I wanted to say a great big Thank You to Stardust !!!! The swap was a success. She did a lot a work to pull this together. The hall was great and easy to find. There were tables and chairs inside for a great lunch of all the food everyone brought. Of course, all nicely decorated! It was fun to see all the door prizes that were all wrapped. And there was a very nice silent auction of books and home decorations. Then, on to the swap. Names were chosen at random to start the rounds and everyone redeemed the tickets they were given for the plants they brought in exchange the the plants they wanted. It took many rounds to use up the tickets. We sure had lots and lots of plants. Stardust brought about 60 plants. Wow! So, everyone got to select a "bonus" plant after they ran out of tickets. So, thank you so much. This was a lot of work and turned out to be a lot of fun. Also, thank you to Stardust's long time & very good neighbor friend who helped the whole day and made the refreshments. I can see that you did a lot of planning, too. Here are the lucky guys who came home with me::::

Ruth: Theresa & I are going to talk via phone tomorrow to hash out details. If you have any suggestions for how to set it up, please email either of us before then. I am going to ask the nurseries & shops I list in the brochure to donate a doorprize, so we'll have some pretty nice doorprizes, I hope! EVERYONE is welcome to offer suggestions, so please just email either of us or post here.

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

Hi, the master gardeners have a swap, I think in early May. My church usually runs one, but we're having trouble finding a date this year. If it's going to happen I'll post it here. Also, there's usually a fall swap in Central City (14th St. West, if you don't know where that is yet.) Welcome to Huntington! I had to miss the Home & Garden show this year. Was it good? I do have some things that need dividing, although my garden's not really a cottage garden. Email me through GW if you're interested.