I second Penny's "Thank You"....thank you for the friendship, plants, gathering of old and new acquaintances/friends, and the weather that accommodated all of us. Tara, you are so blessed to have such a wonderful new home and growing family, and I know your newest member will be a beautiful "pink bloomer" who will quickly grow into one of the prettiest flowers in your family garden. Thanks to everyone and did I forget to mention such great food????

Ginny

Thanks everyone! I got so many interesting plants and the food was fantastic!
Kathy - I'm eager to see what happens with the formosa lily and the passion flowers. So nice of you to think of me when you think "lily"
Remy, thanks for the new salvias and other little goodies. You always have the most unusual plants.
Tara - the painted daisy is a perfect match for my weigela which is blooming right now.
Ginny - I was reading your magazines this morning, drooling over the photos. thanks also for the knockout rose
Glenn the grass guy - thanks to you I have the beginnings of a grass garden
Everybody else - thanks for the little goodies - some ferns, linaria, etc.

It was fun to see everyone again, happy gardening!

A special thanks to Tara once again for hosting!

A huge thanks to Tara for hosting again! : )
I of course concur with all the posting so far! It was great to see all the "oldies", and meeting all the new people too!

Brenda,
You know I love your plants too!
Jerry,
I love making you take my plants : )
Penny,
I already got the salvia and cuphea planted. Lots of other things still need to get planted though.
Kathy,
I thought it was so nice when I got home that you printed out the plant info. Especially since I was still scribbling names on my plant tags when I arrived, and I couldn't remember all my plant info, lol.
Ruth,
Thanks so much for remembering the epimediums. I just love the little blooms.
Tauna,
It was nice to meet you. I just loved the gift of eggs. Gary, my husband, is making a special steak and eggs dinner tomorrow.
Rosalinda,
Thanks for remembering the onions for Hilde.
Ginny,
Thanks for remembering the plant tags from so long ago.

Thanks to whomever brought the waterwand. I already used it last night on my porch pots.

Tara,
I'm glad Kathy, Penny, and I got the tour at the end of the day. Seeing the bluebird was so cool.
You're going to think I'm nuts, but I stopped at the nursery up the road from you on the way home. I did find a very unusual bellflower, Campanula sarmantica of all things!

If I forgot to thank anyone, please know I didn't mean it!

I do hope most of you can make it to the tomato party, Sept. 6th.
Remy

The plant swap, my very first ever, was a wonderful experience, and I am definitely going to be better prepared next year! I plan on doing some dividing this fall of some of the stuff I hope you all don't consider invasive - an interesting lesson for me since almost nothing is invasive in my soil.

Tara your house and family are beautiful, I was very impressed with your daughter, and look forward to meeting the new one next year. Thank you so much for hosting this great event.

It was great meeting you all, and so much fun getting all these different plants to add to my gardens. Thanks to EVERYONE who was there for making it such a delightful experience.

-Rosalinda

Thank you Tara for opening your beautiful home for all of us! I hope you got to relax when we all left! Hope to see your new baby girls at the Tomato Taste Fest on September 6th, and I know Sonja and Maria would love to play with Anika again!

Thank you Remy for asking for edibles for me! And thank you Rosalind for bringing the large perennial onion and clary sage for me. Thank you Ginny for the celeriac and thank you Tara for the basil!

Thank you everyone else, I loved to see you and get to know you. Everyone were SO nice! I loved the Chinese swap too, and the food was great!

It was my first plant swap, and I wasn't sure what to expect, but I will be better prepared next time. In time I will try propagating my currants and elderberries and raspberries if people are interested in growing that.

Happy gardening all of you!

Hilde

Tara-Another great swap as always, I agree with all of the above comments...thanks so much for hosting...was great to meet new people and catch up with the regulars. Can't wait to get everything into the ground, a great selection from everyone. Hope to see lots of you at the tomato party...Kathy

I agree. Stacey and I had a wonderful time and look forward to next year's swap.

Gail

Hi, Tara thankyou again for your hospitality. I guess I don't get out much I wasn't aware that Hamlin was such an apple area. I'd never been there before-very picturesqe area
I finally have my 21 plants in the ground and looking forward to their growth. Thankyou all. I should have more knockout roses next year. I pruned one large branch off one of them that was hanging over my patio, stuck in some dirt with a small willow branch and darn if it hasn't rooted. I'm thinking about next year already! My sister was disappointed that she couldn't make it-busy time of year for her (school teacher) but she retires next year.
Linda

Thank you, Tara, for graciously opening your garden and home to us for another successful plant exchange.
I am still working on getting my 20+ plants into the ground, and am grateful to everyone who brought such wonderful specimens.

However, I do have to say that - just as important to me as a beginner gardener- is the opportunity to talk with all of you, and learn so much in such a short amount of time.

Brenda, Last year, you were the one that taught me that I was probably planting my iris too deep, and you were right. The iris I received from you last season are in bloom now and look great!

Remy, it is MY pleasure to take your plants! I love all those odd little varieties you seem to specialize in. I am a bit of a nerd, and like to read up on stuff, so all those unusual varieties are fun to raise and watch as they progress. My favorites this time were those little tiny sedums and delosperma I got from you.

Rosalinda, It was a pleasure meeting and talking with you. I am excited about the Jerusalem artichokes and Egyptian Onions.

Hilde, thank you for the Apache Blackberry. I've since read that it is one of the sweetest and best producing cultivars. I got some very sturdy heirloom tomatoes from you as well.

Penny Or Kathy, One of you told be about Earsing's on Clinton St, and I thank you! I visited there and found tomatillo plants, which made me quite happy, since my seedlings didn't make it. I ended up talking with the manager(?) who showed be a greenhouse in back with heirloom tomato plants for $1.69.

Thanks again to everyone who participated!
Jerry

Jerry that would have been Kathy that told you about Earsings on Clinton street since that is more out her way but glad you found your tomatillos!

OK has anyone heard yet it Tara has had the baby yet?????

BTW, All my plants from the swap got planted out right away this year!

Penny

I am still planting the stuff I got at the swap. I potted up everything after I got home and let it all grow out a bit, always a good thing to do before planting in my soil. It is fun having all the new and different things to add to my gardens.

I am also plotting what I am going to bring to the swap next year - looking forward to it!

-Rosalinda

FYI - Tara had her baby!
Ivy Kaia Kolinsky has arrived! She made her way into the world on Thursday June 19, 2008 weighing 7 pounds, 6 ounces. She was 20 inches long and has a full head of brown hair.