Thank You Lisa for a great MA Plant Swap

15 years ago

Hi Kids.

We had our MA Fall Plant Swap at Lisa's house in Plymouth today. There were at least 10 of us in attendance from GW garden forum...great turnout! We also got to meet Lisa's parnets and adorable children. The weather held so a great time was had by all. Lots of great plants and a lot of good conversation. Now we all need to get out there with our shovels and spades to dig, dig, dig and plant, plant, plant.

Pictures to follow later this afternoon but for now, I just wanted to thank Lisa for being such a wonderful host. Can we all come back again next year??? ;)

sooey

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claireplymouth z6b coastal MA
15 years ago
Definitely a good plant swap, and very convenient for the SE MA gardeners (like me, I live 4 or 5 miles away). Luckily there were people there who still have room in their gardens for new plants, so I managed to give more than I took, although temptation was great.

Thanks, Lisa!

Claire
dawiff
15 years ago
Thanks, Lisa, for hosting a great swap, I had a wonderful time! It was definitely worth the long trip. I'm really looking forward to getting my new shrubs and perennials in the ground. I'd like to thank all the great gardeners who brought plants that were too good to resist.

Alison
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sooey
Original Author
15 years ago
OK...hot off the Toshiba...

The group! While I did not get all of the names I can tell you that sooey is in the back row, far right. Claire is in the middle of the back row, brown shirt. cleomelover to the right of Claire with diggingthedirt to the left of Claire. Lisa, our host, is front row, second from the right and tyme2dig to the left of Lisa. I will admit that I was getting confused between first names and screen names so, if everone would come forward to lend name to face, including your GW screen name, we would all appreciate it.

This is what came home with me...two Oakleaf Hydrangea and a Filipendula from the Falmouth garden of diggingthedirt and a beautiful H fulva cultival/double ditch lily from Clairs garden in Plymouth.

You can see that we had fun! Hey...is it to early to reserve Lisa'a front lawn for next fall?

sooey
fgirl21
15 years ago
Wow - you're fast!
It was a great day - the weather held out and the sun actually made an appearance near the end.

Thank you to all who dug plants and brought them - I'll have little pieces of all of you in my garden!

The back of the minivan seemed a veritable jungle on the way home but somehow it all fit. Now I just have to plant it all........tomorrow.

Thanks again and hope to see everyone in the spring.

Michelle
(p.s. That's me in the red shirt with the glasses)

For Lisa and bmini - Don't forget to check the WINTER SOWING forum here on gardenweb either!
chelone
15 years ago
Who is the darling "gardener in training" to the far left in the front row?

LOVE to see the next generation in group shots, you guys.
diggingthedirt
15 years ago
Thanks Lisa, and all - that was a really fun swap. Great group of gardeners, and it's so nice to have more faces to go with the names on the forum. I'm thrilled to have gotten some Cryptotaenia japonicus from Dawiff's garden! Hmmm, those fudge brownies were fabulous, too.
Thyme2dig NH Zone 5
15 years ago
What a fun day! Lisa, thank you so much for hosting, and thanks everyone for letting a NH girl crash your party! I had a wonderful time. It was so nice to meet and talk to all of you. Thanks for all the great stuff.

The trip to Katsura afterwards was amazing. WOW! What an extraordinary place. It's a good thing I live VERY far away from there. Dangerous to say the least. What a great variety of interesting plant material (but you all already know that!). I was just blown away, and Dtd, the Franklinia was in its glory and my mouth is still agape after seeing the heptacodium he has. And of course, Lisa saw me freak out that he has Cornus controversa variegata (and she has one on hold!). Outstanding!
John gave us a wonderful tour and it was great to talk to him about the plant material and his business. I didn't do too much damage. Picked up a few gold Hakonechloa grass and an interesting aruncus. Can't wait to plant everything tomorrow!

Thanks again for a great day!
Susan
dawiff
15 years ago
That's me in the white shirt with my sweatshirt tied around my waist, on the far left. I enjoyed seeing Lisa's garden, she has some really lovely shrubs and small trees. I'm glad to hear the trip to Katsura was a success. We had a long trip home or we might have been tempted to go, and there was no way we could have fit anything else into the back of FGirl's van!

I hope everything I dug grows well for all the neat gardeners we have here in the New England area.
fgirl21
15 years ago
No planting today apparently - but at least everything is getting a healthy drink.

The gardener in training is my 6yr old daughter. She's almost as much into gardening as I am! She's pretty good at plant identification (even without the flowers!), loves to do the seed collecting, planting and, of course, slug removal! Like her mom, she's not much into weeding!!