This is Jody and her Mom. I had never met her.....She is a living DOLL!!!!
Becky's Spring Swap, follow-up thread
Close up of Jody digging into the fruit platter....
Her is "larienda" (Linda) and two of her 3 kids she brought along. They were just SOOOO well behaved and adorable!!!! Love children that do not throw tantrums.....speaks of good upbringing!
Lindas Hubby--The PERFECT baby sitter!!!! He totally stayed "out of the action" and just attended to keeping the girls happy.....They were so cute anyway!! In a very natural way!
Another shot of Mr. Dad!!!
Here's our GREAT hostess---Becky!!!!!
Here's Pals Bobie (Miata) and Jill (Critterologist).....
Here's "Wyldeflower" (Shirley) and Jody's Mom behind her.
Here's Ruby, again, making a point to someone......???
Here's Sally's plant table and "offerings"......
And--someone else's "donations".....Losing my sense of direction whose it might be.
WOW! What a fantastic time we had yesterday at the VA/MD round-up/plant swap! A big thank you goes out to our hostesses Becky & Chantell! It was terrific! Great plants, wonderful gardening friends, lots of comraderie, delicious food and perfect weather rounded out the day.
Thanks for all the great pictures being posted. Would you believe that I left my camera at home because I was concentrating on getting all my plants labeled & packed in my car. Oh well, there were lots of other photographers and now the round-up/plant swap is immortalized on DG.
I really enjoyed putting DG names & faces together, meeting new gardeners, husbands & kids.
I hope to meet you Qwilter at future round-ups.
I wish I would have found this thread sooner. I've been concentrating more on what I will do in FL and am more into maintaining my MD garden - but I'm still out looking for plants!!!
In fact, as soon as I finish my cup of coffee, I'm heading out to dig out some plants to give to a friend and then I'm heading over to my neighbor's (the garden queen of the neighborhood) to thin some of her plants and move them into my open spaces.
It's only a good weekend if my hands get good and dirty!!!!
Thanks to everyone posting pictures. They are great. I am in several, I see. I saw Gita and Diane walking around trying to get pics when people were not aware they were being photographed. I did a bit better than Shirley did. I actually had my camera in the car, but never got it out. ha-ha
Oh well, a wonderful time had by all. Again. These get togethers are so much fun. I have a good memory of everyone now. We had another get together yesterday, so no planting was done here. I will be going outside very shortly and seeing which swap plants need immediate attention and what can wait a little longer to be planted. Thank you to everyone who shared so generously with me. I love the plants in my yarden that have come of other's places. I think of each donater whenever I see their plant.
Anyway, I need to get up and start my day. I will check back in later on to see how everyone is doing. Have a great day everyone.
Ruby
GOOD Morning MA'ers!!!! LONG day at the zoo yesterday...very fun though - picked up soil last night...headin' out to figure out WHERE I'm putting all these goodies...you ALL are amazing!!! Will post pics a bit later.
Quilter: Are you moving to Florida? Or keeping your feet in both states?
Thank you Bec you know I love you- meeting everyone from DG at the party was great and everything that everyone was so wonderful to give us was just unbelievable, Terry and I thank you from the bottom of our hearts! Terry had such a great time and found the plants so interesting, he was excited about coming but we both had no clue that we would learn so much. It's really nice to have him into plants as well (I never expected that)
Thank You Again-
Wendi & Terry
happy - We're MOVING!!!!
We are both retired military and stayed in this area for the job opportunities. We spent 7 years in HI and our blood is thin. We hope to be living (and gardening) in FL in the 2010-11 timeframe. Till then, we make periodic trips and I garden in 2 zones.
I have a fantastic tennant (a cousin) and she loves gardening so I don't have to worry about neglected beds (like what we had when we bought the place last year). But I am looking forward to being able to play in my dirt almost year round.
Wow -- sounds like fun!
Sally... just had to tell you that your Carolina Allspice is perking up already, and it is such a GORGEOUS bush! Thank you for sharing it with me. I've potted up the other one and splinted its broken stem... it's in the "not quite dead" intensive care ward, and I will pass it on at the fall swap if it pulls through. Thank you so much.
I got so very many wonderful plants on Saturday, but while we're on the subject of special thank-yous... I still can't believe that Shirley (Wyldflowr) found me a new start of my beloved 'Red Dragon' persicaria... plus, she introduced me to a new lovely variety! Wow!
A lot of people went out of their way to bring special plants that they knew others would really love... that have/want thread was really buzzing the past couple of weeks... This is just such an exceptionally warm and giving group of people, and I can't tell you how much I cherish all of you! *HUGS*
Jill...came in to cool off a tad - saw you post - thought I'd mentioned as I was pulling weeds and checking on plants (i.e. where to put everything) I noticed two good sized passi's coming up UNDER my deck stairs...wish I'd seen those before leaving Sat....grrrr!!! Let me know if you'd like them...happy to pull them up. I'm guessing the one is Maypop but the other is literally half way...so it could be Maypop or Incense...have no idea how to tell them apart until they bloom...LOL
Thanks, Chantell, but you can imagine that I'm really scrambling to even imagine how I'm going to get all my treasures planted now! LOL Your little passie babies might go into a deck planter this summer...
(See what I mean? Chantell knew I wanted a hardy passiflora... she brought me one! and she's still trying to make certain I have a surviving one by the end of summer... :-)
Now YOU know I told you that out of a gazillion that sweet DGers send me last year I killed most of them before getting them into the ground...MY bad....they do not like being out of their soil - water or not. Lesson learned. Well just let me know if you need them - if not I think it was Buttoneer that was looking to plant one....I'll dmail her.
Greetings Wise Ones!
I love the pictures! I'm so sad to have missed the event. Maybe next time!
I ran by Gita's last night and picked up my haul, but best of all, I got a wonderful tour of her garden! She has so many very cool and unussual things growing in her jungle! BEAUTIFUL!
Thank you Gita for picking up my stuff. Thank you all for ordering, tracking, and managing all of this!
I've been out all morning getting the new babies in the ground. Another forty hours, and I'll be able to take a break.
Now how am I going to fit 40 hours into today? hmmmmm.
I'd be in great shape if all those Stargazers hadn't arrived, and the hyacinth beans that Gita brought to the chinese food swap need to go in today or the roots will be out of thier little reat pots, and then they won't make it.
I'm off!
Blessings on your gardens,
Elf
Golly, my memory is like a sieve sometimes!
Somebody gave me a lovely big white bucket of liriope... and I am trying hard to remember if it is the clumping kind (L. muscari) or the spreading kind (L. spicata), because that will affect whether it goes in the front yard or the back! Please advise. Thanks!
It was me and it spreads.
I believe I also gave you a clump of the variegated kind and I don't know the actual name. I have it edging the back side of one of my flower beds. However, I have had it for years and it hasn't spread like the solid green does. It has enlarged but nicely. I really like it. I don't care for the other because it doesn't behave well.
Glad Jill's not the only one...I believe it's Pineapple Sage (a variegate one) that someone gave me. I have a pic, if needed. Any - who....if that's what it was is it hardy? I didn't realize there was different kinds. I'd picked up one at my local Meadows Farms and it wasn't variegated.
Bobby? I think it was you that gave me the lemony stuff....ohhh smells yummy? Is this one hardy? My apologies regarding both as I probably asked these same questions already. Was going to post a slew of pics but most of you did such a great job of the same pics. Here's one of our hostess though...she was having a challenge getting ice out of the cooler. I, being the incredible friend I am, said let me help. I decided to get her a big ole chunk so it would last. SHE said how am I suppose to drink this? I said..OMG...just drink it. Do YA'LL see a problem?
Here's Chloe sniffing Jill's Chocolate Daisy - course then she attempted to eat it. LOL Please excuse the early morning hair...wild thang!
Course then I let her see the Lamb's Ear Diane (hart) was so sweet to bring for her and I...I think it reminded her of her blankie...she was enthralled with this
Immediately after touching it....well you guessed it...she was sniffing it. Ok...so I like plants with fragrance - Chloe and I hit the plants sections and are always sniffing everything...she has no clue that some aren't for sniffing...LOL
I'm just sorry I didn't have lots of those Chocolate Daisy (Berlandiera lyrata) plants to go around... most of the ones I overwintered in pots were spoken for long before the swap. However, the good news is that it was an easy one to winter sow... and now that I have blooming plants, I should have lots of nice seeds to share around this fall/winter!
Oh yes -- who grew those beautiful pineapple sage plants? So big & healthy! They're not hardy... and I need to try something different for overwintering mine this year, maybe just keep it upstairs instead of letting it go dormant, because mine didn't come back... so glad I have another one, thanks!!
Shirley, I think I might take that spreading liriope up to my folks' place... they need some good spreading groundcovers that the deer can't paw up so readily, and I think this might be a good candidate. Thank you!
You are so cute Chantell. Forgot to tell you that I loved your hair style. I gave you the varigated pineapple sage. Yes it is very hardy and should spread quite nicely for you. It was looking pretty bad after traveling on Saturday, but it ought to pep back up soon.
What a good day we all had.
Ruby
What a sweetie she is Chantell.
Ruby
Oh Ruby....I'm SOOO excited that it's hardy!!! Wish I would've told my DD to take the pic when I had Chloe on my lap and was holding the pineapple sage - sure you all will believe this - when Chloe sees me rubbing a plant with my fingers she'll immediately grab my hand to sniff!! I'll turn her into a plant lover despite her mother....LOL. Actually DD just laughs!
Thank you for your sweet words as well...hair is nice an easy - Chloe's a crazy girl!!!
Jill I will look for seeds and make that my MUST to winter sow this year...told you I was getting the containers ready...LOL. The next few i do I'll use the hot water on the burner though....gotta be smarter then what you're workin' with. ^_^
LOL... I'm sorry you went through that rigamarole with the lighter and the kebab skewer... heating it on the burner (with the tea kettle on top with a little water in it) will be much easier! I think the Chocolate Daisy seeds ripen at the base of some fluff (like milkweed or dandelion)... dark, flattened, pointed ovals.
Pineapple sage is hardy?? you mean I took my pot into the basement and killed it needlessly?? :-( Actually, I may be a crucial half-zone colder here.
I'm all ears if it is hardy. I kill a hefty percentage of what I overwinter inside . . . .
I've gotten most of the plants from the swap planted. Have a few that I just don't know where to put though so they'll have to wait. Thanks SO much to everyone!!! Ya'll are the sweetest! Already looking foward to getting together again sometime :)
Chantell, I think my "weed" vine is a honeysuckle of some sort. I posted it on the id forum to see anyone can help out. Gladly send ya a piece :)
editing to add:
Chantell, it is a honeysuckle. VERY fragrant but also invasive... I'm going to compost it, but you are still welcome to it if you'd like.
This message was edited May 26, 2008 3:49 PM
Oh, golly. I've gotten a few things planted, and I've been digging... I'm making progress, but I'm nowhere close to done!
I came in for a break & a drink, and Jim said he'd like to give me a hand now cleaning out the fridge... I'd been asking for a while (don't like to horse those shelves around to scrub them), so I couldn't say no, but gee whiz couldn't he have picked a day when I wasn't knocking myself out in the garden?! Well, it's done. :-)
LOL! That is always the way! Ed is willing to help do anything... when it's convenient for him ;)
Ok... back to the yarden
Great pics! Glad you ladies had such fun!
Now do tell, who got the cuttings from my coral honeysuckle lol??? If you treat it right it's gonna be beautiful for you! The hummingbirds just love it and its the native variety with the red/coral colored blooms!
My mom (wyldefwr) wants me to drag all of you out here to the country for a plant swap! I told her no one would want to come out here to the sticks to swap plants lol!