Hello all- I am new here so I'm not really sure how this works, but I thought it was worth trying... I have a dear friend who lost his son a few years ago. His family has spent numerous hours creating a memory garden for their son on a piece of land that was donated to them. The land is gorgeous and it is wonderful as it is used by youth camps so many people are able to see and use this wonderful garden. My friend was very kind and had a stone made for my brother who has also passed and placed it in the garden as well. We are planning on making a trip to visit my friend this summer and I would love to have a few plants for him and his family to make part of their garden. This space is wooded so receives very limited light, so hostas would work great. I have a few plants that I could trade, unfortunately none of them are too special, but hopefully someone out there would be interested... Iris - Unknown color Chives Sedum ground cover with yellow flowers Striptease hosta Golden Tiara hosta Unknown varigated hostas Francee hosta Ditch lilies... everyone's favorite! :) If anyone is interested please just send me a note. Again, I'm brand new to this, but would love to do one or two larger swaps. Thanks in advance!

How nice that a city is showing some common sense and consideration for the rest of the world! But for your question, pulling up yellow sedum (stonecrop) is the recommended solution to control spread. Can you hire some young bodies to do the pulling? You could also pour boiling water over it, carefully use a teakettle or other container with a spout. The water will kill any grass it contacts, but the grass does make a fairly quick comeback. I've used boiling water to control black medoc (you think the sedum is bad? try a weed that prolifically spreads by both root and seed!) so I can tell you that the steaming water does not seem to injure shrub or tree roots or the soil. A small flamer will do the same thing as boiling water-- you "cook" the leaves and stems, not actually set them on fire. Because the sedum is such a small plant, control is tedious so plan on doing only a square yard of lawn at a time-- take a lot of rest breaks and be assured that it IS possible to succeed in getting rid of it.

The Latin name is Portulaca; it comes in numerous flower colors and combinations of colors. I remove wilted blooms along with the seed (sort of cone-shaped, attached to bottom of bloom) to keep it flowering. To some extent it seeds itself, but it does need to come indoors before the first frost, as it's succulent and cold & wet/freezing will kill it fast. Save some seeds for sowing in spring, if you want to try to overwinter it outdoors in warmer zones. After stems stop making new buds at the tips, pinch them back to the base of the plant.

Hi, there: I am interested in several kinnickinnick if you have them still and possibly a few sedums, depending on what you have. Maybe an elderberry cutting? Any other woodland groundcover, like bunchberry, perhaps? I have unnamed but delicious raspberries, a Triple Crown Thornless blackberry (or two? 30 lbs/plant), several kinds of thyme, two types of oregano, French sorrel, rhubarb.... Anything interest you?