I'm getting just a wee bit worried here.........my buddy should of already received their "ray of sunshine package".............. hope they liked their goodies??????
CLOSED: SECRET TRADE = My box arrived
I received my plants today!! Thank you ghia_girl!! Several co-workers gathered round as I opened up my box of goodies. Here's what I got: autumn joy sedum, balloon flower, yellow daylily, amaryllis and elephant ears. I also received a cute sign that says "Love Grows In My Garden". Everything arrived in perfect condition. Thank you so much!!
Picture below!
Edited to add - Brandy, if you could give me some tips on the amaryllis and elephant ears, that would be great! Do I plant them in pots so I can take them in, or plant them in the ground and dig up? Also - I'm embarrassed to ask but...which one is which ;o)??? I am guessing the one with leaves is amaryllis and the one with just roots elephant ears? Or the other way around?
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My package came from Elizabethtown. She sent me LOTS of iris. Just exactly what I wanted. I couldn't be happier. Now off to look up the names to see what my surprises look like. Although it doesn't matter 'cause I love them all. I will cherish them. Thank you so much, Elizabethtown!
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You're welcome Aline. Glad you liked them. Hope you like BBQ. (No dinosaurs required).
My package arrived yesterday. I am overjoyed. Everything was perfectly packed. I recieved: Daylily stella d'oro, Daylily ruby, Gaillardia grande flora, gaillardia arisata, stokes asters, shasta daisy, chinese wisteria seeds. I am very pleased with everything. Thanks Cordeledawg
Gotta a Question:
Okay, so I now I have my plants from the trade, but I will be leaving out of town tomorrow morning - July 5th(arriving late the 5th). What should I do about the plants that I won't be able to get into the ground? (See pic I posted when I recieved the plants).
Possible Answers:
A. Moisten them them up and leave them in the packaging them came in? or
B. Take them out of the packaging and put them in containers of water in a east facing windowsill? or
C. well there really isn't one because it would require time I don't have at such short notice...
Help ASAP. Gotta know what's best by this evening. Thanks in advance.
rebecca,
if it was me........I would dig a small trench somewhere in the shade where the ground stays fairly moist and just lay them on their sides and cover the roots good and then water them really good before you leave....when you get home water them really good again and then when you are ready dig them up and plant them in their permanent locations.
That's good advice for Rebecca, and what I would do also. That's called heeling them in.
I knew it had a name but couldn't think of it if my life depended on it,
Susybell, if you were close enough to me, I would give you the biggest hug! {{{ HUG }}}
I got the most beautiful plants-
Hope Echinacea
Raspberry Tart Echinacea
Pink Yarrow
Taro EE's
Variegated Brug (salmon-colored flower)
A cute little post-it pad
Oh, you made my day! Your thoughtfulness and generosity is so appreciated.
love, julie
I received my box today. THANK YOU, FRANS530! I received 6 wonderful plants:
Dwarf daylily (peach w/burgundy eye)
Aster
Potentilla (the one I bought died the first year--so glad to try again!)
Liatris
coreopsis
echinacea
I'm so excited I get to enlarge my front walkway garden! (see Plant Trading forum for my pictures of before and after from DG trades!).
What fun!
Lauri in WI
Your welcome Lauri,
The Potenilla is about 6 years old and has been very abused out here in the country, high winds, dry conditions etc.. last year was the first year I cut it way back after blooming and walla!!! I ended up with a second longer blooming period AND tons of babies.
Hope everything else works for you too... I know you said NO PURPLE, but I looked and looked and realized I have a LOT of purple.
Great fun Kathy, thanks for the trade!
Fran
Hi Julie,
I am so glad you like your plants! I think I can feel that hug all the way out here! :)
Take Care,
Susybell
I got my box on Saturday!! I love all of my plants. They arrived in good condition and very well packed. Can't wait to get them put in the garden.
My box was from Marie (not sure what your DG Username is).
I got Gaura (tell your daughter that in this case Pink is perfectly acceptable because I love Gaura), Blue Daze and Yellow Gazania.
Thanks so much!!
Sheila
Sheila my real name and DG are one in the same. You will have made my daughter's when she hears you liked what she picked for you.
YaHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
My box arrived only minutes ago!
Thank-you so very very much Sue/glamourpuss...... you couldn't have chosen plants....more suited to me and what I love....it's almost as if I was the one to choose them.
I received from Sue...........
Dark Purple Dwarf Iris
Blue Eyed Grass
Aster Sugarplum
I have actually been eyeing all of these in the catalogs and almost ordered some of the Blue Eyed Grass the other day but decided to let the holiday get past first. So glad I did!
Sue sent me nice large bundles of plants....not the tiny little sizes I would of received if I had ordered these from a catalog.
Sue..... your secret buddy does like their box every bit as much as you did yours...if not more so !
Thank-you my friend! and a very specialThank-you to Kathy for hosting this fun swap. Let's do it again soon!
For those of us who have not received a box - don't worry. After the mailing deadline I will allow a few days to receive the boxes and I WILL POST NAMES of those who skipped out on anyone. I will also leave neg. feedback on them if there's not a MAJORLY good excuse. I can't think of may good excuses to hurt someone's feelings and ruin a good, fun project. But if it happens we'll all know about it.
Kathy
marie...Guess I never thought of it being the same, duh!!
Thanks again for a great treat!
Oh Jane I am soo glad you received them I thought you would have gotten them on Saturday and I was worried.
I'm glad you like all of them :) the little purple iris came from my sister-in-laws neighbor. I drove by and saw how beautiful they were and knew I had to have some. So I went knocking on her door and begged. I did some fast talking, even helped her weed her flowers beds and came home with these beauties. I'm happy to share with you.
The blue eyed grass is a new addition for my garden this year, so far I love it. So I knew I had to get some for you also.
Than I was out on an errand and spotted the sunplum aster in someones yard. I thought the dark mauve daisy like flowers were pretty special. I didn't know what they were but they caught my eye. A couple days later I was at the local garden center looking for just the right plant for you and found the sunplum aster. The mystery plant I had spotted a few days before. I got one for you and of course one for me. I hope you enjoy them all.
This was so much fun and I am so glad you like the plants.
Best wishes,
Sue
I thank you so much Ronnie for all my flowers... I was really shocked on how many you sent and all the seed, OMG!! That is really cool what a great sercret buddy.. I went out to put them in ground and of course it started raining again!!! :( ...
I really do thank you and I will email you later!!!!
Your quite welcome Tammy, glad you like it!!♥
SilkieChick, thank you so much. It was like Christmas but you seem to know what I like...LOL, my husband said he didn't think I could be any more excited if he had bought me diamonds, now I don't think I'd get that carried away but it was great.
I got my package today and everything was in great shape. I have daylilies but no orange, I have hostas but not the Golden Tiara, I have iris but not that color, I just started canna;s this year but I had orange no red, I almost bought liatris this weekend at a sale but didn't, so you did it for me. How perfect! You couldn't have picked plants any better if you had walked thru my garden. Again thank you so much...now when going thru the garden I can say my secret trader got that for me.
Thank you so much
Joyce
My box came today, and what a box it was! Thank you Diamond123 (Dan). I thought I would have to dig 3 holes to plant my new flowers. I will have to get the tiller out to plant this box of goodies. I sure wasn't expecting anything like this.
Dan sent everything I will need to plant a Corner Garden of Grasses. There was Blue Fescue, Silver Grass, Switch Grass, Fountain Grass, Creeping Baby's Breath and Autum Joy Stonecrop. He sent the directions too. He also sent a 7 Sisters Rambling Rose I have wanted since I was a kid.
I went to look through some threads he started and got hung up there for hours looking at his photo's of his Brugs. All I can say is I hope to beg some cuttings from him when he gets ready to take them in for the winter. I would have posted this sooner if I hadn't started looking at his gardens.
I can't thank you enough for all that you sent. They will have a special place in my childrens memorial garden. Thank you
June_2007
joyce,
i had lots of fun looking through my gardens for ya!! you are very welcome and i'm so happy you liked everything and didn't have them!!!
silkie
Hi June, I am so glad you are happy with your plants. Grasses like the tall silver grass graziela are pretty hard to dig out, or it would have been a bigger plant than I gave you, but it has roots and will grow pretty quick. I read your past threads and read about the seven sister rose, and I just happen to have one from the rose co-op I hosted that rooted, it's just a baby, and really should stay in the pot for a while. I would plant it this early fall when things are a little cooler and the roots bigger. I will take a picture of my corner of grasses and post a little later.
Happy Gardening!
Dan
Jane, aka rainy_jane.
My secret trade arrived today, everything is health and in excellent condition,
I received the following plants.Iron cross "oxalis",Nikko Blue "hydrangea,
bleeding heart, sedum, Purple corn flower. A number of these plants I want to
add to my garden, for one reason or another was not able to.
Jane your choices in plants was a big surprises, I plant some of the iron cross
tubes this spring for my garden, I don't know what I did wrong but they did not grow. But now I have me some iron cross the my garden. Once again Jane, thanks so much.
Gale
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I came home from work to a delightful package. Thank you so much Sheila (shuggins). I received the most nicley packed plants today. I was so excited because I did not have any of the things she sent. I got nice double fans of Strawberry Candy and Jungle Princess daylilies. I have been wanting Strawberry Candy for a while now. 3 very nice fans of TBI Gold Imperial, several lovley purple LA iris, a clump of sedum and some great Butterfly Weed seeds. I was just trying to get my DH to stop along side of the interstate so I could get some wild butterfly weed. She grew all of these in her garden and sent color photo's of each plant. Thanks so much for all the wonderful gifts Sheila!!!
Betty
Thanks Tammy for your very generous trade. I am appreciative of the difficulty to dig in the midst of the torrential rains we have been having.
Tammy sent me fans of bog iris reds or purple. A named bearded iris "Summer Olympics". Divisions of lantana and agastache. A division of lizard lily, which I am very curious about. Seed for a black holleyhock. I feel blessed to have them all. I have been a little puny today so I didn't get them in the ground. Looking forward to a better tommorow so I can get out . Thanks to the life giving rains I have tomatoes rotting on the vine, we are not able to eat them fast enough.
Good gardening ya"ll,
Jackie
All those came out of that flat rate box? She's one good packer!
yep..that's my girl!!!
Betty...I'm really glad that you liked the box and that it got there okay.
If the butterfly weed does as well for you as it does for me, you won't have to worry about getting any additional seeds. They seem to germinate well. They are even growing in my fountain just by having the water running over them. I think the original tag said 3-4 feet tall, but mine are pushing 6 feet, so be sure to put them in the back.
Happy Gardening!!
Sheila
Got a big box of goodies today! Thank you jocelynavon for everything they arrived in great shape! I didnt have any of the plants you sent and have already found places for them in my garden. :-)
I got:
Iris Honorabiles
Lambs Ears (Have wanted to try this one!)
Ixia Mixed seeds
Gladioulas bulbs
Peony Magenta
Lamium Galeobdolon
A cute garden sign!
Radish Seeds
Thanks so much for everything!!
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Hi Jackie,
I am so glad you got your plants today.. I was really excited about sending you them, I wanted to make you happy!!!! I was kinda worried about the box making it cause when I was at the post office I could see the water starting to leak and I just knew the postal working was going to say take it back home.. Well, I'm really glad it made to your happy home safe.. I am going to go buy me one of those summer olympics it's really pretty...
Talk to ya later
Tammy
Thank you so much Beverly (tggfisk) for the awesome plants you sent me. I did the happy dance when I opened the box.
Beverly sent:
Salvia "San Carles Festival'
Shasta 'Esther Reed'
Crinum 'Hannibals Dwarf'
Carex 'Frosted Curls'
Anthyrium 'Ghost' Fern
I can't say which one I like the most they are all great. I loveeeeee crinums and have never had a dwarf one before. You are so kind Beverly thanks for making my swap box so special.
Thanks for everything Kathy
Shirley
Whew! Shirley I was so worried that you hadn't gotten your box!! I hope that everything does well for you. I love crinums, too...I'm so glad you do:-)
The salvia, the crinum, and the ghost fern all came from Plant Delights, my favorite place to shop. You are officially the first one that I ever entrusted the salvia to. I think that Tony has decided that it should have a different name, but I can't remember what it is...
If you'd like to check, go to their website http://plantdelights.com
Enjoy! and thanks for letting me know it arrived. Guess I can sleep now...that's the fun part, right?
Bev
LOL to Tammy..u don't know how many times I have gotten to the post office with a dripping box..I ship a lot of water plants and while I pack well I still screw up sometimes.....they hate to see me coming, cause I have had to repack in the floor of the office :>0
I am verrrrrry rural they open at 9 and they close the PO from 12 to 2 for lunch and pick up boxes only at 4 pm.......have to catch them just right...don't tell me you sent your only Summer Olympic. Thank you.....I planted the red/or purple this morning they were so healthy I thought they were bog iris, but not so I find. I"ll be excited to see the surprise colors when they bloom next spring
Thank you for the fun,
jackie
Hi Jackie,
I only have the purple and the red so really I'm not sure which one I sent ya. so yeah, it's going to be a surprice.
Well, I went to the plant nursery here in Tulsa to get the summer Olymipic I wanted you to have another color too..
This place was having a 40% sale going on.. I went back today with my manager I work with and got a new rose bush it's a double delight.. it's so pretty! and I got a Champayne Elegance Iris..
Talk to ya later
Tammy
Thanks to Eglantyne for sending a big box full of goodies. Some of these are a bit of a challenge for me but I am looking forward to see if I can successfully grow Daylilies, peonies, Iris, false shamrock and (what are those bulb thingies?? Caladiums?) Florida Sweetheart, White Queen, Ginger Land and Miss Muffett here!
A wonderful package and a real treat to receive, inclduing a lovely personal note and a calendar!
Those caladiums came from Florida - Bill has the best caladiums around. You'll enjoy those. Eglantyne - sounds like you did a great box.
Just a few more days to go and we will HOPEFULLY, all have our goodies.
Kathy