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I agree, it was an awesome swap! Thank you to everyone that came. You all are the greatest folks!I hope everyone had as fun as I did.

GREAT SWAP!!

I'm SOOOOO glad we postponed it by a day. Gave me time to pot up a bunch more stuff, and the weather was simply perfect. And Nat's yard is the perfect place for it. Yay us! :-)

Thanks to all of you, and nice meeting you. I didn't have much to trade, but you were generous with your plants. I just got in from the yard; I spent the whole afternoon and evening planting stuff. I enjoyed looking at all the plants; it was an educational experience just to see all the varieties that grow here.

Maybe I'll see some of you at that rain barrel-making workshop in June

That was a great swap. I got some great plants. Thank you all!

Can someone post the email address of the lady who did the rain barrel presentation? I didn't get one of her cards.

I want to get on the list for the June 14 workshop. I catch small amounts of rainwater in buckets all the time for my plants (a habit left over from the years in the Southwest desert), so I am ready to make the next step to larger amounts of rainwater.

You can reach her at her Knox County Office
parci.gibson@knoxcounty.org
More information on rain barrels in Knox County and where to get them at the link below.

Here is a link that might be useful: Water barrel info

Hey Zinnia --

Thanks again for those strawberry pots! If you ever want some more hostas, I think I still owe you a couple. Just ask!

I had great time too. It was good to see old friends and make potential new ones! The food was great and so was the rain barrel demo. Marianndretti followed me home and raided my garden after she raided Nats, LOL! It's always fun and entertaining to have Marianne with us. :) We were thinking about serving popcorn while we watch her pack her truck with her loot.

Now on to the MTPS! Yikes, its approaching fast and I need to dig!

Rebecca

Are many of you driving all the way to Nashville for the MTPS? Is it just huge, or what?

Leanne

Heck Leanne, now that the MTPS swap site has been moved it's gonna be a SHORT drive. Several of us used to drive about 5 hours to get there -- now it'll only be about 3! ;-)

It's not a **huge** swap, but it's a lot of fun. :-)

It was freakin huge that spring of '06! :-(

I hope that we have between 100-150 and that will huge enough for me!!!

But then again you never know, we may have a lot more than that show up when you consider the possible Lucas Holman (aka. Daylily Kid) groupie factor. I just hope all the screaming teen-age girls don't throw their underwear at him while he's trying to give his lecture. :-)

I'm glad it went well and I'm sorry I missed it!

Ya, keep in mind that I've never been to the spring swaps -- only the fall ones!

The Knoxville swap was a blast!! My neighbor Jan came up with me , it was her first swap and she is hooked!! She said my "plant swapin friends" were the nicest people she had ever met. I think she'll be back, lol.
Cheryl -- thank you for hosting us again and on such short notice too !!! Ohh and for digging in your garden for me-- I just love the lime green spiderwort with the electric blue flowers!! Your gardens are very beautiful, it was a pleasure just to be in them. Thank you.
Canna, whoops- we never made it to your compost pile did we?? wink,wink ;)
Ione, I'm bringing more hosta to the MTPS and between now and then I'm going to look for more of the orange marmalade
hosta.
I enjoyed seeing all my friends again!! Thank you all for a wonderful day !!!
Marianndretti

Marianne - - You don't know how happy I was to have an ID on that beautiful but aggressive groundcover. After reading about Ranunculus "Popcorn", I see that it might be the perfect thing for me to relocate to under one of my Maples that desperately needs a groundcover that can handle full shade.

I had looked through numerous gardening books hoping to ID my Ranunculus, and I was so afraid that someone from the swap would going to tell me it was a weed (cause it sure grows like one!). But it will be beautiful in a place where it can run rampant and I don't have to worry about it overpowering my other plants.

Cheryl, that stuff IS a weed! It's in lots of yards and fields around here. It's kind of pretty but, like dandelions, it can keep you from having that pure green monoculture yard that many people seek. If you grow a big patch of it, you and your neighbors are almost certain to have it in your yards.

If you want more, come over to the farm with a shovel and a semi truck. I'll put you to work. Oh, and I could help you find other pretty "groundcovers" too. (-:

You know, that's what I suspected. I think I'll just yank it out (and probably yank it out for years to come).

And we are not seekers of a pure green monoculture yard. I just try to keep from having bare spots and thorny weeds. But I don't want to introduce a new thug to the yard. I do not believe that I ever planted this stuff and suspect that it was a hitchhiker on some other plant given to me.

Wait!!!!! Does that mean you're not going to come over and weed my field let me share my plants with you?

Doc the spring of '06 was the swap where we had over 400 show up. Jan, Jim and I lost several years off our lives that day.

Brandon where are the pictures???

A few people, including Laura, took pics which might get put onto the website later. I never bring my camera because I'm too busy getting plants to people.

Coming momentarily. Kept forgetting to get my camera out of the car.

bigorangevol:"I just hope all the screaming teen-age girls don't throw their underwear at him while he's trying to give his lecture. :-)"

OK. Now I'm worried.

I'm worried that WILL happen and I'll have my camera out and going and Chris Hanson will step out from behind a tree and ask me to "Have a seat over there."

Sick!