Hi JLynn, If you mean would I be willing to hang onto some plants you could bring early until the swap, yes, Id be glad to do that, but am I missing something in the translation? You say youre in Cheyenne monthly, but Im in Denver. What am I missing? Do you get down to Denver? And are you thinking of the Spring Swapif it happensor the summer/fall swapwhich Im going to do my best to make happen? If youre able to get something down here, Id be glad to give you some of my unrooted groundcover sedums if youd like. That way youd at least get something back for whatever you bring. And if its more than a month from now, I may have some Dendranthema/Chrysanthemum (whatever genus theyre using these days) Sheffield Hillside Pink, or some Hopleys Purple ornamental oregano, rooted that I just stuck when I was cleaning up my plants. Or I could give you some of my seeds, but I could find something. Just let me know if youre thinking of some way to get things down to Denverand about when. Wish you lived closer, Skybird P.S. Do you know windwhipped is up there in Casper with you!

Hi all, Finally finding time to get back here to post! MISTY -- I can't be sure because of the wide color variation, but I believe your first hen & chicks pic is of 'Icicle', and the second pic looks like the one I call C to me. I'm fairly sure on both of them, but would need to see "spring" pics to be positive! I have you down for the things you asked for, and let me know for sure about the 'Icicle', but if yours usually looks like the pics I'm gonna post below in late spring, you already have 'Icicle'. BARB -- you're covered on the 'White Nugget'! POLYGONUM -- could you possibly snip a handful of yellow iceplant cuttings off of yours for Misty and Lesuko? Most of mine suddenly died off last year--as I've warned folks can happen!--and while I could get "some" cuttings off of mine, they're really "wimpy" looking right now, and it sounds like yours is doing really well and would provide better cuttings! If that doesn't work for you, let me know and I'll bring some of my wimpy ones! Let me know if you had time to check out your semps! A couple of them I only got one "batch" of, so they're already spoken for, but I still have A, E, G, H, K, and 'Icicle'. Gonna post some pics of 4 of them below! LESUKO -- I have you down for one of everything I posted above--with the yellow iceplant from either Polygonum or me! I have LOTS of cuttings for most of the sedums, so, except for a couple of them, I'll have a really nice bagful of each for you--along with the directions for what to do with them! Will also bring a nice big bunch of the bare root Ajuga for each of the first three, and will have at least a couple starts for the 'Black Scallop'. Also the hen & chicks--with directions, the 'White Nugget' iceplant, and I haven't done them yet, but probably a start for the Turkish Veronica. Virtually everything I have this time is ground covers, so it won't really get anything going on in your yard vertically, but it will help to fill up some of the bare soil, and you can always dig them up later and give them away to somebody else when you get around to planting other things! With your strawberry runners, no, they don't need to be attached for them to root, so snip some off and bring them along! All you need to do is "tuck" the bottom of the offshoot into the soil and let it root so they don't really don't really need the "runners" attached, but if there's some runner left on it, it can be used to help "anchor" it into the soil until it roots, so you might want to snip them with some of the runner still attached. Don't know how many you have, but you might want to make up a/a few "little batches" of them for "picking." I also have 11 "perennial" things in pots, like I mentioned above, and while some of them are just rooted pots of the sedums I posted above, there are a couple things I didn't post--and I'm gonna keep them secret till the swap--but I know folks are gonna want them! :-) And I also dug/pulled some bare root "something else" today that I'll have three "batches" of--and I'm not gonna tell you what it is! They're currently residing in the vegetable drawer in my fridge--since they're bare root! Oh! And also got a really good batch of seeds from one of my perennials this year that I seldom have enough to give away--is that an illiterate sentence or what?--so I made up some seed packets to bring of "that," and one other thing that folks are usually interested in! And that's probably it for this time! I'm not a big fan of Cold Hands Gardening, so I probably won't be poking around out there looking for things anymore--gonna try to get the Ajuga dug/pulled tomorrow, hopefully before the front moves in! And, since it's gonna be cold out by Thursday, I collected the hen & chick starts today and I was able to get more of some of them than I thought I would! Since only one person has expressed any interest so far, and since there are probably only gonna be about 6 folks at the swap, I'm gonna post a few more pics of the ones I have more than one "batch" of, so even if you don't ask for them in advance you can look to see if there are any you'd like to get on the day of the swap. As you can see from these pics, the color varies GREATLY depending on the time of the year and the winter temps in any particular year! I'm just posting the small version of the pics, but they should all be clickable to see the bigger versions! A - I have 4 batches that aren't spoken for E - I have 5 batches that aren't spoken for K - I have 4 batches that aren't spoken for - winter color - summer is all "blue spruce" color! 'Icicle' - I have 5 batches that aren't spoken for A few more pics! I really do have a lot of most of the sedum cuttings! Sedum 'Tricolor' in summer and winter color on the right side of the second pic Sedum 'Angelina' summer and winter colors Sedum album - the Dangerous One! Plain green in summer, this is winter! Sedum reflexum 'Blue Spruce' - same in summer & winter! Sedum pachyclados - same color summer & winter! Sedum 'Dragon's Blood' - Plain green in summer - this is where the name comes from! (Don't have a whole lot of this one!) And two of the Ajugas! 'Royalty' 'Chocolate Chip' Don't have a good pic of 'Arboretum Giant' but it's pretty much plain green leaves that are about twice as big as the 'Royalty'! And not gonna post a pic of the 'Black Scallop' or everybody will want some--and I don't have a whole lot--yet! Not gonna bring a lot of the Ajugas unless I know somebody wants them! Will bring a couple "bunches" in addition to the one of each that's already promised, so if you want more, let me know! Skybird P.S.!!! Almost forgot this one! Delosperma basuticum 'White Nugget'

Julia, I will probably join the group, but might not make the meets as I am in Ned and I prefer meets that are closer to home. But, I'd probably go once every month or two because it sounds like fun. I organize a meet-up group, Boulder County Small Breed. Our groups organizer gave up and let the meets falter, did not promote and let the group near expire. Not that that is bad, it takes effort to keep a heads up on that site. I took over and it only cost me...60 or 70 dollars for a six month period. I do my best to make all our meets, promote the group on Craigslist and post new messages every now and then. Oh, and I formulated the groups site to automatically write welcome announcements that I just add the new member's name and dog's name to and then remind them of the next meet. Come to think of it, it really isn't that time consuming and our group keeps growing and having successful meets. I don't know if this matters but I hate receiving zillions of emails so I rarely send out batch emails to the group. I have another thought that might help. I am in a hiking meet-up group, too, and they have a waiver form members have to fill out each year which is probably a good idea if you guys take hikes. I hope it works and I'll go check it out. Jennifer I'll put a link to my meet-up group in case you'd like to look at it for ideas... Here is a link that might be useful: This is my little group, for little dogs

Stacie, I called my DIL's brother who has grandkids close to the age of your children. His suggestions for the Denver area for kidlet fun activities were: 1.Water World http://www.waterworldcolorado.com/ 2. Casa Bonita, one of the two places I thought of also. It's a themed restaurant with indoor pools and performers who high dive off of cliffs. The food is barely mediocre Mexican, but I can promise your kids will remember it all there lives - at least my now 42 year old son and his friends remember going there as kids decades ago. The website shows some of the cliff divers. http://www.casabonitadenver.com/ 3. The Children's Museum - This was the second place I thought of and it would be a lot of fun for all your children. http://www.mychildsmuseum.org/ 4. White Fence Farm Restaurant and much more. A huge place with a farm petting zoo, live music much of the time and definitely kid friendly. I've never been there but it was one of the top suggestions from my DIL's brother. http://whitefencefarm-co.com/Template.php?-p=Home&-rid=579 5. The Cheyenne Mountain Zoo - smaller than the Denver Zoo but a fun thing to do in Colorado Springs and very interactive for your children. There is a tram and a train ride. http://www.cmzoo.org/ He mentioned a few more places but my notes are downstairs. I'll reread them tomorrow. Lee