another successful WNY garden swap

16 years ago

Hi Tara, Thankyou again for hostessing the garden swap and for digging out some of your pink phlox, I got home in time to plant the phlox and bareroot iris before it rained. I also acquired : Disco Bell hibiscus, sweet autumn clematis, hillbilly tomatoe, moonbeam coreopsis, campanella, rose of sharon, amaranthus, mallow, black eyed susan, and lobelia.

The food was good, and the people friendly- a good day!

Linda

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gottagarden
16 years ago
Thanks Tara! You're the best! We really appreciate you hosting this large event especially with a move approaching. We all will miss your beautiful home. Your gardens really looked terrific this year, it must be very hard to leave them.

Thanks to everyone else for all the great plants! I appreciate everyone who encouraged my collecting addiction with all those pre-arranged swaps. I now have lots more lovely plants to fill in my new garden beds.

Sure hope we do this again next year!
husky004_
16 years ago
Thanks Tara and everyone else...one of my favorite days of the year...great people, great plants and great food. We are finally getting our much needed rain but I heard lows in the 40's in the next two days...Yuck, I'll take heat and dry.
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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
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Jerry Ciesielski
16 years ago
Many thanks to you, Tara, for hosting a great exchange, and thanks to everyone who was so giving! It was great meeting everyone, and very nice to find everyone so welcoming and easy-going.
We received a much needed (light) rain shower as soon as we rolled into our driveway, but I watered everything just to be safe.
Now, the challenge is to get everything into the ground or pots...
lilylouise
16 years ago
Thanks to Tara and everyone for a great swap. I'm so glad the much needed rain held out until late afternoon.

I got home, had dinner and like a mad gardener went out and planted all the plants(21) I brought home .......just in time for this heavenly rain!!!!!
virgiebaby165
16 years ago
A great time, great people, a great hostess with beautiful home and gardens, what more could a gardener want, except the needed rain we finally received. Yeah, no watering last night.

Thanks to all who participated with your generous offerings, and to Tara, what can one say.....when she literally takes the shovel nearby and sends you home with more. Smiles abound.

Ginny B.
remy_gw
16 years ago
It was a wonderful day. Thank you Tara. It was amazing how the rain started just as the last of us left!
It was great to see all the oldies again, and the new faces too!
I do hope the tomato party does happen, so we can see each other again in August : )
Remy
hammerl
16 years ago
Thanks again Tara, the swap is always something I look forward to. Your gardens were gorgeous. I hope you can create something just as wonderful at the new house.

I was adventurous and decided to take the back roads home, only to learn the Wruck Road bridge was out when I prepared to turn. Oops. I bravely went one more road, finally learned to keep my internal compass straight, and made it home without directions, map, or a single wrong turn. Definitely a miracle, considering I'd never heard of most of those roads, let alone been on them. None of them ever hooked up to my old route, but it was just as fast.

Once home, I scurried to plant as much as I could before the rain... and failed. At 5 we got really, really, really hard rain. A true soaker. I waited it out and eventually ducked back out when it stopped or was misty.

In the end, I got everything planted except for two lupine, a salvia, a few dahlias and four tomatoes. Not bad. And I certainly didn't have to water.

Thanks everyone for a great time and some super plants. I ended up with lots of nice bearded iris, a candy lily, a blackberry lily, a salvia, two lupine, four tomatoes of different varieties, a few dahlias, solomon's seal, wood hyacinth,corydalis, and pre-trade agastache, siberian iris, japanese iris, japanese primrose, and bearded iris.
penny1947
16 years ago
Tara
You are really tops! With the impending move, you still took the time to host the plant swap again this year. Thank you so very much. I will really miss you beautiful home and superb gardens
Everyone,
It was great to see all of you and to meet new swapees I had an awsome time as usual and I want to thank everyone for all the great plants that I brought home (but didn't get a chance to plant out). I am actually planting out now that the rain has stopped. I got home just as it came down in buckets and poor husky still had to drive all the way home from my house in the rain. It rained the rest of the evening and all morning here so I am at least able to get the shovel in the soil today. This is the one day each year that I thoroughly look forward to and as usual it was perfect. Thank you Tara and all for making it so special.
For those who didn't get to come this year.....you were really missed. We talked about you all day! LOL!
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rbirch
16 years ago
Thank you Tara for hosting the plantswap again. I real;y had a great time and it was so nice to see old and new faces. I have so much planting to do still. Glen.