Oh, my gosh, what a beautiful morning glory, Blue!
Suzy, I sent in my envie today. I was hoping my Rosa de Montana would hurry up and produce seeds but mostly it's still blooming. There are several things I wanted to send but they aren't ready. Our first frost is still a ways off -- we've hardly had fall yet this year, so I think I'll still get seed, only not in time for the swap. Next year will be better, because I'm now so aware of seeds, seeds, SEEDS, as never before. Just this afternoon as I was getting in my car I looked down and saw ruellia plants and snagged some pods. Is there no hope for me?
Peggy
Spectacular 2007 Cottage Garden Seed Swap #4
bluespiral I was just admiring that MG on the MG thread yesterday!!! it is an unusual color blend. I have a burgundy theme going on in my front porch garden and they looked kind of pale burgundy to me so it caught my eye. http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/776560/
(edited to add the MG link)
WZ nice plant list...it just hit me that your garden is in Alaska!!! I learn alot from looking up and reading about the different plants everyone posts :) so fun and very interesting
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Criiter..thanks..at this point, I'm going to leave it up to the angels that direct Suzy's hand to my tin bucket! :) The zinnia were seeds were picked but still not dried, so I can either send in more seeds Monday, which is fine with me, or I can send it directly. Mine goes out today via UPS from our swimming pool business, so Suzy, dont be surprised when they come knocking.
I like the term "swashbuckling" :) makes me sound like a seed pirate!
Bluespiral, I wish you'd given me some idea of things I could have marked for you.. or did you and I totally flaked out??
Susan
Susan, thanks but no worries about the zinnias... there are some white ones in my mix out there!
I tried to encourage my zinnias to dry out but they just wouldn't cooperate. the dear things just want to keep blooming. I guess that's why we love 'em!
ohhh yes.. i still have some blooming, but even the dried ones were moist from having been watered recently.. and I didn't want to pull them apart like that.. They will dry over the weekend though! :)
Susan
Okay, well, I'm eating crow, too - one of the things that even being here a year I haven't gotten figured out: I moved from Phoenix to a very small community of 1200 folks. The tradition has been working farmers (a lot of beef) so folks had jobs outside of the farm. Because they couldn't leave everything for the weekend, a lot of people would either leave at lunch on Weds or not come in at all and make it up on Saturday. So even the county and federal services here close early on Weds.... and I didn't make it to the post office yesterday before noon, duh.
I'm sorry, Suzy - I know Wrightie covered me for the most part (and isn't mail-retarded, like I am) but I wanted to get everything to you to not be part of the inevitable glut at the end. Or should I say, the tail end?
Well, as long as we're having true confessions, I'm going to tell a tale of 'Duh!' on myself. I was so pleased with myself that I had everything ready to go by the 30th. I had 4 other small envelopes of promised things and the Wintersowing swap (which isn't due until Nov 20!) ready, too. So everything was all sealed up except for the big envie for this swap. All I needed to do was have it weighed so I knew how much postage to put inside and mail it. So my 'buddy' at the P.O. (they all know me LOL) starts to weigh the package and says 'It's not going anywhere'. I didn't have Suzy's addy on it (dumb, dumb, dumb). So I had to take it back home, address it, and go back out again. But I DID get it mailed on the 30th.
grampapa, I did that exact same thing ... 'cept, I was too stubborn to walk out of the post office with nuttin' so I told the employee that the package was going to Illinois. Duh, no, it's not, but it turned out to be the same postage as Illinois so I got lucky there.
wrightie, too funny...I said Illinois, too because I knew it was somewhere in the midwest. and then I looked it up on usps.com when I got home with the right zip.
Yeah, but at least you got it sent off!
Okay, I'm off to lovely, downtown (or is it uptown? Neither have a traffic light, so it's hard to tell!) G'boro to mail off my offerings...lol.
Sorry again, Suzy.
Yeah, I know -- we are all just "one of those Midwest states" to people east of the Alleghenys.
I am dmailing people as I get their seeds, but tomorrow will probably be a big delivery day, and I wanted you to know I won't actually dmail you until your envelope is opened and catalogued. And I only do one envelope at a time, so if you don't hear right away, it's because of that.
So far it's going really well and the variety is amazing!
Suzy
YEA!!! :) Keep us posted!
Sounds really good, Suzy! It's gotta be fun, opening those envelopes. I can just see you divvying them out..."one for wrightie, one for me, one for grampapa, one for me, one for budbloom, one for me...." LOL
If thats the way it goes just send me grampap's envelope.
My older brother used to do that to me when we were munchkins, "One for you, two for me, one for you, three for me, one for you, four for me, one for you ... "
Whos got the big can!!??
Is that a polite question, I may have a ''big can ''but I'm not ready to admit it in writing.
I've got a rather sizeable can ... unfortunately.
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAHAAA!!!
actually..that does make your can look just great..maybe I should garden in "horse wear" since I shovel poop anyway??
Wrightie,
That is a great picture! What is your horses name?
Neumann
(yes, after the Seinfeld character)
Very cute.
SGL, I'm sending you a pair of breeches for Christmas... one of the many pairs that I have outgrown, that is.
Does it stretch from your small to my XL? :)
You guys are so funny! Wrightie, I am impressed you can get on a horse, mush less control one! I'm pretty sure I couldn't even get on one without a ladder. Is that your place of the barn where you board him? All I can think of is putting flowers and vines along the fence line and harvesting that manure!
SGL, Let's just say that my idea of sitting on the sofa pitching seeds into cans is out the window. There is already too much stuff in them. And I haven't even received the envelopes and boxes from the over 100 seed crowd yet! I have been looking all over the house for about 10 or 15 shoe boxes if you can believe it! Not that a shoebox will be filled with seed, but it will give me more room to work. The seeds that come in all rubberbanded together take up a lot more room when those rubber bands are undone!
The desk is covered, the table is covered. I have 2 twin beds in there, but the envelopes (and their contents) aren't as clean as you might imagine, so I have to cover the beds with beach towels before I spread out onto them.
Who was it that said it's like one of those puzzles. "The red is next to the blue, but not next to the green and the purple is near the red, next to the blue but not next to the yellow." You were closer to the mark than you might imagine! LOL!
Suzy.
Suzy, sounds like fun but also a WHOLE lotta work! I hope you have a logical mind :) Gardeners often don't. They're more 'lead from the heart' kind of folks. That sounds like one of the questions on the NY state computer programmer's exams that I used to have to take for promotions LOL
ahhh, Suzy, seed Zen Master!!
:)
Susan
Oh no. Are any of us close enough to you to give you a hand?
P.S. Wrightie can not only get on a horse, stay on a horse, but she and that pretty pony do some pretty high level work. She starts to talk about it sometimes and can leave me in the dust within a sentence.
Suzy, I board him at that farm. I know just how much work has to go into caring for horses since I've worked at many horse farms as a youngin', so I'd rather save my pennies and pay some other fool to do it. Whoops, sorry, Pagan.
You can cover those fences with vines and flowers, but just know that those horses will polish them off before you can get them planted! They have no taste, the big dummies. As for riding, I can't even ride my way out of a paper bag. PC is too nice.
Liar. Plain, flat, bald-faced liar.
.......... but she changed our wording. I said "control" and you said "make him do some high level work". Nobody said anything about riding that I know of.
I received in 3 nice packages today -- Seandor, Budbloom & PrimroseSue. I will dmail each of you, ok? It might be tomorrow.
Suzy
Received packages from Bluespiral, Weezingreens and Deann. I havent even opened them, but wanted you to know they are here.
Suzy
I'm really getting excited now LOL
Suzy, take all the time you need to sort those little beauties. It'll be like Christmas when the package comes anyway :0)
Just checking in....I always hate swaps where you hear nothing from the hostess!
I am starting a week late due to an extension of the deadline for certain people who were sending in popular seeds, but Mr. Clean is out of town tonight, so the timing couldn't be any better if I had planned it. I got a lot further today than I expected, but that was because I could work through dinner and take the phone off the hook.
I just made the first pass through and the coffee cans worked like a charm, although I could have used about 10 of the big red cans because the name tags eventually got covered up with seed packs and I had to keep pulling them forward to see whose can it was. LOL! Some people sent in some really massive amounts of seed and they naturally had to mail them in a carton which helped a great deal (in lieu of a coffee can).
I also forgot to count seeds from some of the participants BEFORE I passed out the ones they had earmarked for certain people, but I think I was able to recreate it. (It won't matter, actually, if I miss by anything under 10% -- we have more seeds from generous participants than were sent in.) You'll get things on your list until I run out, and then I'll get to guessing part. .. and you might get dmail and a list to choose from when I get down to the bare bones if I really can't tell what you might want. But next year I need to remember to say that you guys can just tell me how many seeds you are sending or how many you want back.
Right now it's like a game of concentration -- person A wanted some frilly peach hollyhocks and I have to remember where I saw them or where I put them, but as I get your offerings memorized, I can go right to what I'm looking for. :)) Earlier in the day I was getting really dizzy from wandering around in circles (literally).
There were some silent people who never said, "hey, gimme one of those", so it's good you all sent extra of anything that had a photo with it. I guess it's true that a picture paints a 1000 words.
I guess that's it...I have some postage concerns for some of you, and envelope size concerns for others, but I'll need to actually weigh them -- on a digital sale at the PO -- before I know for sure. Right now it's just a feeling that I will be substantially short on postage, and it's just envelope people, not on anybody who sent a carton.
Stay tuned --
Suzy
Suzy, if you need some extra postage, I can send some. I just want to see the seeds get a good home, so I'm fine with that.
Suzy..that's why I sent what I did on postage..keep it to defray the cost! :)
Susan
Suzy, I considered sending a carton and I guess I should have. I'm assuming I'm one of those, because my seed packets are pretty small, but I'm sure a lot of them are larger. I'll get the extra postage out to you ASAP and you can put them in a free carton from the PO. Is that OK?
Wow, now that I'm thinking about it, this was really dumb of me. That package was bound to weigh more coming back than the one I sent, even if it did fit in the envy. I did put in some extra, but I'm sure it's not nearly enough. All I can do is plead senior moment and send more stamps. Can someone tell me how much it cost to send a fairly substantial carton?
Thanks much...jan