Hi Wendy,

I may indeed be interested this spring. I have retired from my 2nd career and now want to spend more time in the garden. I believe the site last year was Sherway gardens. That is okay with me, but a site closer to Halton would also be appreciated.

I have decided to do a lot more travelling, and hence I will have to redo my garden, and put in plants that are more drought resistant. I fear that I will have to let most of my brugmansias go, as they require daily watering, and will surely collapse if neglected for a few weeks.

Any ideas for drought resistant, tall plants? I do have lots of different cannas.

Castor Beans can take the dry weather, (Mine got up to 6' last year), and I also grew some corn to use as a garden "centre". Looks like an ornamental grass..and doesn't need much water once established.

I'll start looking for suitable sites in Burlington/Oakville/Milton. Hopefully we can find a place that will be easy for everyone to find!

I will keep an on your message to see when the swap will be. Halton would be good for me.

Ok John .. why are you not installing a timer on a drip line for your garden?? Thats what I do and then I have a friend come to check just to dead head and make sure the lines are running fine?? I would love to take some of your Maya off of your hands as well as some of your cannas =) I could have my whole garden filled with Maya as I love the scent so much :)
I will ask some of my Master Gardener friends what are some good drought resistant plants are for our zone and get back to you.
Laura

Oh and Wendy ... I thought we had chatted about possibly having the swap in your court :) It would be much nicer to have a little social .. you know I will help.
Laura

OOO, Wendy's court.... and then we could see her lovely garden. Or is that an invasion of privacy. LOL

Laura, I have been thinking of running a drip line out to some of the gardens, but not all of them. I will have to revamp how I have done things, but we'll see how I can rearrange the beds ( or hide the drip line so my wife or I or guests don't trip on it ). I'm not giving any of them away yet.

I appreciate the offer to find out some nice looking drought resistant plants that grow in zone 5a. I'm a little cooler than you are. ( Today, I think a LOT cooler LOL). I'm looking particularly for large growing plants. I tried the amaranthus, but it didn't come at all. Maybe the squirrels or chipmunks got them.

John .. Lee Valley has connectors for the drip lines that can be put underground .. I have them all over the place even under my stone walkway .. I find they do well on the timer. I have one side to start very early in the morning and the opposite side shortly after that. I also have smaller hoses that run to my potted plants. Only problem with the potted ones is that if it rains .. they get way too much water.

My ears are burning...looking for a parking lot..Peatpod..how about something on Mainway? Isn't there an arena on Walkers where we could hide out? Oooh I got it..place I used to work..Marks Supply on Landmark off Blair, south off Mainway, just west off Walker's..nooobody there on a Saturday. Google Mark's Supply, then 'contact us' Burlington a for a map. Not too far off the QEW, s/b accessible to most.
Good sized parking lot...hmmmm.

Woop.don't know what map their using, but they're showing the QEW as the 403!. Easy Peasy to find anyhoo. Will post a date and a better map closer to trade time. Anyone have a better idea? And no...not my house..my neighbours think I'm a nutbar already. Don't need to add to their reasons to send the guys in whitecoats.

Please count me into I would love to come..

Me too. Also interested in the swap.

AM

I thought this nice warm weather would have brought some folks out here. Is there still going to be a swap. So far I have a lot of dahlias to share, as I have a way too many for myself and my neighbour. Tomorrow I will be setting out my cannas. Also I will have some brugmansia to share. ... not my variegated though. I gave away a beautiful variegated,.... before peatpod put in her dibs:(

John your breaking my heart =( I still have two but if I had my way the whole yard would be filled with them I just love the scent!!!

I am also still interested. I don't have a list ready as yet but I am so interested your brugmansia jroot. I had one from a swap two years ago and it was lovely last year but this year I did something wrong and I seems to have died. I would love to have another one, or six, they are so wonderful.

AM

amcorrigan,

We'll have to see how many surived this winter in the cold cellar. I did have some die back, and soon I'll be taking them out to get them going. I have a few favourites that I want to keep, but, as I say, we'll see what I have real soon.

Have we set a time and place yet?

Hey guys..sorry I have too much on my plate this year..bathroom reno, my sister's coming to visit, and my daughter and 2 grandkids from Calgary.
Can someone else take up the organization and date? I don't even have time to pot anything up..straight from the 2 litres and into the ground.
I know..I'm a party pooper. But, a really old party pooper who just shifted 4 cubic yards of triple mix and manure to the back yard.
Need some young'un's to get this going!

Hi all,

I just found this thread. Sorry, I've been doing bootcamp in the evenings and I don't even know where my head has been. So, here's an idea: everyone copy and paste the most updated version of this list and vote for your preferred swap weekend. You can vote for more than one weekend. Maybe we can try to choose a swap date by this Friday.

As you can see from the list below, May 18 & 31 don't work for me, but every other date is great, so I've voted for all dates except May 18 & 31.

Sat, May 17-Nadia,
Sun, May 18-

Sat, May 24-Nadia,
Sun, May 25-Nadia,

Sat, May 31-
Sun, June 1-Nadia,

Sat, June 7-Nadia,
Sun, June 8-Nadia,

I vote for sat may 24

I can't make it on the 18th. I have a house full of guests, and I have to make some of my famous pies. LOL

We seem to have two votes for Sat, May 24. What about everyone else?

Sat, May 17-
Sun, May 18-

Sat, May 24- jroot
Sun, May 25- jroot

Sat, May 31-
Sun, June 1-

Sat, June 7- jroot
Sun, June 8- jroot

WHERE are we talking about?

Oooops, something just popped up in my calendar, and I won't be able to make it on the 24th. Sorry about that.

When things aren't carved in stone, my social convenor accepts alternative activities. LOL

Well, I gather that the swap took place last weekend, on the 18th. I hope it went well. Cold as H... here. Snow here in Rockwood, this morning.

Hi, Did the swap happen already?

Hi all,

I don't think the swap has happened yet, has it? I thought we were having it in Halton somewhere. We need to choose a date first, though. Any votes?

Well, then, I stand corrected. I thought it had taken place. I do have quite a few tall dahlias in pots left over. If not traded soon, they will be sold in a yard sale.

Hi, I am intersted in a swap. Sounds like fun.
Somebody asked for tall plants. A great one is "Kiss me over the garden gate" (6', smells when in bloom, red, fall O)Persicaria orientalis. lily of the Nile is another great plant, ok in my zone 5a.
I would be willing to have it at my place (Hyw.#25 N of Acton)or in Milton. Any date, just not May 24 (cottage-time)

Karin