I'm interested! I'm just a few miles east of you in Albany...

Amanda 'romando'

The Los Altos Garden Club plant swap is scheduled for Apr 29th. Here's some info from the email:
It's time to mark your calendar for the Spring Plant Exchange. The next exchange will be held on Saturday, April 29 from 10:00 AM until 12:00 noon in the Hillview Community Center parking lot (97 Hillview Avenue, off San Antonio Rd, Los Altos). Please bring your extra seedlings, plants, bulbs, cuttings and small shrubs and trees or anything else garden-related and take home something new in exchange. Please label all plants. If you don't know the name of the plant, list useful characteristics, e.g. flower color, sun or shade, water requirements. Please don't bring privet. We have found that it is usually left over at the end and we have to carry it away to the dumpster. You are welcome to post a note at the exchange saying you have some to give away in case someone wants it. This event is sponsored jointly by the Los Altos Recreation Department and the Garden Club of Los Altos . The exchange will be held rain or shine.

Some useful information, especially if you haven't been before to the plant exchange in the past year:

Please note that the exchange will start at 10AM and no plants should be taken before then. You must check in at the check-in table and make sure the plants you brought are labeled and set out before selecting plants. It is OK to do this starting at 9:45. Prior to 9:45 we will be setting up. If you come before 9:45 you are welcome to help us set up. If anyone would be willing to take a half hour shift at the check-in table please let me know.

Please remember the rules:
(1) Take in proportion to what you bring- if you only bring a few plants, take a few plants.
(2) Share- take only one of each of type of plant and 2-3 of each type of cutting (unless there are huge numbers of them; ask the volunteers if in doubt) so other people can try them, too . At 11:45 you can take as much as you want of anything that is left.
(3) Take what you have chosen to your car rather than collecting it in on the grass or concrete. If it is on the ground or the tables, we will assume it is still available. If you need help moving a large plant ask the volunteers.

Suggestions: Bring some extra labels so if something you take isn't well labeled, you can label it yourself. Bring a deep cup with a little water in it in the cup holder of your car so you can put cuttings in it. if you have any additional useful suggestions, send them to me and I will try to add them to future emails.

If you are interested in the Garden Club of Los Altos plant sale, it will be held on Tuesday April 25 from 11:30 AM to 12:45PM in the grassy area between the upper and lower parking lots of Christ Episcopal Church, 1040 Border Road, Los Altos. You don't have to be a member to come to the plant sale. Many interesting, less common plants are for sale. Please note that you may look but not pick up plants before 11:30.

Thanks I remember this one happens each year, I have not been to it before however. I have it marked down and I am planning to go.

Thanks for the info about the Los Altos plant swap and the plant sale. Do you know how I can get on their mailing list?

Thanks again.