hi all, I'm planning on coming - if I can get root to go with me and split the fuel costs! I'm updating my swap list and my want list this evening. I dug out an entire bed and where I thought I might have a few hundred bulbs, I have thousands. However, my daughter's boyfriend was so kind to dig it out for me. Therefore, I have a wheelbarrow load of bulbs, and 3 - 5 gal buckets full. I know what they all are and will try to separate them, but it's bulb time with no cultivar names. I know which are daffodils (mixed cultivars), which are lycoris (all the lycoris are th radiata), I have tons of muscari (all americana - the plain purple), crocus (mixed cultivars), lilies (mixed orientals and asiatics), daylilies (mixed hybrid cultivars - no ditch lilies), etc. Fran, I've tried Gunnera twice and both times, believe it or not, it rotted on me. Both times it came up about 5", but then died and when I checked the bulb, it was soft and mushy. I thought Gunnera was a water plant. Questions for all you guys. I have a hardy Tapioca. I've had it 3 years now, it's in the greenhouse - never taken the time to plant it out in the yard. 1st question - can I plant it out now or should I wait until spring? 2nd question - It has a fruit on it. What do I do with this fruit? LOL Thanks, Vickie

Well, Anna, if you bring them again i will have to grab one of those plums, too! They sound like my kinda plant- i'm into weird & unusual edible landscaping. Wish I'd seen them saturday. Very enterprising of you to see what you like, ID it & go for it! Good for you. Nice meeting you, too. Shannon- how did i miss that agastache Brenda was drooling over? What kind was it? I just got some small navajo sunsets for my plot the other day at bb. John's right- the food was extra good this time. yum yum! Deb, i feel almost the same way, 'cept i'm finally starting on my back yard. But I'd love to see all of you and visit more often, for sure; plants or no plants.

Am so excited to have drupes on the new Edgeworthia papyrifera that I got this spring. If I can catch them at the right stage of ripe and then get them to germinate ~a year from now, it will probably only be another decade before flowering. So why am I so excited? I don't know but have decided to just enjoy the moment.

Anyone have any Sansevieria house plants they'd like to trade? I have a gorgeous variegated variety with white vertical lines I'd be willing to trade depending on if you have one that I dont already have. Please feel free to list the varieties you have to trade and I'll let you know if i need that one.