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MARK YOUR CALENDAR & TELL YOUR FRIENDS Here is the basic information: Please email me for address (N.J.) Date: Sunday October 5th, 2008 Arrive 10:00 AM (unload plants and food in driveway and park across road on Sedgwick-no street sign on Sedgwick). Walk around garden, socialize, etc. potluck 12 noon Afternoon-plant swap(informal or prearranged trades), visits to nearby public plantings of hardy palms, crape myrtles, etc. TRADING MATERIALS:Labeled plants, cuttings (rooted or unrooted), bulbs, shrubs, happy seedlings, seeds, garden ornaments,garden magazines, extra gardening implements, or any other garden-related items. POT LUCK: Please bring a lunch dish (with serving utensil) to enjoy and share. Bring a chair if you have one (extra chairs here if needed). Plates, plastic silverware, napkins, cups, and iced tea & water will be provided. This will be a wonderful chance to share our passion for gardening, meet other avid and learning gardeners, have a festive and delicious meal, acquire some new plants & share our extras. In addition, there will be a side trip to visit nearby public plantings which include cold-tolerant palms. This should be a FUN, informal day to share our love of gardening! I'm contacting some gardening friends & posting on several boards. Hopefully we'll have a good crowd. You should bring a gardening friend, too! PLEASE EMAIL if you need the address and so I can get a head count. HOPE YOU CAN MAKE IT TO THE SWAP! pic from last swap needle palm in front yard Dicksonia antarctica Nearby public plantings of trachys, seeding minors, & seeding louisianas 3rd summer for this filifera on a south-facing courtyard surrounded by a building in town a flowering trachy similarly sited http://s117.photobucket.com/albums/o58/SteveNJ7-a/?start=0

I had a great time on Saturday. I loved meeting everyone. Thank you all for your generosity. My husband wanted to stop and watch a movie as soon as we left the park. Ugh! I looked and smelled ferocious, but we stopped and watched Captain Phillips. Awesome movie. We took our time driving back and stopped and had dinner. All in all, we had a great day. Thanks again everyone! I worked in the yard all day yesterday. My body is paying for it today at work! Thank goodness I'm not busy. Can't wait until the next plant swap. See you then! Darlene

OK, After several postings (which I can't delete and replace with this), Here is my final posting of wants and haves - which supercedes prior postings: Specific Wants: Yucca pallida (pale leaf yucca) Mexican Mint Marigold - Charloote to provide Damianita Agave colorata or paryii, or victoria-reginae Fall Aster Hardy sedums - Omar to provide Have: (and plan to bring) Variegated Turks Cap Senecio himilaya glauca Kalanchoe - variegated (bluish with cream margin) Cuphea igneus (David Varity) - the dwarf one Hamelia patens dwarf form (dwarf hummingbird bush) Trichytis formosiana 'Guilt Edge' - yellow variegated margin Prerskia bleo Tricolor Hypericum Pandanus veitchii variegata - Tropical aka Screw Pine Pandanus baptisti aureo variegata - Tropical Colocasia 'black magic' Xanthosoma 'Golden Delicious' - pale yellow tropical foliage Cuttings of Thailand hybrid crown of thorns, var. colors Eleagnus pungens maculata - yellow leaf centered variegation Other last minute plants I might grab. Prearranged trades are welcomed before or after the swap - see my entire plant list at www.houstongardening.info/plantlist.htm I will wear a bright red shirt, be wearing glasses and a Master Gardener name tag on at the swap. Looking forward to meeting everyone. Bob Beyer, NW Austin