Well, The last secret trade I got stood up and the garden angel sent me a box of plants!!! I recieved my secret trade today!!!!!! WOW, WOW, WOW!!!!! I can't really be the first, MYSTIC (peggy) sent me: canterbury bells, salvia blue bedder, purple foxglove, jacobs ladder, coreopsis grandiflora,purple ballon flower, salvia dark purple, prunella, eggplant hollyhock, centrathus ruber, oregano, Datura white, and last but not least chocolate vine!!!!!! Count them yes count them (13) beautiful plant's!!!!!!!! THANK YOU PEGGY!!!!!!! I love them all!!!!! I am doing the happy joy joy dance as we speak!!!!!!!! sue ( I mailed mine today, I hope it arrives by saturday)
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Secret Trade... What Did You Get????????
Woohoo Sue!!! That was a great box!!! Guess you are the first but there should be more, I know some people sent their boxes on Monday and I sent mine yesterday. Can't wait to see what everyone else gets!!!
Thanks Sue for starting this thread. I got my box today from our one and only Jody (secret swap organizer). Lucky me!! It's like Christmas. The plants arrived in perfect condition even in this heat. So many of them too. I got tiger lily bulbs, pink pampas grass, mexican hat, pink and white yarrow, shasta daisy, ming toy (red), burgundy gailardia (have been wanting this), Geranium S. 'Alba', (another one I wanted), malva white and ladybells. Believe it or not, I have none of these. I hope I remembered everything...Oh NO I didn't. There was also an adorable minature brass watering can filled with packs of seeds...coreopsis, chelone-turtleheads, hollyhock mix, lavendar columbine, foxglove-foxymix, and last but not least asclepias-white. Am I one lucky girl or what? I am now off to play in the dirt. yippeee Ree--->doing the happy dance.
That mystic, is one fine Lady! Congrats!
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Oh Sue I am glad you liked them I was worried when you said you wanted hosta's. I have one to my name.lol So I hope your really happy with your stuff. Hugs Peggy
My secret trader sent me generous amounts of obedient plant, lady's mantle, red bee balm and iris...and my most favorite of them all is the pink lily of the valley! I have been wanting this one for a long time!! Thanks so very much, Karyn!
L2G ,I'm sooo glad,I couldn't find a trade page to tell what you already had,so I took a chance that you wouldn't have pink lov!!! I got my trade yesterday and "I Love You "poppy sue!!!!You are the best!!! Crestedchic
Thank you Jody for my plants. They will be going in there new home very soon. It was a wonderful surprise.
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Most welcome HoniBee!!!
Jody,
I'm sending my secret trade in two separate mailings. Can you email me with my secret pal's email so I can let her know. I don't want her to get the first box and freak out.
Thanks.
Carla
Tooo Late, Smilin32.....I got it,, and I been scratching my head, and going thru old emails, and notebooks.....even looked up address on the web....those are some good looking little plants, but what are they and are they for sun or shade?
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UH OH! I got a package from smiln32 also. Was there a mixup somewhere?
I'm Confused, ........I didn't have a trade working there....or if I did, I'm losing it, I have no data anywhere. If
I have something that needs to go somewhere else, please let me know and I will see that it is taken care of. And, it goes without saying, that if I owe you a trade......please jog my memory!
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Toadlily,
You were my secret trade buddy. I have also emailed you directly in response to your message to me. You are most welcome, by the way.
Eyes,
I think your confusion will be cleared up shortly as I sent you a copy of an email detailing a trade between us.
There, that's better.
Thamk you Smilin32....for awhile there I thought I was going bonkers. Look for the Collinsville Express passenger manifest Tuesday.
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I received more plants and seeds than I can even remember. It took me more than an hour to get everything planted. Whew! What a delight, though. I never would have thought to ask for some of these things, but now that I have them, I'm so very pleased.
The generosity of each and every person I've met through this site is amazing. God has blessed me so richly by knowing you all.
I recieved a box yesterday, I think it was from this secret plant trade, I have signed up for several. Anyways It was great! Inside was a columbine plant, a Jacobs Ladder plant, a cladium, and a perenial poppy plant! I may of forgotten something seems like there was another. Oh yea, there was a big bulb/ rooting of a real pretty daylilly ( pic!) A very big thank you to snowhermit! This is so much fun.
A huge thank you to Dirtpig for the box of plants she sent.I was so excited when I saw the 3 different white Daylilies and even white Asiatic along with Iris and a white matricaria. I can't wait till next year to see them bloom. Thank you sooooooooooo much!!!!!
I just unpacked my secret trade! It feels like Christmas - What Fun!! My trade came from Love2Garden. I got 2 wonderful daylilies (Prarie Blue Eyes & Windfrills!), 'Cerise Queen' yarrow, sea thrift, variegated spearmint, and an amazing white primrose that I can't wait to see bloom. The plants all looked like they were just dug and I'm sure they'll have an easy time transplanting. Thanks Diane for the great trade - it made my day :o)
i got my secret plant trade a few days ago-i had to plant everything I got from ruby42(she had me before too)and I may have forgot somethings!
white coreopsis
pink nodding onion
sarah eve pink sweetspire
euphorbia fire glow
campanula-Couldnt read the rest
Hosta so sweet-hosta
a book on herbs
and a book on ponds and water gardens
Ruby42 thanks so much for everything you sent this time ;-]
i didnt have any of them!!!
thanks so much,
dori
southrngal!!! wow is all that comes to my mind this second. You really know how to pack a box full of fun!! y'all I got a huge Cahaba lily (still have to look it up, saying thanks first:), Moses in a boat (how did you know, it's one of those things you see and say 'gotta have that next year, but forget to put on your want list:), 2 big bulbs of white crinum, a yellow canna lily, purple mexican petunia, purple mexican heather (purple is one of my favorite colors) and she fulfilled my very most wanted!!!! 3 nice big Agapanthus bulbs!! I'm so tickled I can't stop grinning. Everything was in superb condition.
Teresa, thank you so much!!!!!!
Got mine today from Cora. Thanks so much got a box full of succulent cuttings and houseplants. Somebody must have told her my DD was really into succulents ,and we didn't have these. And the planter on my desk at work was sure in need of some new additions to it.. I love them all Cora thanks so much.
Dori, I am glad you did not have anything I sent you! You did forget to mention a few things the silver lace vine and the plant with the cool green flowers. I sent a picture of it because I do not know what it is. I sure hope that you know! And my favorite is the pink bush clover, Dori, when you see this thing bloom you will love it. It will get really big so put it where it will have alot of room and in part shade! Next time there is a secret trade I will just send you a box a plant's instead of waiting to get your name!!!!!! sue
LOL, sorry dori and sue, I didn't know sue had you're name before dori, honest. But....sounds like you got another great box!!!
No problem Jody! I didn't mind one bit getting Dori again, but I guess we should really check with her. sue
Hey tiG,
Glad your box got to you in good shape. It took a little ride with DH through NorthWest Alabama. I was just as tickled to have something on your list to send to you. You are very welcome. Enjoy!!!!!
A big THANK YOU to Marcia(who had my name last time too).She out did herself this time.She sent two daylilies,one near white(Belle Isle maybe?)and double yellow.Double pink tiger lily(can't wait to see this one bloom),mixed purple spiderwort,and red cloud spiderwort.Jap.amemome,and palace purple.
Thank you so much.
Dirtpig
WOW!!!
I just got my box from tiG, she really outdid herself. I got selaginella, cyrtomium, clitoria, pasiflora, brug and a tropical water lily that is so big I don't think I have a pot to fit it!!! Thank you soooooooooooooo much!
hey have ruby42 again was fine with me-shes a great surprize trader-thanks for everything again. I forgot those two cuz i put thm in the other garden-dah!
thanks jody fr organizing this trade and ruby42 for the plants!!!
have a great day
dori
jody, what pressure, you started this AND you have a greenhouse full!! I kept having to check all your lists to see if you had this and that. I hope everything lives long and prospers. This was great fun!!!
Aaawww tiG...didn't meant to cause you any pressure, lol. I would have been happy with anything. As you see by my lists, I'm a "plantaholic" lol. You did an absolutely wonderful job at "surprising" me!!! Thanks!
Christmas came early to the Jersey Shore today when I received a suspiciously large and heavy box from Notmartha. Enjoyed a very pleasant afternoon unpacking all 22 (no that's not a typo) perennials! Looking forward to getting everything planted tomorrow. Somehow, not one of these was a plant I was already growing! As if that was not enough, there were also numerous packages of seed all done up in their Dave's Garden packets, a rain gauge, a gardening magazine, and a handcrafted potpourri hanging. I will post a list of the plants later, as I get them into the ground and onto the inventory.
Dori/Notmartha, Thank you very much for your overwhelming generosity! I will spend many pleasant hours planting and enjoying your lovely surprise package. John/Pardancanda
My secret trade is someone I email almost daily. My very special friend is Ree. She sent me not one but two boxes full of plants. She sent me huge divisions of Pink Obedient plant, Pink Bee Balm, Tropicanna canna, Plumbego, Blue Spiderwort, Purple Dutch Iris, 2 Hostas and a Bouganvilla. She also sent me a pair of gloves and some Bee hand balm. Hmmmmmmm how'd she know I need those to finish cleaning up the briars on the side of the house. Thanks so much Ree. You are very special to me. (grinning like a kid at Christmas)
Teresa
My secret trade came yesterday when this large box arrived! I was just overwhelmed when I opened it. It was like there was no bottom! First of all there was a clump of chives. i was going to plant some seeds in the spring! Now I won't have to!, a pink mystery plant with the prettiest little pink flowers, Two hostas, one plain and one varigated. I was planning eventually to get several to use as accent pieces. Now I have some! Some wild fern, the painters destroyed mine, so now I can start a new bed. Rudbeckia Goldsturm, violets, artemisia, mixed tulips and mixed daffodils! If that wasn't enough, there was a darling birdhouse made by my secret trader, Debi_z!!! It's beautiful and no way will that go, outside! It's sitting on a table in the living room! I am so proud of it! Debi, I really am at a loss of words as to how to thank you! Everything is just perfect, Thank you, Thank you, so much.. Doris :)
Please be sure all secret trades have been sent. If you haven't sent yours and aren't going to today please e-mail me so I can inform your trader.
Thanks!! :)
I would be ever so grateful if anyone cares to share absolutely anything they have…seeds…of any sort that you are allowed to mail to CANADA would be most appreciated...We are on an extremely tight budget but I want to teach my children as much as I can about nature. I HOME SCHOOL our 4 little ones, Sally 8, Ursula 6, Natalie 4, Neil, 2(and Yoda the dog, 6) learn about gardening and have the happy memories of growing and tending their own plants. Just anything would be a wonderful help to get our garden and our nature lessons going. I am really looking forward to teaching my children the joys of growing and nurturing in the garden and also to attract some good bugs birds and wildlife to examine and appreciate. Any info about the plant seeds would be welcome to assist my teaching about other countries and areas and the heritage and homeland of the plants we are trying to grow.
Hopefully we would have thing we could trade soon too but for now all we can offer is our thanks and postage payment if that helps anyone....God’s blessings to everyone for sharing so kindly with others. I don’t have anything to trade yet but promise I will share my future efforts with others.
Love and many thanks in advance……!
Amanda with Sally, Ursula, Natalie, Neil and Yoda ( the dog)
Please mail seeds or plants along with your names and return address to:
Amanda Loheed
909 Charland Avenue
Coquitlam BC CANADA
V3K 3K5
The children will send you a thank you and I will send postage to all.
Sorry I am late posting.
I would like to thank Diane from
Hampstead, NC for Seeds for Cardinal
Vine & Passiflora vine.
Honeybee
thanks goes out to sandyr for secret trade. i received the palest pink phlox, a lovely gold and green varigated hosta, a varigated vine, some dysentra with hot pink and red flowers, and last but not least a blanket flower.
all are planted in my garden beds with a plant marker noting there origin.
thank you sandy. i hope you are enjoying your trip.
god bless you
debi z
First, my apologies. As this was my first 'Surprise Trade' I had no idea that I was to post here when I received my surprise.
I received a box full of goodies from John/pardancanda weeks ago...(think is was around the first of Sept). I am currently in process of starting an herb garden and John sent bunches of herbs, some Iris Neomarica, some neat Egyptian Walking Onion bulbs, Fennel, Tansy, and a start of 'Golden Tiara' Hosta. (You were right, John...it was under some newspaper at the bottom). John also graciously answered all of my questions about the plants and seeds he sent.
Everything is planted now and doing well. I loved participating in this trade and will look forward to the next surprise trade.
Thank you soo much Jody, for all your hard work in making this trade soo much fun!!
Cora*
I've been busy this morning planting and potting all my wonderful plants that my secret trade, Joy sent. {{{{{Joy}}}}
I didn't have any of these, and it will be a joy {no pun intended} to see them grow and bloom. Joy sent me Linaria Pupurea, Japanese Iris, White Valerian, Greater Burnet, Seathrift, Lynchis, Hoya, Yellow Eyed Grass, Bloody Cranesbill Geranium, Jupiters Beard, Goldenrod, and Ornamental Oregano.
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