Thank you, everyone, it was great meeting you all, and sharing talk, food and plants.

Greylady, no problem. There must have been two cups with Lauren's poppy seedlings, and I have one here. More than enough for my closely planted smallish garden. Thank you.

TO ALL: I concur. What a great event ! THANK YOU HEATHER AND LU FOR GETTING TO THE PARK EARLY SECURING OUR SPOT AND DOING THE PRE SWAP SET UP. I once again have some wonderful additions to my gardens and plants with a story or history behind them. That is what makes these plants special and all of you for sharing the same. My mother, by the way had a great day also...so thanks to everyone from her. Hope to talk with many of you throughout the year here on the site so please keep in touch. Enjoy your garden season. Ross.

DINIE and MAURITIANA: So nice to meet both of you today to put faces to those garden site names. Hope you enjoyed yourselves enough to want to return next year! Bye for now. Ross.

Thank you everyone for all the wonderful plants. It turned out to be a perfect day. No storms happened. The food was excellent and so were all of you. It's wonderful getting together with people who love plants and beautiful gardens as much as I do. All of your plants look happy on my patio in the shade and they all had a drink when they got there. Will get them into my pots and gardens soon. Will post pictures when they get established. Thank you all again for a wonderful day.

blueiris3:

I pm'ed you here

Hello everybody. Thank goodness we had a beautiful breeze yesterday but kept the humidity away. Nice to see everybody in person and thank you to those who drive in from out of town. Also thank you to Heather for her work organizing signage etc.

Tulip thank you for Victoria falls iris, very pretty blue color. I will keep an eye out for something unique for you in trade thanks again. Happy summer.

Tulip and Flowergirl: Yes, the clematis was for Flowergirl (since already gave you yours). Don't know how that happened - sorry!

Greylady: I think the poppy seeds were for me? No worries - I have plenty of things to plant this time around!!

I have a couple of mystery plants without tags that I'll post pics of later today in hopes that someone can let me know what they are - if not, I'll just pick a sunny spot of the garden to put them in. :-)

To whoever may be interested,

Traditional Chineses Rose Tea

Tulip: The pics of my whit peonies are below. The solid white one (bottom) is the one I traded with Dinnerpl8. Just a reminder that neither of these are big enough for me to divide again yet....

MYSTERY! Anyone know what the two plants are in the first pic? Thanks for any info! :-)

Tulip, that is interesting. Not rose hips, as I thought, but rose buds! With goji berries. Did you also use jujubes (红枣/紅棗)? We lived in Korea for almost ten years, and I know jujubes from there. I loved your tea.

Dinie,

Yep, there are other ingredients can be add-in. Such as jujubes, Chinese hawthorn (山楂) and so many more. The one I posted is the very basic.

Chinese hawthorn:

Dried longan:

MAURITIANA ---so sorry about the seeds! I would be happy to put them in the mail for you if you want to p.m. me your address. :)

MAURITIANA: In your post above the plant in the blue mushroom box on the right is the PURPLE HYACINTH BEAN VINE that I traded you. Sorry...can't help with the other. Ross.

SIGNET: Thanks for the pot of Mini Daffodils that tulip delivered. Sorry you couldn't be with us but hopefully you will return next spring.

TULIP: Thanks for delivering the MINI DAFFODILs to me on behalf of SIGNET>. Ross.

TO ALL" I think I have found a place for everything that was traded to me yesterday. Thanks once again to you all and enjoy those new treasures. I know I am. Ross.

Tulip, fun! I know the first character for Chinese hawthorn: "san" in Korean pronunciation, "shan" for you? "Mountain", as in 'growing in the mountains', 'wild', right? We used to live in Busan, same "san".

Tulip: Loved the tea and will be making some for sure. Thanking you for sharing !!!

Dinnerpl8dahlia, I thank you for aster 'Alma Potschke'. I thought you hadn't seen the post me wanting it. I owe you one next spring.

MYSTERY SOLVED! The only mystery was why I didn't see the (very obvious) labels taped to the side of the pots. Ahem, a bit embarrassing really. But thank you Ross for responding so promptly! :-)

Almost have everything in the ground - and very excited about all of the new amazing plants!!

Greylady: No worries about the seeds. I don't want you to trouble yourself with mailing them, especially since I really have enough plants! haha :-)

flowergirl_on:

You don't owe me anything. Just enjoy. Hope the plant looks better or maybe even produces some flowers for you this fall and flourishes alot by next summer.

Dinnerpl8dahlia, I can't wait to see the aster in bloom and will certainly enjoy it. Thank you for it again.

Mauritiana, sorry the soapwort was so droopy. I hope it survives...it didn't like being dug up I don't think.

Signet, thanks for sending my plants with Tulip.

i'm not sure who gave me the big hosta in the pot but it's beautiful! I was so happy planting all my new additions yesterday...although it took me all day! Thanks again to everyone!

To Everyone who liked the Traditional Chinese Rose Tea. I found rose buds for the tea in the tea section at United Supermarket on 1062 Adelaide St. N. Also got the Gogi berries in bulk barn.

Such fun things in that store. Food I mean.

The Chinese supermarket located at Wonderland Rd N / Oxford not only has both, but also has almost all other ingredients.

Tulip:

I will check that store out for sure when I am out that way. I live NE end.

ROSS: Hi Ross. I tried to message you but couldn't figure it out. Do you know how big the lilac you gave me will grow? Just want to make sure it has enough room. Thanks.

SANDY: Good to hear from you. I hope your gardening season is going along well! The mother mauve LILAC of the one you received is about 15 feet high and 8 foot across at the top. Hope that helps as far as future size. Enjoy. Ross

Ross: Wanted to let you know that my Spanish Flag disappeared today - I'm guessing something dug it up and ate it? Weird, but it was there yesterday and is gone today. Just thought I'd tell you since there was talk of both of us collecting seeds, which I will definitely not succeed at!

Mauritiana: Sorry to hear about your Spanish Flag. Mine is struggling. I transplanted them to a larger pot with a trellis to climb on and they are still sitting 2 weeks later just about the exact same size as they were. Not sure what is going on there. Seeds at this point don't seem very likely....but we shall see. On a side note I am really enjoying the Purple Spiderwort that you traded me as well as the white from BLUEIRIS. Both have transplanted well and seem established.Thanks. Ross.

Thanks Ross, that's going to be a nice tree! Gardening has been good - I got my first Daylily bloom this weekend and it was one from the swap last year. It's lovely. I hope things are good for you too. Take care.

Hello all,

I hope everyone is enjoying their summer. As my daylilies have now bloomed I have to apologize as I had forgotten that I had one paler Daylily among my other 5 Pardon Me Daylilies. When I bought it, it was named Pardon Me but is a much lighter blush pink and obviously misnamed. I am sure 1 or 2 of the ones I brought to the swap were from that plant.

Speaking of daylilies - I got one at the gambler's circle (can't remember who it was from) that has bloomed now, and I'm so glad I snagged it! It's a lovely red. So thank you to whomever brought it!

mauritiana

Does this look like the daylily you got in the gamblers circle. I put one in and couldn't remember the colour. You may have gotten it from me. 2 years ago I got it from greylady_gardener(6b) in the plant exchange. Kinda cool.

mauritiana

One of your rose bushes in bloom...thank you

Dinnerpl8: Sorry for the delayed reply! Yes, that's the daylily - it was really lovely! Thank you, indirectly, to greylady then too. :-) I'm so glad to see that rose blooming, since it was not very happy at my house. You must have found a good spot for it, and I'm glad it has a good home!

I think that daylily may have originally come from my gardens from way back when . I believe looking at the pics it is the daylily "Autumn Red" in case you would like to put a name to it in your gardens .

Yes signet, it did come from you at a long ago swap :).....love it.

Hello all, I hope everyone had a good summer. I meant to post this earlier in the season but got busy. Flowergirl, I think it may have been you who put the following plant in the gambler's circle last year. Can you, or anyone let me know it's name? It's doing well!

Hi serendipity I'm not really sure if I'm seeing the leaves right but if they're what I think they are they could possibly be corydalis lutea... Have they had yellow flowers little yellow flowers all summer?

Hi Greylady, I hope you are feeling better and things are going well. Thanks for responding. No, it's never flowered and this is its second year. But looking at pictures of corydalis lutea it kind of does look like it....

Did anyone bring rue, Ruta graveolens? That looks like another possibility. If you put on disposable gloves or something else to keep the sap off your hands, you can test it. Crush a few leaves, and if it is rue, you will notice a strong, unpleasant smell. The hand protection is necessary because the sap of rue leaves could cause a rash. Your plant also looks like Corydalis lutea, but for me the seedlings bloom the first year wherever they pop up.

Serendipity.... Yes I am feeling much better thank you for asking :-). Treatments are over thankfully and I am feeling better every day. Looking forward to a normal gardening season next year! :)

I think Dinie is right about the rue... I am pretty sure that someone was offering it but can't remember who.....are the leaves kind of blueish rather than really green?

Yes they are blueish - that's what I like about it! It does look a bit more like the Rue. Thanks Dinie!

Lois, I am so glad to hear you are feeling better!!

Serendipity, just letting you know that the rue (possibly) didn't come from me. :)

Ross, I wanted to show you my allamanda cathartica that I got from you. Here it is with the mandevilla in the background. Also in the picture is plectranthus 'Mona Lavender' I got from you, Lois, three years ago. Curiously it flowers purple outside but is white when flowering inside. I love them all!

Merja, thank you. It is a relief. :).

Your allamanda and mandevilla are really looking good. What do you do to make them bloom so well?

That's true about the Mona lavender flowers....it must have to do with the lack of good light in the house. I love it no matter what colour! :)

Lois, I give them some water soluble all purpose fertilizer (20-20-20) with micronutrients every few weeks and they seem to do well with that. :)

MERJA: WOW! Those plants are looking great. I am so glad to see that they are responding to your care. That is a beautiful display...the colours are vibrant. The Allamanda that you gifted back to me this season are also doing well, but not yet at the flowering stage. I will be looking out for blooms next year though. Thanks for posting those pics. Happy Gardening. Ross.

Thanks Merja, the mandevilla that I have finally perked up and looks nice and healthy this summer.....hoping to get some flowers next year. :)

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A heads-up: Springbank plant swap 2019

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