I'm not sure about this lottery thing lol I've got a lot of trades going on and trying to get 200 pots in the ground before it gets too cold I'm on here quite a bit right now but that's because it cloudy and gloomy outside and 40 degrees, ugh!!! It's getting warmer next week so I will be outside had enough of the inside for right now lol Tried to find the post where you were talking about the lottery just saw Joy's can't find yours Theresa :) So what is going on with it? Are we having it? If we are will you dmail me so I will know and won't have to go thru all of the post please, sure don't want to miss out lol
I haven't mailed my seed out yet trying to get some extras in there since there are more people :) I'll get them out by Friday.
CLOSED: UNUSUAL Seeds Swap
How about a link???
I love MGs and have grown quite a few, but I have not grown the Split Personality cultivar and would love to try that one! (Hint, hint!)
LOL! We're all so subtle. GIMMEEEEEEE!
What fun - like waiting for Santa!
Yay!Yay!Yay! I mailed my seed out today!! I can't wait! I'll take everything!(please)
Could you add one more participant? I could send my seeds on Saturday -
karen
Sure thing Karen! Welcome to the fun!!!
I added Karen to this list. And I'm including this list again here.
Glad you joined us Karen. This is so much fun.
Joy
Theresa - 5a
BrightStar - 7 (?) Please correct me if I’m wrong. I looked it up.
Froggies_girl - 9 (?) Please correct me if I’m wrong. I looked it up.
Moretz - 7a
Prettylady24 - 6b
Hillbilly_Gran - 6b
Creativedecor - 8b
Heavinscent - 9a
Sequee -6b
PotEmUp - 9a
Seedsower - 5a
LeBug - 6a
Beckygardener - 9b
Distantkin - 4b
Dylancgc - 6b
Seandor - 6a
Joy - 8b
Flowerhead410 - 5a
Basket_case - 3
Bluespiral - 7a
Ana3 - 8
Lazlo 8b
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thanks so much for doing this Joy. Its really a big help.
You're welcome Theresa.
Thank you for hosting such a fun swap.
Joy
This message was edited Oct 25, 2007 8:54 PM
Theresa - pls add my name to the list. Zone 8b. Thanks! ~ £az£o
Hi Theresa,
Just to let you know that I mailed out my seeds on Tuesday!
Let me know when you get my seeds, please.
Thanks ,
Ana
This summer in the diary seed swap I got 'Rosenwood' what in the heck is this plant? I don't know what to do with it or what it looks like. I'll try it just cause.
Sure thing Lazlo!
Theres still time to get the seeds to me :)
theresa - my seeds are in the wind to you via PM so's you'll git 'em on time ... (still gonna cross my fingers, tho)
atbty ! ~ £az
Added Ana3 and Lazlo to the list above.
Welcome aboard, so glad you could join us. This swab just keeps getting bigger and better all the time. :-)
Joy
Wow! 22 people! That is really cool. As we discussed in d-mail. I will be sending you more seeds on Monday. I think I have enough for at least one of the ones I mentioned to ensure that eveyone gets a pack. Hopefully the other one as well. They are both kind of cool!
You're a doll for doing this. What fun we will have sharing photos next summer!
Here's a toast to you!
Cheers to Theresa!
I wished I'd known there were going to be so many participants so I could've sent more packs of seeds. Looks like we got a great group in this swap!
ditto. I'm curious how the lottery works, because I have never done it before. I think it would be more fun to be surprised, but not knowing what it entails I can't say, eh?-Kath
All these teases -will we find out...or won't we???
Yes, just a little bit longer to wait :)
sent seeds yesterday - am afraid the logic might be more uncommon than the seeds. For example, for a plant to survive on our dry shady slope and to also infuse the garden with a glorious fragrance in late winter, to me, makes it uncommon. Or if I collect seeds from an old heirloom seldom seen that blooms by an abandoned road along a river going past long tumbled bridge trestles - that plant, to me, is uncommon. So some things I've sent may not seem uncommon to the eye, but rather to lost dreams.
Well, I, too, can't wait to see what all the different rationales for being uncommon are - Theresa, you've piqued our curiosities in more ways than one.
Anyone else want to share what they think makes a plant uncommon? How about before we get the seeds - more guessing??
It's funny that I think often native plants can end up being ones we think of as uncommon, perhaps because some have started to disappear. And while I love native plants I am also very drawn in by the flashy new varieties of more common flowers. Different IS good (trust me I've been that way my whole life, and I like myself pretty well!) I think it comes down to what do you see in other people's gardens. If I have a plant I have never actually seen in anyone else's garden I think it is unusual.
Any word yet on the lottery Theresa and how it might work? (or if we are doing it?)
Oh yeah, I forgot to say thank you to blue spiral for painting a beautiful picture in my mind of what her idea of unusual is!-Kath
Just got mine in the mail!! Sorry it was last minute!
everybody and their aunt seems to have Hyacinth Bean vine seeds - - i always think of goofy little puffins (see: http://www.umabroad.umn.edu/news/globalMosaic/images/ICBJBestpuffinphoto.JPG) when i see these seeds.
i go way back into my childhood when i harvest seeds from a nice juicy red pomegranate (http://z.about.com/d/gourmetfood/1/0/a/1/pomegranate2.JPG) - - and wish i knew about the variety with white or clear seeds so my mom wouldn't forbid me to ever eat pomegranates with my bare hands and wearing a new shirt again! (see: http://pics.davesgarden.com/pics/Xenomorf_1098829339_115.jpg)
i wish i had enough Strelitzia reginae (Bird Of Paradise, aka Crane Flower) seeds to contribute (http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/9167/) because they are so strikingly beautiful - - maybe next year when my own will hopefully yield a harvest.
and when i am preparing the earth in which a seed will be set to grow for my pleasure, and it sprouts up then florishes under my care, it makes me recall that time itself began in a garden:
"Now the Lord God planted a garden in the east, in Eden."
Genesis 2:8
and so, seeds are the device by which i feel part of and belonging in a cyclic universe. the little bitty seed always humbles me and i am grateful to have the privilege of tending to its needs.
http://accessiblearts.org/Blitt-Rita-Joyous%20Spirit.jpg
Amen!
Heres everyones envelopes I have received so far. First name and state.
Nancy-MO
George-CA
Sandra-WI
Peggy-MO
Melody-KY
Rebecca-FL
Melisa-NC
Darlene-MI
Janice-NY
Charlotte-PA
Kathy-NH
Allen_MI
Theresa_MI
OOO Lazlo I love Puffins-are they here in the states? I have only seen them when I lived in Scotland! They are my Favorites and so cute! I put that picture on my desktop!! Thanks :o)
Awe mine should have already reached you also..
Peggy-KY
I havent received yours yet Peggy from KY.
I thought mine would have been there by now too. Maybe tomorrow then?
Joy
I've been waiting for yours Joy....I cant imagine out of all of those things you have what you sent!
Hopefully mine will get there mon too---did you receive the package from our trade? They were mailed at the same time.
Hey, Therea - my second envy will go out in the morning. I was able to put together enough of both of them for everyone to get a pack.
Can hardly wait to see what we get!!!
My seeds are being mailed today. love, julie
I am excited as a lil child at Christmas... this is so much fun!!!!
Peggy
I mailed my seeds on Friday - they will go to same postal center for distribution as distantkin (St Cloud, MN) They should be there by Tuesday or Wednesday.
What do I consider unusual: Not very creative in my idea here, but whenever someone ooohs and aaahs over something and asks what it is, I consider it unusual. 'someone' here does NOT refer to my sister who calls all flowers 'delpheniums or something'. When I say 'someone' I am refering to those who garden themselves. What might be considered unusual in this area might be a weed somewhere else. So I tried my best to send seeds from things that have been considered unusual by three of my closest 'gardening associates'. I appologize for the scanty number of packets. I didn't expect there to be 22 swappers. Theresa, if you need to, you can divide some of my packets if you think they are generous enough.
Wait! We were supposed to send 22 packages? I am soooo sorry - I only sent 10. Does this mess things up? I can send more if you want - but I can't guarantee they will arrive by October 31.
NO - 10 seed packs were the agreement, but when I saw how many people there are (and how many left over seeds I have) I decided to send more.
It's my analness at issue here!