It's only a few weeks away now! Where are all the swappers posting their have/want lists? Here's mine, copied from my post on our Fb group: Heather-Lin's 2013 Spring Swap List I have a lot to declutter out of my gardens this year! Rather than post a long, LONG list, instead I'll post a link to my sales album. The album has pictures for many of the plants on the list; it should save y'all a ton of time googling;) In addition to my public list, I also have red mustard seedlings, purple water pickerel, Ice King daffodils.... Plus oodles of seeds. Check my gardenweb link at the bottom for lists of those. I'll also be bringing orange tape and flags to help organize the rows of swappers:) What I'm looking for in exchange: -Help in the garden! I'm serious y'all, if you wanted to come help me pull weeds or plant stuff for a couple hours, I would be delighted to pay you in PLANTS!!!! -Veggie starts; I have tomatoes, but am looking for unusual peppers, squash, melons, Dinosaur Redbor or Greenbor kale, broccoli, red cabbage, beans, etc. -Unusual herbs: I killed my golden lemon balm so that's back on my wish list;) Melissa 'Aurea' - Variegated Lemon balm Mint - also known as red stemmed or double mint Salvia elegans 'Honey Melon'/'Honeydew Melon'- early blooming pineapple sage Symphytum x uplandicum 'Axminster Gold' - Variegated Comfrey -Plants: Amorphophallus konjak - Voodoo lily bulbs Centaurea montana 'Amethyst in Snow', or other white/purple variety Anemone coronaria - poppy anemone bulbs, esp white with purple eye! Kniphofia 'Toffee Nosed' 'Jane Henry' 'Christmas cheer' ‘Princess Beatrix’ ‘Goodeys Pink’ or other ivory, cream, pink, peach, buff colors Narcissus 'Royal Princess', 'Pipit', fragrant varieties Pardancanda norrisii 'Dazzler' 'Heart of Darkness' 'Sangria', or other unusual blackberry or candy lilies Clematis Niobe, or other dark burgundy colored Viburnum 'Onondaga' Irises... Oh too many, but for right now, Indian Chief, Devil baby Delosperma 'Eye Candy' and peach colored Daylily 'Mapping Tennessee' 'Milk Chocolate' 'Grey witch' Osteopsoermum, margarita line, the one with mauve, peach, pale yellow and purple eye Lantana Tropical fruit ....,and then I just HAD to go and look at Mary's website (in mcMinneville) and found lots of neat things to add to my wish list LOL.... Scabiosa ‘Beaujolais Bonnets’ Phyteuma scheuchzeri (Horned Rampion) Bronze sweet potato vine Cherry berry hosta LA irises 'Peaches & Wine’ ‘Red Velvet Elvis’ LINKS: My FB have list, plus photo album: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.347733502003671.1073741825.194843057292717&type=3 My Pinterest wish list http://pinterest.com/heatherlinb/plants-i-want-gonna-be-a-long-list/ My Gardenweb have/wish lists http://members.gardenweb.com/members/exch/heathersgarden -------- PRE-TRADES Glenda: Bringing hyper tufa bowl Judith: Euphorbia and vernonia gigantea, apache In exchange for P caerulea, maybe, I don't remember? Tom: Bring Tom $$$ for row cover!!! And comfrey. Angela: Giving purple beauty berry In exchange for ? Connie: Becky Shasta daisy, Walkers low catmint In exchange for ?

I ended up killing the Bougainvillea (California Gold) by pruning it too late and pruning it too harsh. I have learned my lesion since then and got another California Gold, and let it go free (no pruning near the frost season). I left the Night Blooming Jasmine too long and frosty got to her before I did and she became a history. I was sad because I never knew how beautiful she smelled. Anyway, I ended up getting a Arabian Tea Jasmine Plant a.k.a Maid of Orleans and oh my!! The smell will take your breath away! I will have to try everything to keep it alive!!! So no pruning before 2013 (week after the last frost day) Silver dollar Eucalyptus or gunnii: I have pruned those severely but they grew even vigor, so I plan to try leaving them outside (Georgia, what do you think? Some people kept them outside in Georgia, so worth the risk?) Eucalyptus Citriodora was pruned severely as well but I did leave a leafy branch for it to rely on. It has grown nearly 4 feet tall (Still in a pot). The places toward the base where I clipped, sort of transformed to round ball shape wood (looks kinda cool) -2 Olive (European) - Pruned all the new growth and this year it grew very well. I kept them in the pot (even though my initial plan was to let them field grow for thicker shape) . Both are doing very well. -1 Arbequina Olive - I pruned quite a bit and this year it grown quite a bit. I may just leave it alone this year since Olive usually grows on last years growth, so I might just see some olive if I leave it alone. -Feijoa .. since the variety I had was from eBay and no idea what type Feijoa they were, I decided to buy a NZ Graft from a reputable nursery and hopping my existing two can be pollinator for the new one. They all are field growing and I am debating weather to bring them in or leave them out. I have to think about potting while its still hot out there if I do that. Anybody growing Feijoa in 7b outside? I have gotten into more Tropical stuff (I've been just germinating seeds left and right (Mango, Jackfruit, guava and so on). I know they may not fruit or anything, but just trying it out.

If you have an idea of what you will be bringing to the swap, or, if you are looking for anything in particular, consider posting your "HAVE" or "WANT" list on the plantswap forum: www.easttnplantswap.com/forum (If you are not already signed up, you'll have to do that first and wait to be approved. Right now the approval process is manual and make take a day or two, because of spam and bots that occasionally try to join.)

RedBird, everythings seems to be working properly on the website. What's your username on there? If you need me to reset your password, let me know. I'm still trying to decide how to handle the swap in light of the COVID problem. We might have a much smaller version with proper "social distancing" at my farm. I know the decision will have to be made pretty soon.