Hello All! A great group plant swap is this Saturday, June 13 in Louisville, KY. Super group of people and LOTS OF PLANTS! Come one, come all, with plants or brownies (or other yum-yums) to share. Veterans and Newbies welcome! See the thread on the Ohio Valley Gardening Forum.....and update your want and/or have list (if you have time, otherwise JUST COME). Here is a link that might be useful: Louisville Plant Swap - Sat June 13

Moving this down as the swap is now over. It was a wonderful swap! Sue

Gorgeous daylilies! So beautiful on a snowy/icy day like today! I will definitely keep you all posted as the plans become more concrete. I definitely want to put a clematis by the mailbox (to hopefully grow up around it). I'm also going to include some "natural" bird feeders, baths in and around all my gardens. We had some tree work done in December (thankfully before all this crazy windy icy weather!) and we kept a majority of the wood for our fireplaces. We had some wood from locusts and black walnut so my DH is creating little hollows in the pieces for seed, water and watermelon (I hear butterflies really like that) so we'll have little natural bird and butterfly wood pieces throughout the gardens. I'll send pictures when they're done. It's a pretty easy project, will look good and will hopefully attract lots of birds and butterflies. We already have a bunch of feeders in our sugar maple so we have lots of birds anyway.

I have two teni's in bloom and tree peonies are opening now, Elizabeth Blair Hirsh, Fen Dai Bai, two unnamed tree seedlings. The one seedling I have been watching the bloom got nipped by something and took the top off just as the freeze hit and does not appear to be opening any further than it was. Next year I will definately wrap it with many layers of wire. The bud was the size of a supersized jawbreaker and looked like it would have been a peachy pink. Even if you are not in the area of this tour check your local gardens. Many have established Chinese or Japanese gardens and should have tree peonies. Tree peonies generally bloom earlier that the regular herbaceous.