SPRING 2023 PLANT SWAP Date - Please Vote!

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Good morning, All,

Lucy and I plan to hold this year's spring plant swap at her farm near Hwy 287 and County Road 4 in Berthoud, Colorado.

We can hold the swap on Saturday, May 13, 2023 or Saturday May 20, 2023 11:00 to 3:00 p.m. Of course, it will start with a potluck as traditional prior plant swaps.

We would like to get a count of who can come and what day would work for most people. Not sure if May 13 will be a problem since Mother's Day is May 14 this year. Hopefully, the weather holds.

Please let us know. Thanks.

Once we get an idea of what day works for all of you and who would like to come, we can send out specifics. Thanks in advance Skybird for your help!

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Oladon

last year

I'll be there too! Not sure I'll have much to share, been very late getting things started this year.

mmmm12COzone5 wrote:
> Better to have more people bringing and taking home plants than left over plants.

It's worth noting that there's a consistent violation of physics in our swaps... somehow /everyone/ always ends up taking home more than they brought...

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Skybird - z5, Denver, Colorado
last year

Either day works for me, but I'd probably prefer the 13th since it's earlier before I'll be headin' out to the hills--but, really, either day works fine for me!

Haven't been to a swap for a couple years and I'm really looking forward to it,

Skybird

SU 03.26.23 @ 1300 MDT
mmmm12COzone5
last year
Both work for us (right now) but we also prefer the earlier date.
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Hi Camille/Arborwolf, I was planning to get here to post sooner, but other stuff has been happening and I just didn’t get it done! I’m sure there are people around here who’d like to have a swap again, but I’m not sure, based on the fact that this post hasn’t received more of a response by now, if they’ll see the post about a swap or not. Since houzz took over GW/RMG there have been fewer and fewer people posting around here, and as “old” members “go away,” only rarely does a “new” member show up since GW/RMG almost never shows up in search results anymore since houzz—so “new people” don’t seem to find us anymore! You may have noticed that there are VERY few posts anymore! So! Having said all that! If you’d like to go ahead to see how many people show up and express an interest in a Spring Swap this year, here’s what I recommend! If you already have a date you’d like to have it, start a new thread with a subject something like: SPRING SWAP 2023 – SA? May ??, 2023 at 00:00 a.m. It doesn’t need to be May, but that’s when the spring swaps have generally been in the past. Other than that all you’d need to start the thread is that you’re planning to host it in Berthoud, and maybe give an “approximate location” with “main streets/roads” near you—don’t post your exact address here online. OR – If you don’t have a particular date in mind I’d suggest starting a new thread with a subject something like this: SPRING SWAP 2023 – When should we have it? And then post the day/dates that will work for you if it makes any difference to you, and ask people what days/dates will work the best for them. I’d add to that post, like I said above, that you’re planning to host it in Berthoud, with similar “location info!” You really wouldn’t need much more in that post, just enough to see if enough people see it and respond with dates or ideas to find out if there’s enough interest and response for it to actually be feasible this year. If you have any other questions before you start a new thread, post them here and I’ll try to get back within a day to answer them for you. And if/when you start an “actual swap thread,” as in my first suggested “new” thread above, I’ll jump in as soon as I see it and copy/past all the Swap FAQs for you—to answer questions for anybody, especially anybody who’s “new” and has never been to a swap before! Since there have only been a few people who have responded to this first thread that you started a few months ago, I’d say that the most important thing right now it to try to get a feel for how many people will see the tread and respond that they’re interested in coming! There will definitely not be as many people as were at the swap up there in spring of 2015—there just isn’t enough action around here anymore to get that many people. And if it turns out that there is a swap this spring, and as long as it’s on or before the weekend of SA/SU May 20/21, I’ll be there! After that I’ll be “back on the other side of the hills” for a while!!! I’ll watch for specific questions if you come up with any, Skybird P.S. I'd like to add my condolences to both you and Lucy in the loss of your sister, Gloria. I'm so sorry you lost someone so close to you--I hope you're able to remember and share "the good times" you had with her, to honor her and keep her alive in your hearts. F 03.24.23 @ 18.18 MDT
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De Zi
last year
I prefer the 13th too. Thank you for hosting!
tomatoz1
last year
Thanks for offering to host the swap. The 13th is the better of the 2 dates.
catnohat
last year
May 13th would be my choice. Thank you so much for hosting!
BohemianCottage
last year
The 13th sounds good to me. looking forward to it!
treebarb Z5 Denver
last year
The 13th works for me, too!
gjcore
last year
The 13th is good.
arborwolf
Original Author
last year
Hello All,

The Spring Plant Swap will be held on Saturday, May 13, 2023 from 11am - 2 pm ish. It will be held in Berthoud, Colorado. (In the event of bad weather, we can move it to the following Saturday, but everyone has voted for the 13th!)

Can someone help (Skybird? or someone) and let us know how we post the address/phone for the event? and if we are to market it to another gardening group?

Thanks.

Arborwolf
mmmm12COzone5
last year
Arborwolf,

Thanks for hosting! Usually you turn on the ability for anyone to message you. Then people can msg you who want to attend and you give them the address.

I don't see any problem marketing it to other gardening groups. Anyone is welcome with or without plants to swap. Better to have more people bringing and taking home plants than left over plants.
Sam CO z5
last year
I really hope to be able to come this year!
arborwolf
Original Author
last year
Okay, not to sound really naive, but how do I go about turning on messaging to get the information to people? Highly embarrassing!
mmmm12COzone5
last year
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Upper right hover over Your Houzz. Scroll down to Edit Profile and Settings. Click on Advanced Settings. Scroll almost to the bottom to Who can message me. In the pull down box select Anyone can message me. Click Update to save the setting.
Skybird - z5, Denver, Colorado
last year
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Hi Arborwolf,

I recommend starting a new "actual swap thread" at this point! Recommend a subject of:

SPRING SWAP 2023 – SA May 13 at 11:00 a.m. in Berthoud! That'll give us a "fresh start" by getting rid of all the posts on this thread and I'll be able to get the FAQs right near the top to make them easier to find. Just post it on RMG, that gets to everybody who's close enough to come.

In that post I'd repeat your "near location," and put that: this is the place to let us know if you plan to come, and to tell us what you might be bringing, or what you're hoping to find if there's something specific you might be looking for.

As soon as I see the new thread started I'll post the FAQs, and I'll add what mmmm said above about how to enable private messaging--I don't think that's in the "current version" of the FAQs, and maybe there are other people who haven't done that yet and don't know how to do it. I'll also add that everybody needs to PM you with their email address so you can email them directly "about a week before the swap" with your exact address and, hopefully, some helpful directions on finding you if you think that might be necessary. To answer your question, that's how we get your exact address to everybody without posting it online.

So if you'll give us a "clean" thread to start with I do believe we can get the whole thing started at this point! I've already potted a couple things--but with the cold weather we've still been having I'm not positive if they're gonna make it or not--but there are more things I'm thinking of potting with "all the beautiful weather" that supposed to be coming up in this coming week!

Thank you for hosting,

Skybird

TH 04.06.23 @ 1055 MDT

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