Attention Gardeners! The weather is going to flat out suck tomorrow. I doubt I can change the date with the park service soooooo I will be there at the scheduled time but for those of you driving a great distance I would rather not be the reason you are on the road. I will try and get a new date in May, or maybe June just to be safe - maybe winter will be over by then!!! I will be at the shelter and I will bring some plants but I wasn't hoping to take anything home (famous last words) so if you want to come splash around in the puddles feel free to spend the afternoon in Garner.

I'm brand new to the swap and can't wait! I was out of town for the Spring swap and have been waiting for the Fall date. I've got to get busy potting up divisions. Brenda, I'd love some Black Cohosh and Bloodroot if anything below interests you. Karen or Alicia if you have any 'Hot Lips' to spare I'm interested and any shorter salvia varieties that you might have. I'm also in need of: Purple coneflower since the voles got mine last year. Brunnera - especially the silver varieties Gaura Siskiyou (pink) Tiarella Astilbe Peach Blossom Agapanthus Variegated Hakone Grass Forget-me-not (myosotis) Hellebores (I must be the only gardener without any) I have to offer: Aster Snowflurry Dogwood seedlings Tree seedlings - while oak, maple, tulip poplar Chinese Indigo (Indigofera kirilowii) Native Heucherra seedlings - green variety that tolerates sun or shade and is pretty much indestructable Wild ginger (it's native - I don't know the strain) Native ferns (sorry, don't know the strains but I can email you photos if interested) Daylilies 'Paper Butterfly' and 'Stargazer' Epimedium Rubrum Purple Creeping Thyme Light Purple Phlox (I don't know the variety) and David Japanese Iris 'Joy Peters' Amsomia Blue Star Iris Cristata (native) Veronica Georgia Blue Geranium Cranesbill 'Blood Red' (pink/purple flower) Chrysanthemum White Bomb

yes, alicia- you were the other one who'd left before i realized it. i hadn't wanted the cuttings to wilt, which is why i waited til after the general swapping, but as usual i was running my mouth too much and didn't notice folks were leaving (never happen with me, right!?). i'll have to go back and look at my list, but i will try and root what i owe you for spring alicia. if not, i can take cuttings. and i didn't even get to say hello- i'm so sorry! a few other folks were supposed to get one thing, but you and ais had the bulk, other than jean, who got hers. jean, and anyone else who got roses from me: if it was not marked, it was veilchenblau. all of the others would have had a name written on a leaf. it roots easily, isn't too thorny, and is not fragrant. it's a very vigorous climber that blooms in clusters that cover the trellis all at once- so it makes a breathtaking tapestry of grapey purple, blueish purple, reddish pinky purple, and an occasional white bloom. no rebloom, sorry to say. very carefree- the only thing is the JBs like it. i don't spray, feed or do anything else to mine except prune- hard- because it grows so big so fast. tam

I have Daffs for Carla! I have about 30 - 40 bulbs for you. Woodsworm, I have about 9 lycoris for you! tamelask: 2 ride paper plants and Salvia for Jap Maple and leadwort/plumbago? And toads, toads, and toads. :-) Triangle John: Elizabeth and about 5 gardenias for dianella variegated, white lilac, 3 tibouchina and red stachytarpheta cuttings? ratgirl (Carla B): Daffodil bulbs for Hardy gloxinia and Carolina Beauty Crinum magick: Japanese Painted fern and Chartreuse Sweet Potato Vine for Juncus effusem Unicorn and White Beauty Berry tophersmith: 2 Rice Paper plants for Lola Red Hot Poker and Jean Pasco Brug alicia: One of Mom's crinum for Salvia transylvanica and meadow rue Karen_W: Three of Mom's crinum and confederate rose cuttings for ruella humbus, Alstromeria "Laura", salvia forskaohlei???? jnhidden: Royal Respect lilies for bluebeard blue mist spirea??? Dana: One of Mom's crinum for ????? Do you have any of that crocosmia 'Star of the East' left? woodsworm: Lycoris promised from Triad swap Have I missed anyone or anything? Thanks, Vickie