I too would be happy to pay postage if no one in your area comes forward. My story is that at my previous home, over the years that I lived there,I purchased, traded, was given and gave away many, many plants and seeds. Much of these were from rare plants and most of my plants where not seen in your typical garden. Since moving out to the country, I am kicking myself for not taking cuttings, bulbs or seeds from my favorite plants. I had the most wonderful varieties of species tulips, the smaller extremely fragrant daffodils (earlicheer and more). Azalea Hilda Niblets which were my all time favorites among many other varieties of azaleas. I had Dog's Tooth Violet, perennial geraniums, rare tulips and a unique variety of the large cupped daffodils. Many, many varieties of fragrant hosta's, Daphne Burkwoodi (sp), Princes Diana Rosebush, an extremely fragrant honeysuckle for which I do not know the name of, ornamental lilies, a beautiful ornamental weeping tree, and too many more plants and shrubs to list. We are here in the beautiful country with no plants at all. It is apparent that the person who owned this home prior to us did not like to garden. Our home would be much improved if we could add some splashes of color around it. It sure would brighten my days for sure! Thank you! :)

Hi All. Sorry I've been away for awhile. -Family passings & such. Winter has effectively devastated my garden, so, being the optimist that I am, I went to the NW Flower/Garden show twice this past week to get my motivation up. I work March 7th, so wont be able to attend the Green Elephant. HOWEVER, I do have a few things that I would like to put out as offerings to people for trades, if interested, and we can swap on a day other than 3/7. Wanteds: I'm still going for tropicaleze theme, with focus on glaucous leaf & black leaf items, or chartreuse. or verigated., flowers that pop in my yard are white, or green. Bananas (would take pups) Brugsmansias (Lost all my biggies), Calla lilies, Cannas, Colocasias, iris, daylilies, black or gold raspberry canes, huckleberries, ferns. Unfortunately, all of my verigated iris has been lost. I gave alot of it out a couple of years ago. If it has done well for anyone who would like to complete the circle with it and schlepp some back to me, I'd appreciate it. I have to trade: bamboos: gold, or thin purple culm that I forgot what it's variety is. Phlox; White (David) Daylilies (varied) passion flower (purple crown, (white constance elliot) siberian iris, (schwann), (?white butterflies?) Maybe able to divide some hostas this year. red rose, (?Parkland series?) still potted& growing well, & maybe some other random stuff.

Hi Marie, Basically the event at the Tractor Supply in Merrimack, NH 'originated' as what we call a 'chicken sale & swap'... some of us crazy chicken people got these going... but... they are now more of a Farmer's Market type get together where people bring anything from poultry & fowl, small livestock, seeds, home grown plants (perennials and vegetables), homemade goods, arts & crafts, misc. supplies for the backyard farmer (rabbit and/or chicken nesting boxes, chicken coops, chicken tractors,etc, etc.), as well as homemade soaps, stationary, etc. I just happen to be bringing some rare perennial plants and some baby rabbits as my 'offerings'. (I also breed, raise and show rabbits... their waste makes excellent garden food!) I will be honest in saying that it is uncommon for me to personally do a swap because I have yet to meet a fellow gardener who might grow something that I don't already have. When I started collecting plants (15+ years ago) it was most definitely an OCD type of behavior and I would travel 5 hours one way just to buy one plant that I 'had to have'... I would order plants from Paul Christian over in Europe just to get things I wanted, as well as from a number of the rare plant mail order companies here in the U.S.... and I joined many plant societies to take advantage of their incredible seed exchanges so that I could grow hundreds of different species from seed (NARGS, SRGC, AGS to name a few)... I even went so far as to make a donation to one of Dan Hinkley's plant expeditions to China just so that I could get 25 different species of seed in exchange for my donation (wow...you should see some of the 3 ft tall Chinese Jack-in-the-Pulpit species that I grew from those seed!). I felt it time to dig and/or divide some of my plants to offer to others who may also suffer from plant collecting OCD (heck, there are worse things to be obsessive over). I'll tell you what... if you let me know in advance (by Friday/tomorrow) than I will dig some more Single Bloodroot to give to you just for coming to the swap... it seeds around wonderfully in my garden. If you would like to email me privately, I will send you the list of what plants I will be bringing with me on Saturday. For anyone else who might have interest in the more rare or uncommon species of perennials, trees and shrubs... you will not be let down if you join NARGS (the North American Rock Garden Society) and then join the local New England Chapter... as a member you can take advantage of their 'Rare Plant Auction' each spring (held earlier this month), private garden tours, exceptional garden speakers from around the world, the annual seedling sale (grown from seeds from their international seed exchange), and just good 'ole camaraderie with other 'crazy plant people'. Yes, they grow many rock garden plants... but... they also grow woodland plants, 'regular' garden plants, trees, shrubs, grasses, etc....it is not just limited to rock garden species. If there was one thing that I could say helped my garden selections expand it was to join NARGS. I hope that this has been helpful. lilysgarden Here is a link that might be useful: North American Rock Garden Society

I went :-) Like I need any more plants!! Bought a cute little eucryphia from Ian and picked up a couple of other items. It was not as vendor heavy as I expected it to be - looks like some that were expected didn't show, as there were a number of vacant tables. I did have a long chat with Eric Bloom of NW Perennials. This is the last showing from that outstanding local perennial supplier as they are closing their doors at the end of the month. This will be a real loss as it was one of the best smallish local perennial growers, always producing high quality, unusual plants but timing, the economy and the changing gardening scene just got the best of them. They are good people and I hope they land on their feet. I stopped by Wells Medina on my way home, but I managed to resist any further spending. Place looks good with a nice selection of shrubs and new bare root trees available. A good selection of bare root fruits and berries as well. And they were offering a great selection of the new Winter Jewels hellebores from the O'Byrne's - all in full bloom.