Patty

BossJim

Linda, Jim's cousin

Pat (Mrs. Bossjim) and Joan

Jolana

Plants

more plants

K

Donna, I saw your pics on another post but now I can't see them
Thanks to everyone, I had a wonderful time and learned so much about plants that I didn't think I could grow in my zone and vitamins, hehehe

Omar

Kathy, looks like a successful swap. At least you had some sun for it. We have been cloudy for several days now. Do they sell the plants or just trade? I have never been to a plant swap.

Glenda

The basic swap is friends bring plants and trade. The only money that changes hands is donations for thr pavilion rental. Ours is very casual.

You are not supposed to take plants with out contacting the person whose plants you are interested in. Some swaps have strict rules about trading one for one. But we are not that strict. Most are more than happy to share if a newbie has no plants to share. By the end I am usually begging people to take the last of what I brought, as I don't like dragging it back home. If I am trading it, that means I already have plenty. ha

Any plants you receive, you put under the table. Most know that means not to take from those. Some of us pre-trade online prior to the swap.

This one started several years ago when a couple people suggested we start one here in SA. Silly me I agreed. And some how I ended up the coordinator each time. It began with folks on TXGW. But we usually invite our friends and neighbors to join us.

I usually start posting the swap date a couple months before the date of the swap. We have a fall swap, as that is the best planting season in central TX. And a spring swap as everyone is ready to start planting again, after what we call winter. Here you can garden almost all year.

People bring spare garden items, pots, books, tools and such and we draw for door prizes.

I always have a great time.

Kathy and her son David

And more...

LOL! I look drunk and David looks like he is eating that plant.
In that one pic, Donna looks very excited. Now that's how swappers are supposed to look.

Kathy, is that how you were staying warm??? LOL
David looks like he was going to devour that plant, lol

In that first pic of Donna, it look like she was trying to rob them of the plants with her hand gun, lol

That is so funny robbing people of the plants, lol

Carrie ? sorta-kinda ????

I have to leave on that one, lol
When Carrie offers a couple of plants, which is wonderful but you have to watch her because when you get home the couple have tripled or quadrupled,lol
Love her tho!!!!

She must have offered an online course because Jim, is her male gardening twin. They have the North and South covered
with Kathy and Roselee filling in the middle, lol

'Give me all your plants, lady, or somebody gets it with the finger!'

Yes, gardening is synonymous with generosity but y'all are killing me with it, lol
Just kidding calm down, I know I could say no, so I have a problem, BWAHAHA

Whew, I just got back from Carrie's DD's house and I didn't bring the trailer so I have to make another trip, lol

It's a good thing BossJim brought his wife AND his cousin along to watch after him. Otherwise he might have got himself kidnapped and held for ransom. The ransom being the building garden paths and structures as well as the garden around them! He would have been in danger from me for sure ;-)

Jolana, is that MY large fruiting Barbados Cherry tree you have in your wagon? Guess I'm going to have to call out the posse to redeem it! I have connections to the Texas Rangers you know! Hahaha ...

Isn't that tree beautiful? I am so glad we got them

Fellow gardeners, I am not telling her name because I'm a gentleman, but it starts with "J", lives in disguise (changes her look every week), grows some "mistery", "winter tender" plants at the very back of her property, says she's forgetful because of her age but she looks younger than most of us....tsk, tsk. tsk....Some people....

Omar

The Rangoon vine is a tropical but I think it could make it in zone 8 if it's planted against a wall. Now, regarding your stash... they are not winter hardy at all, I think.

Omar

After getting the vine from Jim, I have talked to a few people that have them in protected areas in Austinand they do fine, so you should be able to grow it
Email and tell me when you want the vine, okay?

That picture of me with Joey makes me look mean and mad ! I must have been concentrating really hard on what he was saying.

thanks everyone for all the great plants ! The new friendships are also much appreciated !

patty

Seriously. Jolana never took any plant for me. Au contraire, she was the one who let me know she got the plant from Jim, and, she graciously offered to me. I also told her she could keep it and just give me a rooted start next year. That's the kind of people we, gardeners, are: generous and with excellent sense of humor.

That's why I really expect her to share her stash with me.

Omar
PS: On top of everything, Jim showed his gardener soul and mailed me another start of the famous Rangoon Vine. That's what I'm talking about!! Thanks Jim!!

Omar

I didn't get the mean and mad, you were concentrating, lol

Okay, I might share with him since he is feeling puny, lol

Omar, you got your vine? Wasn't that a nice surprise?

Isn't that cyber bullying?

""In effect since Sept. 1, a new cyber-bullying law makes harassment online or through social networking a third-degree felony.""

Do you know who this person is? Or is she hiding behind a key board? I am not asking you to say who, just wondered if you knew.

Omar
PS: zig-zag, zig-zag, zig-zag, zig..........

Jim, don't send any plants....please.

Omar, you need rehab, LOL

Mine is covered with flower buds and it already bloomed earlier this year. As you all know, sometimes plants are so stressed by the heat they think they've 'died and gone to heaven' with rains and cooler temps after a hard summer and so they start happily blooming again.

Omar