George,
Got you down for the jades.

Carl,
I'd like to claim a Boltonia and some of Golden Tiara.

Marty,
OK, jot you down for Robustissima as well as for Genpei/Shirobana and Worcester Gold.

Hi Carl -- Pumpkin(s) coming!

Is the nandina domestica similar to the nandina we had when we lived in Houston (and my mom has in the DC area)? Beautiful red color in fall? If so (and if it's hardy in northwest CT), I'd love to have that if no one else speaks for it! I'd also happily take a smidge of the Angelina for my rock garden.

[Meant to note that my Pandanus babies are going to be houseplants when they grow up. Mama pandanus has neat air roots and a span of about 3.5 feet.]

Rich, you have some gloriosas. George, a rabdosia would be perfect for the plotkin and I always like thugs!

Carl, the hostas sound good for under some of my many trees.

Marty, you might have got the paint pallete from me. I have huge patches of it. Grows in the shade. I would like some Joe Pye and hyssop. /Abi

Carl-

I'd love the Cotinus if not spoken for. Also trying to get some Phlox growing so would love a little bit of Mt Fugi if any is left.

Thanks,
suebot

Carl,
If no one has claimed your Viburnum rhytidophyllum, I would love one.
Thank you,
Bebe

ctlady-

Would love some Joe Pye Weed and Ribbon Grass. Some parts of my yard need to be invade. Also would love to give the Egyptian Walking Onions a go! I heard they are very, very cool.

Can't wait to meet you,
suebot in CT (God's Country)

Marty,
I don't know about your worms but the worms at my house are more like snakes! I opened the garage door this morning and I almost jumped when I saw this worm. It was huge and did not wiggle like a normal worm, it went wild went I disturbed it! I took a stick and brought it back over to the dirt. Last night I pulled up a tree root and you should have seen all of them. I was amazed how many just came up. I guess that's a good thing. Richie

Richie -- my worms look like snakes, too! I actually posted a question about them because they are EVERYWHERE this year! (I wondered if you could have "too many" ... didn't sound as if you could, although it's good (apparently) not to let them take over the woodlands. But I pull one weed and gazillions of these THINGS ooze up through the compost-laden beds and slither across my feet (used to pluck the occasional weed in sandals or bare feet -- no more!!) I wonder what makes them so HUGE (mine are between 6 and 8 inches long) and so numerous this year (global warming? so they're growing bigger just like the poison ivy?)

I'll have to post a picture! :(

PS: We have snakes too -- two Northern milk snakes have actually made their way into my kitchen this summer, and a HUGE ribbon snake is living in my barn, happy as a clam.

Hi folks!

Here are a few of the things I've got:

Phlox 'David'
Salvia koyamae
Eupatorium 'Gateway'
One Forsythia 'Kumson' that has been cut back to the ground
Peony 'Bowl of Beauty'
Geranium 'Biokovo'
Tricyrtis latifolia
Tanacetum 'Isla Gold'
One large yellow native Baptisia (if I can sucessfully get it out of the ground)
Agastache 'Golden Jubilee'

All of these plants are headed for the compost heap if no one wants them so let me know. I also have some assorted named daylilies and will bring those as well.

To cover the food contribution I'll be baking whoopie pies.

Sue

Sue -- I would love the native Baptisia (if you can wrench it out of the ground). Having just spent two hours "freeing" a large mass of Joe Pye-Weed (only planted two years ago, but an AMAZINGLY strong root mass!), I will completely understand if you can't (or if you end up with lots of little pieces...! :)

George -- you are getting a full-size spirea x billardii -- I dug it to move it today and it came up beautifully and I ended up with one good sized clump with plenty of roots (which I'll keep) plus the larger shrub. I have several rooted cuttings as well, if anyone wants one.

To those who have asked me for things, please specify how many worms you would like included with your plant (I'm sorry, the worms are not optional). Think of it as an early bird special (as in, "the early bird gets the ... well, you know) :)

From the garden this very afternoon (the cast-concrete leaf you can see is about a foot in diameter, just to give you an idea of scale) :

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Sue, announcement of your future presence at the swap is sweeter than any whoopie pie :-)

Marty, thank you.

Sue, I would love the Bowl of Beauty peony if it is still available.

Darn, and I told myself I wasn't going to come home with anything. So much for resolve.

:)
Dee

Dee -- do you still have the daylily Hyperion available?

And Carl: almost forgot...if you have extra Golden Tiara (after George gets his), I would love to have a bit.

Sue, good to hear from you again! I would love some trisyrtis, geranium and agastache.Is the salvia really yellow? that sounds good to. Your plants are too beautiful for the compost heap. There will probably be some newbies with little or no plants to bring and you can send them home with treasure! See you soon. /Abi

Sue -

If you have more than one of the Salvia koyame, that's one
I've always wanted to try. . .but, of course, I ALSO want
to know why you're sending it to the compost pile - having
seen your garden, I know only the very best plants get to stay!

Carl

Sue, please save some Phlox 'David' for me.
Marty, I would like Japanese Iris and Sedum 'Matrona' if you have any left.
Carl, I'd like some Sedum 'Angelina' please.

Thank you!
Bebe

Sue, if you have any more of the salvia, I'd love some too. Also, George if yo have more of the rabdosia I'd love a little too.

So far, I have agastache 'blue fortune' and 'golden jubilee', monarda 'jacob cline'
chocolate eupatorium
jasminium nudiflorum -1- (early blooming)
geranium yoshinoi 'confetti'

Hedy

Hedy,
Last of the 3 rabdosias I'll bring is going to you :-)
I think I could provide happy home for jasminium nudiflorum.
Question about G.yoshinoi. Does it seeds prolificaly in your garden as it does in mine? I got it from you couple of swaps ago and think I'll soon have enough of it to offer it too.
BTW, it's semi-evergreen for me.

Hedy,
Can you save me one of your geranium yoshinoi 'confetti' Thanks, Richie

Abi: If you have any Ajuga left, either one, I'd be happy
to claim it. . .

Carl

Why thank you George.

Salvia koyame has proved to be a very vigorous plant my garden. It it gets even moisture, it takes over. It even got into the lawn.

OK, Baptisia for Marty
Peony for Dee
Phlox for Bebe
plenty of Salvia

I also have Sedum 'Autumn Joy', Nepeta 'Walker's Not so Low', reblooming Iris 'Immortality', and a rather large Persicaria polymorpha (if I can get it out of the ground). God knows what else.

Sue

Sue -- if you have enough of the Nepeta, I'd love a bit of that in addition to the baptisia. I'm still enjoying your Morning Light from the very first swap ... I'm being selfish and keeping the divisions of it myself this year, for a new bed of grasses and sedum, but NEXT swap I can bring some for others if they want it. It is a glorious ornamental grass!

Carl
I'd like the weigela if no one has spoken for it. also aster WOODS PINK -- now don't be substituting any orange ones! -- and sedum angelique.

Sue, I'll try one of those creamy salvia. Who was it who offered daylilies? Pinks anyone?
lucia

Lucia, I could bring a small division of the pink (peach-to-pink so it may not be true-pink enough for your needs) daylily that's pictured below (I won't try to divide it unless you're sure you want it). I got it from a previous plant swap but no idea from whom, or if it was a "freebie" on the giveaway table... I don't know the variety, either, unfortunately. But I would be happy to extricate a small division if you want -- just let me know).

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Martie, I would love that one. Couldn't be more perfect. I hope you can extricate it.
lucia

Hi all,

This year was the first time the gardeing bug bit me. I had never owned a yard before and after moving into a single family with a one acre untended yard, I went full swing.
Nothing could keep me out of the yard. I sustained poison ivy rash, but I continued with my gardening.

I had bought some heirloom seeds online and some hybrid ones from the stores. Not knowing much about all the varieties of flowers, I bought quite a few annual seeds -impatiens, petunias, dahlias.marigolds.

After working hard for six months and spending quite a bit too, I reaped some rewards but the deer are not letting me enjoy the fruits of my labor. And now that Fall is approaching, I have this feeling that I did not plant wisely.

I would love to be at the swap, but all the botanical or even common names on this thread don't make much sense to me so I don't know what to request early on.

I would love to have some perennials and some deer resistant flowering plants. I have heard that day lilies are deer resistant.

I also fell in love with peonies, azaleas and rhodendrons, but did not have any success in making cuttings to root. So that was a bit of failure.

I have plenty of hostas that I had divided and transplanted all over the yard, but the deer just love it and regularly eat it for lunch and dinner.

The one thing I got extremely lucky with was cucumbers. They are heirloom too and I could definitely collect and bring seeds from those to the swap, if anyone is interested.

I will be looking for tips and advice when I visit the swap as well.

OMG, that daylily is gorgeous! I'm already putting dibs on next year's divisions, Marty and Lucia! So you are forewarned, lol!

Welcome, greenbug! You don't necessarily *have to* request anything now. There is always a table (or two... or three) full of stuff that is not marked for any particular individual. You can browse and learn and choose from those plants.

Looking forward to meeting you at the swap!
:)
Dee

Hi Greenbug! I second the welcome ... and just want to say, don't let the botanical names intimidate you (they did me at first -- I was scared to death to come to the first swap for fear I was way out of my league). I've learned that as soon as someone posts something I don't know, I just google it. I've learned a TON that way. (But I've also often thought it might save me some time if those who know the common as well as botanical name of what they have would put it in parens ... I've googled quite a few impressive sounding things only to see what they were and say "oh, goodness, I've got that!" Having said that, it's been wonderful discipline to learn to refer to the plants by their proper names and this is a fun way to learn -- it will make you a much better gardener in the long run even if you feel a bit lost in the short run. It's a REALLY friendly group - give it a try!

As for daylilies ... I've been lucky with mine but I'd read that deer LOVE them. I think the only really resistant deer plants are things that are fuzzy or aromatic (most herbs or plants in the herb family they will leave alone), boxwood, a few other things. I was told they would adore my hostas but they've never touched them so I think it must depend on the variety of hosta (and perhaps deer...)

Anyway, come and learn and enjoy the people (and the food, of course!)

(And I personally would happily take some heirloom cucumber seeds!)

/ Marty

Hi Greenbug, I know what you mean about the botanicals. Oh how I have wished I paid better attention in High School Latin! I do what Marty does, Google it! Even if you don't request in advance, there is little chance you will go home empty handed. Come, learn and have fun!/Abi

Just to summarize as of now (I am doing more digging on Saturday) -- tell me if I've missed anyone!

For George: large spirea x billardii
For Richie: purple monarda (lots) and Japanese iris
For Suebot: Joe Pye, ribbon grass and walking onions
For Abi: Joe Pye, anise hyssop
For Lucia: unknown pink daylily (managed to eke one out for Dee, too!)
For Bebe: Japanese iris, Sedum Matrona

From George: Caryopteris Worcester Gold, Genpei/Shirobana Spirea, Anemone tomentosa
From Carl (hopefully?): Golden tiara hosta, nandina
From Dee: Daylily Hyperion

Still have: several spirea x billardii rooted cuttings, tansy (forgot to list that before), Japanese iris, anise hyssop, monarda (purple)

No takers for my Pandanus babies??? I canÂt imagine why no one wants a tropical houseplant with razor sharp leaves. The wee ones are so CUTE (think TEENY LITTLE razor blades!) They are also (currently) two-tone: green and white, but not variegated: green outer leaves, white inner ones. Several babies up for adoption...:)

Thanks, Dee, Marty and Abi for the welcome, :-) and I look forward to meeting you and the rest of the group!

Ooh, thank you Marty, for the daylily! Now I don't have to wait for next year. I have a Hyperion with your name on it (from Sue's garden originally, actually!) so we can swap daylilies next week. Thank you!

Okay, now I'm leaving with two plants. That's two more than planned....

:)
Dee

Dee, wanna bet that more than two plants will jump in your car? :-))

That's a bet I would definitely lose, George! LOL!

:)
Dee

George, I will take your anemone robustissima. I have a place where I want something that fills in.
Sue -- I would love some geranium riokovo. The pale pink is beautiful!
lucia

Marty -

If there are any left, I'd love to "walk away" with some of
you Egyptian onions. . .

P.S. Very early on, I tried using botanical names (with
common names in parantheses) and got a very haughty response from someone who didn't feel they needed to be talked down to! So, I've been leery of doing that ever
since - the subject would be an excellent topic for a post,
so maybe I should get on it. . .

Carl

Carl ... I assume you're kidding when you ask if there are any Egyptian walking onions "left"...! ;) (I got these from a past swap -- think I got three. Harvested nearly 40 beautiful onions this summer, plus I've used the tops as scallions, etc. Planted SOME of the "bulblets" from the ones I pulled and now have at least another 50 started. You will never want for an onion again once you start these guys... but give them room! They "walked" right out of my raised veggie bed this summer...) So, walking onions for Carl and Suebot.

Sue -- forgot to list you in the "From" category of my last post (for the baptisia and, if possible, some of the Nepeta -- and thank you!)

If anyone is interested in Fillipendula rubra 'Venusta' let me know by Friday noon.
See a related thread on Perennial forum below.

Here is a link that might be useful: How to use Fillipendula?

LOL, George - I was waiting for that filipendula to show up here on this thread!

:)
Dee

George, I would like to try some of that! /Abi

George, I'd love a filipendula. I have your plants dug but the dicentra eximia seems to have gone underground for the season. It's too dry for it now in my yard. I'll bring you some in the spring unless someone else has some now.

Yes the geranium does seed itself. The flowers are too small to deadhead. I use it as a pretty groundcover. When it pops up in the spring I keep the most variegated ones and pull the rest. I put them in shade and poorer conditions to they have to struggle.

Would anyone want an heirloom iris? It's light and dark purple and smells like grape kool-aid.

Richie I have a geranium for you.

Hedy

George, I can bring the dicentra eximia for you. Mine is (or was up to a few days ago) actually still blooming for some reason...

Hedy, I'll take the heirloom iris if no one else speaks for it!

I have two chunks of Sedum Matrona because I thought two people (Bebe and ??) had requested it but now I don't know who the other request was from or if I dreamed it (stranger things have happened...). Let me know if you're the mystery Matrona fan so I can label it.

Hedy,
I'll see how many chanks of filipendula I'll be able to found since I cut it down a month ago. Dee and Abi already ask for it and if there will be the third one it will be yours.
Re: D.eximia.
Spring/Summer/Fall/Winter/ this year/next year -doesn't matter - I need a lot of it for the neverending project and it doesn't want to seed for me :-(

Martie,
You've heard me. Will accept D.eximia will gratitude.

George - give the filipendula to Hedy! I don't need it right now. I was only laughing because I saw your other thread, and so was expecting to see you offer the filipendula here, lol. I'm sure Hedy can use it much more effectively than I could. It would most likely sit in a pot for a few years in my driveway, much like a filipendula that Sue gave me several years ago, which I *almost* planted on three separate occasions this summer alone, lol! It'll get in the ground sooner or later!

:)
Dee

Sue,

If it is not too late, could you wrestle a small piece of the Persicaria polymorpha out of the ground. Always admired it in other people's gardens and would like to give it a try.

Thanks!

Liliane

Hi All!
I've been lurking here for a while, watching for the swap date. I'm so sorry I won't be able to make the swap. It sounds like such fun. And I just cleaned out my garden and have hundreds of Iris I could have shared too! Darn visit with the in-laws!!
There's a lot of big words thrown around here for plant names, seems I have so much to learn!
The real reason I'm posting is that I loved seeing the posting about the supersize worms! I thought I was the only one with monster worms! They're so big this year they freak me out! Glad I'm not alone!
I hope I'll be able to make the spring swap! Till then, I'll be lurking! Thanks!! ~Joy

Hi Joy!

Wish you could have made it ... iris always go fast! And don't worry about the 'big words' ... that's what Google is for! ;)

As the 'worm lady' I just wanted to say that I added an update to my 'Garden Worm Bonanza' thread, after talking with the Ag Station about my worm invasion yesterday. You might want to check it out. All good news it seems ... be grateful you have worms, however colossal they may be! They couldn't really explain the size, except to offer the theory that they have been gorging on REALLY good compost (I still think it's global warming!!)

Anyway, welcome and hope you can make it in the spring!

Here is a link that might be useful: Worm Thread

Hello All, looking forward to Sunday. I have a request. Would anyone have a piece of Chinese Lantern plant (Physalis) or lunaria seeds (Money or silverdalar plant)? Thanks /Abi

Ready to go... pots lined up by the garage, everyone watered and settled in for the night. Sounds as if tomorrow will be perfect weather!

Question: last time someone (Deb? can't recall) brought plates, napkins, etc. Should we bring our own, or is someone planning to bring that kind of stuff? (I can, if no one else is...) We bring our own drinks, right?

I'm bringing an Italian panzanella (bread) salad since it sounded as if there would be plenty of desserts already! I'll also bring a freshly harvested pumpkin in case Carl gets an itch to cut something up... ;)

Marty