I'm sure the parks guy was flabbergasted to keep driving around waiting for us to leave so that he could clean the shelter and yet on every pass we were still there - sitting around talking about plants while the skies got darker and darker and the rain got stronger and stronger. Thanks everyone for coming - and Yay! to the newbies that made it!!!

The swap was so much fun and great company! Thank you everyone for the great plants, lots of special just-my-cup-od-tea things came home with me....although they are NOT in the ground yet. (Sheesh, y'all are fast!) I did get most of the garden weeded in prep for a little local Berea swap (that went well too, gave away a lot of extra divisions), so the flowers are looking great. This is the first time I've had a real, mature garden, at least a large section of it. My babies are all grown up! It's been a busy week and I forgot to get back here for post-swap banters. (again, slow) I will pass on the extra compliments to the chef! Marcia, I'll keep you posted on the daylily color and get a photo if it isn't the lavender one. Linda, I'm sorry I forgot to bring any large pots. It fell off my radar completely. I hope you have some alternatives for the tomato experiment. (Check at the WalMart bakery. They often have 2 & 5gal icing buckets that work really well & have a great handle on them.) Looking forward to the Fall Swap -- and those great dafs that I'm gonna buy from Sue's club! :) :) :) Big hugs to everyone, especially to Marcia and Dwight for being such fine hosts, as always! --Tina

Got home from a long working day only to discover that my car license plate has been EXPOSED on the World Wide Web!!! Thanks for the concern about my privacy, but literally thousands of people see that plate number every week I drive around, it's photographed every time I go through EZ-Pass (and at scores of intersections in New York!) and, if you think about it, it's actually intended to be a very public identification tag. . . It was a terrific day, folks, and I thank you one and all for your hospitality and horticultural gifts - definitely worth the trip, and I'm already potting up stuff for the Fall. Incidentally, if you recall that little phenomenon called "Depth of Field" - that tree is really about 18" behind Paul's head, and I'm actually holding it up because I saw that it was about to fall and wipe out an entire gaggle of gardeners. . .I should be receiving "kudos" for my heroics on your behalf. . :-) Thanks again, enjoy the rest of Spring. . .and PRAY for rain ! Don't know about you up there, but we have a severe water deficit down here. Carl

You are welcome. And thank you. I enjoy the swaps as much as you all do. Since this one just ended and we have Thanksgiving (Canada's this weekend) and the American Thanksgiving coming up fast and followed closely by Christmas, I'm thinking that the next swap will probably be at the beginning of the New Year. Stacy and Ellen, please send me your photos or post them here and I'll save them to the album. Ann