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wanted: want: mag 2012 spring swap

alfie_md6
12 years ago

2012 Spring MAG Swap: Plants You Want List

Saturday May 19, 2012 from 10am to 1pm

at GardengrammaâÂÂs Gorgeous Encampment in Burtonsville (see link below)

DIRECTIONS (I know that nobody ever reads directions, including me. But please read them anyway.)

WANTS LIST DOs and DONâÂÂTs:

DO post a list of the plants you WANT on this thread. Please add Latin names and cultivar names, as applicable, if you can.

DO list any other garden stuff, such as seeds, tools, pots, magazines, books, and gnomes, that you want. Somebody else might have it and want to get rid of it!

DO read other people's lists. If you see things you have and want to arrange a trade, please e-mail the person directly via private e-mail. To e-mail the person, click on their name at the top of their post.

DO update your lists when you think of more things you want.

DO feel free to update your member page with your Haves and Wants and to link your post here to any Plant Exchange page you may have.

DO NOT arrange trades on this thread. Please arrange them via private e-mail.

DO NOT use this thread for your Haves. That's what the MAG Spring Swap: Plants you have thread is for.

DOs and DONâÂÂTs for the SWAP:

DO wear a nametag.

DO label your motor vehicle with a big, visible label.

DO mark reserved plants (i.e., plants which you already arranged a trade for) so that other people do not take them by mistake.

DO label your plants. The plant labels do not need to be fancy. Popsicle sticks, plastic spoons, etc. are fine.

DO take plants labeled "Free" or "Please Take". (In fact, PLEASE do take plants labeled "Free or âÂÂPlease Take".)

DO ask if you are not sure whether it is ok for you to take the plants.

DO, when you leave, take home (or sneak into somebody elseâÂÂs vehicle) the plants you brought that nobody wanted.

DO NOT take anything marked "Reserved" or labeled for someone else.

DO NOT leave the unwanted plants for Gardengramma to have to deal with.

FAQ #1: CAN I COME EVEN THOUGH I DONâÂÂT HAVE ANY PLANTS TO TRADE?

Answer: Yes, you can come even though you don't have any plants to trade. Your main assignment is to bring food or other items for the pot luck. (Chocolate-containing foods are strongly encouraged.) Please discuss your potluck contributions at the MAG Spring Swap Food thread, not here. Also, note that, in many cases, the reason why people are bringing these particular plants to the swap for you to take home is because the plants are, um, "vigorous". In a few years, you, too, will have lots of plants to trade.

Happy gardening!

Here is a link that might be useful: Gardengramma's Gorgeous Encampment

Comments (34)

  • alfie_md6
    Original Author
    11 years ago

    Ok, I will go first.

    Rosemary
    Tommie crocuses (Crocus tommasianus)

    Butterflyweed (Asclepias tuberosa)
    Sundrops (Oenothera fruticosa)
    (other native flowering perennials for dry full sun)

    Green and gold (Chrysoganum virginianum)
    Thimbleweed (Anemone virginiana)
    Virginia bluebells (Mertensia virginica)

    Christmas fern (Polystichum acrostichoides)
    Evergreen wood fern (Dryopteris intermedia)
    Mayapple (Podophyllum peltatum)
    UNvariegated Solomon's seal (Polygonatum commutatum)
    False Solomon's seal (Smilacina racemosa)
    Canada mayflower (Maianthemum canadense)
    (other native perennials for non-wet full shade)

    Lily of the valley (for a friend)(really!)

  • sujiwan_gw 6b MD/PA
    11 years ago

    Nandina, pyracantha, bamboo, rosegold pussy willow
    Red flowered ratibia
    salvias--any kind!

  • kimka
    11 years ago

    Sweet woodruff
    Maidenhair ferns
    grape tomato seedling
    Brunnera (any type from plain green to Jack Frost)

  • ssmdgardener
    11 years ago

    ***I can only stay one hour. Please come early if you'd like to exchange with me.***

    Joe Pye Weed
    Lord Baltimore hibiscus
    Any canna
    Any coleus cutting
    Any crassula
    Any sempervirens
    Any hens and chicks
    Any light-colored heuchera

  • Ann
    11 years ago

    Thank goodness that the swap isn't the day after or I wouldn't be able to be there.

    Wants:
    Annuals - Eggplant seedlings
    Basil
    Peppers - hot or sweet
    Lavender - white or pink

    Perennials - Heuchera - any but would love lighter colored leaves
    Chelone - white turtlehead
    Coreopsis - not moonbeam or Zagreb
    Agastache - any but Golden Jubilee or Honey Bee Blue
    Eryngium - Blue Sea Holly
    Hardy Geranium - white flowers or doubles
    Doronicum - Leopard's Bane
    Anthemis - any
    Russian Sage
    Hostas - looking for smaller leafed varieties
    Clematis texasii

  • herbal
    11 years ago

    I have my wants, and I also have some wants for a community garden I am helping to create.

    rhubarb
    horse radish
    male hardy kiwi plant or cuttings
    lenten rose (hellebore)
    lily of the valley
    ranunculus
    lupines

  • nancymd2
    11 years ago

    Here is what I'm hoping to find this year. Please see my 'haves' on the other list.

    * spicebush (lindera)
    * viburnum
    * Aucuba rooted cuttings or plants
    * Campanula
    * Any large, blue hosta
    * Lily of the valley
    * hardy orchid (bletilla sp)
    * variegated iris
    * Ginger--european and canadian
    * jack in the pulpit

    Thanks!

  • ryanzone7
    11 years ago

    All I want are gardening magazines and of those the ones I prefer are Fine gardening and Horticulture (any others will be considered. I am looking for garden/landscaping information not fluff).

    Gardening books too!

  • nancy123
    11 years ago

    cleome
    thrift (sea pink)
    creeping phlox

    and for my tiny veggie garden

    1 bell pepper
    1 zucchini
    1 tomato (not cherry)

  • nancymd2
    11 years ago

    To add to my list; I am also looking for-

    * pieces of flagstone (any size)
    * bricks (red, solid- not 'cored')

    Thanks!

  • Sweet Sakura
    11 years ago

    Here are my wants:

    Green-and-gold (Chrysogonum)
    Mazus reptans
    Wild ginger (Asarum)
    Allegheny spurge (Pachysandra procumbens)
    Carex pennsylvanica (sedge)
    Sungold tomatoes
    Bleeding Hearts
    Ferns - especially Christmas
    Anemone
    Turtlehead (Chelone)

    See you in May!
    CA

  • busyasabee
    11 years ago

    I'm hoping to find the following plants:

    Peonies (any color)
    Brugsmania
    lily of the valley - (pink & white))
    lavender
    creeping phlox (emerald blue)
    Paniculata - David (Tall white garden phlox)
    bellflower (campanula)
    candytuft - Iberis sempervirens 'Little Gem'
    Sea Pink Thrift ~ Armeria maritima
    Butterfly weed (orange)
    Baptisia
    Coreopsis - Sunray tickseed
    Firewitch dianthus
    Blue glow globe thistle
    Blanket Flower
    Bee Balm (any color)
    Penstemon
    Achillea Yarrow Moonshine (yellow)
    Achillea Yarrow Terracotta
    Amsonia - blue ice
    Veronica - Turkish speedwell

    Thanx
    Jette

  • springplanter
    11 years ago

    My wish list:
    red or pink dogwood starter
    daphne, cuttings or plant (any color but would love variegated)
    foxglove
    pine straw

    Many thanks

    Carol

  • WhoDeWho
    11 years ago

    Can't wait for the swap. I'm still putting my list together and will post shortly.

    Ronda

  • nancy123
    11 years ago

    I realized today that I planted salvia for my daughter, but she wanted was CELOSIA. Anybody happen to have some extra??

    Thanks. See you soon!

    Nancy

  • sujiwan_gw 6b MD/PA
    11 years ago

    I thought of something I didn't add. If anyone has some baby gladiola corms of any kind or color, I would love to try growing some.

  • shadysite
    11 years ago

    Native shade plants for a beech tree hill now shorn of ivy, heavy clay soil, and for a rain garden, sandy soil. Any suggestions in addition to the following welcome!


    Phlox divaricata, native
    Gaura lindheimerii
    Beauty berry
    Vaccinium aungustifolium (low bush blueberry)
    Mountain Laurel (kalmia latifolia)
    Staghorn sumac (rhus typhina) would like cuttings if not plants
    Caltha palustris (yellow marsh marigold)
    Eupatorium purpureum (sweetscented joepyeweed)
    Clethra alnifolia (coastal sweetpepperbush)
    Gaultheria procumbens (eastern teaberry)

    All ferns except Polystichum acrostichoides, Christmas fern
    milkweeds as butterfly feeders, asclepias incarnata, syriaca, tuberosa,
    Hepatica americana round-lobed hepatica
    chelone glabra, white turtlehead
    cimifuga racemosa, black snakeroot
    coreopsis tinctoria, tickseed sunflower

  • gardnwatch
    11 years ago

    I'm looking for:
    delphinium
    brunnera
    iris any
    foxglove
    lupines
    bellflower
    weigela- "French Lace" or any
    baptisia australis
    oakleaf hydrangea
    spider maple
    tiarella foam flower
    low ground cover plants

    Thanks.....see you in May.
    Bonnie

  • kimka
    11 years ago

    A couple of sdditional wants
    Hardy plumbago(Ceratostigma plumbaginoides)
    Any double rose of sharon
    Hakone grass

  • catjlr
    11 years ago

    Any type of hosta
    blackeyed susans
    purple coneflowers
    shasta daisys

    Thanks in advance.

  • catjlr
    11 years ago

    And I forgot some compost and potting soil if you have any to share.

  • Ann
    11 years ago

    Catjlr...you don't have email attached so I cannot send you message. I have some shasta daisies if you want them. Please email me.

  • annebert
    11 years ago

    Short but sweet (like me!)
    bloodroot
    Solomon's seal
    raspberries

  • leslies
    11 years ago

    Shade plants - I could use ferns (any kind OK), solomon's seal.

  • Ann
    11 years ago

    Wanted - part 2

    Aquilegia (Columbine). Clementine blue and white
    Pieris japonica - rooted cuttings
    Amsonia
    Tiarella - any variety
    Astilbe - any variety

  • oogy4plants
    11 years ago

    I would love to find any of the following at the swap:
    ferns
    solomon's seal
    penstemon digitalis
    jacob's ladder
    foxglove (pink or white)
    dwarf monarda
    spiderwort
    monkshood
    hellebores
    red daylilies
    queen of the prairie
    meadow rue
    red honeysuckle vine
    dianthus, any color
    purple chives

  • oogy4plants
    11 years ago

    I left off some things from my list I would like to receive in trades, if they are still available. Sorry I can't email everyone individually. Looking forward to trading at the swap.
    hardy geraniums
    pulmonaria
    helianthus
    pink yarrow
    hay-scented fern
    huckleberry seedlings
    oakleaf hydrangea
    balsam impatiens
    hakone grass

  • connie_cola
    11 years ago

    Hi, I am looking for:
    Mock Orange (Philadelphus)
    Common Lilac (Syringa vulgaris)
    Yarrow, not white (Achillea millefolium)
    Threadleaf Coreopsis (Coreopsis verticillata)
    Coneflower (Echinacea Purpurea)
    Thank you, in advance.

  • chrismd
    11 years ago

    Japanese anemone
    Any hostas except the plain green one
    Columbines - any
    Coreopsis - Moonbeam, Zagreb or the pink one
    Canna, any

    thanks swappers!

  • alfie_md6
    Original Author
    11 years ago

    Another want: Sedum ternatum

    I saw some at the Botanic Garden and decided I NEED it. So cute.

  • mootgirl
    11 years ago

    white sage
    wintergreen
    hellebores
    creeping phlox (Phlox subulata)
    mayapple (Podophyllum peltatum)
    columbines in dark colors

    any short-med, non-invasive, shade/partial shade perennials

  • mootgirl
    11 years ago

    sweet cherry pollinator that won't get huge?

    I have in my yard what I believe is a sweet cherry tree (not sure of the variety, though if important I may be able to figure it out). However, it has no pollinator; I thought perhaps it was partly self-fertile, since my mom planted it and I can't figure out why else she wouldn't have given it a pollinator, too. However, it flowered like mad this past spring and no fruits set. If any one has a tree available that is likely to work to pollinate mine, I would be thrilled! Thanks.

  • bugmagnet
    11 years ago

    Oh, my wants are endless. Here are a few of them:

    Gaura -- white or pink
    Egret flower
    Southern Maiden Fern
    Woodland Phlox

    Do you have some for me?

  • rose2012
    11 years ago

    I will bring paper goods, forks, and a drink.