Hi John, Seeing that you are zone 7, I'd tell you that you're going to have to be careful with the Siam Rubies. I have a dozen banana varieties and they all took 39 degrees for a few hours here in S. Florida a few weeks ago. All came through unscathed except the AeAes and the Siam Ruby. The AeAes had moderate leaf burn, the Siam Rubies looked like someone took a blowtorch to them. Both the green and red leafed looked equally bad. The cold didn't kill them and they're already leafing out again, but they definitely seem to be more cold sensitive.

Here's my first list. Will most likely add more as I find more coming up in the garden. If I've already contacted you about things on your list, I probably sent you a personal email with my list. If you are interested in something from my list, please send me an email. If you don't have my address, click on "my page" next to "castro_gardener" then click "send an email." I look at my email a lot more than I do GardenWeb and this would make it easier for me to answer you about anything on the list. Some things need to be dug up, so let me know as soon as possible and I'll get it potted so that it will be good in time for the swap. Banana plants Ghost plant succulent Variegated vinca Society garlic Crocosmia White salvia coccinea Hidden ginger Salvia involucrata Salvia madrensis Root beer plant Texas red columbine White crinum seedlings Ruby grass Large pink rain lily Red firecracker plant / IÂm looking for yellow firecracker Thryalis Callisia fragrans Old ManÂs pipe Ficus Cissus quadrangularis / veldt grape Sanseveria  different varieties need to look up Haworthia  window plane plant Jade Salvia microphylla red Donkey ears kalanchoe Jingle Bells kalanchoe White epiphyllum /night-blooming cereus Artillery fern Aloe vera Panda Plant kalanchoe tomentosa Pregnant onion / ornithogalum caudatum Plectranthus Cuban oregano Variegated Plectranthus VickÂs plant What looks like a Golden Rain Tree Crassula / cannot find botanic variety String of hearts vine LindheimerÂs Senna Dwarf bamboo Coral bean Century plant agave Salvia coccinea cherry blossom Tropical milkweed / asclepias Air potato bulbs / dioscorea bulbifera Ruellia squarrosa See you soon ! patty

Well I was wondering where the follow up comments for the Buda swap were! So glad I revisited this thread. I really enjoyed meeting you all and putting a face to some of the forum participants, learning about new plants and being on the receiving end of warm and generous swappers. I spent much of the afternoon after the swap finding a new home in my garden for all the plants although I will admit that I forgot what some are! And then I went online to google information about some of them and their care. Thank you so much Charlotte and swappers for making my first swap experience such a pleasant one and I hope to be much better prepared and knowledgable when I come to the next one. While I got to talk a bit with some of you, I feel there are many more who I'd like to get to know. Patty has been sharing some swap etiquette information with me and I hope you all will provide me a bit of slack if I overstepped, as I'm still a bit fuzzy about rules/etiquette and expectations. And I invite you to contact me if you have any advice or comments about our interaction as that will be a big help and an opportunity to get to know you. Already plotting in preparation for the next swap and might like to also bring some nonplant garden items to share with you. Cal

I had a great time on Saturday. I loved meeting everyone. Thank you all for your generosity. My husband wanted to stop and watch a movie as soon as we left the park. Ugh! I looked and smelled ferocious, but we stopped and watched Captain Phillips. Awesome movie. We took our time driving back and stopped and had dinner. All in all, we had a great day. Thanks again everyone! I worked in the yard all day yesterday. My body is paying for it today at work! Thank goodness I'm not busy. Can't wait until the next plant swap. See you then! Darlene