If you are coming to my 3rd plant swap in Jonesboro, Arkansas (an hour from Memphis), please let me know which of these plants I need to save for you. I'm trying to get organized and get everyone's stuff potted and sorted so we can spend more time on visiting. As hostess, I won't have time to dig up plants during the party, so if you want something, you need to tell me now. Some things I have in abundance and other things are in limited supply, so I will trade those only for special plants that I want. I have the following plants for trade: one small, rooted Illustris EE (Imperial Taro) (special) Rooted green running ee Colocasia Esculenta - giant green ee CANNAS: (rhizomes - leaves will be trimmed off for shipping) Florence Vaughn aka Yellow King Humbert Orange Beauty Pretoria aka Bengal Tiger (special) China Lass (special) Red Futurity (special) Red Stripe (special) Crimson Beauty Richard Wallace Striped Beauty aka Christ's Light (special) Red King Humbert Daylilies: (leaves and roots may be trimmed for shipping) Fulva - Roadside or Ditch lilies Kwanso - Double HUGE Red Orange that makes proliferations Blackeyed Stella Stella D'oro Received this as Hazel Sawyer but it isn't Small Rusty Red bought at Sammy Russell--it isn't HR Peach with Red Eye (lost name) Glory in Ruffles (special) Heartburn (special) Spray of Pearls (special) Eruption (special) Red Flag - Spider (special) Red Ribbons - Spider (special) Poetry in Motion (special) Sammy Russell Seedling I call Faux Pink Ribbons - spider (special) Miss Jessie - Spider (special) Large Ruffly Peach Bought as Bali Hai--it isn't Apricot with curled petals Spidery peach COLEUS: (cuttings only, none rooted) Kiwi Fern Fern leafed red and green Heart shaped red and green OTHER PLANTS: (may be trimmed for shipping as some are rather large now): a beautiful Magilla Perilla well rooted plant (special) a 4" pot full of Dragon's Blood Sedum Chameleon Plant (Houttuynia cordata) - citrus scented leaves Louisiana Iris - black gamecock (picture on site is lighter than the iris actually is--almost black) (special) Violets - white with a purple face White yarrow - beautiful ferny foliage, like a fern but grows in full sun and dry soil Perennial blue ageratum (blue floss flower) Hardy begonias (hardy in zone 7 at least)(special) Artemisia - silver leafed Artemisia - oriental limelight Spiderwort - hot pink (special Crocosmias - orange-red (NOT Lucifer which is solid bright red) may even bloom this year for you Tulip Poplar seedlings (may only be about 3 or 4 inches tall, but they grow FAST!) Spearmint Yellow Four Oclock tubers Passiflora Incarnata - Passionflower (special) Ornamental sweet potato vine - tricolor - cuttings (they root easily) One white brugmansia plant, well rooted (special) You can see pictures of some of these plants in my photo album at: http://photobucket.com/albums/a368/ButterflyWrangler/What%20I%20Have%20To%20Trade/ I also have three wicker basket plant stands about 30" tall I think. And I have lots of big decorative pots for trade too. I also have a large collection of music CDs (country, pop, rock, etc.) to trade. Ask me for a list if you're interested. I would love to trade for named daylilies, cannas, and elephant ears primarily, and any other unusual plants. I am an avid plant collector and have many named daylilies, ee's, hostas and cannas, so I'm looking for something I don't already have. I would also consider your own daylily creations if you can show me pictures of them. I'm not looking for tropicals at this time other than ee's I don't have. I will also trade for colorful gardening books, DVDs (romance, comedy, drama, psychological thriller, NO horror), big rocks, birdhouses, wooden bed frames (to make benches) and anything I can use in my house or in my gardens. If you're coming to the party, please let me know what you'd like and what you have to offer. We only have a month til the party and I want to get things dug and potted and set aside for you ahead of time. Hope to see you here! NancyAnn

If you are digging in mid March in Canada, you are going to have some pretty sorry looking rhizomes for sale in May/June. That is because they have not had a chance to start growing this season, and by digging and storing them, they won't get the normal spring growth spurt either. That is not to say the rhizomes will be dead; they just won't look that good and their chances of survival are less than rhizomes which have had a chance to grow some in the Spring. If you decide to do this anyways, they should be planted immediately in May/June; don't wait for Fall planting: the poor things won't be able to establish themselves before the winter. Laetitia

Juicyj, Sorry, IÂm still stewing at loosing the plants. Hell, if I strapped them to pigeons and flew them across the St. Lawrence there would have been no issue. Adding insult to injury, the plants were started from seeds sourced in the US??? IÂm still sorry I couldnÂt keep my commitment but lying and getting caught would have made life very uncomfortable. IÂm not gonna give up though. IÂm heading back to NY in two weeks and IÂll try to get a few plants to you. Sam, Hey, good on ya. Thanks for stepping up. Ravi, Common, you know IÂm not a nice guy. IÂll see you at the kitten juggling club Thursday night. Bill

A few more updates.. Within the last couple of days, two sapodilla seeds have sprouted, and just today, I saw that two of the Peruvian apple cacti had sprouted, but they were right behind the plant tag, and I didn't see them until moving the tag. I've also got some white pitaya (dragon fruit) seedlings that have been sprouting over the last week or so. I'd all but gave up on many of these things, but I guess there is some hope for things that haven't sprouted so far. Still hoping for some A. Reticulata, A. Squamosa, Mexican cream guavas, purple star apple, blackberry jam fruit, phalsa berries, and jujubes that I'd recently planted (after cracking the shell and soaking in hot water for several days, with several water changes) from a seedling tree I had. So far, I've also had 4 out of the 7 chestnut seeds sprout. So, the final number that will have sprouted will be between 4 and 7. I'll probably propagate them in larger numbers next season, as long as I can verify the type and where they were grown. If nothing else, I could use them as rootstock for grafting. Lastly, I planted out the new unframed no-till (back to Eden) raised bed with two cassava plants and five sweet potato plants. I'll probably go back in after all of this rain and flooding and fill in the area with peanuts as well. It has a higher sand content than any of my other beds.