Thanks, all! Betsy, I got Ribbonette a long time ago, before I kept good records of WHERE I purchased the plants. I'm sure if you did a Google search, you could find it. It was hybridized by Lenington in 1951, is a dip, dor, 34"H x 4"W, blooms mid season here. Rose Crush is really labeled R & R Rose Crush. It's an exclusive plant available only from Roots & Rhizomes in Wisconsin. (Sorry, I see I spelled it wrong above the picture.) My R & R catalog doesn't say who hybridized it, but it's probably someone from R & R nursery. I looked up Rose Crush on their website, and they're not offering it at this time (probably sold out), but you can view it. Maybe you could also contact them to see if it will be available next year. Julie Here is a link that might be useful: Rose Crush

Let's go with a 2 p.m. start then, and say all the plant swapping will be done by 4 p.m., so that people don't dawdle too much in arriving. However, you are all welcome to hang around as long as you want and eat and chat and so on. I am looking to swap FOR interesting looking hostas, so that is great to hear. I started a shade garden last year. By May 19th one should be able to just look at them and know enough re: color, variegation, leaf size, whatever. I am planning to get some photos printed of some of my things in flower since I have another purpose for that as well, but I think just a writen description like "Tall blue/purple iris, likes sun" is adequate. We don't need scientific or variety names, although they would help, so certainly list that if you know it! I too have plants to share that I don't know the real name of. I should mention again for the person looking for landscaping rocks that I have long heaps of them. So anybody who wants colorful rocks (described in an early posting in this thread) bring some containers to carry them home in. I have a LOT of them, enough for many people. I will serve pickled peppers and caulflower which we just canned that are excellent, also something else more main dishy, don't know what yet. I can make some ice, so whatever beverages people want to bring can go on ice. I have lots of soda, but no diet soda (Just say no to drugs, LOL) so bring diet beverages if that is what you want. Water is my diet beverage of choice, and I have a big water container for those of you who aren't so high class that you need bottled water. We have well water and I love it, also Milwaukee city water in 2 liter bottles for my city-boy husband. This is WI so beer is okay, too. :-) I have lots of glasses, silverware, napkins, that sort of thing. START INVITING PEOPLE! Marcia

I'm not familiar with the particular Species 'Jane', but know that Magnolias have (like all spring bloomers) very short bloom times. Pair that with some windy and wild weather, and that is how long the flowers last. Many of my neighbors have Mags, and all have lost their blooms during the high winds weather we had lately in SE WI. I planted an equally small tree at patio edge, called Tamarix, (which is a nasty wild shrub/tree in western states) but it is tall, whispy, and oh, so lovely in my SE WI yard. It has magenta (teeny) florets nearly all summer. Very few trees have that attribute. Next, I will try a smoke bush, I think. Pondy

I'd like to see more pictures. I'm not convinced it's a Lamium based on the one picture. Do you have one of the whole plant in situ? And can you tell us the size of the leaves? Were there other larger specimens? I'm inclining towards a young Leonurus cardiaca. If you check images on line be aware that the mature leaves are quite different in shape from the immature. L cardiaca - invasive in Wisconsin