Blue girl: If you have any pearl d'ore left, would like to have one. Please let me know what can I bring for you.

@bluegirl. I was asking for a small rose bush.

Does anyone want any pond plants? I have yellow flowering irises and purple blooming lily.

Sigma! Thank you thank you thank you! I'll bring you irises & lemon mint!

Lesli, I don't have pink brugs but I'll bring the plumeria.

Pat, I can bring you a water clover.

Lesli, can you tell me what I'm receiving from your lovely offer ? Depending, I like to give more or bigger plants to help make it more fair. If no one asks for other lanterns, I'm happy to take them all off your hands, as well as the chair...I think it may match another I have. The pothos and columbine are spoken for, so please choose others from my lists. Choose what you feel will make it a good trade to you. I'm happy to bring you the others you requested.

ANU: the Houzz message system is not allowing me to reply to you right now. Send me an email to soriano471@sbcglobal.net

Please look at my list toward the top of this page for items I am looking for instead of plants. Mostly I like old stuff, but will also consider other things which aren't old....they are on the list, too.

patty

I have sedums i plan to share will have to update the types when i get home. Also have iceplant that isnt liking a bed i have it in. Also have some other succulents like ghost plant if anyone wants a few. Im a newbie so my collections are small & common.

Hi Shellshok! Glad you're coming. We have fun ! Don't think that all you have is "common" because sometimes many people have never heard of what you have. I think all of us have something we think is common, but many people would still like it. If it's "common" it usually means it grows well here ! And we all need some of that!

Since you're a newbie.... I have plants to trade, but I do not want plants in return. If you haven't yet gone through all of the posts above, please find mine toward the top. I have a list of things non-plant-related that I would love to have; giving you my plants in return. Further down you will see two long lists of plants that I have if you are interested in exchange for the "junk" I'd rather have. You may post to me here, leave a message on my Houzz account by clicking on my picture, or emailing me at soriano471@sbcglobal.net. I'll be leaving early in the morning, so need to get these plants packed into my truck today. If you are interested, let me know soon. We are all looking forward to meeting someone new, I'm sure. :-)

patty

Just a reminder to everyone that we are again asking for $1.00 at the gate, so please have the exact amount ready when you come. We probably will not have change right away, so your help in bringing the correct change will be very helpful. This money goes to repay Lorelei who pays the rental on this pavilion out of her own pocket.

Also, we will not be having the usual drawings for prizes this time around, so you might consider using your goodies as trade items. See you there !

By the way Im Shell We on fb. Houzz is setup apparently under my photography name. Will look at lists im at work right & peeking in on my breaks

Is Shell your name ? Are you the army wife ? wow, your hometown has been getting hammered this week ! Do you still have family there ? Hope they are okay! I'm trying to find your photography website. I like to take photos, too. Hope you get to check it all out and get some new plants tomorrow!

At my garden there is one small table in the back with a few plants on top that were not spoken for. I'll put 'Free" sign on it so feel free to take what you want. Plants on the ground or other tables are NOT for give away.

When you come to the open garden you may enter through the gate at either side of the house. Watch for step down on the right side. Please close the gate behind you so no wandering turtles will get out.

Does anyone happen to have a papaya plant in a pot to give away? A friend wants one to use the leaves for medicinal purposes.

I am so looking forward to seeing old friends soon and meeting the new people who are coming ... :-)

Ok, I'm packed!

For better or for worse, *I* *am* *packed*!

I'm excited to get to come to your swap at last, & I'm looking forward to meeting everyone!

"Just in case", I messaged Roselee with my cell #.

Drive safe, Sylvia !!

Yes, everybody have a safe and pleasant drive! And when you come to the open garden -- be hungry ... :-))))

Yes my hometown has suffered mightly & almost all of my family is still there. Im a hobbyist photographer so no website dedicated to it or id lose interest lol. Im the Mikey of plants, give it to me & i will like it if i dont kill it lol. I also adopt homeless trees. So I have to offer/trade/whatever

Fuldaglut stonecrop

Angelina sedum

Haworthia

A baby aloe my plant made

Portulaca pink flowers

A reddish kalanchoe

I have a donkey ear if someone wants it's a nice size

Mother of 1000s

Another sedum i think looks like a tiny green pinecone to me & makes tiny white flowers

Ghost plant graptopetalum

Iceplant yellow

Edible purslane yellow flowers

Decorative purslane pink flowers

I will try to separate my goji seedlings & share some

Cilantro babies

Pink 4 o'clocks seeds or cuttings if it can be proprogated & someone wants some

Pale pink oleander cuttings

I have veggie & herb seeds also.

sorry, patty, I've been gone all day at the dentist, literally all day with my 20 year old son who had multiple procedures and that was in San Antonio, and just only now got home. I have my car packed and put in the chair for you and a couple of the lanterns. *have to say, I'm exhausted as I live 70 miles from San Antonio, got lost in New Braunfels on my way home from my son's appt. Finally got here around 9:30pm and whipped up a grape/walnut salad to take tomorrow, Have no clue where Rogiers park is, I just wrote the instructions down as I dont have my printer hooked up (been remodeling) yet and getting up early to do it all again, sounds really daunting. As of now I still plan on coming...I REALLY wish I had someone to come with as I hate getting lost all by myself, LOL.Anyone coming from the east side of SA that I can meet up with and follow? kind of late notice I know...

Well if it comforts you ill be lost coming from the nw side lol. Hope my gps can find this one.

heading out ;-)

Shell, do you know the swap is today ? bring what you can an come join us !! The park is not that hard to get to. 410 and Fredericksburg, you turn next to the Jim's on the corner. At next street you make a left next to the police station. Come down a few blocks and turn right on 3rd or 4th street. You'll have to look up exact street on google. Pleasant maybe? Once you turn right, after a couple of houses the park is on the right surrounded by chainlink fence. And there we are !! Hope you can make it !

What a great swap! Thank you everyone--so nice to see the oldies & meet the newbies. I hope everyone had as good a time as I did.

As usual, though I tried to "be good", I fortunately wasn't.

Thank you folks:

Omar--for the blue indigo--such dainty attractive leaves--I look forward to the flowers, too.

Tally--the cisus quadratus--how odd!, the 2 neat prickly pears, the pink flowered smooth one & the GIGANTIC columnar cactus cutting (I thought a "cutting" meant 4", not 4 FEET!!! but thank you so much for hauling up such a wonderful giant stalk for me.

Leslie--the wonderful home made vanilla extract. Hmmm, I dunno whether to use it in recipes or to save it for perfume, it smells so luscious :-D Oh, and for sharing your buck eye seeds.

Leaping frog--the little ground cover--you know the one, it's pretty in beds or in baskets, grows well--I'm happy to have a nice clump of it, thanks to your generosity.

Lorilei--the verbena rigida. Always glad to get a drought tolerant flowing perennial & I was even more impressed when I saw its beauty at Ragna's. Oh, & the cookies & brownies were delicious! Thank you!

Yvette--thank you for the Traviata cuttings--I tried a baby plant from Vintage but it died. So glad to get such big healthy cuttings to root & bud. And what a pretty baby African violet--mine always rot when I try to propagate them.

Sylvia--thank you for the Crimson King & the ruffled white iris! I've just moved to an area where the beautiful bearded iris thrive & it's exiting to collect them.

Ragna--yet ANOTHER giant start of the beautiful columnar cactus--thank you! The mini crinum--thank you for sharing such an unusual thing. Annnnnnd, for sharing the almond verbena cuttings & the agave.

And finally, thank you & Bob, et. al. for sharing your lovely garden. The food was wonderful, the drinks so refreshing after a morning of yakking plants. Lovely home, lovely yard--you are such an artist & your plants (& turtles, birds, insects) look so happy to live there.

Best wishes to everyone & if I've neglected to mention something, please forgive me, the old mind is still spinning from all the cool loot I hauled home & all the lovely plants I've seen.

thank you everyone for all your terrific junk in exchange for plants. I very much appreciate you trying to find things for me!! Same thing next spring, so keep your eyes peeled on the side of the road for good junk !

Thank you Lorelei for continuing to keep it going, and for the really awesome goodies you brought for lunch!

A big hug and thank you to Ragna and Bob for again opening your beautiful garden to us. Thank you, Joan, for the yummy chicken salad !! Would love the list of ingredients.... I can never get mine to taste that good.

Glad to have the newbies who came, and lovely always to see the return garden lovers!

Sylvia, so glad to finally meet you and hope you might turn this into a regular trip. Turn it into a getaway weekend like Tally and Jim do. Then it's not so hard making that trip home again the same day.

patty

Today I spent planting plants left over from LAST SPRINGS swap!. STILL!!!!!!

Thanks everyone for being so giving. I so appreciate the items people gave me for my classroom use. I am especially grateful for all my new plants. However, that pesky squirrel is sneaking around to see what I brought back. Hoping he doesn't dig anything up till I get out there tomorrow to do something with everything. Have a great fall and winter and see you in the spring! Ragna, sorry I missed your garden luncheon but hopefully in the spring I can make it. :)

I did miss all of you and all of you were on my mind.

Ditto. I had a good time too. Thank you y'all.

Omar

We had a blast! Came home with far fewer plants, new plants, great stuff. Roselee`s garden was a fabulous treat as always. With excellent directions from Geneva and Patty we found the sunken gardens and toured it. Very impressive! Pictures to follow.

Tally Ho!

Tally, you got some great pictures! Thank you. Didn't we have a wonderful time today?

Mara, we were thinking of you too and several people mentioned missing you. I got one of the items (big) Tally brought for you on the pretense I would give it to you. Good luck! ... hahaha!

I took a few pics at my house which I'll post tomorrow.

Ragna, you make me feel so loved..... I have you in my sights. Picture famous 2 figured gesture made famous by john travolta in Pulp Fiction. You know the one.

What a beautiful day! Much gratitude to Lorelei for organizing the swap (there is a lot more to that than you might think) and to all the generous people who attended. Some who have attended in the past, but were not here this time were certainly missed.

Wow, there were so many plants and other surprising goodies it was like Christmas, but better than Christmas for us plant enthusiasts. I received plants that I didn't even know existed and got much more than I gave.

I especially appreciate the people who drove so far to join us. Sylvia gets first prize for coming the farthermost (and yes her vehicle was crammed with plants and other goodies!), but Tally, Jim, Karen, Lesli and Omar also drove quite a ways and perhaps others, too. Thank you all from near and far for coming.

I was having so much fun I almost forgot to take pictures. Here's the few that I got. Sorry I didn't get at least one photo of everybody there which I usually try to do.

Patty, Karen, and Sylvia ...

"Y'all come back now; ya' he-ah?" .... :-)))))

What excellent pictures!

I had a really great time; it was good to put people to the names & the personalities, & y'all do indeed have a good time!

& Ragna's garden is breathtaking;

who wants to be the one to call Southern Living to send a photographer?

I took the plants out of the car last night (I always think they get more oxygen that way, or is it the other stuff?..) & watered them this morning.

haven't put one single thing the ground yet, although I did stick the succulent cuttings into soil in an old enamel dishpan.

Thanks again, & everybody take care.

Funny how everyone has big peaceful smiles--something about being in a lovely garden, enjoying plants & friends & good food.

Thank you Ragna & thank you everyone else--happy planting!

Sylvia, thank you for the extra junk goodies you stuck in my bag! Love them all! That furniture leg is curious.... wondering about those metal pieces sticking out the sides. Glad to get the petticoats... thought I was only getting one and surprised with 4 ! These will work well for our costumes. I appreciate all you shared with me.

Yay! glad you like the junk!

I dunno what that metal thing is.

It was at the curb when someone moved out of a house in the neighborhood, & there was only the one.

It was really great to finally meet Kathy (Plantmaven), Omar and Sylvia after all these years!

You, too, I was happy to finally meet you and Sylvia both. I miss being able to go to the swaps.

Kloma Kathy, we were glad you could come for a while. By the way, Tally and Jim Beachplant are like Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus to the swap community. They bring garden style Christmas cheer and all the trimmings with them when they come.

Again -- thank you ALL for making it a great swap!

I'm a little late but it was a great swap; thank you Ragna and Bob for opening up your lovely yard, finding one of your turtles for us and for all of you who drove long distances to come see us! April awaits!

Can't wait for April, just not the weekend of the 16th, that is the Livingston swap. Roselee you are too funny, wait till I tell Jim he is Mr. Santa Claus, he keeps saying he needs to lose weight lol.

Did someone want the two pots of Rangoon creepers that were found sitting at the edge of the center bed here, or did you change your mind about taking them?

If you want them and will come by to pick them up I'll save them. If not I'll offer them to the neighbors.

Yvettes boyfriend had them or some anyway. He might have put them down while talking.

Thanks Tally. I contacted Yvette and she said Kirt got home with his.

Sorry I wasn't able to make it. Looks like it was a lot of fun. Hopefully I'll make the spring swap with some stuff to swap. Thanks for the pics- it's the next best thing to being there.

Lisa

Lisa -- you were missed! You better make it for spring or you'll be in big trouble ... ;-)

If anyone is talking to Sheila tell her I'm sorry I forgot to get a bag to put seeds of the Hopi red amaranth in, but I'll bring some to the spring swap. We got to talking about other things and it slipped my mind.

Never one to miss a chance to post a picture, lol, this is the plant I'm talking about. I'll be ever grateful to Jolana for passing seeds along to me ...

Golly, that's gorgeous!