ok, this has inspired me to start potting up!

Jaimie, I would love to have your Indigofera!

I think all my cool EE’s I originally received from you and Ralph! Kona Coffee, Limeaide, Okinawa Silver, etc. Same as my neat cannas, that coral flowering one still is my favorite!!

I have to get my list together but for sure I’ll have;

Ruellia- Ragin‘ Cajun

Salvia - Oxyphora

Freesia Laxa

Ruellia- Katie

Curry Tree

a bunch varieties of tomatoes

Star Grass (Dichromena colorata)

strawberry begonia - pink version

more to come.....

Coral Canna:

Jaimie, definitely interested in Canna 'Musifolia Rubra' (black-ish plant). Also Solanum jasminoides, although the best hardiness we see for it is Zone 8b-9 (many say Zone 10), so it may die in a winter closer to Zone 7b than what we've had since 2018.

Could give you Crinum 'Sangria' (also blackish), or Dahlia 'Mystic Illusion' if it emerges. Also have a lot of Cyperus alternifolius, Iris pseudacorus, Poncirus 'Dunstan' and 'Flying Dragon', or something from a more detailed list yet to be done.

I have for trade

1. Jerusalem artichoke aka sun choke sprouted

2. Major Wheeler Lonicera red

3. Raspberry

4. Black berry

5.Straw berry

6. Helianthus sp.

7. Garlic chives

8. Sedum kamtschaticum var. floriferum 'Weihenstephaner Gold

9. Kalanchoe pinnata

10. Luffa sponges

11. Peppermint

12. ginger lily

13. Cuban oregano (Coleus amboinicus) cuttings

14. Tradescantia fluminescence

15. Oreganum vulagre, Oregano ( lime green and dark green)

16. Moon flower seeds

17. Choclate vine Akebia quinata, cuttings (some rooted)

18. Lemon balm big bunches of plants and seeds

Seeds of Luffa (2 types), Snake gourd, Bitter squash, Thai and cinnamon basil, Kapur basil, Bottle gourd, Okra, and more

more to come as they start showing up

Looking for:

1. Turmeric , ginger, mango ginger plants,

2, Datura seeds or plants

3. Angel trumpets cuttings

4. Fig cuttings

5. Cuccuza seeds

6. Peppers (Mild preferred)

7. Persian cucumber seeds

8. Coriander fresh seeds / plants (preferably the tall)

9. Interesting seeds /plants/ cuttings.

Hi Lorabell, Good to know you are coming.

You know what I like Turmeric.... if you have them.

Lorabell, interested in Dichromena colorata to add to our swamp collection.

I had planned to stay out of this, since I won't know if I can attend until later, but Lorabell I'd really really like to get a bit of that pink flowered strawberry begonia. And Jaimie, am interested in Sauromatum giganteum and hearing what amorphophallus species you have for trading. I don't know what I'll have ready, but I recently separated out an A atroviridis for someone and have another small corm I'm willing to swap for a species I don't have.

Karen, i am definitely in town for this date, so happy to deliver/pick up your specials if you can’t go.

I‘m not going to be able to make the swap on May 1st...

The one granddaughter is finally having her big surgery and I’m on grandma duty that weekend for the other 4. There’s not much that keeps me away from these swaps, but this trumps my love of plants!!!!

Thanks Brenda, I'll definitely keep that as my backup plan in case something happens and I can't make it.

I didn’t create a trade list, but bringing the usual goodies. will pot up special requests, if any, this week. I also need to thin humdreds of cream and of dark berry hellebores. Too many to pot, but i can bag if any interest.

Sorry for the delay responding, been having a lot to get through.

I hope your granddaughter's surgery goes well, Lorabell!

Casalester, I'd be interested in the crinum and that black dahlia (that's hardy here?). I can definitely dig up some canna musilifolia rubrafolia, and dug up some partially rooted cuttings of the solanum jasminoides right after you responded (just never responded here), they seem to be doing well in their substrate right now so will bring them too. I know it can be borderline hardy, but it's been doing surprisingly well for me. Still definitely a concern for a harsher winter, but I'm enjoying it while I have it!

Karen, sorry took me a while to make a list, I'm just starting collecting them so not sure there's much I have that you'd be interested in right now, but this is what I have so far https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vGzk_qCNlNHcVbcJH1X1a8oUNCD0xV3UMvPZPEZBmMc/edit?usp=sharing

Hey guys! SO looking forward to seeing everyone!

So a few of things i have available for special trades are:

a few corkscrew gingers cheilocostus speciousus (technically edible, but not like regular ginger, and very marginally hardy here),

trifoliate orange 'flying dragon' seedlings (3 per cup),

cyclamen hederifolium seedlings (6 per cup),

lycoris radiatii bulbs (3 per trade),

begonia coccinea cuttings (it roots super easily),

hardy kiwi cuttings,

'veilchenblau' rose,

deutzia pleniflora,

cuttings of the orange osmanthus (Osmanthus fragrans v. aurantiacus).

Plus all the usual stuff - columbine, white wood aster, hellebores, that i typically bring etc.

Jaimie, i'm interested in several things you mentioned. Not sure what i can get for you; but let me know. I'd love to get some of the potato vine - i can get you some of a related plant; solanum seaforthianii. It's not hardy here; at least i've not tried it, but you could certainly give it a go. Glorious purple blooms in the summer/fall. I'd love to get chunks or cuttings of passionflower aphrodite and inspiration if they show up. I got all 3 to root when you gave me pieces but then managed to kill all but lady margaret via neglect (fair time is hard). :( i let her overwinter in a pot; we'll see if she shows back up. :/ We are selling hot peppers (well all kinds of peppers, toms and eggplants) for the garden as a fundraiser, so any you don't have homes for and need to get rid of, we'd be happy to take. I'd love to try the aji chinchi amarillo in the garden; we love all the ajis we've tried to date, especially pineapple. I have a superstupidhot i could get a you a cutting of - i'll have to look tomorrow which one it is - some combo of scorpion and a couple others in the name. Had decent luck starting from cuttings last year from some of the overwintered ones. if you haven't grown the biquinhos before you'll love them. :)

Sabji, i'm interested in your red oregano, and the tradescantia fluminescens. I can get you cuttings of celeste, brunswick or LSU purple fig and/or pink angel trumpet cuttings.

We'll miss you lorabell! :( Hope all goes well with the surgery!

Tamelask... Hoping it'll show up later, but houzz seems to be glitching again. I saw the email that you post something, but can't seem to find it in this thread :X

Tamelask, interested in Cyclamen hederifolium and Osmanthus fragrans v. aurantiacus. In addition to the plants listed here "18 days ago" (now they don't even show timestamps any more), we have 6-8 in pots of Hibiscus syriacus 'Blue Satin', Fatsia japonica. Also Jasminum nudiflorum, Callistemon 'Woodlander's Red', Cryptomeria japonica 'Elegans Nana', Hedychium coronarium, and Ananas comosus. Several clumps of Iris sibirica 'Caesar's Brother'.

Brenda_near_eno, unfortunately the small divisions of Tetrapanax we had received from you suffered too much in the summer and were not successful in getting established. Would you happen to have some larger extracts with more roots?

Jaimie, we still have some of the Dahlia 'Mystic Illusion' in pots that overwinter in the garage as we are trying to get it established. Nothing is out yet - either in the pots or in the ground. It should be hardy here (they have it at JCRA) but may need a good location due to sensitivity to moisture.

Tamelask, I yanked up all the aphrodites this winter since they keep choking out my roses, but just went out and see 3-4 little guys popping up that I'll try to dig up and pot up for you. I haven't seen Inspiration emerge yet, but hopefully it will next week, it usually covers a wide enough area that can grab a few too. I do have some extra aji chinchi amarillo that look to be in good shape. (My apologies... I have a bad habit of oversowing the seedcells and then feeling incapable of murdering all the little seedligns so tend to get a bunch crammed into a pot. I plan on planting them out early next week, and will separate out some to bring... I haaaaaaate making labels though... so need to think up a method for what I'll do about that haha). I'm glad your Lady Margaret made it! I thought I lost mine last year but had a flower show up right at end of season... unfortunately didn't get time to take a cutting of it to get through winter so now have to watch every passiflora sprout looking for an elusive Margaret again. The arboretum had some for sale I was psyched about, but they sold out in 2 minutes, oh well.

I did grow the binquihos last year, got so many cute little peppers!

I'll go ruffling around to find some more potato vine (I do have enough stuck cuttings to bring too, but gonna see if any have more roots outside). I'm really interested in your solanum seaforthianii, lycoris radiata, and the 'veilchenblau' rose. How does that do for you? Disease prone? Thorny? I just bought myself a big moongate (that will show up in a few weeks hopefully...) and sounds like it would look really nice on it! I have a Lady Banks rose that is looking glorious this year. I should burry some stems and see if I can root some for another swap because it's just so pretty. Also, whats deutzia plenifora? I can't find anything about it... parviflora maybe? What other kinda stuff do you like? I still need to go out and hunt around to see what else is showing up/divideable.

Casalester, would definitely be interested in trying that Dahlia :)

Jaime-

I got it mostly right - but it should have popped up when you searched that. It's actually Deutzia scabra 'Flore-pleno'. It's a large shrub that has an arching form and blooms heavily in a few weeks (might be blooming for the swap but i kind of doubt it; if it is i'll bring a little). Double white little flowers in a conical cluster; not fragrant. Can do full sun but mine blooms quite well in a good bit of shade.

'Veilchenblau' is a climber and a rampant one at that; canes can easily get to 15' long - it would be amazing on a moon gate (it means veil of blue). The blooms are pinky purple to quite blueish, changing as they age so you get kind of a tapestry effect. Blooms super heavily once in spring; they are fragrant, but oddly, i can barely smell them (other assure me it's quite nice). It's somewhat thorny but not too bad; they aren't super sharp and are separated a good bit. It is susceptible to rosette's disease, but isn't disease prone at all; in fact i rarely even notice any black spot on mine. Keeping it in check is the biggest challenge.

I'm not sure my margaret did make it - no sign yet; i meant to bring her in and forgot with all the mess last fall. But incarnata isn't up yet either. We'll see. If i do have her and you lost yours i'll be happy to give some back when it's big enough.

Don't worry about labels for the peppers if you just give me the one kind. i don't care how crowded they are; i can just pot them up individually. I can't murder seedlings either.

You didn't want any of the corkscrew ginger? Thought that would appeal; the form is delightful and the blooms beautiful.

My solanum is one i keep in a pot year round and bring to the greenhouse in winter. I'll just dig one of the vines out; there's too many in there anyhow. I let it get too dry over the winter so it's just starting to leaf out again. They have cool leaves, too. In a pot it vines to maybe 6' (up 3 and back down). It actually didn't vine for the first several years til i potted it up larger; i find it's pretty manageable compared to the passionflowers and other vines i grow in pots. Remind me to tell you about the one uber cool passionflower i've got (not winter hardy though). Don't think i can do cuttings now but during summer once it's roaring...

Casalester-

You got it! I'll bring some fresh cuttings of the osmanthus and a nice pot of the cyclamen. You have 3 things that looked interesting to me - the crinum, the cyperus and the dwarf crypomeria. Either pick 2 or let me know if anything else tickles your fancy... like corkscrew ginger?

Tamelask, that Cheilocostus speciosus sounds intriguing. Does it do well as a houseplant in winter?

Casalester- i take it to the basement and let it go more or less dormant. It tends to drop its leaves there but it might keep them if you kept it in the house (stuff down there doesn't get watered enough, or great light). Worth a shot. It was stunning in the ground - i will most likely keep one pot to bring in each winter and plant some in the ground and take cuttings end of the season each year. The cuttings pretty much all took- i thought they were gone but they started leafing out a couple weeks ago.

Tammy, Sure.

Which red oregano are you looking for?

(Sabji, i'm interested in your red oregano, and the tradescantia fluminescens. I can get you cuttings of celeste, brunswick or LSU purple fig and/or pink angel trumpet cuttings.)

I have these...

3. Cuban oregano (Coleus/ plectranthus amboinicus) cuttings

14. Tradescantia fluminescence. it is green.

15. Oreganum vulagre, Oregano ( lime green and dark green)

I am definitely interested in he figs and the pink angel trumpet cuttings.

If you have any corkscrew ginger left , I would love to get it.

Sabji-

I could have sworn your post above said red oregano (which i don't have); my mistake. Since don't have that we'll just do the one trade for the tradescantia fluminescense (isn't it tricolor?). I don't need cuban oregano, or the lime green - i have those, thanks. Let me know if you'd rather have a fig cutting, a brug cutting or a corkscrew ginger for the tradescantia. Bear in mind the ginger isn't a culinary one and isn't reliably hardy.

There was some debate in the group about the possibility to propagate hardy guavas - Acca/Feijoa sellowiana (pineapple guava, Z8) and Psidium cattleianum var. littorale (strawberry guava, Z9) - from cuttings. See the report on our propagation project with Tamelask, started in September 2019, under Mediterranean plants: https://www.houzz.com/discussions/5386189/mediterranean-plants

Tammy, the Tradescantia fluminescense I have is plain green.

Tamelask, I've tried that curly ginger for a few years and it is really awesome just doesn't survive for me (and really limited in what I can overwinter). Never had them bloom though, that's awesome!

The deutzia is nice too (it came up with kerria pleniflora every time I googled and wasn't sure which of the deutzia's you were referencing that did show up). I'm sorta tempted for both those (the corkscrew ginger, even if only for this season if I can't get it in garage for winter) as well, but not sure what else you may want... I can go out into garden tomorrow and see what else is divideable, but should be able to get some aristolochia climatitus, a buddleia loricata, oenothera speciosa, tatarian aster, forsythia kumson, clerodendron bungei, a pretty dark purple bearded iris, this cute unlabeled mum that looks a bit like a bright pink daisy, probably some musa velutina, or some orange crocosmia. Also maybe a voodoo?

I'm really excited for that rose... and a little apprehensive. Think I found an alternate spot that should be good and would allow it to possibly overgrow since I'd be wary of pruning any thorny anythings too often. A whole new area to garden around that I haven't touched yet!

Since we're getting closer, just for clarity's sake:

Casalester

- potato vine

- canna musifolia rubrafolia

for

- crinum 'Sangria'

- dahlia 'Mystic Illusion

Tamelask

- potato vine

- aphrodite's purple nightie passionflower

- aji chinchi peppers

- any other peppers that survive this last week's trauma/planting

for

- solanum seaforthianii

- lycoris radiata

- 'veilchenblau' rose

Jaime- happy to save you a deutzia! I'll try to remember to bring some blooms if they are open. Don't be afraid of the rose - just know it grows long and fast, and plan for that. i never pruned it more than once a year. If you have a long trellis you'll be fine. It's really not that thorny, either. i got you a corkscrew - and i do think it would do well in the garage for winter.

I'm intrigued by the buddleia loricata, but am running out of sun space so i probably should do voodoo - assuming it's something for shade? voodoo what? the other thing you mentioned i think i may have lost was salvia uliginosa. i know, it can be a thug. but i planted mine with B&B and argentine skies ( i like the blues together) but the other 2 crowded it out, i think. i don't remember seeing it bloomlast year.

Sabji, you didn't say which of the 3 you'd like?

Casalester- that's interesting and not too surprising about the guavas and not being very successful with rooting. John has always sworn they are super hard (and he was told by NZ'ers). I can bring more of each if you'd like or you can stop by anytime. For right now since we had to move the community garden las year i have another cultivar avaiable to take cuttings of for the pineapple g. i don't know which one but i know it's not collidge, which is what i have. Different grown habit (much shorter and denser), shape of fruit, etc, and i recall it being labelled when we got it just don't have the label anymore.

Tammy ,

The pink brugmansia for me, if you still want the plain green Tradescantia.

I am bringing it.

Sabji, it's hardy, right?

Tamelask, the voodoos are amorphophallus species, konjac is hardy here (though actually find that they all do well in pots bc go dormant in winter). I'll bring one of them and maybe some others, need to plant them this weekend anyways for the ones I have dug up (have some out in garden but does take until end of May even June to emerge FYI). I'll also dig up some big sage and bring that. It does spread but such a nice pretty sky blue flower that the bees love. Not really a lot of flowers that color really :)

Lester, have not kept up and just seeing our post about the rice paper. I will dig couple tomorrow. They are all on runners, so indi root systems not large but should take hold i right spot. Very vigorous in my hard clay and just wanders without crowding other things out (unlike the freaking hellebores that are everywhere and fill my compost pile!)

Jaimie, you are awesome! Btw, i upended the pot with lady margaret in it yesterday. The vine part snapped off (which isn't so surprising) but there are white root in the pot so i'm going to give it some time. My incarnata isn't up yet either. There was one small weed growing on the surface but not big enough to have made that many roots so i'm hopeful.

Lester, i've never been successful at getting rice plant going, either. I think finding the right spot is key.

Our Salvia rosmarinus needs more pruning than we and our neighbors can utilize so we will be trading cuttings - both for propagation and for culinary applications (woodier stems will be selected for the latter, of which more should be available).

This is a rare year when we are culling our patch of Iris sibirica 'Caesar's Brother' (our favorite iris, slow growing) so we encourage everyone to take advantage of this trade.

Also, we have plenty of excess overwintered Brugmansia stems (pale yellow trumpets with pink edges) - it keeps regrowing from roots in the recent mild winters - so they will be available in the general pool.

Tamelask, we always assumed that the guava cuttings, especially A. sellowiana, will be "super hard" as John claimed, but it was useful to quantify what specific yield would "super hard" mean, or even would there be any yield at all. The numbers show that propagation from cuttings is still fairly realistic (unlike for eucalypti) to produce a limited number of highly desired specimens. But the low efficiency makes it a wasteful method not very practical unless large amounts of overgrown material are available.

Since we don't want to risk our precious cutting by planting it out inopportunely or in a poor location, we will keep it in a pot until a backup is available. It would be useful to try propagation from seeds.

casalester- i'll try to remember to save you some seed after they fruit.

Tammy, the Tradescantia is, hardy .

Ralph, you are coming right?

Looks like I can make it. I haven't had much time for propagating this past year but have some things like Tibouchina grandifolia and a couple of Viburnum tomentosum and Aesuclus sylvatica seedlings that I've brought before, along with assorted odds and ends.

Les, I've got that dark leaved Columnea that I started for you a year ago and will bring it on Saturday. Do you by any chance still have a pad of Opuntia Dark Knight?

Karen W., yes, we still have Opuntia Dark Knight for you, but it is a new one. One important lesson was learned about them in 2020. While they root easily and start growing, the original pad that touches the ground is not yet ready to be exposed unprotected to the outdoors moisture (rain) - and it is likely to rot if it is. It needs to age (cork) its surface first to become as resistant as the mother plant. So while it is advantageous for the cutting to be exposed to full sun outdoors, it should not be allowed to get wet for a prolonged time until its base is woodified and brown.

We still need someone to volunteer as Head Nurse to take - firmly and decisively - everyone's temperature to make sure that no one who has fever participate (starting at 100.4 deg F or 38 deg C). Ideally someone who usually shows up early to the Swap.

Sorry I didn’t get organized. Bringing a couple of trays of things hopefully of interest including Prunus mume, and bags of hellebores.

It was so good meeting everyone after a long time. Thank you John, for organizing the swap, I got the gingers !!!! thank you!!!!

Lorabell I missed you. Hope all is well?

See you in the fall swap.

Unfortunately I wasnt able to make the swap. I can't wait for the fall swap. By any chance do anyone know where i can get a variegated green and white canna from?

Oh my, I missed the swap. Maybe next year. - Judy Brown

2021 Raleigh Fall Swap is set

https://www.houzz.com/discussions/6153779/2021-raleigh-fall-swap-is-set