the persicaria plant showing behind it. Thanks for your help!

One is Ann Folkard, a twining geranium with bright pink, close to magenta flower. I have not seen it at a garden center in 5 years. You can order from Lazy S Farm/Nursery. There's another place that has a lot of geraniums, and had Ann. I don't remember the name of it but I could find it. It is not rambunctious like Rozanne, and sometimes I just get a few flowers (it is among many, many shade loving plants, so its quite a journey for it through the garden) But that glimpse of chartreuse leaf or magenta through dark and blue greens of hostas and yellow hakone grass is lovely, just lovely. I have read often that there's another geranium bred from Ann- perhaps Ann Thompson?- that is supposed to be an improvement. But if the offspring isn't chartruese and magenta, then its not in the running.