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Spring 2018 East Tennessee Plant Swap

brandon7 TN_zone7

6 years ago

The Spring 2018 East Tennessee Plant Swap will be held at New
Harvest Park, 4775 New Harvest Lane, Knoxville TN 37918 on Saturday, May 12, 2018. Swapping begins at 10:00am (no exchanges before
that, please). We will have a pot-luck lunch at 11:30am. Please make
plans now to come join the fun on swap day! As always, new gardeners are
especially invited to attend. There are always plenty of plants in need
of good homes, fellow friendly plant addicts excited about trading, and
the best food around. Even if you don't have much to offer for trade,
PLEASE come, make new friends, and be prepared to leave with lots of
awesome stuff!

The swap is entirely free and absolutely nothing will be sold, but it
does cost the coordinators a little to reserve the park and pay for
hosting services for the website. A donation of two or three dollars per
person, with a maximum of five dollars per family, would help us cover
these expenses.

Find more details about the swap at the website, www.easttnplantswap.com. I hope to see you at the swap!

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brandon7 TN_zone7
Original Author
6 years ago
If you haven't posted your lists of "haves" and "wants" on the Swap Forum of our website, and you plan on coming to the swap, PLEASE consider adding your lists soon. You can always update them later as you get more stuff.

Also, please consider inviting at least a friend or two! More gardeners make for a better swap, and we always have PLENTY of wonderful plants in need of a new home!
RedBird_7a EastTN
6 years ago
I have so many wonderful things in my yard and front garden that have come from the East Tennessee Plant Swap...red buckeye tree, wax myrtle, New Dawn rose, Mrs. Dudley Cross rose, Iris pallida, several varieties of bearded iris, pink rain lilies, Ostrich fern, red chokeberry, kerria, heirloom glads, bluestar, Festiva Maxima peony, balloon flowers, Mary Gregory aster, heirloom mints, succulents...the list goes on and on! This doesn't even include the vegetable starts, garden tools, a Christmas Cactus and other houseplants, and gardening books I've gotten over the years. And most important to me are the delightful friends I've made at the ETPS - generous-spirited, interesting people with whom I share a love of plants.

Please join us this year for the Spring Swap - it is a relaxed, fun event and all are welcome. See you there!!
brandon7 TN_zone7 thanked RedBird_7a EastTN
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The polite way would be to wait until a few minutes after swapping has officially began and at least a few people, with plants to trade, have made their trades. In the mean time, you could look around and see what people have. Then, come to my table (and I'm sure many others would say the same thing), and say "wow, that sure is a neat plant". Upon hearing that, I will accost you with a barrage of offers for you to take plant home! I mean, I will ask you if you'd like to take a plant, or two, or five home with you. Seriously, if you come with a friendly demeanor and don't just start grabbing things (that has happened, but is VERY unusual), people will be trying to give you all kinds of neat plants.
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brandon7 TN_zone7
Original Author
6 years ago
Here are just a few of the things I have in my arboretum that came from the East Tennessee Plant Swap, and these don't include the numerous herbaceous plant and houseplants that I don't have included in my accession list:

Hibiscus syriacus, Itea virginica 'Henry's Garnet', Itea virginica 'Sprich', Lagerstroemia indica 'Natchez', Lagerstroemia indica 'White Chocolate', Lindera benzoin, Metasequoia glyptostroboides, 2 Prunus cerasus 'Montmorency' (many nice cherry pies have been made from these), Pseudosasa japonica, Ribes curvatum, Sarcococca hookeriana v. humilis, Sassafras albidum, Vitex agnus-castus 'Shoal Creek', Xanthoceras sorbifolium, Xanthorhiza simplicissima, Zanthoxylum piperitum, Zanthoxylum simulans

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