I've started posting the plants that I will bring for the plant swap on my blog:

http://katieskitchengarden.blogspot.com/search/label/plant swap

I'm including several of photos of the plants in their summer glory. As I dig up plants for the swap over the next month, I will add to this list and photo collection.

Here is a link that might be useful: Katie's Kitchen Garden-Plant Swap

If you are coming to this swap, DON'T buy any tomatoes before you come. I have a ton of different seedlings. I choose my tomatoes for taste and color. Most of them are heirloom tomatoes.

Just out of curiousity, Is this mainly a vegeatable swap or flower swap?

Mostly people bring flowers. I bring a combination of perennials, herbs, and vegetables.

This is awesome! I look forward to attending!

Masiel

Bummer! I will be out of town for two weeks and will miss that day. I did get to meet IndyRose today, though!

This swap sounds great. I have some hostas, daylilies, and miscellaneous perennials to divide. I'll bring my extras to the swap. Thanks for organizing this event.

Pete

Hi Katie,

I am very interested in your hellebores. Do you see anything in my trade list that might interest you for an exchange?

Masiel

Masiel:

I'm interested in your scented geraniums. I would be happy to trade some hellebores for them. I saw that you also want sweet autumn clematis. I can bring some of that too. I have plenty.

Katie

Yey! I'm excited!!

My sister and I are planning to attend :)

Jenny

I'm glad that you and your sister will come. My sister is coming, too.

I am planning on attending.....sounds like a lot of FUN!

I hope that you all are able to bring friends and family members. The more people we have, the greater our plant selection will be!

I have a question.....I have never attended one of these before. Do all the plants go in one area or are they separated as to who brought what? Are you only allowed to choose as many items as you bring?

Thanks...........

Seabeemom:

People typically find a spot on the lawn and to place all their plants. Then we go in rounds. The first couple of rounds, everyone gets to choose one plant. Then we choose 2 or three plants at a time for the next couple of rounds. After several rounds, in the past we have just opened the plants selection without going in rounds. We open up the selection once people have gotten what they want and there are leftovers. We are on an honor system for taking as many plants as we bring. There aren't any plant monitors. I typically take home fewer plants than I bring, but that's okay because I get some great plants and I always bring 100+ plants. As I clean up my yard in the spring, I pot up the volunteer plants and divisions, so it's easy to accumulate dozens of plant starts and divisions.

I plan on attending again this year. It was so much fun last year.
I will be bringing:
Pink Turtlehead
Black-eyed Susans
Sedum - Brilliant
Hosta

Russ,

I'm glad that you are coming again this year!

Perennials

• 6 Siberian or Japanese iris (purple)

• 4 moonbeam coreopsis

• 3 lamium (either pink pewter or purple dragon)

• 6 sweet woodruff

• 3 hellebores/Lenten Rose (either pink or cream)

• 6 monarda/bee balm (Jacob Klein-red)

• 3 purple coneflower

• 1 salvia (May Night-purple)

• 6 short bearded reblooming iris (yellow, purple, or light blue---probably purple)

• 3 hardy geranium (dark pink) (Max Frei)

• 1 Â lily (stargazer)

• 1 daylily-probably blacked eyed stella, but I'm not certain

• 1 snowball viburnum

• 8 Stella d'Oro daylilies

• 3 ruby red stella daylilies

• 3 rosy returns daylilies

• 5 pink or red hardy hibiscus

• 3 drumstick allium

• 3 lamb's ear, Helen Von Stein (large leaves, clumping rather than spreading)

• 5 black eyed susans

• 6 heliopsisÂ

• 3 unknown small variegated hostas

• 3 unknown solid small green hostas

• 3 sweet autumn clematis

• 1 fern

• 3 light pink hardy geranium

Unknown small variegated hosta

Unknown small solid hosta
Basil

• 3 sweet

• 3 lime

• 3 lemonÂ

• 3 thai

8 red or yellow raspberries

Tomatoes

• 3 Fred Limbaugh

• 3 Henderson Wins All

• 3 Bloody Butcher

• 3 Japanese Trifele

• 3 Chocolate Stripes

• 3 1884

• 3 Supersweet 100

• 3 Orange Russian

• 3 Roma

• 3 Black Krim

• 5 Brandywine

• 10 Black cherry

Hardy light pink geranium

I will be in attendence again this year. This is so much fun! There will be at least two more gardeners with me. I can't wait!

More photos of what I'm going to bring to the swap. Â Most of these photos were taken last summer when the flowers were in bloom.

Ruby Red Daylilies

Rosy Returns Daylilies

Hardy Pink Hibiscus

Heliopsis (yellow flowers in the background)

Black Eyed Stella Daylilies

Red hardy hibiscus

Small Purple Reblooming Iris

OH, NOOOOO!!!!

I just realized I can't attend. For some reason I was thinking it was the weekend after the 16th.

Next Sunday I will at Decatur, Ill. watching my son graduate Summa cum Laude from Millikin University, with a double major of Political Science and Philosophy (pre-law, basically). He will head out immediately after that to set up for Law School at UC Boulder, Co. -- Sorry, Mom just had to brag.

Please look at my trade list and see if there's some private trades you might want to do!

Inyrose

I'll be there and I'd love to arrange trades in advance for any edibles anyone might have.

I will be bringing:
lemon balm
apple mint
corkscrew willows, the variety in the link below.
several types/sizes of hostas
ferns
daffodil bulbs varying colors
possibly some other herb seedlings
evergreen hardy white bunching onions
borage
some orange cosmos
and maybe a few other things. :)

Here is a link that might be useful: corkscrew willow

Yay! I will be attending; I haven't been able to attend for a couple of years now. I have 9 extra tomatoes (Stupice, Green Zebra, and Principe Borghese....I am just not sure which is which, my labels got messed in the rain) and several hostas, of unknown variety.

I would like to come away with basil, daisies, coneflowers, and delphinium if any are available.

Carrie

Hi there,

I'm attending as well. I'll be bringing:
bird houses
gardener soap
several other watering gadgets
magazines
books
Egyptian walking onion
garlic chives
onion chives
purple sand cherry
mint
scented geranium
etc.

Masiel

Masiel, I'd be interested in your walking onions and scented geraniums. Do you see anything on my list you'd like? If not, can you post what you're looking for and I can see if I might have some?

And if anyone sees anything on my list to trade for tomatoes, lets arrange an advance trade as well. I'd rather have named tomatoes, but I would take other healthy mystery tomato plants as well.

Oh, and I can bring some baked/crushed eggshells from my own chickens to trade as well. They're great to use in planting holes of plants that like calcium (tomatoes and cabbage to name a few).

Hi, I'm from over at the Central Ohio Plant swap!
You sound like your going to have so much fun and everyone is excited, wish I lived closer I would come!
Looks like lots of nice plants.
Katielovesdogs, looks like you love plants too!
What a list you all have.
Have a great day trading, it's so much fun isn't it?
Hostalavista Linda

Hi there!

I'll have plenty of walking onions to go around! They truly walk through the yard but they are great to cook with, plus they look great in flower arragements.

I'll bring a few of these. I think I'll bring three scented geraniums to trade. I know that Katie also wants some.

Masiel

Indyrose can't make the swap this year because she's going to her son's graduation :)

She stopped by my house today to drop off some plants and 'shop' in my garden. She generously donated a couple of flats of plants to the swap:
artemisia
penstemon-maybe dark towers
autumn joy sedum
tall pink asters
amarylis-aphrodite
tomatoes-super beefsteak
tomatoes-roma
yellow primrose
oregano
dill

She also brought a couple of scented geraniums but I'm going to keep those since I gave her some starts.

What a great event! I had sooo much fun, and came home with great plants! Thank you for organizing this, Katie. Can't wait till the next one.

Masiel

Katie, thanks for organizing the Spring Plant Swap. It was a lot of fun and I came home with some great stuff. My neighbors did too.
We are going to have a Fall Plant Swap this year.
â¨Date: Sunday, September12, 2010 â¨
Time: 2:00 P.M. â¨
Location: Holliday Park, 6363 Spring Mill Road, Indianapolis, IN 46260
Mark your calendar!

FALL PLANT SWAP
Date: Sunday, September 19, 2010 (This is a corrected date from above posting)
Time: 2:00 P.M. â¨
Location: Holliday Park, 6363 Spring Mill Road, Indianapolis, IN 46260

Mark your calendar!

Hi Guys!

Katie, at the swap I met a nice lady for a gardening club from nearby. I thought that maybe you belonged to it. Do you know the contact info for the local gardening club?

Russ, I plan on attending the fall plant swap.

Masiel

looking forward to the FALL plant swap - I will be attending and hopefully bring all my gardeners with me again! I'll get the event posted on my facebook page, it's a really good way to get your friends involved! THANKS FOR THE ORGANIZING!