The photographer never gets her picture taken enough. And Ragna does the best job of making sure everyone gets included ;-) It was great to see everyone and talk plants. Thanks to Shirley for organizing and Barbra for getting us a nice place to set up. And thanks too to Ragna and Bob for hosting the after swap gathering. Ragna it's amazing what changes a year has made in your yard.

Lisa

This proves how much Shirley and Ragna love hanging around at plant swaps ...

(I hope you hear the good natured laughing. The photo is upside down on my computer,but maybe not on all)

GORGEOUS people and Gorgeous plants! I'm so jealous!
I'm so happy yall had such a great time, and didn't get wet in process ;-)
Ragna, your garden is beautiful! I hope one day we can get our garden to look half as good as yours!!!
It was very brave of yall to get that close to voodoo lily in bloom, stinky ....well ya...but beautiful none the less.
♥Lyna

Yes, it was great swap meet. Thanks to Shirley for organizing the meet. Thanks to Ragna for the after the swap party and thanks to all for the many plants and seeds we received.

But, was it fun? YES! One lady was sooooo funny. Don't recall her name, but she said, "Have you ever had roast chicken or potatoes with rosemary?' I said yes. She then said, "Would you like some potatoes with rosemary, tonight?" I said, "yes, yes!" (I thought she was inviting us to dinner.) And then she shoves a whole bunch of rosemary into my hand, and says, here, take that!

I never laughed so hard. I told her, "Hey, I thought I was getting dinner!" I told her, problem is... I'm easy and you're bad." We both just laughed. Okay, you know who you are. I'm waiting for my potatoes with rosemary dinner... and while you're at it, throw a chicken in there, too! :-)

You guys look like you had so much fun. I wish Temple wasn't so far away.

Xtal

Looks like a fun time was had by all! I love seeing the pictures of all of your smiling faces :-)

Roselee, photos uploaded from iPhones are often upside down on Windows computers :-) You look great upside down too!

Irene, I love that participant's sense of humor! Thanks for telling us about it.

Pam, yes it is fun. Wish you could attend sometime. Also figured sending from an electronic tablet caused the upside down photo having read about it on other forums. Sideways photos are sometimes the case too. But that's no problem. We can figure it out. The world is pretty upside down most of the time anyway ... ;-)

I saw Shiela with rosemary, in her hand. I sounds like something she would do. I had a great time at the swap. This year I had nothing to do with organizing the swap, I just drove there. Next year, the mayor of Balcones Heights wants us to let her know ahead of time, so she can put a note in their local paper, so if any residents want to attend to swap plants they can. She thought it was a wonderful idea having the swap, so everyone could get together to swap palnts. I call Delia the city secretary, every year, to let her know when we are having our swap, and get the phone number of the officer with the key. This year Delia was not in the office. There are only a few streets with homes in Balcones Heights, you can see them as you drive down Balcones Drive, the main road. Balcones Heights encompasses just less than one square mile. 80% of that is commericial property including Wonderland Mall, Springfield Marriot, Howard Johnson, Luby's, Howard Johnson, Tx Heart Hospital, Norris Confrence Ctr, Dave and Buster's, and at least 6 different Apts complex. There are very few homes, and most residences are seniors, that is why no one ever uses the park, not even children. It is just a neighborhood, but because of all the commercial property, they have a paid fire dept and police dept. If the mayor post information regarding our plant swap in their local paper, I don't think any of the residences will even come, except maybe the mayor. Barbra

Barbra, that's good information. Thank you!

that explains why they want to take out the skatepark and put in a community garden.
We had a blast as usual and I got rid of almost every plant thanks to Darlene. I totally owe Sylvia more plants, I never expected 2 crates full of glassware! lots of projects for my days off next week.
See ya`ll in the spring!
Tally HO!