If the color on Plant it Back (really?) is wine, it has a lot of potential. It doesn't look like a muddy color. Polys are definitely "in." I like the white pineapple lily. The container really shows the little variegated plant better on larger size, and that plant (polka dot?) is great with the dark colors.

Laurel - thanks for starting this thread. Here's the report on some of my goodies. from Wildgardner - dianthus deltoides and garden dianthus - still hanging on after being dug out several times by the squirrels from Larry in Virginia - Linaria showing first flowers - a beautiful dark purple from CollectorDi - pink daylily "Love Is", split into two fans, one doing great, the other one dug up by the squirrel several times but now seems OK, little "Claridge Druse" geranium hanging on and putting out new leaves from Cynthia - giant Korean angelica doing great, silver tansy doing great, Verbena bonariensis four plants all in different spots, all chewed by the bunny, sending out new shoots from the roots from ConnieMD - "Cherry Bells" campanula sulking from Blueangel - white yarrow doing great The other stuff I received was planted at my aunts house. I'll have an update soon. Thank you to everyone who gave me plants! - Christina

I have an updated list for the swap - "instead of" not "in addition to" the earlier list I posted. I was away from home nearly two weeks, which changed the list of plants I was able to get ready. I've got everything dug and am still working on potting. Here's the list - these will be for the open swap as I don't have time to dig more to allow for pre-arranged (I'm working the next 4 days which keeps me from home from 6 am to 7 pm): Hosta Undulata(Medio Variegata)-(5 pots of multiple eyes) Hosta - Dark Star (one eye) Hosta - Elvis Lives (one eye) Hosta - El Nino (one eye) Winter onion sets (I believe walking onions is another name) Perennial Geranium (5 pots - 2 per pot) Prairie Onion - native ornamental (5 pots 3-4 per pot) Hollyhocks - mixed colors (5 pots) And I have something unidentified. I have no idea what it is but there are several growing in my shade garden. At first I thought they were ferns but they're not. I think they are a shrub of some kind - the stem is woody. Maybe they're something nobody (including me) wants, but they are kind of attractive (at least as babies). Can anyone tell me what they are? Carmellia, do you have a pretty good idea of how many will be coming yet?

leaves, I am not exactly sure where you are located, but when I visted Minnesota this summer I went to a place called Venero Gardens. I believe this is the place I picked up my Aralia. This place is STUNNING. If any of you are close to this place please go visit them. They have beautiful, unusual plants and gardens you can stroll through. They are located at: 5985 Seamans Drive Shorewood, Minnesota 55331 I believe they like for you to call ahead (952) 474-8550. We did not call but they did say they prefer to have people call for appointments. They were wonderful people with great plants. I would like to know if any of you have visited them before?