HI everyone It was a nice swap I really enjoyed it. And yes a very Big Thank You to CHARLOTTE for pulling this swap together. I am already planning on what to bring for the fall swap!! Charlotte please e-mail me privately so that I may discuss some things with you about the fall swap. Thanks for reading. Marcie.

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

I'm interested in your plant swap, too, if it's not on the 7th, 8th or 21st of June. I have lots of plants to bring and I'm not too interested in taking too many home, so I'm willing to trade two or even three for one, or none, if you have none. Just getting together is the fun thing. So lets get a firm plan going soon. Rachel

Hello Everybody - I am back from vacation and now are we all ready for another punchie swap well here is the information on the next one and what you have to do to sign up Will take sign ups until Aug 4th and the deadline to have mailed to me is Aug 20th so that will give us plenty of time to get it all done . There are 4 categories and you may join 1,2,3 or all 4 categories and we will aim to be in groups of 10 ( which means you make 9 and send 9 and you get 9 in return from the others in the group if we are short I will fill in or if you would like to make different items you may take 2 spots as long as you send the # of punchies that you are supposed to send. We will do little baggies of 50 so that will mean that you will make 9 little baggies with 50 of your punchies in each bag and each person in the group will get one baggie. Remember to include return postage ( the same amount that it took for you to send to me you may use either stamps of cash I donÂt mind either ) ( please do not affix your postage to a return envelope as the return punchies may not fit in the envelope that you send) please use acid free paper you may use either cardstock or just different acid free papers solid or printed. Here are the categories A Animals ( must be a animal punchie) B Hoidays ( must be something that can be used with hoidays ( any holiday)) C Jumbo punchies Must be large or jumbo punchies D Tiny punchies this is the little little ones small or tiny Please to reply to join send the following in a email to me Full name Email address Category names that you would like to join in ( and if you want to have more than one space in a category tell me how many and what category) Address ( physical ) And what punchies that you will be doing for each category that you are signing up for so that maybe we wont have all 9 same And I will send a confirmation that I have you signed up Thanks and join and have some fun punching and scrappin! Gena