LAST DAY TO SIGN UP !! Please post your wishlist and send your info to me ASAP if you want to join in ! So exciting to see everyone signing up, some new names and some familiar, love it !

If your name is not here and should be. please let me know asap !

UPDATE ! Here is who I have received addresses from:

jq_sen39

bluee19
Stacy Garcia

roper2008
Mcc371
heavenlyfarm
Smitties
apoppyfeld1
heavenlyfarm
jas_il
Gary

feebean

audrey_gw

l1oness

mtprairiewinds

Hannah O

jlhart

yotetrapper

HU-737528097

SolovelyLily

darlynhall

...and myself of course !

Here is my wishlist:

Black eyed susans

vincas

coreopsis

any short/dwarf variety flower

Any flower that bees and butterflies love

Zinnias

Coleus

Coneflowers

Borage

Salvia - does anyone have Yvonne's Salvia ?

Butterfly Weed

Cucumbers

lemongrass

any herb

any tomato

jumbo pink banana squash

North Georgia candy roaster squash

any sweet pepper

watermelon

surprise me !

Asters

Poppies

Zinnia

Tomato--stump of world, yellow pear, any of your favs

Gomphrena

Petunias

Smapdragons

Any of your favorite flower,or veggie. Esp. container ones

Kale

Colors

Gaillardia

Rudbeckia
Rus

ONE MORE UPDATE ! Here is who I have received addresses from:

jq_sen39

bluee19
Stacy Garcia

roper2008
Mcc371
heavenlyfarm
Smitties
apoppyfeld1
heavenlyfarm
jas_il
Gary

feebean

audrey_gw

l1oness

mtprairiewinds

Hannah O

jlhart

yotetrapper

HU-737528097

SolovelyLily

darlynhall

rane grow aka Iris :-)

Melinda Hagen

gardengirl 37232

Melinda, please post your wish list asap :-) If anyone needs to edit their wishlist , now is the time ! So excited to see so many joining in, its going to be a fabulous holiday season sharing our garden with others and it will be exciting to check our mailboxes !

Hi again everyone, I have emailed the Address List to everyone, please check to make sure you received it and your address is correct. Let me if you do not receive it or if your address needs correcting. Everyone can now mail your cards ! I will start a new thread for the Thank yous in a few days. Merry Mailing !!!

Received the addresses and mine as well as my mom darlynhall's are both correct.

It'll be a couple weeks before I mail out as I have vacation coming up and plan to do it then. But I guess that's okay as it spreads out the timeframe of people receiving cards.

I see I'm not on the list. I'll email you again.

Hi Iris

Thank you for spear heading Santa swap again this year.

I received the email with the address list and mine is correct. 😊

I will be mailing the seeds out within the next 7 days.

Sen

Colcol,

I am so sorry I missed your info ! I have added you and resent. Will everyone please be sure to use the list that says UPDATED ? There are 25 names on the updated list. Colcol is #25. If you did not get an UPDATED list or your address is not correct or the list does not show Colcol as #25 please let me know and I will correct and resend.

address correct for mine and received the updated list that has 25 names on there

Thank you Iris!!

So, who is new this year?

I am! got the email! do i pick and choise or respond to rhose that i have seeds that match their interests? have done seed swaps before but not like this. thanks, Sara

Sara,

Lindt or Ghirardelli?

HU-737528097 (Sara) ~ you can choose whomever you would like to send to. You can send one card with their seed wish or you can send more than one card/seeds. Its up to you.

Also, Secret Santa Gary is asking you which brand of chocolate you like :)

Iris, My address is correct. I got the address list. Thank you.

I’ll mail out mine in waves, as I finish them. That’s easiest for me.

I got the updated list 2 days ago. My address is correct. I'll be mailing out everyones seeds/cards in waves.

My addy is correct too. I like the waves routine too. Deliveries up til Christmas and maybe even after :)

Received updated list #25 on it, I’ll be sending mine in waves starting this week.

My daughter Hannah O is new this year to the Santa swap. She and I both love to send out cards, she’s excited to be participating 💕

Cant figure out how to comment, lol

Ghiradelli thanks!

I wanted to say if ANY of what I send out ends up postage due, you MUST please let me know. I just mailed some that should be 'large flat' (over 1/4" thick) and not 'parcel'; but you never know what the receiving post office will interpret them as. So, please please let me know if that happens.

I just NOW noticed that Michael Haftl name is on the address list twice.

I've been battling a cold for the past 10 days and I think the cold meds are affecting me, sorry about that.

Hope you feel better Iris! Thank you for doing this for the group! 😊

Welcome all new members to our swap! I look forward to the swap every Christmas. It’s so much fun.

I totally understand Iris. Hope you get to feeling better super duper soon!!!

Colcol, (Coleen), I don't see your wish list.

Mailed out my cards and seeds today!
Happy gardening!

apoppyfield1 -- I'm between Smitties and Stacy Garcia. :)

Oh I found you and I just got your card today. Thank you so much for the Queen Lime Zinnias. Just what I wanted and more varieties than I ordered. I hope they come true from seed. Poppy

apoppyfield1 -- Well, they were open pollinated, so... I'm not sure. I planted the Queen Lime varieties in tire planters in the front yard and they were the only zinnias in front. The other varieties were in back yard.

Has anyone received some of my cards yet?

15 cards has been mailed out so far. More will be mailed out tomorrow. :)

Linda, I received one and you will find my thank you on the thread that was started for thank yous. :)

Received my first Christmas card! Thank you Margo for the tomato seeds and the beautiful card. Merry Christmas to you too! 😊

My first Christmas card arrived today. Thanks Hanna!

Cards have gone out to everyone on the list😎Thank you Margo, my first card received will post a picture tomorrow. Merry Christmas Margo hope you are enjoying your first Christmas 🎄 in your new home.

Just checking in. I haven't received any cards yet but I haven't sent mine yet either. They will all be going out within the next 2 days.

Here is new thread for Thank you posts.

https://www.houzz.com/discussions/6416950/secret-santa-seed-swap-2023-saying-thank-you#28841220

I mailed out more cards/seeds. Some will be mailed out late. I will be posting my 2 thank yous later on today. ;)

Good morning everyone, i just wanted to make sure everyone is using the updated address list that includes colcol ? And, I also noticed yesterday that I was having a hard time seeing everyones' wish lists while double checking them as I was finishing my cards. Halfway down the page here Houzz had condensed our wishlists so some were " hidden " , there is a link on the left side of the page that says See 14 more comments that you have to click on to see ALL the wish lists. Just wanted to make sure everyone is seeing them all ? I hope you are all enjoying the swap. Just a few more days till the big man in the red suit will be here. I cannot wait to see my grandkids when we see them on Christmas Eve.

I'm running late, as usual. I won't be able to send out anything until after Christmas, and many will go into the new year.

Yes strangely I sent out to everyone received 4 cards so far, must not be as many participating this year, or I know it’s expensive to mail to everyone 🎄Merry Christmas and Happy New Year my garden friends🎄🎄🎄🎉🎉🎉

I sent mail to everyone and some still haven't recieved mine yet.

Hope everyone had a great Christmas! Sorry my thank-yous are so late. Our mail was running extremely slow over the holidays, and I received most of my cards after Christmas! Then it's been one thing after another, including my kitten being stuck 40 feet up in a tree for 3 days, (she's down now)! So, here we go:

Thank you, Sara, for the pretty card with a cardinal in a birdhouse on a snowy branch. Inside, we're Halloween Blend pumpkins, Daisy gourds, purple Asters, catnip, a flower called Blue Mist and Lavender. Thank you so much!

Melinda sent me white pumpkins and Casper pumpkins in a sweet card with a teddy bear by a fireplace! Thanks, Melinda!

Iris sent me a card with a gingerbread boy surrounded by Christmas cookies and candies. Inside we're Northstar Bell peppers and Meteor Zinnias. Thank you so much, Iris!

Mandy sent me English Lavender in a cute card with a palm tree and a stocking. Thank you!

Yotetrapper, (Angela, who is also my beautiful daughter), sent me a pretty, old-fashioned snowy scene of a Christmas tree farm card. Inside we're 2 packages of Peaches and Cream sweet corn, a Straight-8 cucumber seed starting kit, huge Zinnias, Jack-Be-Little pumpkins, white winter squash, Festival winter squash, decorative white pumpkins, and I think there were more! My kittens got into my cards before I wrote my thank-yous and mixed everything up!! Thank you so much, Angela! I love you!

Stacy sent me a card with a cute decorated Christmas tree on it, and inside we're gourds, crooked necked squash, Early, white bush Scallop squash and Butternut Squash. Thanks, Stacy!

Kim sent me a jolly, sparkly gingerbread man card with Daydream Cosmos and Snowball pumpkins inside. Thanks so much!!

Colleen's card was a sparkly snowman looking up at the Christmas star. Inside we're Bernard's giant wine Zinnias, Birdhouse gourds, giant purple zinnias Tall yellow marigolds,

Polar Bear zinnias.

Thank you, Colleen!

Nicole sent me a Christmas tree card including Hawaiian orange marigolds, Sugar and Spice marigolds, Candy Cane zinnias, (my favorites), and French marigolds. Thank you so much!

I think I got everyone!! If you sent me a card, and I didn't thank you, please let me know! I hope everyone has a blessed and Happy New Year!

Remailed jq sen card and sorry for the delay.

Thank you Bluee19. Will update as soon as it comes.

I'll have to post all of the names, about a half dozen (plus?), of the cards and seeds that I received. That's after I sort out the mess of mixing two swaps together.

I've yet to send a single card/package out, but the will be coming, just don't know when. :(

Gary Fitzgerald hope you got mine.

Jq_sen did u ever get the card i remailed?