Kristi I will make room thanks! What else do you want? Sillybugs I do have the crinium and will bring you one as well as a couple crown of thorns cuttings. I will be bringing a few different hedychiums or butterfly gingers. Ladygreensleves I would like to trade for the amazon I have one but have a great spot for another. Don't need the tall porterweed but if you have the native small one I will take some.

oakleif, Oh no,! Don't say that! My page is outdated and somewhere in that changeover that GW did, they lost all my links! So now it doesn't make since and I'd have to really look to dig to see if I even have a copy anywhere... Sigh! I pretty much hang out in the Vegetable Forum. What happened when GW changed over anyway? I missed what sounds like was a pretty big mess. As for a swap... how about meeting out at the Nathaniel Greene park in Springfield on either of these days? Sunday, April 22 at Noon-? (Earth Day appropriately enough) Sunday, May 6 at Noon-? We can vote on a day and narrow it down to a pavillion, probably the one on the North side of the park that has a parking lot somewhat close to it. Not sure if they have to be reserved. You'd definitely have to bring a chair. Everyone can "bring a dish" get plants potted up, plan trades (wait for me! my plants are barely up yet!) It's also just a few yards away from the MG Demonstration Gardens so eveyone can mill around at their leisure. If you have extra pots or gardening tools you no longer need, you can drop them off so the MG volunteers can use them for the gardens to it might be a good time to do some spring cleaning. But we can work on details later. It's been a while since I've seen you guys... what d'ya think? Sound like a plan? Let's start voting on a date!

Snaps are "officially" annuals, Alice, but I always have them overwintering here and there. I NEVER put any in at this house--there were a couple here when I moved in, and since I let them go to seed I now have them kind of all over the place! Mostly I pull them out when they're done blooming because most of mine get rust really badly by then, but there are always some that go to seed before they get pulled out, and the seeds that germinate in fall overwinter and bloom the following summer (a couple of mine are budding already), and sometimes I'll deadhead/cut down ones that aren't coated with rust and even some of the ones that bloomed the previous year will be semi-evergreen over winter and rebloom the next year. I've loved snaps since my uncle, next door, grew "floral" snaps in his greenhouses---LOVE the scent, and love how the different colors have slightly different scents, just like carnations (which he also grew). And they're amazingly "indestructible" too! Every year I have some coming up in the rock mulch--which is on top of landscape fabric--in a hot, sunny corner where I NEVER water, because I don't have anything "planted" there, and they grow and bloom, seemingly without any water at all! I'm always amazed by that! So let the seeds drop where the plants are growing for more next year, or collect some of the seeds and scatter it in other spots--and then ignore it until the next Sniffing Time! Wonderful, carefree things to grow! Skybird

This sounds like fun and I think I could have just copied missindia's answers! lol I think we are long lost twins! But I am going to pass this time, as I have several projects in the works. Missindia, usually partners will email each other first to get to know each other better. Then you fill up a box with things you think your partner would like... something they collect, candles, candy, items from your state or area, windchimes, handmade and seasonal items.... some people also send things for the rest of the family and/or furbabies. I have sent (and received) vintage things too! We've never had price limits. You can get a flat rate box at the post office. I think it is $7.95?? and you can fill it with whatever you want with no weight limit. You guys have fun! Maybe I will join the next one?