PLEASE tell all your gardening friends, family, and colleagues! We’re having the annual Central Indiana Plant Swap on May 17th.

Over the past few years, the numbers have started to grow. I got some terrific plants the last couple of years and got rid of a bunch of extras. I have a ton of stuff this year to share, and I’m sure that many of you do, too. If you don’t have many plants to share, come anyway. The people I have met at this event in the past have had very generous spirits. Most of us would be delighted to help out a new gardener with some of our extras.

THE DETAILS

Date: Sunday, May 17, 2008 

Time: 2:00 P.M. 

Location: Holliday Park, 6363 Spring Mill Road, Indianapolis, IN 46260 

Directions inside the park: Once you enter the park take an immediate left. Then pull into the first parking lot on the right. We will be under the giant sycamore tree. 
Bring yourself, plants & trades, family, friends, tables, chairs, beverages and snacks to share. I’ll bring some lemonade and cookies. It would be nice, but not necessary, if others would brings some treats.

TRADING MATERIALS
plants, well rooted cuttings potted up, bulbs, shrubs, happy seedlings, garden ornaments, extra gardening implements, gardening magazines, etc. 

PLEASE MARK ALL PLANT MATERIALS WITH THE PLANT NAME AND CARE REQUIRED!!! Also, mark any plants as invasive or poisonous, if known. I just go to an online nursery that sells the plants that I’m giving away and cut and paste the care instructions into a document. I print out the directions and staple them to the plant, a piece of window blind, or container.
Since it worked fairly well last year, we're trying the Round Robin swap again: 
Round One - pick one plant 
Next Round - pick one plant 
Next Round - pick two plants 
Next Round - pick two plants 
Next Round - pick three plants 
Next Round - pick four plants 
And so on, and so on....
This way everyone gets a chance to get some of the plants they really have on eye on. This works well and other swaps have had great success with it in the past. Everyone should be able to take home as many plants as they bring. 
For folks who only bring a few plants, many of the folks who have LOTS of extra plants can usually be convinced to part with some of their extras AFTER the official Round Robin is finished.
Additionally, you can pre-arrange individual trades through other GardenWebber's trade lists. (PSSST! Everyone should update their trade lists!) These trades will happen before (or after) the big Round Robin trade.
Our Swap's motto is KEEP IT SIMPLE, HAVE FUN, MEET FRIENDS. 
Some tips for the day: 
Bring a box or container labeled with your name to put your new plants in after swapping. 
If you have room in the car...bring an extra table to arrange your plants on. 
Print out pictures of your plants in bloom, so folks will know what they look like in all their glory! 
If it looks like rain, bring those rain coats, umbrellas, etc. We plan to meet even if it rains.
**Post here if you are attending so that we can all see who is coming and can check trade lists. Or email me, so we can get an approximate head count for the swap. 
E-mail me if you wish to be put on the plant-swap e-mail list or if you have any questions. 
I can't wait to see you all there! Hopefully we will have a great crowd with all the new gardening friends you may bring along! 


Katie

Indyrose

Clematis ‘blue lights’
Coreopsis ‘moonbeam’
Purple reblooming miniature iris
Yellow reblooming miniature iris
Salvia ‘May Night’
Various hostas-maybe
-- ‘Love pat’
--'Candy hearts"
-- ‘Patriot’
Daylilies
--Red reblooming ‘Ruby Stella’
--‘strawberry frappe’
--‘anzac’
--‘lemon custard’
Red bee balm ‘Jacob Klein’
Various tomato seedlings
Various herb seedlings
Heliopsis ‘summer sun’
Lamb’s ear ‘Helen Von Stein’
Purple coneflower
Black eyed susan ‘herbstonne’

Roma
Pineapple
white current
oxheart
bloody butcher
brandywine
sweet tangerine
napa grape
yellow pear

Paula

You can arrange trades/buys before you come. You could also ask a gardener friend for a couple of clumps of plants that you could divide into 4" pots. I have some garden newbie friends that I will give some plants to trade, since I have a lot of plants. You might also bring garden-related stuff like garden magazines, books, pots, etc to trade. Every year that I've come, there have always been extras at the end of the trading that people generously give away to newbies.

Shrubs:
2 dwarf spruce trees
a couple of suckers from Viburnum opulus 'Roseum' AKA snowball bush

Shade perennials:
sweet woodruff
sweet autumn clematis
hosta patriot
hosta candy hearts
unidentified hosta that my sister gave to me-small medium green with yellow edges on the leaf
lamium (nettle) pink and lavender

sun perennials:
May night salvia
small purple reblooming iris (blooms for a second time in the fall)
small light yellow reblooming iris (blooms for a second time in the fall)
hardy geranium (cranebill)-pink and pinkish purple
yellow Asiatic lilies
ruby red stella daylilies (reblooming)
lamb's ear-Helen Von Stein-large leaf, clumping, not invasive
Jacob Klein bee balm
black eyed susans
purple coneflower
malva zebrina (reseeds readily-best in its own space

25 tomato plants including:
Roma
Pineapple
white current
oxheart
bloody butcher
brandywine
sweet tangerine
napa grape
yellow pear
These tomato seedlings are already 6"-12" tall! I'm just beginning to harden them off, so that they will be ready to plant out soon.

Basil plants:
Siam queen
genovese
sweet basil
lemon basil
dark opal basil
lime basil

Other herbs:
thyme
cilantro
stevia
Greek oregano
German Chamomile
parsley extra curled dwarf

I'm also bringing 2 baggies full of half full seed envelopes:
vegetables and herbs
flowers

What are you bringing to the swap?

Katie

Herbs
--------
Tarragon
French Sorrel
Rue

Flowers
---------
Hollyhocks
Toadflax (pink)
Celadine Poppy (yellow)

Marginal & Pond
----------------
Hardy Water Lily (white)
Irises (purple)
Some unknown rushes/reeds/sedges

Will be updating my trade lists soon, am happy to pot up more stuff to swap.

I would love to collaborate with the moderators to continue this wonderful group in a setting which would not be face to face...

Contact me personally at pacersgrl1973@yahoo.com

Herb & Veggie
--------
Tarragon
French Sorrel
English Sorrel
Rue
Bronze Fennel
Zucchini
Sweet Bell Peppers

Flowers
---------
Hollyhocks (unknown colors)
Toadflax (pink)
Celadine Poppy (yellow)
Spiderwort (purple)
Columbine (purple, cream, wild)
Rattlesnake Master (err...funny flower, green/white/spikey?)
False Sunflower (orangey/yellow)
New England Aster (purple/blue)

Grasses
-----------
Northern Sea Oats
Canada Blue Rye
Bottle Brush Grass
Indian Grass (or Big Blue Stem, I haven't keyed it out yet)

Marginal & Pond
----------------
Hardy Water Lilies (white, also might have some miniatures)
Irises (purple)
Some unknown rushes/reeds

Could also bring some lovely orange oriental poppies and some small forsythia bushes, but only if I hear a request for them.

Katie, I'll have my eye on your Sweet Autumn clematis, irises, lambs ear and bee balm. Do you need any ferns? ;)

I am looking for a d'Anjou, Bosc, or Comice pear tree to pollinate a Bartlett that I planted last year. The Bartlett has produced a number of large "suckers" that someone could replant. Would there be an interest in "suckers" from various fruit and ornamental trees?

My contribution is down this year -- I had a plant sale where I sold a lot of plants, plus, my parents moved in with us last month, and settling-in time took away from my gardening time.

I'm looking for:

stevia (sent a message to Katie)
fennel
margoram
rosemary
terragon
garlic

I plan to bring to trade:

Roma and Super Beefsteak tomatoes
mixed hot peppers
canterbury bells
Lamium -- common silver
False Lamium "Herman's Pride"
ventricosa hosta
Stella d Oro daylily
Sedum "Autumn Joy"
Obedient Plant
Thyme
"Aphrodite" amaryllis
Aloe vera
Variegated Scented (citrus) Geranium

I have available to trade, but won't dig up unless I get a request for it:

Siberian Iris "Caesar's Brother"
Hosta
...Francis William
...Green Gold
...Honeybells
...Autumn Moon
...Tiara Gold
Daylily
...Canadian Border Patrol
...Caphis Robes
...Hot Pepper
...Chorus Line
Purple Coneflower
Coreopsis "Moonbeam"
Common Lambs Ear
Rudbekia (Black-eyed Susans)"Goldstrum"
Lamium "Golden Anniversary"

Indyrose

I'm running low on cell-packs and flat trays. I have a good collection of 3-4in pots, which I'll bring some, but it seems all my cell packs decided to fall apart this year.

Indyrose

Also bringing along a new neighbor & I believe a co-worker of mine will also be there. Woohoo!

Hope to see you there tomorrow!

fionasol

I bought them last year from the website linked below and the one in the link is one of the ones I'll have available.

I'm bringing:
several sedum "Autumn Joy"
daylilies, unknown name, but yellow blooms
Four o'clocks bulbs/tubers (Marvel of Peru)
various nice ceramic pots
perhaps some other odds and ends or seeds

My sister is coming too, and I know she's bringing hostas and maybe some vegetable starts. We're looking forward to our first year at the plant swap! Thanks for posting it on Craig's List!

Rachel

fionasol (the one with the soaker hoses) :)