This year I bougth plant labels. I will tag and hold all pre-arranged trades for you at the Green Elephant.

Bamboo – 12", evergreen foliage for containers, vigorous runner for erosion control
Blue Bells – Campanula native to PNW
Bronze leaved loostrife (not purple loostrife the weed) 18" color foliage plant
Brugmansia – foot-long cuttings of Pink and Charles Grimaldi (yellow)
Chinese Lanterns – Physalis alkengii, dried orange paper lanterns in fall.
Common milkweed – Asclepias syriaca, 5’ perennial, lilac fragrant flower balls followed by seed pods for dried arrangements.
Crazy Daisy – shredded flower form of the Shasta Daisy
Crocosmia – orange flowered
Garden phlox in hot pink, lavender, & white
Gooseneck Loostrife, Lysimachia clethroides 28" gracefully arched flower stalks
Helianthus x multiflorus ‘Lemon Queen’, clear yellow perennial sunflower 5’
Helianthus occidentalis – Western sunflower 6’ late fall yellow perennial sunflower
Heliopsis – 4" prairie perennial, yellow ox-eye daisy
Mouse Plant – Asarum proboscidium – 4" moist shade, very early, secret "mouse" flowers beneath leaves.
Oenethera biennis – 4’ evening primrose, fragrant 4" yellow flower snap open in minutes at dusk.
Rogersia aesculifolium – large leaved moist shade 18"
Solidago multiradiata – showy 4’ goldenrod, non-invasive

Trees in pots:. This time I promise to tag each person’s trees ahead of time and hold them for the designated traders. I lost track of the trees at the last swap. Teresa; Judy, I owe you trees. Please send me an email jim(dot)Eichner(at)juno(dot)com if I owe you trees from last fall. I have two shore pines and two mountain ash on hold for someone.

Cornelian Cherry – Cornus mas, actually a species of dogwood with edible fruit
Giant Dogwood – Cornus controversa
Little Leaf Linden
Pussy willow – black catkins

Also, I'm told they only want tubers through March, and I can't give away all my stock until I know what I need-which is probably in April.

Christine

For Chrisrobt. I'd love a selection of dahlias, tall cut-flower types with clear colors.

I realized I have a third perenial sunflower, helianthus x multiflorus 'flore pleno, which I'll bring to the swap too.

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The following are plants I owe from last fall:
For Ruth1:

Corunus controversa - Giant Dogwood
Cotoneaster franchetii orange cotoneaster
Pinus contorta - Shore Pine
Styrax japonicus Japanese Snowbell
Sorbus americana Mountain Ash
Tilia cordata Little Leaf Linden
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For Plantknitter I intend to bring

Tilia
Cornus controversa
shore pine

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For Threekittygarden I am bringing

Helianthus x multiflorus 'flore-pleno'

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For drtdgr:

cotoneaster
H. occidentalis
H. flore pleno
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For Jaqueline:

Hosta 'sum & substance'

Seeds -
Delphinium, tall purple
Aconitum, monk's hood dark blue
Gunnera manicata, special trades only.
Cobea scandens, Cup and saucer vine
Phaseolus coccineu, Scarlet runner bean
Datura, several varieties; white, double/triple purple, lavender, & some species.
Morning Glories; many, many different kinds including rare japanese named varieties.
Poppy double red, pink opium poppy
Coneflowers; several varieties.
Nicotiana langsdorffii, Green flowering tobacco
Hollyhocks; 15-20 varieties
Pandorea vine, Pandorea jasminoides

We just got an anniversary present from my sisters: Flower & Garden Show tickets plus a night's stay down there! Y'all better be going. :)

- Tom

Please save me a few seeds of each of the Daturas. Looking forward to your full trade list list.

The 'Satomi' dogwood you gave me last spring at the Green Elephant is thriving, has grown 18", and was covered with gorgeous pink flowers for 7 weeks last summer. Perhaps the best plant I've ever come home with from an exchange.

Jim.

Also, if anyone requests them I can do cuttings of these:
evergreen clematis
variegated euonymus
pink & purple hydrangeas
butterfly bush purple & yellow
pink & yellow christmas cactus
purple & red easter cactus
purple wandering jew

I would be interested in the following from your list:

1. Green bamboo
2. Brugmansia- both pink and yellow
3. Chinese Lantern
4. Crazy daisy.

I am in the process of getting my list together. Let me know if something interests you.

Thanks,
Sangeeta

The time to make your brugmansia cuttings is about mid April. You don't want to start them too early and then you have to manage them while waiting for the weather to warm up. If you have a warm sunny window with room to start them anytime. But this little warm spell is just a teaser. I usually put mine in the ground about the first week in May. Then I make the cuttings, just like the ones I gave you last spring. They root in no time, and with good conditons will grow to blooming size before frost.

I will bring several brug sticks to the swap.

Jim

How about some fuchsia cuttings?

Jim

To Tom,
I looked in your wants list and unfortunately I don't have have you want. I will think of anything unusual but right now everything is common to me.
Tita

Do they need other plants besides Dahlias?

I could go out and buy some dahlias, but what would be the best kind?

Thanks for remembering the trees, Jim.

1) How many of each kind of tree do you want?

2) RE: dahlias: no need to buy or bring dahlias for the swap. I know that you always bring many interesting things, especially the saxifrages.

3) The Hmong farmers do raise other perennials. I asked Bee Cha, of the Cooperative Extension Service if they needed other plants. He said it's only dahlias that were destroyed. Bee will attend the Green Elephant. We can get an update from him then.

Regards,

Jim

I really want those trees, but don't know if I'll be able to make it to this trade. Any chance you could bring them here?

Also, I am looking at this point to trade my plants for help with my garden. I don't have as much time as I'd like to care for it, and have tons of cool plants I could give away for anyone willing to help out.

Ruth

Wanda