Great idea. Maybe if people listed what they had for trade you would get a better turn out.

Here is what I would be bringing, if it happens.

100 1 gallon rare xbutyagrus Mule palm.
50 Butia capitata Pindo palm. seedlings.
50 chinese fan palm seedlings.

I like the May date. You can include summer annuals and vegetables. This is a good year to plant a Victory Garden to beat the economy with homegrown produce.

People will have gardening fever by then.

Jim

Sounds great to me. I should be able to make it. Michele

The date sounds good to me. I had a great time at the fall trade and I think the location is fantastic. Plenty of room for plants and a great place for doing the food. Plus it's not too far for me!! I don't know what else I will have for sure, but right now I have some bergenia, Chocolate Joe Pye Weed and a tall white aster. By then I should have lots more.
Thanks for organizing!

Do stop by the scionwood exchange in Federal Way if any of you are doing fruits, berries and such. I do have rooted plants, but won't bring them to this event.

Here is a link that might be useful: Directions to Scion Exchange

All right then, it's a date! See you all there!

The address is
8005-1 Thrulake Circle SE
Olympia, WA 98513

I will post driving directions as the date gets closer.

Tammy

I'd be interested too. I could bring some rooted wisteria cuttings, comfrey divisions, a wide variety of carnivorous plants (both hardy and tropical) etc.

I'm in.
Teresa

I could make this drive, count me in! Not sure yet what I'll bring.

the first week in may sounds great!!! I'm just going to go a head w a wants and have list right here 4 U all.
HAVE
bleeding heart
ajuga
lily of the valley
curly sage I got from one of guys that is wonderful
autume crocus
lungwart
lambs hears
lamiun
tiarella
sweet woodruff
sweet cicely
fever few
WANTS
ferns of any type
cymicifuga ~ brunet
ligularia
any hydrangeas!!! (macrophylums? penicultas, oak leave, lemonwave)I have a 3 year onl start of H,M. shooling stare, and HM Kalidescope lace cap.

LMK what u guys think ... Luv you miss you ~Frani

Since we have the clubhouse, I thought we could do a potluck. I will supply the drinks, plates, cutlery and napkins. I will have coffee available, too.

eriktampabay , my Mom would like one of each of your palm selections. What would you like in trade?

franswindowbox, I would love some of your autumn crocus and lily of the valley. I don't have a plant list right now, but maybe you'll see something you want at the trade.

Tammy

Will be looking for shade plants, hostas and such.
I will bring a few odd things.
Any demand for Autumn Bliss Raspberries?

Yes, please, I would love some Autumn Bliss Raspberries! I have some hosta I can trade.
Bejoy2

Count me in as well! Hmmm... what to bring.... In a few weeks I will know what is ready to be divided or shared. I would also be interested in the raspberries. This will be my first exchange and I have a procedural question: Do we plan out all exchanges prior to the event or have the plants available pot luck as well as the food?
Speaking of food, I'm good for a homemade pastry if it's a morning exchange or cookies/pie if it's in the afternoon. I wish I were so sure about my plants!

The trade will start at 10:00 AM. Some people pre-arrange trades and some don't. If you do arrange pre-trades, set them to the rear of your area, or leave them in your vehicle until the person you've arranged the trade with finds you, or you find them. A sign with your name on it at your station makes that easier. You don't have to bring a lot of plants. Many's the time I have left a trade with much more than I brought. People are always happy to share. I've linked a great Seattle Times article about how the plant trade works below.

Here is a link that might be useful: Seattle Times Article

Thanks for the info.

Anyone want some mature forsythia? I just inherited three 3-4' tall plants that I will be bringing to the swap as well. :-)

I posted a link to this thread over at Daves Garden because I know there are several gardeners there from the South Sound area that are likely to want to come. Sounds like we will have a nice crowd. I'm excited! I need to start digging though..if only they ground would dry up enough so I don't get soaked doing so.

Boizeau, I'd be interested in a raspberry. I am not yet sure what I'll be bringing, but you can bet it will include shade perennials. Thanks,
Suzy

I'd like to come. I have hemerocallis Stella d'Oro, Ligularia dentata, cuttings from hydrangea 'Nikko Blue' and some other stuff - I'll put my list together and post again.

Kathy
katie59 on Dave's Garden

Sounds good. If anyone has interest in trading I could bring these in:

Black Beauty Eggplants
Casper Eggplant
Toga Eggplant
Wonder Egg
Banana Melons
Kiwano Melon
Amy Melon
Ogen Melon
Sweet Siberian Watermelon
Sugar baby Watermelon
Iroquois Melon
Serpent Melon
Japanese Long Cucumber
Crystal Apple Cucumber
Miniature white cucumber
Poona Kheera cucumber
Corno Di Toro Pepper
Mini Bells Multi Colored Bell Peppers
West India Gerkin
Mexican Sour Gerkin
Various Tomatos -
Green Zebra
Orange Banana
Snow White
Ruby's Green
Plum Lemon
Tlacolula
Beefsteaks
Various Red Cherry
Ground Cherry - not a tomato
Chicory
Lupine
Zinnia - Envy
Oriental Poppy
- might have some herbs as well
ALSO have Kniola's Black' Morning Glory I am trying to remove from my yard. It is very hardy but pretty - if anyone wants it before I rip the last out let me know.

Hi, am not new to garden web but am new to this site. Am very interested in the plant exchange occuring in May. I am very into winter sowing and hope to have lots of new plants by then. I would love to be involved. Does one need to reserve a space, or just show up with your plants?

Connie, Just show up with your plants, cuttings, seeds, produce, whatever you have from your garden. There's plenty of parking, and if we have more people than can be accommodated in the circle we have been setting up in, there is plenty of real estate off to the side of the parking area and around the clubhouse.

Alaskanamazon, I would love a mature forsythia! I have year-old cuttings but no blooms on them thus far this year. I was thinking I would have to actually buy a forsythia. Where's the fun in that?

I will try to have some rooted azalea and rhododendron cuttings and other shrub starts available for the trade, as well as the usual herbaceous perennials. I also have several 1- and 5-gallon peonies. I can bring some ceramic pots and kitty litter buckets, too.

I am so excited that this trade is getting so much response! I'm looking forward to meeting many new friends in the gardening community. I plan on making this a regularly scheduled event every September and May for the forseeable future. Hope you all mark your calendars!

Tammy

Hi - I am new to this forum as of today. I would like to come to the swap in Olympia at Sunwood Lakes but I am not familiar with that area. Where is Sunwood Lakes? Can anyone give me directions? I have some unusual bi-color strawberries to trade.

I will be there! I'm so excited. Nightnurse, can I get some bergenia? And pranswindowbox can I get some autumn crocus and your tiarela? And Alaskanamazon, I would love to have one of your forsythia. I lost mine a year ago. I will look around in my yard this weekend and see what I can dig up for this event. It will be a little while before I know what my winter sowing will provide. But with close to 200 milk jugs planted, I'm sure I will have lots to share. I will post a list later on.

Looking forward to Mother's Day weekend.
I would love one of the forsythia, I will bring the Autume crocus for both Tammy and Connie. However Connie I have already promised the tiarella to Susan(night nurse). Tammy I will include the lily of the valley for you. See you all then. Frani

Count me in again. Looking forward to seeing all of you. Connie I winter sow also and look forward to talking with you. I will bring a potato dish. Don't know what plants I will bring yet.
Katie

Grrrhh! It snowed all day today. I had hoped to make an inventory of plants that I could bring to the spring trade. I know I have some bloody dock and some crocrosmia bulbs (unknown color).

I'll be there, and my friend Ruth who accompanied me at the fall trade will be along too. She is so excited and I'm looking forward to seeing everyone as well. I'll get a list together over the next week or two and will post it. I'm looking for anything deer resistant that likes poor well drained soil. However I'd also love to get a couple rooted rhodie cuttings if available.

I have one-year-old rhodie cuttings that are still green and have new growth. I haven't checked yet to see if they are rooted. It can take three years for a rhodie cutting to root. When it gets closer to the trade, I will check them for roots and let you know. I also tried some azalea cuttings, same status. I read that buttersoft cuttings of azalea root best of all, so will try some of those, too before the trade.

I will also have some houseplants. I know at least one person I spoke with about the trade is looking for houseplants, so I encourage all to bring 'em if you've got 'em.

Tammy

WANT:
...hosta
...weigelia
...shooting star & other wildfowers
...bunchberry
..Plants for hummingbirds & butterflies
...Deer resistant plants
...vegetable starts
...kousa dogwood
...currant

HAVE 5 acres of woods/native plants in Vancouver, WA. I will dig up and pot the larger plants as soon as I have a planned trade with someone.
...Ferns: swordfern, deerfern, ladyfern, one maidenhair,
...wild ginger
...tiarella (foamflower)
...periwinkle groundcover
...Pacific bleeding heart
...Red hot poker
...snowberry (Symphoricarpos alb us) shrub
...nootka rose
...red wild huckleberry
...two 3-foot dwarf Alberta Spruce trees
...osoberry (Indian plum) sapling
...bigleaf maple sapling
...vine maple sapling

Frani, do you have any Autume crocus left? If so, I can trade you for ferns.
Connie, I have tiarella (native foamflower); Would you want some? how many in (4" pots) would you want? Or just some together in a bigger pot?

Kayakay, I would love some tiarella. Whatever amount you want to mess with, multiple in a pot would be fine. I'm going to be bringing some wild things as well. I have lots of stream violets (yellow), wild heuchera, fox glove as well as sword fern,and P. bleeding heart. Also 2 varieties purple violets and one variety lavender to white violets. I have one plant yet to identify. I suspect an heirloom plant that atracts butterflies as I found some in an heirloom butterfly garden on the Borst Homestead master garden plot. Perhaps I will bring it and hope someone can identify it at the swap. I also have lots of glass totems. If anyone is interested, I can bring some to trade for plants.

Hi All, I used to be on here trading with you under the name of 'moonsaga' Perhaps you remember me? I've even hosted some trades down here west of PDX. I've driven to the plant trades years back in Olympia and Aberdeen.

...anyways.. Nice to see you. It's been awhile
It is good to see friendly names on here yet still. I just lived in NC for a year and just returned/moved back to the west.

I would like to come to this trade if the timing works out...as i moved from my orig. 4ac garden and have lost so many plants through these last few years :(

Yesterday I discovered a couple Dozen little hellebore babies underneath in my garden. Does anybody know anything about transplanting so they're trade-able? how well do they handle? They have their first very sturdy lobed leaf that is probably 2-3 inches... I believe I originally got this hellebore from PNWJudy as a seedling perhaps 5yrs ago?

I have two plants that are reds, so I expect these to be beautiful babies : )

Look forward to saying hey to y'all.

AND, man do I need plants... all that heatloving stuff in NC .. I miss it. I left my canna :(

sure I will have more to bring too...

Hey Frani -- I'd love a few clumps of lamb's ears...my homeowners assoc. killed the ones I got last year with some chemical they dump on all the ditches around here. :(

I have a lacecap hydrangea but I don't know its name, something not out-of-the-ordinary; I can take some cuttings if you'd like an experiment. :) Otherwise I have a short list you can peruse; let me know!

Kayakay, I have a small dogwood that I'm pretty sure is Cornus Kousa, would love to trade for deer fern..Dana

How cool to see people that attended the Spring Fling exchange at my home in Aberdeen so many years ago!

What year was that? LOL

Where are you living, moon?

Cindy

I'll be bringing a bunch of Jerusalem Artichoke/Sunchoke tubers, some hardy carnivorous plants, a Fosrythia, some Horehound plants, etc.

I have two 6' tall pine trees that I need to dig up. If I get them dug in time I will bring them as well.

Hi Catkin!
Your Spring Fling was in 2001, I believe---the first GW swap I ever attended.
My car ran out of gas IN YOUR DRIVEWAY, and your darling husband grabbed some fuel intended for the lawnmower, and got me on the road.
Sorry I won't be making the Oly trade (I'm going to Vegas on Thursday---woo Hoo!) but I'll try to make the next one...
Hi, Moonsaga and MU! Happy gardening!

~Lisa

Hey all:
Its been a while sorry I've been working alot and in and out of town. I will be there Sat. thanx fro directions. I'm looking forward to it !!!
Jools42 ~ i will have some Lambs ears for you.
Kayakay~ I still have some autume crocus left, I'll bring you a spot (1 gal) of it. I would love some fern (deer) if you have any left, but any every green will do ?
to recap I have the following down to bring
Susan~Tiarella,lungwart
Tammy~Autume crocus,lily of the valley
Connie~Autome crocus,maybe? tiarella (small division)
then the two mentioned above.
Looking forward to seeing you all on Sat.
Blessings~Frani

franswindowbox, Yes, I will bring you deer fern for the autumn crocus. Thank you!

Hi Frani, yes autumn crocus and the tiarella would be wonderful. Hoping I will have something you will like in return. Please check (my page) as I have listed plants that I will be bringing there. Connie aka clc70.

What time is everyone planning to be there??

The trade starts at 10:00 in the morning. But some may be early..so we will be a bit early too.

Aww.. my husband just got called into work tomorrow so he needs the vehicle. I won't be able to make it.

I had a ton of Jerusalem Artichokes to bring too :-p along with everything else..

Oh well, if there is one in Sept I'll be there :-)

Hi Lisa! It was a fun time--you were loaded down with plants! LOL!

Anyone know of plans for an Olympia Spring Trade in 2010?