Specialty Gardening: Xeriscaped Cottage Garden, 0 by RickCorey_WA

RickCorey_WA wrote:
Check out the "Seed Trading" forum. There are occasional "Round Robins" where a few dozen seed-saving maniacs fill big boxes with little packets of home-saved or commercial seed, and then ship it around the country to each other. Put some in, take some out.

You don't need to find someone with exactly what you want, who wants exactly what you have.

Also, while getting ready for such a Round Robin, I've found that people will often list far more things than they took the trouble to list in a formal DG Want List. Or someone asks for something, someone else goes "what, THAT old weed? I can't kill it off where I live! I'll grab you a handfull." ... then you know they do have it it and ask for some yourself.

It's perfect for my kind of "Garden Plan":

- See or hear about something pretty or interesting
- Get it in a trade
- try to sprout it
- try to grow it
- stand back and say "WOW!" (or maybe "HUNHH?!?")
- try to save its seeds (or feed it to the compost heap)
- repeat

Who can know what they will think looks good until they see it in front of them?
I guess some people do have that kind of artistic sense, but not me.

And I have already found that in swaps, someone will send me twice as much seed as I need ... then someone else wants to split it ... and talks me into trying something I never considered ... who needs a plan when we have serendipity?

Corey