Charlotte Fall Plant Swap, 2015 Sunday, November 1, 3pm Marion Diehl Park 2219 Tyvola Road, Charlotte, NC 28210 There is only one shelter at this park. The park is connected to Queens University Sports Complex, and you can turn into the park at the Queen's entrance, or the Marion Diehl entrance. For first time swappers - we don't care if you have weeds or high dollar orchids. If you have plants to give away and want them to go to good homes, this is the place to be. We trade anything and everything. If you don't have much, don't worry - we don't have rules about that either. Hopefully everyone will go home with more than they brought! Other gardening stuff is also welcome- pots, books, bulbs, cuttings, magazines, potting soil, tools, statues, etc. Please label your plants. Something simple like "yellow daylilies" or "cactus houseplant" or "shade ground cover". This will make it easier to know where to plant the new plants we take home. If you don't have any plants to swap, come anyway! How it works: You show up early and place your plants in with all the other plants. You find a spot away from the shelter where you can stash the plants you grab during the swap. I will welcome everyone to the swap and ring a bell. You get to grab ONE plant and take it to your stash zone. We do this two or three times before we change it to TWO plants per ring and then THREE plants and finally we have a free-for-all where the leftovers can be claimed by anyone. The Plant Swap is free. If you feel inclined, you may leave a small donation toward the renting of the shelter. Questions: elaine.dickson@gmail.com

Shannon, that sounds so good!! I wish I would have had more time to bake something, but with my son moving (he's gone now) and the wedding I just didn't do anything really nice this time around. I may try to pick up some muffins or donuts in the morning. I went out today and repotted some things and got the plants together, so I'm ready for tomorrow, except for the loading it into the truck. I have a few rooted Frosty Pink Brugs and took some more cuttings from it for anyone that wants to try their hand at it. I still have some spirea, 1 black stem EE, a bunch of Iris cristata, Althea (double blooms) just potted and just barely starting to root, a bronze fennel, a huge 4 o'clock, rhipsalis, monarda, unkwn daylily and irises, hosta, monstera, native yarrow, hardy geranium (it's pretty much gone dormant), hardy ageratum, malva mystic merlin, mini black iris ( I sowed last winter), and if we can find the time in the morning going to dig some black eyed susans and white butterfly ginger. If anyone wants some seed check my list for what I have and let me know asap. Plus I'm bringing buckets!

Not sure if this is the appropriate place, but I'm also not sure where to ask... so here goes. I'm from Somerset County Freecycle, and we're planning our first Free4All. When conferring with Free4All planners in Michigan, it seems they like to do Free4Alls with their local Plant Exchange. First off, is anyone here interested in doing this, and second, and maybe more importantly - the Freecycle idea is about gifting things FREELY; no money or strings attached, so trading can't be encouraged... so technically it's not "exchanging".... Thoughts? Elizabeth Here is a link that might be useful: Somerset County Free4All

the centeral ohio swap in Hilliard is great see the post w/link to the get-togethers forum. I drive almost 200 miles 1 way to go, and its a great group of people, plants and food. diggerb