At this time I would like to put this bulbil giveaway to bed. If envelopes are in transit I will honor your request. I assume that any envelope in transit from this time should arrive in my mailbox within the next two days. If anyone has not yet mailed me, PLEASE don't rush to the P.O. tomorrow morning. I want to thank you all for the opportunity to share. I joined GW after noticing that most of my Google searches about plants led me to this website. In my first year as a "newbie" I was rewarded with a tremendous quantity and variety of seeds from the Round Robbin Seed Swap Forum. I wish I could direct you all to a website with info on the perfect manner to propagate these bulbils. Last year I found a couple of links to the particular Turk's Cap Lily you have been mailed. I can't seem to find the information now. I believe this plant is a hybrid. We have Turk's Caps that grow wild here in Massachusetts. By comparison the plant you are getting is much taller and features much larger blooms. From what I have seen in my yard this plant does best in full sun. If I were going to sow the bulbils I would loosen the soil one or two inches and plant them in a fairly tight circular pattern. Not sure, but I think it may take two seasons to see a bloom. Peace, Out.

I winter sowed for the first time last year and couldn't believe that it actually worked. I am sold on the idea of sowing in the winter and have started to collect milk containers. Besides it saves $'s on the electric bill for the greenhouse. NEED SEEDS? I have posted the above seed exchange in the round robbin exchange already if anyone is interested in joining. Sign-ups are until October 31st. Thanks! Ellie

I think if people lower their expectations of a round robin and also agree to doctor up the box at each stop then you can have a really nice robin. I have gotten a couple of dog boxes in the past but for the most part have enjoyed all of them. If you're fussy and particular about what goes into your garden then you should avoid the regular robins at all costs. I winter sow and I have a large yard so they work for me. With the exception of those couple of boxes I have always found enough seeds to make the three-four dollars in postage worth it. It's just plain fun to get a box of seeds to pick through, that alone is worth the few dollars to me! I love some of the 'unwanted' seeds. I would never go buy a pack of snapdragons, but lo and behold, there they are for me in that box! I usually try to fix the box up before sending it on. If there are 5 packs of mixed morning glories, I might combine them into one (I don't grow MG's) and put in 4 of my own packets so the number doesn't decrease. Unwanted is a matter of opinion. I think MG's are junk. However, people grow them and love them! If someone put in a huge packet of something really nice, I'll trade out for it and then put half the packet back in because I don't need 50 seeds of something. Everyone grows common stuff in their yards (hence the term common) so it goes without saying they are going to end up in the box. Newbies play and most of their initial seeds come from donations from us! I used to think Shasta Daisy's were the bomb (sorry fellow robineers)! It's not the responsibility of the hostess to keep the box nice the whole trip. It's hard to just fill an initial box to send out. Everyone should help out and also be a bit more tolerant if you get the box from a newbie. If you have extra 'wanted' seeds, what's the harm in tossing them into the box? I have beautiful flowers but it's a round robin garden, lol. I have to avoid the named variety exchanges. Sorry to read you got a dog box fairydancer! A long time ago, I signed up for a robin and was the first to receive it. It turned out to be a gift and seed robin. The gifts were dirty junk laying around the host's house for years. (Same for the seeds in the box)! They don't work for me, people have different tastes. Some of them are expensive to mail around. I think if they were a little more specific and included a price range on the items they might work better. Perhaps a 'homemade trinkets' box with personalized items might be nice rather than shipping dollar store items around the country. If I was a hostess, I wouldn't feel comfortable mailing a box with 10 items valued at $20.00 an item. I've only joined in a couple of group swaps. I was really delighted when I opened one package because it was filled with all sorts of things I'd never heard of. Come to find out, it's because every single packet was for zone 7 and warmer! I would have rather just packed and sent my package of seeds to a newbie and only paid the postage one way. Now, I'm more careful about the swaps I sign up for. It's my responsibility to make sure the hostess will be able to fit my needs, too, so I'm not so disappointed.

pb, what do you have? Do you have giant plants from division or things you ws'd this past summer? The reason I ask is that I have: Daisy 'Becky' and a perennial pink Anemone (forgot the name, but it was from Bluestone)pretty big plants. I have a butterscotch-yellow..it's yellow with a hint of butterscotch mini daylily, which is also a big plant, and a beautyberry Callicarpa bush (small about 6" but I think they grow pretty fast) to trade. These would be VERY expensive to ship. One of those $8.00 priority mailers wouldn't handle the daisy at all, but could ship the daylily, the anemone and the beautyberry bush. I could also try to slip in a really cool Thalictrum aquilegiafolium, but it would look pretty sorry if things shifted around. (no common name on the Thalictrum, but the Latin just rolls off the tongue. I'm looking for mature-size perennials. One I really want is Daisy 'Wirral Pride', but I am open to lots of possibilities, as long as I don't have them and my neighbors (whom I am going to hit up for plants soon!) don't have them LOL! Lime