Eric, speaking of "plant nuts" you got that right. The acronym for San Antonio Plant Swap is SAPS. Plants have sap and we're saps for plants! Yep, corny, but corn is a plant too. Whoo hoo .... :-)

I swear, I cut myself and all I got was sap.

Sappiness is my trädmark

Vegetable Plants (1 each unless otherwise noted)

Pumpkins

Victor/ Red Warty Thing

Ol Zebs

Rouge vif d'Etampes

Aspen

Lumina

Jarrahdale

CT Field

Cushaw Green Striped

Watermelon

Black Diamond

Charleston Gray

Melon

Iroquois

Casaba Sungold

Crenshaw

Gourds

Turks Turbans

Squash

Lakota

I will be repotting them tomorrow into regular 4" pots or possibly 6" azalea pots, depending on their need.

How neat that you put all the links. I'm not growing veggies right now and don't want anything, but had fun looking and reading about them!

They're all but different. The only two that I usually grow are kabochas and butternuts but the bugs and borers usually kill them. particularly the kabocha due to hollow stems so the good part of the young stem's shoots going for stir frying.

Does anyone want any englemann daisy transplants?

Lorelei, I can dig some up Engleman daisy. They might be a bit sad when I bring them, but they should perk up. A red Yucca would be good. Anything else on my list would you like?

Oh your offering the Engleman daisies. I am dense sometimes.

I can also bring some bamboo, Mizan, and if your blackberries aren't spoken for, may I have one? I will bring some 1 gallon pots for you.

I have pots of various sizes up to gallon so far -they arent cleaned as i havent had time, Texas Ebony seedling, yellow butterfly vine cuttings may not have rooted yet - mascagnia macroptera, red & lime green shrimp plants - Justicia brandegeeana -these are cuttings, the red may not have rooted yet, celeste fig cuttings, can always take cuttings of my Mrs. Dudley Cross rose as she's badly in need of a haircut, have other roses too but may not know the name of them if i cant reach the tag or it's lost/faded - no yellow roses though as those tend to die on me. Have Angelina sedum(?) & 2 other succulents I can share pieces of that root easy - they look to be in the graptopetalum family maybe & I have graptopetalum paraguayense if anyone would like some (lol), i also have some variegated agave in need of a home so I can use the pot. This is what I can think of so far may have more once I go through the stuff I brought back from the wedding & see if I have extra bulbs. Not much gardening wise going on over here.

Just married off the oldest kid a few weeks ago & now my time is almost mine again if the body will cooperate lol.

Eric, would love to stop by & visit for a bit. Thank you very much for the invitation.

Lorelei, would love a Brazilian rock rose or 2.

Eric would love some of the irises.

Ragna may I try a squid agave & Mexican honeysuckle? That looks super interesting & not pokey.

Hi guys, I'm excited for this weekend! Eric, I would love to tag along and see your gardens too, though I don't know anyone. It would be nice to see what's possible here since so many things I want to plant seem not to tolerate this heat.

In the end I don't think any of the seeds I started are full enough to swap, but I have a few other things I can bring.

The plants are mostly succulents. I can bring cuttings of any of these. I started them about 3 weeks ago, so some have roots and others are probably very close to rooting by now.

Crocodile plant. Aloe brevifolia.

Jade Plant 'Lemon 'n Lime' Crassula obliqua

Jade Plant 'Ogre Ears' Crassula Ovata (I love this one)

Unpictured--Ripple Jade, Crassula arborescens

Jelly Bean Sedum. Sedum rubrotinctum.

The cuttings from above all have multiple leave on a central stem.

And I have a bunch of rooted baby leaf cuttings that I don't know the names of.

Also some dusty miller if anyone wants. Oh, and I've got two small hypertufa pots that would be good for low growing succulents. Fully cured.

Ragna, the Mexican honeysuckle looks beautiful. If you have any extras of those I'd be happy to take one home.

Wantonamara, if you have some extra Artemesia I would love that.

Dstartz, if no one else has spoken for the Iroquois and the Charleston Grey melons I would like to try those!

Amanda

The ogre's ears? (They do look like shrek ears).

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I'll put your name on one. I don't have room for a tree, but I wouldn't mind experimenting with a blackberry cutting if you have any left.

Amanda

does anyone have fruit cocktail shrimp plant? what can i trade you for a few snips? thanks!

I got 17 or so peices of 7 -8' bamboo for you . mamachile , The rosemary too. I have stuff for others too just so busy I can't communicate. Car is packed buy I am cooking dinner and working running floor molding in the wood shop. I will be disorganized.

Ok... I am waiting for pictures. Who went? Who got what? , How did it go?

Omar

Hold your horses, Omar. I'm working on photos from Eric and Dave's after swap open garden right now.. I'll say this much; it was raining "cats and dogs" about mid morning. Even a few hail stones fell. Not only that, but San Antonio was under a tornado watch. At this point I'm wondering: will the show will go on?

Well lo and behold, the skies totally cleared quite suddenly about 11:00. I high tailed it over to the open garden. What a beautiful day!

I hope someone got some photos at the swap, and they will tell us what they went home with ... :-)

The show went on. That metal roof is a god send. We had a great time. Sorry, I did not bring a camera. I am disorganized,... like I said. I came home with blackberries, guayacan, redbuds, bamboo muncie, native daisies and much else, i better go and unpack. Darn it is a windstorm on my hill. A racket.

Some photos were posted HERE of the after swap open garden. My one regret is that I didn't take photos of the guests attending.

Here are some from the swap

I didn't attend the swap, but followed it with interest. I want to give a big thank to Lorelei once again for organizing it and to Barbra for facilitating the rental of the park.

The open garden at Eric and Dave's place was so enjoyable (thank you for having us Eric and Dave) I'm hoping to have another open garden at my house after the fall swap. Not promising, but stay tuned ...

Or if anyone else wants to open their garden after the swap that would be great! Just let Lorelei know.

We are always looking for another place to hold the swap. If you know of a nice place that might be free, please post here or let Lorelei know. I know some neighborhoods have parks and pavilions for their homeowners to use, so if there's something where you live please let us know! Even some place else that charges a fee could be looked at as an alternative in case we are not able to reserve it when we would like to.

I really do not mind paying the dollar . I usually leave 2

And we THANK you, Mara! Others in the past have also been quite generous. But it's sometimes not easy to get the reservations, so it's nice to have another choice.

Mizan, any city parks are too much. I know there are other places out there, we just hope someone might mention where they might be.

You might check with some Churches.

Sylvia, not a bad idea. We were able to continue the plant swaps in Buda/Manchaca when a church offered us their wonderful pavilion. Is anyone a member anywhere with facilities that we could use ?

You never know, Mizan! I hosted a plant swap at my church here in Castroville many years ago. It helps to be able to have restroom facilities, so you might ask them about that.

Also clubs of a development.

Sounds like a good deal!

Lorelei, are you making notes? :-) Mizan, this is wonderful, and it's a good central location. I very much appreciate you and Mike coming up with this idea! It may be a better idea mainly for the parking! We have such a small area along the street where we currently meet.

mizan, would a custodian have to be there to open the cafeteria for us? This sounds great! Thank you for thinking of this!

That sounds like an ideal spot!

For everyone attending the spring swap the date has been set for the fall: Saturday, 9 to 12, October 12, 2019. We have a new and very convenient location with large shade trees, picnic tables, plenty of parking, rest rooms, and a covered area if needed. Read all about it and let the swapping begin HERE! Thank you Mizan and Lorelei!

Just a little reminder to all that attended the spring swap that our fall one is coming up in less than a month. Let us know that you're coming HERE!