Another beautiful card from AudreyAudrey! Has photo she took made into a card! Also send me 2 petunias, 2 tomato, and zinnua! Love them! Thank you!

Thank you pop and Iris for the lovely card with zinnias & dill. Happy Christmas!

Thank you Angela for the marigolds & white turnips. Looking forward to trying these turnips I purchased some at the farmers market and they were delicious. Happy Christmas

Thank you Coleen for the lovely card with beets, hyssop, white hollyhocks, and snow maiden pincushion flowers. Happy Christmas

2 more wonderful cards. Thank you Heidi for the barn card and the Shasta daisy, gaillardia, purple ruffled basil, cosmos, calendula, zinnia, marigolds. Thank you Ann S for the spinach, peas, arugula, lemon basil, and Poznan tomatoes. Happy Christmas!

Audrey sent me a snowy woodland scene card with a beautiful poem from The Truce of Christmas by G. K. Chesterton. Inside is Gomphrena QIS orange, Centaurea Classic Artistic Mix, Goldman's Italian American tomato, Zinnia Queen Lime with blotch, and Calendula Bronzed Beauty. Thank you so much for all of these! I will have a great time growing and saving seeds from them.

Melinda sent a cute card with a puppy holding its Christmas stocking, and Arizona Red Shades Gaillardia, Enchantress Rose Zinnia, and Pink Mix Columbine. Yeah! My secret santas have been very nice to me! Our yard will be full of beautiful blooms and happy bees and butterflies.

Yesterday received a pretty red barn Christmas card from Heidi (Xiangirl). Thank you Heidi for the Hollyhock, Giallardia, Allium, Cosmos, Shasta Daisy, Marigold's and Zinnia's. I like all of these.

Today my day off, I've been wrapping presents for my neice. I finally checked the mail box and found 4 cards. Iris (ranegrow) sent a pretty card with squash, chocolate cherry tomato, cherry brownies tomato, and blueberry cream zinnia. Thank you

Ann sent me Limbo tomato, Moravski tomato, Aerostar Lettuce, Shiso, Mammoth Melting Pea, and Marigolds. Thanks so much Ann

Third card is from Darlyn Hall. She sent Blanket Flower, and Golden Giant pepper. Thank you.

Last card is from Melinda. Thank you for the Sweet Banana pepper. My brother likes growing these, so I will give them to him. He lives with me, so I will get some to. Thank you also for the Golden California Wonder Pepper.

Thank you to rane_grow for the sparkly Peace & happiness All Year card and for the Cherry Brownies Tomatoe, Strawberry Cream Mix Zinnia and California Giants Zinnia! So anxious for spring :) The Cherry brownies tomato are new to me; so are the Strawberry Cream Zinnia. Thankyou so much

Heidi (xiangirl) sent me a red barn card with sparkling snow, and cleverly changed Season's Greetings into Seedson's Greetings! She sent deep crimson double, single double mix, and yellow double hollyhocks, tall pink zinnia, and yellow African marigold. Thank you Heidi! All of these are so pretty, and I am looking forward to enjoying them this summer.

I received lovely Santa and reindeer card! Had spinach mustard, lettuce,peas, and arugula! Thanks Ann will use them all!

Thank you Darlyn (Darlyn Hall) for the lovely stocking card and the seeds for Doe Hill yellow peppers and cherry tomatoes. I love your ink colors!

today, struggling through cold cold negative degree temps Santa left at my door a very Pretty Stocking card with more tomato varieties new to me! I'm quite anxious to try Solar Flare! Also received Ace 55 VF. Thank you very much Santa Melinda :)

With the weather we are getting it's hard to imagine that sunny days are coming. Kim (solovelylily) sent Rocking Fuchsia salvia and Boule d' Or melon in a snowy woodland scene card. Thank you! I had not heard of either so had fun looking them up. The salvia is beautiful, and the melon is said to be very sweet. Can't wait to try them!

Looks like 7 of my cards have not arrived yet. Of course mail is slow this time of the year, but I thought that everyone would get them before Christmas.

I have some more thank yous to catch up on!

Thank you to Melinda for the Siberian Blues Dianthus, and Autumn Beauty sunflowers.

Thank you to Ann for the mammoth melting peas, spinach mustard, lettuce, and Lea Von Annmarie tomato. Never heard of that tomato and according to google it's rare. Look forward to trying it.

Thanks to Stacy for the Lion's Tail and Necklace Pod. Looking at your beachy Christmas card is nice being it's in the single digits in MS tonight, lol.

Thanks to Emily for the gold Celosia and the peppers... I can't quite make out what kind of peppers they are as the writing is kind of smudged... looks like it starts with an Fr...?

Thanks also to Mandy for the Garden Leader monster watermelon and the Jack B Little pumpkins. Might just have to see if I can grow me a monster watermelon... little town here has a watermelon fesitival every year... wouldn't it be something if I won it with your seeds?

Also, there was a bag of morning glory seeds but they well out of their card so not sure who to thank for them, but thanks!

Hi everyone! Hope everybody is doing well with your Christmas preparations! I'm a little behind myself. Still have wrapping to do, but plan to complete that tonight! Sorry I've fallen behind on my thank-yous, but will try to catch up now.

From ranegrow, (Iris), I received a sparkly Christmas card including Jack-O-Lantern pumpkins, yellow straight-necked squash and Dill "bouquet". Thanks, Iris!

From Melinda, I received an old-fashioned Santa card with straight-eight cucumbers and catnip inside. My cats and I thank you!

A card with beautiful ornaments on the front contained Coneflowers, Hollyhocks (Red, Creme De Cassis, white and hot pink), and purple and white Coumbine. This was from Coleen, (Colcol). Thanks so much!

Mary, (midwestfarmwife), sent a Christmasy- scened card with a glowing candle on it, and inside were Sweet 100 Cherry tomatoes, orange habanero peppers, red and yellow habanero peppers, spearmint, Super Beefsteak tomatoes, and Brandywine tomatoes. Thank you!!

Audrey, (audrey-gw), sent a beautiful wintery-scened card including "Moon and Stars" Watermelon, Big Red tomatoes and Moonflowers. Thank you, Audrey!

Mandy D. sent me a sparkly, winter-scened card with Sunflower seeds inside! Thanks, Mandy!

Well, I think that's it for now! Haven't checked today's mail yet, though, lol

Hope everyone has a blessed and Merry Christmas!!

Hope eveveryone is doing good!

thank YOU Darlyn for the card and seeds for our Secret Santa! Merry Christmas!!

@yotetrapper Sorry the writing was smudged. It should have said Fresno pepper. Pick them when they are red. They are a hot pepper. Happy holidays!

Life has been crazy - I am so far behind with my thank you's, I'm sorry for all that were watching for these! I will catch up today!

Thank you to Ranegrow (Iris) for the glittery holiday card filled with seeds. Chocolate cherry tomato, Red Sails lettuce, Spring kale, and Luminoa Zinnas! I haven't tried any of those yet - I am so excited to do so this year!

I received a beautiful barn card from Xiangirl (Heidi). It had Hollyhocks, Gaillardia, Purple Ruffled Basil, Calendula, Allium Nigrum, and Zinnia - wow! This will fill my front beds nicely! Thank you so much Heidi!

Thank you MIdwestfarmwife (Mary) for the lovely lion and lamb card with so any peppers (Diamond, Purple Beauty, Red/Yellow/Red Habanero) and Bosque Blue tomato and Red China eggplant. I'm so excited to try these! I've never had any of those peppersbefore

Daryln Hall sent me a pretty poinsetta card with Cayenne Hot Peppers and Heavenly Blue Morning Glory. I love those! I can't wait to plant them this spring. Thank you so much!

Thank you Yotetrapper (Angela) for the pretty Christmas Tree card with Atomic Red & Rainbow Mix carrots, Aleppo Pepper, and Blue Picotee Morning Glory. I love all of them! Those flowers will look so beautiful on my arch this coming season!

From Solovelylily (Kim) I received a Noel card with some fun seeds - Three Hearts Lettuce, Hartmans Yellow Gooseberry tomato, and Boule Melon. Those all sound fantastic - the melon sounds fantastic.

I am so looking forward to my spring garden already! Thank you all!

Mandy/l1oness

Christmas Eve and wishing you all a very Merry Christmas!

Received a really pretty snowman glittery card from l1onesss today with Bell Peppers - Mixed colors! Oh I'm so looking forward to stuffed peppers this summer! Would be such a pretty dish with red, yellow, orange, green & purple :) Thank you very much!

On Christmas Eve a few more cards arrived.

Melinda H sent me a pretty Christmas tree card with Rosita Eggplant and White Knight eggplant, and some Thyme. Yummy! I haven't tried the White Knight before, and the other two are always favorites in my garden. Thank you lots!

Thank you Linda (Roper2008) for the fun snowman, penguin, Santa card. I love the seeds you included - True Thai Chiles, Brad's Atomic Grape Tomato, Darki Parsley, Bachelor buttons, Plum Sunflowers and Mazurkia Zinnas - wow! Thank you so much! Those all sound amazing!

Last, but not least, Emily (gardengirl37232) sent me a lovely "Comfort and Joy" card with Rosa Blanca eggplant and Black Vernissage tomato. That will be fantastic for this year's garden.

I hope everyone is safe and warm, and had a good holiday. Here in MIchigan we are buried in snow (around 16" here), but we are safe inside. I hear a heat wave is coming at the end of the week!

Thank you all for this wonderful swap!

I'm so late on everything this year, but my cards finally went out Christmas Eve! I hope they get to you all soon!

My mom has received many wonderful cards and seeds. I don't have the screen names. Thank you Heidi, Angela, Iris, Nicole, Kim and Darlyn for sharing your seeds with her. So many of these are new to her, I'm sure her garden will be so beautiful and I know she'll look forward to each new thing as they grow and bloom. My mom has always loved Christmas and goes all out decorating the house, but all her plans were canceled this year due to the blizzard conditions in Buffalo! So she is really enjoying the beautiful cards as well and looking forward to planting!

Linda (roper2008) sent a cute reindeer and penguin card with Mazurkia Zinnia, Fuchsia Red Four O'Clock, Lauren's Grape poppy, and Cosmos Apricotta! I have not tried any of these so am really looking forward to them. Thank you so much! They remind me that warm, sunny days are ahead.

Santa midwestfarmwife sent a cheerful snowman with kids on sleigh along with several tomato varieties and a couple pepper! So muchly appreciated -- adding lots of variety to my future garden :) Thankyou very much!

Thank you Emily ( Gardengirl) for the fresno pepper and Celosia gold . Looking forward to growing these.

Received another card from Coleen (colcol) with Anise Hyssop, Mexican Hat, Detroit Dark Red Beet, and Purple Top Turnips. Thanks so much, the bee’s are going to love these.

3 more wonderful cards arrived Thank you to Michael for the bird card and marigolds, Emily for the Comfort and Joy card black heart tomatoes, red Russian kale, Darlyn puppy card with lemon boy tomatoes, and bonanza harmony marigolds. Happy Christmas and New Years.

3 more Cards, Thank you to Melinda for the Peace card with alyssum, babies breath, and sweet basil. Mandy D sparkly card with pak Choi and red, white and bloom zinnia. Stacy Garcia palm tree card with Iris, hollyhock and trumpet seeds. Thank you all and I hope you all Have a happy new year.

Sorry I am so late with these 2 thank-yous, so I hope you both forgive me! On

Christmas Eve, I received a beautiful card with an old-fashioned red barn on it surrounded by sparkly white snow from Xiangirl, (Heidi), and inside were tons of Hollyhocks!! Yellow Double, Bright Pink, Deep Crimson Double, Single White and mixed. Heidii, how did you know I was going to plant many Hollyhocks?? Must be Christmas magic!! There was also a package of Autumn Beauty Sunflowers...just what I wanted! Thanks so much, Heidi!!

The day after Christmas, I received one more present, which was from Michael, HeavenlyFarm), a gorgeious card with chickadees sitting on a snowy branch! Chciadees are one of my favorite birds!! Inside were Bradley's Mix marigolds, Double Yellow Datura, and Ruby Port Columbine. Thank you so much!!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and will make this New Year the best one ever!!!

I received a beautiful card from root-grow!! Many wanted goodies! Received mini lovers vine,Spanish eyes BESVine, teddy bear sunfliwer, 2 types kale, 2 types spinach, lettuce, And 2 types zinnia! Thank you so much!

Happy New Year everyone!! Just wanted to let you all know that I did not disappear. I will be writing my Thank Yous later this evening.

Thank you so much Jessica (root-grow) for the lovely card and seeds! It was a beautiful glittery mountain holiday card filled with so much goodness! Barese swiss chard, pimento and etiuda peppers, three kinds of carrots, lemon and crimson queen sunflowers, snapdragons and a fabulous fairy cut flower mix. Thank you so much!

Thank you Linda (Roper2008) for the glittery snowman card and all those seeds! Traveler strain jalapeno, red beard Japanese bunching onion, long standing cilantro, ping tung eggplant, darki parsley, and orange thai pepper. Thank you so much. I am looking forward to growing all of these this season. The herbs will be planted this coming weekend.

Thank you Melinda (Melinda Hagen) for the stocking card and the nice cherry tomato seeds! White cherry, minibel tomato, and chocolate cherry tomato. Looking forward to starting these in a few weeks!

Thank you Jessica (root-grow) for the glittery mountain scene card and for herb and eggplant seeds! Thai sweet basil, Greek dwarf basil, Persian basil, Mammolo basil, Barese swiss chard, Kamo eggplant, Casper eggplant, Rosita eggplant, Mirasol pepper, and Indian coriander. I have not heard of some of these varieties so I am really looking forward to trying all of these this year!

Thank you everyone for making this holiday season so nice! Hoping everyone has a great year!

So sorry this is late, I have been under the weather the past several days but I want to say Thank you so much to Heidi/xiangirl for not 1, but 2 fabulous Red Barn cards filled with wonderful seeds. I love red barns and take photos of them whenever we are out for a drive. I look forward to growing the Purple Ruffled basil, Pink Lady zinnia and Gaillardia. Also, Thank you Emily/gardengirl for the pretty snowy scened card with Chinese pink celery, Red Russian kale and Brad's Black Heart tomato. Thank you Linda / roper2008 for the sparkly Snowman card with pink oxheart and Delicious tomato, Mazurikia zinnia ( new to me !! ) and Holy Basil seeds. Thank you Stacey for the Surfin Santa card ( I wish I was on a warm sunny beach to see that lol ) with the Porterweed, Gloriosa Lily and Pink Plumeria seeds ! I hope everyone enjoyed the Seed Swap and had a great Christmas with your loved ones. Thank you all so much for joining in and sharing your seeds. This is a lovely tradition I hope we can continue for many years to come.

This is the active thread, so I'll post here. First I want to thank those that sent cards, and seeds, (and chocolate!). If I sort everything out, I can thank you individually.

I haven't forgotten any of you, I'm just running extremely late. Everyone in the swap will be receiving a white 6" X 9" bubble mailer. Rootgrow, you should contact your mom about it.

Here is the list that I come up with for participants...

(your state/last name initials/first name initial)

AR Ha M

CA Ch E

CA Ni? N?

CA St A

CO Th C

FL Ga S

IL Se J

MA Fo P

MD He I

MI Di M

MO Be B

MS Ha D

MS Bi A

NC Ki K

NE Re H

NY Bo D

OH Sp H

PA Ha M

PA St A

TX Mc T

VA Ro L

All of the above, hopefully, will be mailed out on Monday.

Also...

FL Hi C

I cannot find Cghpnd's wish list anywhere. Is she still in the swap?

And, am I missing anyone?

@Gary Fitzgerald Gary, I have no idea what I could possibly say to brace them for the sort of packages you send. Also, I'm sorry I haven't gotten my tomato collection to you yet. I've tried to go through my seed box several times now, but it's too hard. Everything else has been so easy to part with, this box just keeps staring at me... I need to remind myself they're staring because they want to grow, which means they need to go to you. Okay, I'll do it tomorrow and send them Monday, I swear...

I emailed Cghpnd a few weeks ago asking for her wishlist but did not get a response, I hope she is okay, I did send a card with some seeds. I hope others did the same, she has participated in the swap before and I hope nothing is wrong other than life getting in the way of a seed swap. Gary, your envelopes are legendary it seems lol... for anyone new , you are in for a treat. Its only January and I am already looking out the window down at my sad garden spot and lonely greenhouse. I am not a winter person having lived in the South most of my life until I met someone here in Maryland and decided he was worth putting up with long cold winters for ;-) Seed swaps and seed catalogs are keeping me going.

I just realized my cards went out Christmas Eve, which I know is late, but it seems only 3 have arrived?? I hope the rest aren't lost somewhere...

And just when I thought checking the mail was going to be boring, there were 2 more cards to greet me ! Thank you rootgrow for all the wonderful seeds - Rudbeckia, Verbascum, Cucumbers, Peppers, Zinnias, Cleome and Basil ! Please keep in touch with us while you are out of the country if you have time ? and also, Thank you to Colcol for the Brandywine Black Beauty and Cherry tomatoes, the Milkweed and Dill ! my summer pollinators will be very happy.

Yesterday I was surprised with another card which was postmarked Dec. 16th. The mail certainly was slow this year. Colcol (Colleen) sent a sparkly Christmas ornament card with Hungarian Blue and orange poppies, purple and white columbine mix, and pink scabiosa. Yeah! I am looking forward to all of them. Thank you very much colcol!

Omg!!! Thank you so much Gary!!!! its Christmas in January thanks to YOU!! i luv all these varieties!!

I, too, received a package from Gary, which must have included over 50 varieties of seeds--and dark chocolate! I especially appreciated the wide variety of sunflowers in addition to other of my favorites such as hibiscuses, poppies, etc. Many thanks, Gary! You turned what was otherwise an everything-going-wrong day into a very good one!

Yesterday evening I opened my package from Gary. I was so overwhelmed! In it was a lovely Christmas prayer card, a large bar of dark chocolate which my husband gladly stashed away, and so many packs of seeds that I was in Seed Heaven! I marveled over all the tomato varieties and am still researching them. Peppers, melons, flowers, and yes, my beloved zinnias! I will spend all winter pouring over them and planning out my gardens. I must be a 'seed miser!' You would think that I had a pile of gold coins - lol! Thank you so much Gary for lifting my spirits and providing all of us with so many great seed varieties.

Gary, thank you so much for the amazing package with the lovely Thomas Kinkade card, the dark chocolate, and the wonderful seeds for my vegetable garden of squash, beans, peas, peppers, swiss chard, eggplant, herbs, tomato. You even managed to send me an herb (sculpit) I had never heard of but very excited to grow after reading about it. Thank you so much Gary and best wishes for a wonderful year!

Oh my goodness, just picked up my package in the mailbox after work. What a nice surprise from Gary. I haven’t finished going through it yet, but I sure spotted the chocolate and card really quick. Thanks so much Gary. I will have fun going through this.

Wow Gary, Thank you so much for the generous seeds, card and chocolate. I’m super excited to start growing some especially the Cherry tomatoes. Thank you and sending you much joy and blessings in the new year.

Thank you Paul for the Santa card with marigolds and spring kale.

I'm baccccccccccccccccccck! Sorry I have taken so long in writing my thank you. Been non-stop crazy here (Vet appointments, Dr appointments, computer died, etc.). Despite all the not so fun things that been going on, your Secret Santa cards helped put a smile on my face. It may seem like a little thing, but to me it's a big thing and I can't thank you enough for thinking of me.

Kim (SoLovelyLily), the adorable card with owl & cardinal and the Zinnias seeds.

Melinda Hagen, the "oh come all ye faithful" card (that song is now stuck in my head LOL) with Zinnia seeds inside.

Iris (ranegrow), the pretty glitter card with Zinnia seeds inside.

Linda (roper2008), the super cute card with Penguins decorating the Reindeer and Zinnia seeds.

Heidi (Xiangirl), the lovely red barn Christmas card with a few surprises inside...Cosmos, 2 different Gaillardias, and 2 different marigolds (I love surprises).

Gary, the Christmas prayer card with Zinnias galore inside. How did you know I like DARK chocolate and to make it even better Cacao? The only kind of chocolate I like. Yummmmmm

Thank you again. I can not wait for warmer weather to come so I can plant these seeds with a big fat smile on my face (and eating my dark chocolate).

I hope all of you had a wonderful Christmas and I hope 2023 will be good to you!

Recieved package from Gary today! Wow! Thank you so much and boy that chocolate sure hits the spot! Your generosity is so heartwarming. THANK YOU!

I also received a wonderful card, chocolate, and lots of seeds from Gary!! I am thrilled with your choices and love them all! Huge Thank You!

Gary - I've been trying to thank you for awhile now, but apparently Houzz wasn't liking my post. I'm hoping this time it goe through. Thank you soooo much for the fantastic package, with seeds and chocolate - a girl's best friend! I'm so excited to try a lot of these seeds - if not this year, soon!

Mandy