Hi Gals and Guys,

Just got back from fishing and on my way back we stopped in at Minter Gardens. Mr. Brian Minters was sweeping the floor at the front entrace!!!

Anyway, I bought a sedum purple emperer. I think Katherine was looking for it. Can I bring a rosette for propagation? Or should we wait until the Spring?

Karen.

Helen: we're going to miss you but we'll just catch up in Spring.

Erka: the grape boxes will be just fine. I have a source for the fish boxes now.

GF: That's the problem with owning your own business - you gotta do all the dirty work yourself. I think sedums always root no matter when. I have a bunch that has been sitting on a soil-less tray all year that is still alive.

Anyone with experience or interest in native plants who would like a shoot of asarum caudatum (wild ginger) or cornus canadensis (bunchberry)?

Lily, I would love a piece of that bunchberry. If you have any hints on how to grow it as well, that wouldn't hurt!

JJ, those hostas are yours.

Lily I would love some bunchberry as well if you have anymore to spare.

Thanks bcgift, I'll bring a couple of tip cuttings then for Katherine and whoever else wants it. Right now it's just two stems though it wasn't cheap. I also saw a Razzmatazz echinacea there too in a 4 inch square pot and had carried it around for a while until I noticed it was 29.99!

K.

GF & KarinL - For sure. I've never grown bunchberry before, but it seems to like a mulch of rotting wood & leaves, and lots of shade. If we all try, then hopefully we can share our successes. I've linked a nice article.

Here is a link that might be useful: Article about Cornus Canadensis

Hi Lily:

Have you got anymore of the bunchberry and wild ginger to spare?

JJ

Hey Lily,
I'm soooo sorry! I can't come now! I'll be in Seattle all day. I've been inundated with projects, new job, life, etc and haven't been a very good garden buddy, I'm afraid. But, I'll be there in spirit! I am saving some tomato seeds and also may be getting rid of my seed stock from my website for cheap so let me know if there's anything you'd be interested in.

See you guys some other time!
leaf

Vincent, I just realized that my promise to you of a piece of Dutchman's pipe vine was a little rash. I went to dig and divide it today only to see that its multiple stems all arise from a single trunk, so it is not divisible as I had thought. I will have to try harder to root a cutting for you or layer it for next year.

Well push is coming to shove as we near our date and I still have more stuff I'd like to move out. I am not needing much in return at the moment and will trade for future considerations.

I have three baby mophead hydrangeas, garden variety blue, cuttings from a very rewarding plant.

And two baby Salix yezo-alpina, a ground cover shrublet for sun whose leaves emerge nice and fuzzy in spring.

One Kirengeshoma palmata (yellow wax bells), a tall perennial for shade or part sun with - what else? - waxy yellow bell-shaped flowers, blooming now.

Here are photos of some others. Google can find better images of many of these plants, but I have some photos of the very plants available.
Fetchingly arranged in the wheelbarrow, left to right, top to bottom:

Xanthoceras sorbifolium (2) (a thicket-forming shrub with tiny brownish-red flowers)
Oakleaf hydrangeas (2)
Viburnum rhytidophyllum (leatherleaf)
Very small but later very big Blue hosta - elegans?
Dichroa febrifugia - blue flowers, blue berries
Saxifrage umbrosa primuloides - fantastic ground cover for dry shade and anywhere else
Eriophyllum (Oregon Sunshine) - ground cover for sun
Cystopteris bulbifera - a delicate creeping deciduous fern

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If anyone's Dichroa from spring didn't survive, don't be embarrassed; ask for another. I have lots.

I'm sorry to hear that Leaf and Helen won't be able to attend. Spring will be here soon though!!

I am going over my lists - Helen, will your friend Li still be attending the swap?

WCG

Here is a link that might be useful: Ist thread for the swap

Just re-read both threads to double check my trading notes. I'll email everyone I am trading with over the next couple of days to make sure I haven't missed anything.

Lily - I missed your offer of asters the first time around. I'd like a white and purple one if you still have them available.

As far as I know, Li is coming. She said she'll try and bring as much of the extra as possible too. Her garden is very nice. Wish I have a big yard like hers :-)

Aaack! A mistake in my list above. First item in the wheelbarrow is Xanthorhiza simplicissima (Yellowroot), not Xanthoceras as listed. Description is correct, however.

Also sorry to hear our numbers will be down, and hope more folks can make it in spring again.

I am glad to hear that Li is still coming Helen. Has she indicated what she would like from our lists? I would like to make sure I bring some plants that she would specifically want in trade for the ones on her list I have an interest in.

Also, has anyone heard from Bluebloom? I just realized she hasn't posted at all.

WCG

I've spoken to Bluebloom - she's still trying to catch up and also get ready for parent's visit so she isn't coming
as of the last time I heard from her.

I emailed Lisa aka Totalchoas this morning.

Will report any news as it comes in.

Karen.

Hi everybody,
I'm still not sure that I can make it to the swap but...
Karin can I have Salix yezo-alpina and Kirengeshoma palmata, please ;-)?
Anna

Li didn't mention what she wanted when I saw her last week. I think she's more into finding homes for her extras then looking for much of anything.

JJ - Yes to the bunchberry & wild ginger, the more of us try to establish these, the better luck we'll succeed.

WCG - Yes to the asters, I'll set aside the one purple & one pot of mixed white/purple (not sure of which).

Does anyone have any physalis (chinese lanterns) which they can spare? I'd love to start this (yes I've been warned, it can really spread).

Anna, yes you can have those, whether you make it to the swap or not. Perhaps someone who lives convenient to you can take your plants for you...?

Lily, if you are spreading your bunchberry a little thin with so many divisions, I can wait for another time for mine.

WCG: Earlier this Spring you mentioned the fragrance of your Robinia (honey locust) - I meant to ask you before but forgot about it. Did you by any chance collect seed or any volunteers ?

Hi all:

Trying to get it all together for the swap. A lot of the seedlings I started early this year bit the dust - slugs slugs slugs - the dirty devils, mice, aphids, you name the plague - I had it. I learned a lot, though, during my first winter sowing and growing, and won't be making the same mistakes again. Bought a lot of plants this summer but most are too small to divide. Took cuttings a couple of weeks ago but most didn't take. Therefore, what I have left to offer are a few plants and quite a few seeds I harvested this summer. Anybody interested in anything I have listed below?

LILY - Thanks for saving the bunchberry division and wild ginger division for me. If those are too many divisions I can wait till next time. Do you still have the Geranium Victor Reiter plant and Allium giganteum seed heads? I have Chinese Lantern seeds from last year if you want them.

KAREN - Yes, your Yucca has survived nicely. I got it for my father. He loves those. He wants a red one too but I don't know anyone who has one. Do you still have tricyrtis hirta? I can't find the one you gave me at the spring swap. Maybe the slugs got that too.

ANNA - if by chance you are coming to the swap can you spare a Begonia Grandis seedling or 2, the Gunnera manicata, and a Phlox subulata rooted cutting?

VMARCOS - Do you still have Godetia seed pods? What colour are the flowers? Do you still have the Camellia 'kramer's supreme? I've been looking for that one. Have you got any cuttings from your Arctic Kiwi vine?

Plants I have available

Aquilegia (Columbine) 'magpie' - division - (1)
Buddleja (butterfly bush)-a medium purple with blue tints cuttings taken in spring that have already flowered-2' high (1)
Carex Pendula - small now, will get huge eventually
Chelidonium majus ('double-flowered' greater Celandine) - small plants
Dicentra Formosa - 1 plant
Ferns: sword ferns (Polystichum munitum) - 1 small
lady ferns (Athyrium filix-femina) - 6 small
deer ferns (Blechnum Spicant) - 2 small
Hesperis (sweet rocket)
Meconopsis Cambrica (Welch poppy) - orange or yellow
Pelargonium 'Fireworks' - pink bi-colour - 1 (has to be taken inside for winter)
Persicaria bistorta - (1)
Strobilanthes dyerianus (Persian Shield) - 3 (have to be taken inside for winter)
Vinca minor

cuttings: these look like they will make it - cut these Aug. 28

Salvia elegans 'honey melon' - (1)
Lemon Verbena

My seeds so far - (all harvested in summer/05)

Agastache 'apricot sprite'
Anemanthele lessoniana (syn. Stipa arundinacea) - wind grass
Aquilegia (columbine) - 'Magpie'
Aquilegia (columbine) - Nora Barlow
Aquilegia (columbine) - light pink
Aquilegia (columbine) - medium blue
Aquilegia (columbine) - purple
Arabis blepharophylla 'spring charm'
Arctotis hybrid 'Sun Spot'
Astrantia major (Masterwort)
Buddleja 'black knight'
Carex Pendula
Centaurea dealbata
Centranthus (Valerian) - red
Chelidonium majus 'flore pleno' (double greater celandine)
Chichorium intybus (Chicory)
Coreopsis 'Limerock Ruby'
Corydalis cheilanthifolia
Corydalis lutea
Corydalis ochroleuca
Delphinium 'black knight'
Dicentra formosa
Eragrostis (lovegrass) 'ruby silk'
Grindelia integrifolia (gumweed) - yellow
Hesperis lutea (syn. Sisymbrium luteum)
Hesperis matronalis
Heliopsis 'Loraine Sunshine'
Impatiens - crystal tempo mix - dark pink
Impatiens - crystal tempo mix - light pink
Impatiens - crystal tempo mix - 'mosaic lilac'
Impatiens - crystal tempo mix - purple
Impatiens - crystal tempo mix - salmon
Lunaria annua
Luzula nivea (snowy woodrush)
Lychnis Coronaria
Lychnis Coronaria 'Angel's Blush'
Meconopsis cambrica - orange & yellow mix
Myrrhis odorata (sweet cicely)
Morning glory - mix (purples, blue, pink, white, etc.)
Oenothera (evening primrose) - this one grew to 6' tall in 1/2 shade.
Multi-branching, bright yellow, fragrant, counted 200 blooms in succession.
Papaver somniferum mix - singles, doubles, different colours
Persicaria bistorta
Senetti magenta (might not come true from seed)
Sisymbrium luteum (syn. Hesperis lutea)
Thalictrum aquilegifolium
Thalictrum rochebrunianum 'lavender mist'

JJ

JJ - Yes to bunchberry, wild ginger, geranium "Victor Reiter", and allium giganteum seed head. Sure, I would like some chinese lantern seeds. Also, any of these you can spare & have time to prepare: cutting of lemon verbena, seeds of buddleia 'black knight', Coreopsis 'Limerock Ruby', Corydalis ochroleuca, delphinium 'black knight', heliopsis 'lorraine sunshine', lychnis 'angel's blush', and Thalictrum 'lavender mist'.

Now that I've made arrangements for enough plants to leave the yard that I will be able to breathe, I have some brain space left over to think about stuff that others have posted as being available.

Anna - if you are coming - is there still a leftover Begonia grandis?

Vincent - if you are coming - which Viburnums do you have to try for cuttings?

Helen, could you ask Li if she could spare a piece of Holcus mollis?

Karen, will you have your monster pick-up truck there? Not because I want to trade for it :-) but because if so I can try to bring the big Viburnum. I can't get to the Physocarpus yet.

Finally, Erka, if you will have a few extra pieces of that Dahlia Pat Feary, I would like to try one - could I interest you in a Hosta Sagae or Grand Tiara in trade?

Hi KarinL,

No I won't have the monster truck. I'm too scared to drive it. I've only got my PT Cruiser that day. I will have to have hubby drive the monster truck some other day. Does BCgift not want it though? I thought she was asking about it earlier? It is very fragrant when in bloom around late winter. It's definitely a wafter and I know she's all about fragrance.

Hi Karin. The viburnums I have are pink beauty, burkwood and snowflake I believe. Also a bodnantese somewhere too which is winter flowering.

I have a pile of godetia stems with pods on them in my wheel barrel right now. They have silky multicoloured petals with a single spot usually, pink and white for example. I can bring the cuttings Jazzy. I will have to hustle tomorrow.

GF: I didn't want the Viburnum, it's yours - besides I'm sure Karin has small rooted cuttings and if not, I'll get
some from you later when I want it.

I'm not coming but BCGift will bring my trades to and from the swap-thank you BCGift.
See you all in the Spring.
Anna

LILY - Thanks so much for all you can spare. And yes to all you want.

VMARCOS - What did you want in return?

Does anybody else want anything from my list?

GF, I have a friend who would like to start some Black Krim tomatoes, and I found that you have seeds for those in your list. Can I trade you something for that?

VMarcos - You mention daylilies on your wants list, do you want a start of "Kwanzo" (double/triple orange)?

Here is a link that might be useful: Hemerocallis

Hi All,

I've just been peeping at your posts from time to time, but alas won't be making it to this swap so dare not engage; still have some leftover trading with some of you. Will have to catch up later individually or at the spring swap.

Have fun... weather looks like it'll be great!

Hi Everyone,

I haven't emailed everyone yet - but I am getting there!

Murphy's Law: My son's first hockey game was scheduled for this afternoon and has now been moved to tomorrow afternoon!!! I will be arriving at the swap at 1:30 exactly and will have about half an hour to trade. Waaahhhhh.

WCG

WCG: Darn! That means I won't get to chat with you, as I will be coming late (I work tomorrow until 3:00). I am still interested in the peat moss, though. I would prefer to thank you in person, but I will still reserve some carnivorous critters for you when I get them germinated, though. I should have Drosera rotundifolia added to the list soon, too. (I can't resist those carnivorous critters, especially the native ones).

I won't be there till 2 at the earliest so if I miss you
please leave my things with Karin or whomever. I'm pretty
central to everybody.

I can stay a few minutes after 2pm BCGift.

Magus - I will leave your peat moss and the white iris I promised you.

Hopefully I will have more time in the spring, but if I recall correctly I was rushing off to get the same son to baseball that day!

WCG

Westcoast Garden: I will be arriving around 2 pm tomorrow and have the bowling ball and Pat Feary dahlia for you. Hope to see you before you leave. If not, will some one relay the above to you?

Hi everyone!

I hope your gardens all had a good summer. Unfortunately, I have 2 soccer games and a birthday party to attend at 1:30. Thank you Karen and Lily for keeping me in mind. I am very disappointed that I can't make it. My son told me today he wants to try some winter sowing so I plan to see you all in the spring!

Lisa

Oh dear. That illustrates why my kids are in individual rather than team sports... :-)

You have a lovely garden Lily. I wish I was able to spend more time in it and had the time to visit with everyone!

I hope I didn't forget any trade items - please remind me if I did!!

Thanks again for hosting Lily.

Katherine
(westcoastgarden)

Stargazer Lily: Thanks for hosting the swap in your beautiful yard. It was a wonderful afternoon.

Thanks for all the plants, JJ, Li and Stargazer. Tomorrow, Susan and I will be planting at the traffic bulges. If any of you are in the UBC area, do drive by the garden/traffic bulges at 8th Avenue & TRimble. We try to keep these beds in bloom for as long as possible.

KarinL: I just saw your request for Pat Feary. I will save a tuber for you for the spring swap. Sorry I missed your message.

Thanks Lily for hosting the swap.

Thanks everyone for their plants and for taking mine.

Gorgeous yard!!!

Can't wait until the Spring swap for more gardening chatter.

Karen.

Lily thank you and your husband so much for hosting, and all for the delightful afternoon. In particular, nice that you and your wife were able to make that long trip, Vincent, and thank you for the HUGE phygelius, for which eventually that Dutchman's Pipe will be forthcoming.

Erka, not to worry; I totally forgot about the Dahlia too.

Lily: Thank you for hosting the swap. You've done a great job with the garden and it was a real pleasure spending the afternoon there. And thanks to your wonderful hubby and kids for their hospitality and for
putting up with us.

Everybody: It was fun catching up with everyone, not to
mention all the goodies I came home with. Thank you.

It was nice to meet everyone for the first time or again. We enjoyed getting out for a change.

Hope to also trade some dahlias next Spring.

I mostly have collected dinner plate varieties from Ferncliffe Gardens. Some that Ive misplaced the names but I have names to about ten of them. Should have some divisions when I dig them up and label them. I can post a list of the dahlias on the other website.

Thank you to Lily for hosting such a great swap, and thank you to everyone for the wonderful trades. The landscaper is finishing up my new flower beds as I type this, so soon all my new treasures will have a lovely new home.
It was great seeing familiar faces and meeting new ones.

LILY - Thank you so much for your hospitality and all the great plants you gave me at the swap. What a lovely way to spend a Sunday afternoon - chatting about plants with interesting people. I really enjoyed myself. An extra thanks for the bonus BBQ. Tell your hubby he makes tasty hot dogs!

And thanks again to everyone for sharing all your plants and seeds with me. I really appreciate it. I hope to share a lot of my winter-sown seedlings with you all at the spring swap.

JJ

Thanks again for hosting the swap, Lily. And thanks to your husband for the great dogs! It was fun, especially looking at your great garden! I wish I had that much soil to put my plants into. Sigh.

Heather_81, sorry I missed you there. I had to work in the morning, so I couldn't come until 4:30ish. I still have those Black Barlow columbines, if you still want it. I can drop it off sometime later maybe.

Thank you to all who attended the fall swap, and for your great generosity to share your plants, your gardening advice, and your afternoon. I thoroughly enjoyed meeting with each of you - old friends & new alike.

Aren't we having wonderful weather, for planting all our new treasures? We are so blessed.

I look forward to seeing you all in the Spring, wherever we shall meet. Until then, happy gardening!

Lily