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WANTED: 2010 spring mag swap: plants you want list

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14 years ago

2010 Spring MAG Swap: Plants You WANT List

Saturday May 8, 2010 from 10am to 1pm

at GardengrammaƂs Gorgeous Encampment

DIRECTIONS for the WANTED list:

If you're new to the swaps, please take the time and have the courtesy to read these posts. They're here to help everyone have a good time.

Yes, you can come if you don't have any plants.

1. Post a list of the plants you want, ideally with Latin names to avoid confusion and cultivar names if they have them, and you know what they are.

2. Read other people's lists. If you see things you want and would like to swap or trade for, e-mail the person to arrange it.

3. Do NOT arrange the swap or trade on this thread.

4. Do NOT post a list of plants that you HAVE for swapping or trading on this list. There is a separate HAVE thread for this purpose.

5. Do NOT discuss who will be bringing what kind of Bavarian apple tart or other food to the swap. There is a separate HAVE thread for food.

6. Do update your member page with your Haves and Wants.

7. Much more info on the Haves list thread.

Wishing everyone a great swap! Happy gardening!

Comments (42)

  • madsquopper
    14 years ago

    Last spring we got some Giant Solomon's Seal from somebody, but don't remember who it was. Cathy definitely wants some more of it.

    Larry

  • alfie_md6
    14 years ago

    I would like:

    Daffodils
    Snowdrops
    Daylilies (except ditch)
    Grape hyacinths
    Native columbine (Columbine aquilegia)
    Virginia bluebells
    UNvariegated Solomon's seal
    Celandine poppies (Stylophorum diphyllum)
    White snakeroot (Eupatorium rugosum) -- not 'Chocolate'
    Green and gold (Chrysoganum virginianum)
    Maypop (Passiflora incarnata)

  • chrismd
    14 years ago

    I would like some of those square buckets that kitty litter comes in. The plain white ones would be great, the printed ones would be acceptable.

  • tvalenti
    14 years ago

    Hi,
    I would love any of the following:

    hardy bananas
    coreopsis - any besides yellow
    daisy - any besides white with yellow centers
    foxglove
    current or gooseberry bushes
    canna - tall pink
    nice smelling lilac
    cut bamboo - or tall bamboo that will take part shade
    vinca minor - green with purple flowers - I am covering a hill so I am looking for lots

  • avoirgold
    Original Author
    14 years ago

    Hey there,

    I would be interested in any of the following:

    ****Highbush Blueberries
    Pussytoes (Antennaria)
    Phlox (tall, not pink or white--have those)
    Unique Penstemons (have Husker Red)
    Columbine Red or Purple or Blue
    Rhododendron (prefer purple, but will take any)
    Camellia Fall Blooming
    Beautyberry bush
    Caryopteris
    Flowering Quince
    Red Twig Dogwood
    Established Echinacea (not seedlings these always die for me)
    Lavender
    Golden Hakone Grass
    Spirea
    Weigela
    Heuchera (not green or purple palace)

    Anything perennial and purple (love daylilies and irises)
    Anything that blooms in Fall other than sedum and obedient plant (have lots of those)

    Jen

  • Ann
    14 years ago

    Okay, I guess I've been lurking enough on the Mid-Atlantic forum, and it's time to jump in...and Burtonsville is only a pretty short ride for me.

    Wanted:
    Achillea x kellerei
    Adonis vernalis
    Agastache "Heather Queen"
    Agryranthemum "Vancouver"
    Allium schoenoprasum "Pink Perfection"
    Anchusa Azurea "Loddon Royalist"
    Anemone "Lord Lieutenant"
    Anemone baldensis
    Anemone hupehensis "September Charm"
    Anemone nemerosa "Robinsoniana"
    Anemone x hybrida "Honorine Jobert"
    Antennaria divica "Australis"
    Astrantia major "Rosea"
    Bidens aequisquamea
    Boltonia asteroids "Snowbank"
    Boykinia jamesii
    Buddleia davidii "Strawberry Lemonade"
    Buddleia globosa
    Camelia Japonica
    Campanula "Pink Octopus"
    Campanula poscharskyana
    Cassiope "Edinburgh"

    Chrysanthemum grandiflorum "Spears"
    Clarkia Amoena
    Clematis "Fascination"
    Clematis alpine "Frances Rivis"
    Clematis integrifolia "Arabella"
    Clematis scottii (Sugarbowl Clematis)
    Clematis macropetala
    Clematis texesis "Pagoda"
    Dalea purpureum (Purple Prairie Clover)
    Deutzia x elegantissima "Rosealind"
    Dianthus "Haytor White"
    Dianthus "Inferno"
    Echinacea " Fatal Attraction
    Echinacea "Green Envy"
    Echinacea "Tiki Torch"
    Echinacea "Twilight"
    Echineacea "Coconut Lime"
    Epimedium "Pink Elf"
    Epimedium x Perralchicum
    Epimedium x Rubrum
    Epimedium x Youngianum "Nivieum"
    Gaillardia "Amber Wheels"
    Gaillardia "Summer's Kiss"
    Gentina Asclepiadea
    Geranium "Southcombe Double"
    Geranium himalayense "Plenum"
    Habenaria radiate Ƃ Egret flower
    Hardy Geranium "Double Jewel"
    Hebe Pingusfolia "Pagei"
    Hebe x Francescana "Variegata"
    Heliotrope white
    Heuchera "Cinnabar Silver"
    Heuchera "Lime Rickey"
    Heuchera "Paris"
    Heuchera "Sashay"
    Heuchera "snow Angel"
    Heuchera Villosa "Pistache"
    Lavender Ƃ Spanish variety "Purple Bee
    Lavendula strechas "Lemon Leigh"
    Leptodermis oblonga Ƃ baby lilac shrub
    Leucanthemum x Superbum "Old Court
    Leucanthemum x superbum "Sonneschein"
    Primula "Francesca"
    Primula Frondosa
    Primula Kewensis
    Rudbeckia "Goldquelle"
    Salvia farinacea "Strata"
    Salvia "Fairy Queen"
    Shasta Daisy "Sante"
    Summersweet "Rosea"
    Thalictrum actaeifolium "Perfume Star"
    Tiarella "Pink Skyrocket"

    As well as toad lilies, and fragrant flowers to be named later...

  • janetm_md
    14 years ago

    I am on the lookout for the following plants for a traffic island on my street:

    yuccas
    short ornamental grasses
    stella d'oro daylilies
    russian sage
    black-eyed susans
    coreopsis
    ditch lilies
    Sedum (any kind)

  • gardengranma
    14 years ago

    Gardengranma here. Want plants for shade, preferably variegated and/or blue blooming. (please no vatiegated vinca, it took me years to undo them. Russian sage, mums, shasta daisies. hardy geraniums, hellebores - don't really need anything, but what the h.., I never met a plant I didn't like. Well hardly ever after the fact. Please, no houseplant as a gift, unless it is an unusual clivia (I have orange, yellow, red and variegated already. If you have a really unusual plant that is hardy in 6b, I am game.

  • shadysite
    14 years ago

    Bears breeches (Acanthus Mollis)
    Black Cohosh (Cimicifuga racemosa)
    hardy camellias, rooted
    azaleas, winter-blooming or other
    native shade plants, e.g. ferns, heucheras, tiarellas, carexes, solomon's seal -- working on replacing English ivy on shaded slope

    Any daffodils, tulips, crocuses for interplanting with mountain laurel on semi=shaded slope

  • busyasabee
    14 years ago

    Here's my wishlist:

    Caryopteris divaricata
    Campanula poscharskyana Blue Waterfall
    Coreopsis rosea 'Sweet Dreams' -- pink coreopsis
    Dianthus Firewitch (ƂFeuerhexeƂ)
    Dicentra ƂKing of HeartsƂ -- fernleaf bleeding heart
    Delphinium 'New Millennium Pagan Purples'
    Gaillardia 'Fanfare' - blanket flower
    Helleborus ƃ hybridus - lenten rose
    Lavender (any variety)
    Reblooming Iris

    Hosta ~ Blue Mouse Ears
    Hosta ~ Plantaginea (August Lily)

    thanks
    Jette

  • kimka
    14 years ago

    Sweet woodruff
    Daylilies that will bloom in part sun other than ditch and stella

  • alfie_md6
    14 years ago

    I would also like small (smaller than "quart"-sized, but not tiny) containers suitable for potting up things for plant swaps.

  • oogy4plants
    14 years ago

    Wish List:

    Small pond plants (arrowhead, small water lily, irises, etc.)
    blue-eyed grass
    Geranium maculatum (wild geranium)
    little bluestem grass
    liatris
    yarrow (yellow, red)
    daylilies (any besides ditch lilies)
    chives (regular or garlic)
    oregano
    alpine strawberry

  • foodeefish
    14 years ago

    Here are my Wants:

    - Pepper Plants hot, sweet any variety
    - Vegetables Plants any kind
    - Asparagus Crowns
    - Ostrich Ferns
    - English Ivy
    - Hellebores
    - Bear's Britches
    - Red Bud Trees or Saplings
    - Variegated Salomon's Seal
    - Dill
    - Herbs of any kind
    - Purple Wisteria
    - Horseradish Root
    - Rhubarb
    - Fruit trees

  • garden_tenderfoot
    14 years ago

    I am looking for low-growing evergreen plants to border my townhouse front steps and walk. I am a new gardener, so I welcome any suggestions. Thank you.

    Kay

  • nancymd2
    14 years ago

    Here are my wants:
    - lily of the valley
    - canadian ginger
    - european ginger
    - hardy orchid/bletilla
    - mayapples
    - bergenia
    - tiarella/foamflower
    - japanese anenome
    - any small natives: spicebush, carolina allspice, cedars, hollies
    - jack in the pulpit
    - aucuba
    - any named hostas
    - variegated solomon's seal

    thanks! Nancy

  • shadysite
    14 years ago

    How about trout lily, another woodlands plant? Does anyone have that? I want any native bulb, perennial that grows in shade, on clay, and will naturalize where I am ripping out ivy. Unfortunately, my husband does not care for Virginia aster which is quite happy to take over! Lisa

  • pippi21
    14 years ago

    Here's my plant want list

    Garden phlox(pink or purple colors)No White
    Bee Balm/Monarda Raspberry wine or blue stocking variety
    Hardy geranium(perennial)
    Creeping phlox(Emerald blue color)
    Foxglove(Candy Mountain)
    California poppy(Yellow)
    Delphinium

  • antiqueorchid
    14 years ago

    pulmonaria
    variegated or plain solomons seal
    named hosta
    bear breeches***
    corydalis all types***
    tiarella
    redbud
    blueberry plants
    anemone to replace the ones that died
    named irises
    black currant bush
    grape hyacinths

    Denise

  • annebert
    14 years ago

    My generic want list:

    Solomon's seal
    bloodroot
    pulmonaria
    Jack in the pulpit
    salvia, any species

  • wishdesign
    14 years ago

    My wants list:

    - Marigolds
    - Dusty miller
    - Peppers (esp. drying varieties)
    - Yellow/Orange or blue/purple flowering perennials (liatris, salvia, rudbeckia, gaillardia, etc)
    - Phlox (any)
    - Clematis (looking for cuttings for my rooting experiments)
    - Anything for dry shade
    - Edible berries: raspberries, currants, gooseberries, etc.
    - Large nursery pots (5 gals or larger)

  • ritadc
    14 years ago

    Any non-varigated variety of hosta
    Any daylilly, even ditch
    Any lavendar
    Any azalea or other shade blooming shrub
    any hydrangea
    hellebores (pink or purple)
    any viburnum
    any small dogwood

  • ellicottcitycathy
    14 years ago

    These are the plants I hope I find at the swap:
    Red raspberries that keep producing into the Fall
    gooseberry
    honeyberry (I read about this one in a catalogue)
    Persimmon, PawPaw or Plum tree seedlings
    Ferns: any type, especially ground cover ferns
    grape hyacinth
    daffodils
    lily of the valley
    summer blooming alliums

    tomato seedlings
    pepper seedlings

    any hardy, vigorous, spreading or self seeding wildflowers
    My favorite plants are some one else's "invasive"!!

    Thanks,
    Cathy

  • darcie2
    14 years ago

    -rhododendron
    -blueberry
    -honeyberry
    -blushing pink spiderwrt
    -kew red lavender
    -sugar plum mini rose
    -Jacob's ladder
    -scabiosa/pincushion
    -anything that will do well in less than full sun
    -vegetable plants

    See the things I have to trade on the other list.

  • avoirgold
    Original Author
    13 years ago

    Darcie,

    Please turn on the email option in your profile or post your email. I will have scabiosa for you, but we should do this through email.

    Jen

  • kimka
    13 years ago

    Add to my wants
    Lemon grass
    Mosquito plant

  • ellen_n
    13 years ago

    Ferns (other than ostrich)
    Spreading or self-sowing meadow type flowers (have a good supply of purple coneflowers and black-eyed susans)
    Butterfly weed
    Small native grasses
    Scented geranium (cuttings or plants)
    Daylilies (anything but common orange and Stella dƂOro)
    Asters
    Thornless blackberries
    Purple basil
    Thai basil
    Tiarellas/foamflowers
    Green and gold
    Woodland plants, including jack-in-the-pulpit and ginger

  • amybee
    13 years ago

    Here are the things I'm looking for, mostly in the pink/purple color families for the flowering plants.

    Bee balm
    Tall PhloxƂwhite or pink
    creeping phloxƂscarlet flame or candy stripe
    Agastache
    Lupines
    Lily of the valley (white or pink)
    Purple sensation aliums
    Foxglove, any color
    Coneflowers (any but lime)
    Hyssop
    Turtlehead (Chelone), pink
    Verbena

    Herbs
    Rosemary ƂArpƂ
    Lavender

    Amy

  • wtgxi
    13 years ago

    would like anything that's is anti Mosquito.
    lemon balm,
    mint,
    thyme
    oregano
    geraniums
    Lemon grass
    Mosquito plant
    Any lavender
    Bee Balm
    Sweet woodruff

    Thanks

  • treble
    13 years ago

    Wow, a place to list your wants! Talk about plant lust...

    Fragrant plants, edibles, culinary herbs, anti-mosquito and long flowering are my preferred plant themes (all recommendations are welcome:)

    Lavenders, any Angustifolia or Lavandin all varieties
    Thymes, culinary, ornamental
    Rosemary, upright and prostrate
    Lemongrass either East or West Indian
    Basil of all varieties
    Par Cel, all parsley, celery
    Parsley, all kinds, but prefer flat leaf Italian , japanese,
    Oregano, any culinary variety is always good
    Coriander
    Dill
    Sorrel
    Wormwood; artemsia absinthium, powis castle, silvermound
    Southernwood
    Any artemisia...
    Sweet autumn clematis
    All jasmines, Jasminum officianale, polyanthum, jasminoides, trachelospermum, Chilean (mandevilla laxa), Winter, (Jasminum nudiflorum) officianale) or Trachelospermum jasminoides
    Nasturtiums
    Scented Leaf Geraniums Any, but the fruit scents are particularly nice...
    Sungold or sunsugar tomatoes for the kids
    Lemon balm (can't believe I don't have this)
    Lily of the valley
    Vigna, corkscrew vine
    Japanese anemone
    Cardinal Vine
    Edible Kiwis prefer hardy actinidia arguta
    Passioflora incarnata, edulis
    Night blooming jasmine
    Moonflower (can't seem to keep it alive from seedling stage)
    Columnar apples
    Plum
    persimmons
    Trumpet vine for the hummers
    Goji berries
    Pitcher plant
    fish emulsion
    Nice sounding wind chimes
    bird houses for small insect eating birds
    cable tie fastener
    brid bath

  • pippi21
    13 years ago

    How do I add to my wanted list that I've already posted?

  • treble
    13 years ago

    One more item to add to my wish list:
    Magnoliaceae
    Genus: Magnolia
    Species: sieboldii

    thanks!

  • oogy4plants
    13 years ago

    Looking for these items for my pond:
    heavy clay soil (several gallon pots)
    pea gravel

  • dawnstorm
    13 years ago

    Want:
    Tomato, prefer Brandywine,but will take any red variety.
    Any tall sun loving plants

  • howndawg
    13 years ago

    My wish list:
    - small shrubs
    - plants that will attract butterflies
    - penstemon (any color)

  • treble
    13 years ago

    Does anyone have extra artichokes?

  • diana_lynn
    13 years ago

    I have tons of garden wants, but here's what's been on my mind lately (greatly influenced by what I saw on your "Have" lists):

    Cranesbill/hardy geranium (anything other than the terribly strong, citronella-smelling kind--I have that one)
    Black raspberry cane
    Sweet woodruff
    Hellebore (to replace the trades I killed last year)
    Burgundy hellebore
    Lemon balm
    More snow drops (love these!!)
    Crocus
    Winter aconite
    Japanese anemone
    Digitalis (foxglove)
    Another Japanese fern
    Peony, white
    Cutting from a yellow climbing rose that will climb 10 feet or more
    Cutting from any fragrant or high-climbing rose
    Melampodium
    Sanvitalia (creeping zinnia)
    Stock
    Eupatorium coelestinum (hardy ageratum/mist flower)
    Symphytum (comphrey)
    Thalictrum (meadow rue)
    Tiarella (false mitrewort)
    Trillium (wake-robin)
    Trollium (globe flower)
    Viola odorata
    Arisaema (jack in the pulpit)
    Aruncus (goat's beard)
    Dictamus (gas plant)
    Sanguinaria canadensis (bloodroot), especially "Multiplex"
    Heuchera (coralbells)
    Iris cristata
    Chrysogonum virginianum (goldenstar)
    Eustoma grandiflorum (lisianthus) - pink, double petalled variety
    Irish moss
    Any moss
    Primrose
    Asparagus
    Watercress
    French tarragon
    Any interesting hosta (suggest one and I'll look it up)

    Whoa! I think I got carried away!

  • shadysite
    13 years ago

    Does anyone have amelanchier candensis, shadblow serviceberry? I think I need this to solve a shady slope water problem. Thanks Lisa

  • madeleinef
    13 years ago

    I would like any begonias, calendulas, dianthus, chamomile or anything edible.

  • Sweet Sakura
    13 years ago

    I'm late to the party this year, but if anyone has any of the following left, please keep me in mind:

    Dicentra exemia
    Solomon's Seal
    Heuchera
    Tiarella
    Green-and-gold (Chrysogonom virginianum)
    Red Osier Dogwood
    spring-blooming phlox (moss, creeping, etc) with WHITE flowers
    ferns
    bearded irises, other than purple
    Aster laevis

    Thanks and see you Saturday!

    ~CA

  • tkatt
    13 years ago

    want prelude and cavertine andromedas, dusty millers,hostas, blue fecus and lillies.

  • pippi21
    13 years ago

    Are seeds exchanged/traded at this event, as well as plants?

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