Meow! Two boxes arrived today! And Dad told me last night that we were only waiting on one. Well, in his defense, he was pretty drugged up. He came home with a tired achey back, so I slipped some catnip into the margarita he had with dinner. What a combination! It always gets my fur in a tizzy...lol! You've all been great to play with, even you humans weren't too bad! LOL! I need to go take my late-afternoon nap, so I'm going to let my lovely assistant take over and do some accounting. She'll figure out if everyone has received their box or not. If everyone has, then she'll close out the swap. I do have one question before we end though. Would anyone like to meet back here towards the end of the summer and have a perennial swap? I'll host again if so. Let me know, and stay tuned. You never know what's going to happen next! Happy Purring & Slobbering! (had to include the canines, right?) -Bump the Magnificent, otherwise known as His Majesty =========================================================== Now, doesn't that figure? There's work to be done, and "His Majesty" walks off and leaves me to do it! Hiss! Spit! Meowr! Don't you worry, I'll get him! TRUST ME!!! ***sigh*** Meowrr, so you humans need me to tell you if everyone has received their box in this swap? Well, give me a few minutes, and I'll let you know. Let's seee..... Dan sends to dem_pa sent/received ishareflowers sends to poisondartfrog sent/received wispfox sends to lindaruzicka sent/received jlee160 sends to ishareflowers sent/received dem_pa sends to wispfox sent/received gardencraze sends to mchill320 sent/received micyrey sends to jlee160 sent/received poisondartfrog sends to dan_the_mailman sent/received Linda sends to gardencraze sent/received mchill320 sends to micyrey sent/received And there you have it. Everyone sent and received a box of goodies, and I must say, there were some very interesting boxes! Put your paws together and give yourselves a nice round of applause! As Bump mentioned before he ran off (the old goat), we're thinking of hosting a perennial exchange, probably posting it around the first of August with everyone mailing out their boxes towards the end of August or first week of September, which should give all those nice juicy plants plenty of time to settle in before winter comes. What do you think? Wishing you all a happy, fun-filled summer... -Stella, Her Royal Highness

Here's an update from me! 1.Bulbous Bonanza Iris-Candy Apple and Daylily Avis Jean - JAYEANNE - shipped today 2. Naturally Native - Spicebush, Black Cohosh and Virgin's Bower seedlings - PEGGY - waiting for cooler temps 3. 6 issues of Better Homes and Gardens magazine - VINA - shipped today Shirley, I think your bird is a Yellowlegs, and I lean towards the Lesser Yellowlegs. Love the photo of your daughters, Heidi! Shirley, I received your magazines today! Yay!! I did not receive your email. BOO!!! I am jealous of the Giant Swallowtails gracing the gardens of Shirley and Ruth! That's so exciting.

All of them! This was my first garden, well, more than a couple of plants here and there, so I'm looking forward to everything!! :) I know it was the first year last year but Sun Power and Halycon both grew quite a bit over the summer so I'm really hoping for good things from them. Abiqua Drinking Gourd grew quite well too, though so hopefully it does good. Sum and Substance looked the same when it went out for the winter as it did when I planted it so I don't know about that one.

I got an email in response to my nasty letter of complaint about comments and photos not posting or disappearing. This was from the customer support department of Houzz, and written by a person as a followup to the canned reply that comes immediately. It basically contained that tired and worthless advice about having up to date, compatible software, blah, blah, blah. They suggested using Chrome. I wrote back saying their stale advice didn't work for anyone, they were losing forum members right and left, and they needed a new IT department. How can they not have received these same complaints many times already? I don't think they even have an IT department. Maybe they are going bankrupt. Wouldn't be surprised. Diane