Katkin - I've got 6 in one gallon cans. All are growing in the shade. I'll start moving one into the sun for you.

I'd like to join in and meet the folks I've been reading about for the past two years. I'm new to Florida gardening and need all the help I can get. I've left all my gardening friends in New Hampshire. I'll bring a desert.
Marion

I might be able to make it. About how long would it take me to get there from Miami? I'd have a ton of heirloom tomatoes by that time that I could bring for trading. Lots of them will probably be grafted by that point (I graft onto a nematode resistant rootstock). Growing 44 varieties and all will be started by that point. I'm sure my mom (a gardening nut from fort lauderdale would love to come).

How many folks are you expecting?

Thanks,

Carlos-
Miami

Got it on my calendar and looking forward to it!

Palm City is about 90 miles North of Miami.Heirloom tomatoes sound fantastic! I was drooling over some at the local grocer..$3.50 per tomato! They looked wonderful, but I didn't buy them. Katkin, please do list what plants you plan on bringing. I'm working on my parents 50th wedding anniversary party right now and haven't had time to get out there and propogate much. I need to get busy!

Fawn, is there a plant I have you would want in trade? Ok, Megan, here's a partial list.
Black robe
bulbine, yelllow
bulbine, yellow/orange
spathogolittis, purple
clerodendrum, starburst
red turks cap
I'll see what else I can come up with.

Hello everyone! Here is a beginning list of what I will be able to bring to the swap -
Alocasia Odora
Alocasia Reginula "Black Velvet"
Colocasia antiquorium "Illustris"
Colocasia esculenta "Red Stem"
Roses-
Duchess Du Barbant
Louis Philippe
Daylillies -
NOID Red
Thunbergia Erecta-Kings Mantle
Caesalpinia Pulcherrima- Dwarf Poinciana [yellow and orange)
Hardy Hibiscus -
Red Shield
October Rose
Blue-eyed Grass

Cuttings- if you contact me early I will try to get some of these rooted for you!
Coleus - many varieties, contact me for a list
Brugmansia - NOID yellow and Pink
Tithonia Diversaflora
Cat's Whiskers [white]
Thunbergia Grandiflora
Crocosimia [bulbs]
Jatropha Glossypifolia [I may have seeds for this by the swap]
I will try to add to this as time comes closer to the swap. Anyone who is new and doesn't have much to trade please feel free to ask if something on my list appeals to you. Alot of these are "extras" that I don't have room for and would just like to see go to a good home.

Megan, If the Lord's willing and the Devil doesn't hinder...I would Love to come! I have a few bromeliads I could bring. Please,just keep bugging me or remind me every couple of weeks to get me motivated. Should I pot them now ,or just bring them bare root ? Peggy

Peggy - don't cut or dig them until the morning of the swap. Then just bring them bare root. I will fill a couple of 7 gallon cans with bromeliads.

Hi Everyone,
I'd love to join in. I've never been to one before, but they sound like fun. I can just see my husband's face now- more plants! Are slightly deranged spouses allowed in? I'll post a list of plants I'll bring when I talk my hubby into it :D

P.S.
I'd love cannas if anyone has some to bring!!!

I'll bring chips and a big salad.

For plants I'll bring Cherimoya seedlings, Flamethrower Palms, Low-bearing Papayas, hopefully some rooted Mulberry cuttings, tomato starts, "American Beauty" Dragon Fruit cuttings, and whatever else I can spare.

Does anyone need "Condo Mango" scions to graft to their own trees? If so, contact me. I have Fairchild, Mallika, Ice Cream, Lancetilla and Cogshall.

Lisa

Lisa - save me a Flamethrower Palm, and let me know what you'd like in trade!

WOW. Go away for a few weeks and look whats going on. I would love to come to this swap. I have a few things started and am now in the process of cutting back and doing up more starts. I'll get a list together as soon as possible. This will be great.
Dale

Yay!!! I'm going, and DH will come along to help pick out trades. We'll bring chips and salsa for everyone. As for plants, I'll be bringing the following for sure:
porterweed (purple)
elephant ears (common green)
tall, red pinecone ginger
plantain trees
aloe (petrophila?)
aloe (camperi?)
bromeliads
canna indica
Plus I've got lots of seeds I'll be planting in September, so whatever else I grow extra of and can fit in my car :)

I live in Lake Worth, but it seems this will be worth the drive:)

I will tentatively confirm and will bring a side like potato salad/macaroni salad.

Plants I will bring include:
Cannas
Dusty Miller
Snow on the Mountain
Hibiscus cuttings (various)
Bamboo Dracaena
Snake PLant
Fern cuttings
Plumbago cuttings
Tibouchina cuttings

Megan,
I'll be there. Got to get busy digging, too. Hope to be bringing

African/walking Iris (yellow)
Aromatic ginger
various orchid shoots
various ferns
Oyster Plant
Banana plant sprouts (3 varieties)
Various bromeliads
whatever else we can think of to dig up
junglebaby aka Gussie

This looks like fun. I''ll have to put it on my calendar. Not sure what I have at the moment. I'll try and get some things together if I have time.

OK .kids...I have lots of plants...but,VERY big cold feet! LOL...any suggestions ? Peggy

Sorry gang but I'm not going to be able to make it. It's not often that I let business get in the way of pleasure but there's just too much money in this one. I'll be out of the state that weekend. Hopefully before the end of the year or in the early spring I'll have a plant swap & barbecue here in Boca Raton. Stay tuned!

In light of the devestation Katrina has caused, I will be collecting/delivering ANYTHING anyone wants to bring, for the vicitms. I know the folks in Louisiana and Alabama have a long road ahead of them,and sadly, I doubt things will be any where near normal by October 16. It's been almost a year since Frances & Jeanne hit here, and we still have blue roofs in my neighborhood. If anyone wants to bring water,canned goods,manual can openers, toiletries, hygeine items,baby wipes, blankets, OFF, toothpaste, toothbrushes,ready to eat tuna cracker snack pack things..anything at all...I'll make sure they get there. I have a friend who owns an 18 wheeler/semi truck willing to haul goods up there.

Megan

We're up to sixteen participants for the swap! Awesome! Fawnridge-sorry your plans changed. Bring your pruners and some grocery plastic bags-things I don't get propagated you can dig/chop to take home. So far I have rooted and pottted-
Brugmansia-Peach-2-may have B. Charles Grimaldi and B. Super Nova
Giant Begonia-4
Crinum Lily-Pink-5
Acalypha sp.-1 (purplish red, whorled leaves, serrated edge)
Giant purple Porterweed-Stachytarpheta mutabilis-6
Turk's Cap-Malaviscus arborea-4
Mexican Flame Vine-Senecio confusus-2-have many seeds also
Tri-color Oyster plants-3-new? cultivar-white with lavender & green stripes
Butterfly Bush-Clerodendrum ugandese-2
Red Stem Elephant Ear-Alocasia esculentes "Red Stem" -5
Candle Bush-Senna atala-2
Ti plants-Cordylines-assorted, not the common ones from HD-7
Heliconias-A few potted/literally THOUSANDS in the ground, you dig-Heliconia-classic small orange-most likely Heliconia psittacorum Choconiana
Red/Yellow-most likely H. p. Lady Di
Orange to red,like a sunset-possibly H. p. Andromeda
If some of the more exotic varieties keep spreading-H.? Yellow Christmas,
H. rostrata-Lobster Claw,
H. ? bright red pendant type

Hi Megan, save a butterfly bush for me please and let me know what you want.

I'm very excited to be coming (DH even wants to come !!) We have never been to a swap before!! Plan on bringing brownies to share.
Unfortunately many of my cuttings didnt like all the rain last week and look a little sick, but I'm going to work on more this weekend.
Megan - you were going to try to root a giant milkweed for me ... did it take ?
I will post back when I figure out what I will have for trade.

I think we will end up making this one! I'll start making a list of things I can bring and start rooting some stuff soon. I'll probably at least have four golden lotus banana's rooted by then.

Alright here is what i have:

Golden lotus banana pups (4)
Royal poinciana seedlings (4)
Dwarf pineapple top, newly planted in pot (1)
Key lime seedling (1)
Orange seedling (1, possibly 2)
Lime seeding (1)
Kalanchloe (sp?)/mother of thousands (lots!)
Suriname cherry seedling (2)
Possibly a few cuttings of purple sweet potato vine
Purple hyancinth bean seed pods
May bring several other types of seeds.

I'm a small container gardener, so I don't know how much I will be able to trade!

Looks like I am going to have to pass on the swap ... a "support a friend in need" request has been made, and she has been too good of a friend for me not to honor it.
I hope everyone has a wonderful time ... I will be thinking about you.

I have a pink flowered bougie that I am bringing. Hopefully someone has room for it. It's in a pot, but it never does good for me. :(

I recently moved back to Jupiter after spending the last 5 years in CT. I was invloved in several plant swaps in CT and even hosted one myself. I would love to meet some local gardeners! Believe it or not, I was even a tropical gardener in CT. I loved going out to the greenhouse in the snow and sitting there in the warmth surrounded by orchids, and all my tropical plants and pretending I was back in Florida.

I will go outside and make a list of what I can divide, dig up, clip off and bring.

Right off the bat, I have a huge pot of mature Bouganvilla, the typical hot pink variety. The previous owner of the house we bought left it in a pot and stuck it out back in amongst a lot of trees. We had to cut all the branches off to get it out of the trees it was wedged in between, but it is growing back and filling out very nicely. I also have tons of psiticorum type Heliconia and the stadard variety of elephant ear.

Mistiaggia, I would love, love, love one of your Golden Louts banana pups.

I will bring a potato sald or pasta salad.

Cherie

I'll be attending with Chris and Misty :)
I am offering some seeds of the rare Ursulaea macvaughii. There are only two plants in this genus... and they are truely AMAZING! really breathtaking.. the inflorecense actually looks like if it has snow on it.. Well its actually scurf wich looks like velvety snow. ALSO take in note that the inflorecense is large about 2' long you can imagine the beauty! I am looking for anything uncommon, or cool. Let me know what you have!!

Here are two pictures from 'FCBS'

-Jc
I any one is interested e-mail me at Jcreef@bellsouth.net

Is this a private swap? I feel badly now that I invited myself and no one has responded.

Cherie

Cherie, as far as I know, the swap is for any interested Garden Web member.

Welcome back to Jupiter! I'm in the farms. Would love to have you visit here.

See you at the swap for sure!

Lisa

Thanks Lisa,

I am in the Farms as well, we could be neighbors!

I will send an e-mail to Megan since she is hosting to make sure she does not mind that I attend.

I will post a list tongiht of what I can bring.

Cherie

Megan, where do we park? Can you describe your house please? I'm better at looking for a specific description than I am at counting as I drive(G).

What road do we turn right on?

Lisa

Megan, Thanks for the e-mail. I will definitely attend. I will bring a potato or pasta salad and the following plants:

Large pot of Bouganvilla
Canna Tropicana (1 or 2 rhizomes)
Canna Pretoria (Bengal Tiger), 1 or 2 rhizomes
Costus Spicatus (Indianhead Ginger) 3 starts
Nobile type Dendrobium pups (unusual flower, have lost track of name, will look for picture)
Monstera Deliciosa (Swiss Cheese Plant)
Clerodendrum thomsoniae (Bleeding Heart vine)rooted cutting
Fishtail Palm Seedlings (I have tons of these popping up)
White Butterfly Ginger (smells great) 1 or 2 rhizomes
Walking Iris (white)
Xanthosoma Albo marginata variegata (Mickey Mouse taro)
Colocasia esculenta (violet stem taro) small starts
Colocasia Illustris (small starts)
Alocasia Hilo Beauty (if I can get apart without destroying mother plant)
Unknown Alocasia (dark leaves looks like Plumbea Nigra, but not sure)
Unknown elephant ear- slightly smaller and darker than the ordinary green ones

I also have the following available. If anyone wants any of this let me know and I will make sure to bring:
Cuttings: Scarlet Passion Vine, Passion Vine "Jeannette", Thunbergia Grandiflora
Ordinary Green Elephant Ears
Psiticorum type Heliconia
Adonida palm Seedlings (lot of them popping up under trees)

I'm looking forward to meeting all of you.

Cherie

Does anyone know what time this swap starts? I have a meeting at 11:30 that I can't miss, but I so want to attend to meet you all and soak up your knowlege.
Thanks,
Marion

Hi All, I have been busy painting and haven't gotten back to look at this, but I'll be there. Katlyn,WPB I have cannas for you I'll divide, plus the other plants I mentioned earlier. Email me anyone, if there is anything else I have that you want.

I found the exact directions and time for the swap. All I had to do was to look around a bit more(G).

Lisa

Here is a link that might be useful: Swap info

I'll put signs out at the end where you turn right off of Hwy 714/36th St and one by my mailbox that says GardenWeb Party. Don't want any garage sale folks thinking it's a plant sale. I have a circular driveway and figured everyone can just pull around until there's no more room. The one swap I went to everyone put their plants by their cars, but we have several tables we can use. I've never hosted one before, what has everyone else done with their plants at swaps? Swap is 10a.m. until whenever. Does everyone want name tags?

Megan

Megan, my DH and I are hoping to come, too, and think name tags would be a great idea as they help everyone to get to know one another. :-) I look forward to seeing everyone from the PSL area again and meeting lots of new faces! :-)
Meredith22

Forgot to mention. We'll be bringing a case of bottled water on ice.

RE plantlife, we'll have bromeliads, Mexican heather, ferns, butterfly plant, ruby grapefruit seedlings, possibly rooted Hawaiian vine cuttings and whatever else we manage to pull out of the garden by then for whoever wants them.

We're on the lookout for bamboo, banana pups (anybody have ice cream?), mulberries, papayas, short variety gingers & heliconias, crepe myrtle, any type of berry bushes and areca palms. Thanks!

I have an ice cream banana Meredith. I'll be bringing one if I can dig it out!

Wow, JC, I want an Ursula....seed! Don't know if I have anything rare or weird you want, but..you can dig up what ever you want.

I was just re-reading the posts to get a head count/names, somehow I spaced Fawnridge was the one bringing the pulled pork..soo.. he can't come..are burgers and hotdogs okay with everyone? DH will be on a Harley poker run thing, so burgers and dogs will be easy for me and feed the masses. If you are vegetarian, please bring your own Bocaburgers or soy dogs, if you don't like boigers or dogs, bring your favorite lunch.
I have a large boat cooler for ice,it'll be full of bottled water. If anyone wants sodas or iced tea, please speak up about that too, and I'll add some to the cooler.

As far as where everyone will put their plants....hmmm..I guess we'll play it by ear! It sure will be great to meet all the fellow GardenWeb citizens!

Megan

I think name tags would be good. Some of us have never met before.

I've never met anyone, so yeah name tags would be great! I'm so excited. Planning on labeling stuff I'm bringing tonight. :)

I am bringng a folding table to put plants on. I started dividing stuff this afternoon and potting some stuff. Will finish up tomorrow and get things labeled.

Name tags are a great idea.

Cherie

Mistiaggie, that would be great! Thanks so much! I've been wanting one for years. I hope your web name is on your nametag. Mine will be. :-)

Megan

If things work out I would like to join in on tomorrows swap,, I live in Stuart and would come over the palm city bridge are you back in that neighborhood to the left right after the bridge?

Thanks
Peg

I'll bring a table/chairs and will have room to share space.

I have extra labels for plants if anyone needs them.

Freshly picked Miracle Fruits, and home-grown Lemons so you can try out the "miracle."

Megan, do you need paper plates/cups/bowls/plastic ware? Or anything else?

I've really been looking forward to meeting you all!

Lisa

TriElysian- Turn left at foot of bridge (Cornell) follow to 36th St., left to St Lucie Shores Dr., right to the signs.

Gus

Had a great time at the plant trade, It was nice meeting you all, and thanks for all the wonderful plants!! For those of you that didnt get those bromeliad seeds I will be mailing them out tommorow!

-Jc