It seems like it was near Kalamazoo. Bummer Ronna! Its a wonderful place. It was near some old train tracks and the driveway was quite hidden. No sign either.
Heres another shot.
SPRING OF 2008 PLANTSWAP FOR WEST MICH ????
Lovely Pics flower girl. Are you really bringing some Jap. iriss for trade? Good ! What are you looking for? I am going to be bringing some Heucheras New varieties, lots of assorted babies of new varieties I bought on co-ops! Some annuals like potato vine and angel wing begonias etc., lots of stuff. I hope I can make a few trades with you!!
Hello Vicki, Dori, Deanna, Gardenlady what are you bringing so I can beg you to save me something...???? LOL!!
Julie
Julie
I was not planning on going to the swap....Its too far for me to travel. It sounds like its going to be a lovely day and a great swap.
Deann
I dont actually have any jap iris to trade but i have lots of tb iris to trade along with others perennials. If anyone wants named irises, I love other named irises, named roses, primroses, hellebores, named hostas, grasses, thymes, daffolils, any spring bulbs, named daylilies and more. I also love the new named echinaceas such as sunrise, sunset, ect.....
I will also probably bring some daylilies, chasmanthium latifolium, rue and whatever else i can dig up.
Im really excited about the swap
Michelle
Michelle sounds like you have a nice variety!
I would love to get more Iris.
Does anybody have any tips about when to dig and pot up stuff so they will look decent by June 7th?
I checked my work schedule and I don't have to work on the 7th.
Yippee! :))
I plan to start potting up my plants for the swap as soon as I see them popping up out of the ground :) I will have many named daylilies
for trade along with Irises of all type Jazz I would love to try a few of the New Heucheras I have a few coral Bells .
I will be bringing Hardy Bamboo , a few type of Ornamental Grasses , Anyone Here have any extra Japanesse maples seedings :)
or any type of colorfull small trees.
I also Trade for Garden Step stones, Planters, small ponds plants, decorative Garden signs ,
SO If Want plants & Have No Plants to Trade NO PROBLEM :)
well i have to get off here today . have a great day all
Spring is almost here :))
susie
Im not quit sure what i will be taking for the swap yet i have some plants that are for more sun than my yard will offer so i will be digging them up and bringing them.... i have a circle flower which i love but it doesnt do real well, it needs more sun. and a couple of some mist shrubs???? not really sure of the name... blue mist? but they havent grown one ioda for me not enough sun... so i say. i have some packaged daffy bulbs... i got late in the year and never got them planted could i bring them too??? or can i still plant them??? i probably have a fwe hostas i can divide... i do not know all the technical names sorry... hopefully if everything still is good with my schedule i will be there with bells on tingaling cant wait!!!! Ronna
i wont be attending either!! have fun though!!!
I'm not sure yet what I will bring.
Trying to think what I have alot of.
Most likely:
Blanket Flower
Jim Westerfield Mint "Marilyn's Salad Mint".
Lemon Thyme
Marjoram
Cat Mint
Chives
Allium
Lambs Ear
Named Rugosa suckers if any crop up
(dug most out for my son last year)
Houseplants:
Rex Begonia "River Nile" if I can get some leaf cuttings going.
Tender sedum
More things I'm sure I'm forgetting.
Duh!
I forgot I'm going to be in Minnesota on June 7th!
Bummer! :(
Rose MINNESOTA Will Be there The SWAP WILL ONly Be On for 1 Day :)) Please PLEASE We Beg of you To Join Us :)))
So Far This is Going to be huge From all the Dmail s I have recieved , I Know You Won't want to miss out on this .
If you have a small shade tent like for craft tents you might want to bring it to set up your swaps . You Can Bring Crafts To Swap for plants
But there will Not Be any selling of Plants Or CRAFTS
I Look Forward To Meeting So many Wonderful Gardeners .
Keep the Quesions coming I will answer
ty all
susie /deejay9
Susie our son is getting his Masters Degree and we are attending a party in his honor. Not something I can miss.
See you next year.
I think I will bring some garden crafts to the trade as well. i never really thought about that. Decorated clay pots, wooden painted signs, painted old windows. Hopefully I can get a bunch made before the trade. For these i would love to get more named iris, daylilies, ferns, hostas, toad lily, hellebore, rose cuttings, clematis, wisteria, dutch crocus, daffs, oriental lilies, alliums, tulips, and much more.
michelle
Oh Michell I Love Crafts & I for one am Not a crafter , I will have many Named Daylilies , Irises , A Few Named Hostas .
Painted Pots I just love & If anyone have any old red bricks I would love a few .
It is a sunny day & Looks as the snow is melting little by little Can hardly wait till it is spring & I can get out in the garden beds :)
Won't be to long Now .
susie
great susie. we will have to trade at the swap.
look spring is about here :)) I have blooms in my yard :) love to see your blooms as they pop up :)
I have tulips just poking out of the ground :)
not many but there is hope :) Spring is in the air .
well wishing you all & very sunny & safe day .
susie /deejay9
WOW Susie! I will have to go out and see if anything is a bloomin or growin!!
It still looks like snow here!
Julie
GM All
Well I'm Sure all of us Have that spring fever in us & So Today I plan to plant a few type of new seeds .
would like to know what have you been growing ? any popping up yet ???
I have a few Morning glories in my hanging baskets , going to do a few more today .
well i have to go into town for more soil first :)
so HAPPY GARDENING
susie /deejay9
& TO ALL A
I have mators and daylilies growin right now but going to get planting more stuff later this week
I have chaste tree seeds and rose of sharon and clematis all soaking right now!!
I have potted up some dahlias, peonies, rose cuttings and some mesculin mix seeds. Of course, i am in NC right now so its all out doors in the warm sun. dont be jealous.lol
michelle
you evil woman!!!
i am full of evil shenanigans!!!
Wow I want some rose cutting this year looking for an orange color one name or not just an orange rose :)))
someone had sent me some "sitka rose seeds from alaska so I was going to try & plant them today .
I have a few other seeds I have to do search on them .
thats what I'm trying to do today .
have a great day all
susie
oh deejay9, I wish I wouldve known you needed a few red bricks!!! I had a whole bunch.... I ended up using most of them but then gave a few away... Sorry. I may have a couple left I'll look around okay? I sure do hope it is beautiful on the day of the swap... I really dont know what I'm going to have to bring.... I'll look around Im sure I will find something.... Say does any one know what I can do with some fall bulbs I got for christmas???? Its obveously to late to plant them know.... Is there a way to "trick" them???? I really wanted to plant them but it was so frozen!!! Ronna
Ronna I had a few Tulip Bulbs That I had gotten in dec I put them out on the back porch Not thinking that they could have froze , I remembered them
1st of Feb so I went to Ace Hardware got some soil & planted them & they grew & flowered the last 2 wks didn't last to long here in the house but they did flower so i have cut them back & put them back out on the back porch till I can plant them out side . so if you have some pot's & some dirt just plant them then transplant in the spring where you want them :)
I forgive you on the bricks :)
I was hoping to do a bulb trade in april he on dg's trading forum but guess it is to early yet for many I May have to just Bring all my bulbs
to the swap :))
well its a rainy cold day but hope to warm up toward the end of week :)
Happy gardening still planting the seeds
susie
I dont have anything growing. last years bulbs sent up leaves last fall, but no new
growth this year.
snow snow snow.
Peter Chan is going nuts over reaching the record of 100", now we are going
for the all time record maybe he thinks. I am glad he is happy. : )
Its so good for the soil. we have been so dry for so long. all the freezing,
the snow and thaw are perfect for the crops and land. thank god.
i am not going nuts this year with seeds. my GH never got put up last year,
and i refuse to lose all the time, soil and love that goes into them due
to a wind or rainstorm. Which, I have discovered, we have inordinate
amounts of here. By golly, does anyone remember the tractor
sinking at the farm on the corner of Charleton Park Road and M 43?
Cheese 0'Peat!
I have gotten an A in my Business of Fashion and an A in the Fashion
Illustration class. Those two classes take about 40 hours per week of
study. Its intensive and almost overwhelming. Ask me how anyone
can get a wrong answer on a open book test, and I will tell you that
it is easy. : ))
so, regards to all.
I might just have seeds for trade, but thats ok?
Tigger melon, and heirloom fuscia pink zinnias.
I love iris!!!!! Please anyone hold back a few for
me!!! please please.
sher
How does the swap actaully work. If you have stuff that you are holding onto for a specific trade what do you do? If you are only interested in cetain things???
Flowrgirl11 I will try to explain as for your special plants for a few special plants you are looking for
well I would say MAYBE List a few things Here that you are looking for MAYBE Just MAYBE One of us Here might have
what you are looking for Check our Trade list also .
Then ask us if we might have it for trade & Let us Know what you have for trade for it. Now If you plan to come to the swap you can bring with you .
I truly cannot tell you who will be bringing what to the swap but you can bring any extra as you like to trade for other plants you might find
& not even Know you want :))) it is an addiction .
BUT SO MUCH FUN :))
Hope I have help to answer your ??? . please let me know .
wiggly quess your ears was burning today when my sister & I was talking about you while I was at her place today in Freeport :)))
Good luck with your classes .
well My bird wants my attention so you all have a great evening .
susie
I have been to several swaps and held several here at my house!!!
The best advice i can give for the person running the trade-have time before the trade to walk around and see what others have brought, set a time for the trade to start.
When your walking around you can ask-would you trade this for that.
Another way is to trade in rounds-the first 10 people to arrive and sign in, get to be the first 10 to pick a plant or 2 plants and then the next 10 and so on.....
I would have someone at my table at ALL times!
plants have come up missing!
Very Good advice Not & I Have seen some take from one table then go to another table in the 1st round (UNFARE) in some swaps I have been to also , that is why
I have a couples ways to be sure this will not Happen But it will be explained at the swap .
if you bring 10-20 plants we hope to make sure you leave with just as many others ,we know you will Leave with A Full Tummy &
Lots of NEW GARDENING Friends :)))
Arrival time is from 9am- 9:30 to 10am for set up then from 10am to 11 am looking over everyones tables & meeting our gardening friends
coffee will be served .
well we are getting another snow & it is very windy today so guess I will stay in & plant a few seeds :))
Have a great day love hearing from you all .
susie
susie.......may I suggest more time for setup........depending on how far the car/truck is parked from the site where you set up.....and how many plants people are bringing........keeping in mind.....some people may have to travel 3 hours to arrive there intime for the 9:30am setup....which means they will have to leave thier home by 6am....
When Not Martha had it, we used a Noon time setup.......and if you arrived earlier, that was ok....some gals came from as far as close to ohio border, so that's a long drive....I would wait till after lunch before you do the trade, by then most will have arrived....
Deann
Yes you are right deann I love it when others can Help in suggestion so I will
edit the top :)
thank you
susie
oh i cant wait!!!
I might be able to come now.
Our date to go to Minnesota has been
moved up the the weekend before the swap.
Woo-Hooo!
yay!!!
OH So Nice rose look forward to meeting you :)))
If anyone has other suggestion about the swap I would love to hear them I Hope the time changes will be good for everyone .
susie
Hey Susie I also Like the noon start time. And wouldn't it be nice to put the food out and have a luncheon first and then swap and then go home!!!
While we are noshing we can talk about what we have to trade.
If we have name tags and some like myself may make a s "sandwich board" to wear at lunch advertising what i have and what I want!!
I like the later start time!! Can't wait!
Julie
YES LATER START TIME i THINK WILL WORK OUT FOR MANY. GETTING SO EXCITED TO MEET SO MANY FROM DG:) FRESH SNOW AGAIN LAST NIGHT BUT SUNNY TODAY HOPE IT MELTS FAST .
Sorry for the caps forgive me I have to go for my eye exam at 3pm :)) hehe so you all have a great day I have to get ready to go .
susie
Its gettin closer!!!
Just countin the days Now :)) & I think my biggest joy is going to be meeting so many of you gardeners from Michigan :)
Gee I have lots of sprouts & will have to transplant soon so I hope to have lots of trades :)) well I have some spring cleaning to get done this morning so guess I better get off here .
Happy Gardening to all
susie