Hey there swappers! We’re less than one month away, and I’m getting excited to see y’all and your plants. Here’s your chance to let us know what plants you’d love to find and will be bringing to the first annual Hudson Valley Garden Calendar Plant Swap. You can share your lists in the comments section found below.
Sharing beforehand can benefit everyone. For example, I may have a big clump of ____________, that isn’t a priority for me to renovate. But if you mention you’d love to get some at the swap, it will motivate me to pot some up for you.
Don’t forget to RSVP (email me at laura.wilsongardens@gmail.com) if you haven’t already done so, and be sure to bring a friend. The more the merrier!
Download printable invite here.
HAVES:
Bronze fennel
Betony (Stachys officinalis)
Montauk Daisy
Anise Hyssop (Agastache foeniculum)
Penstemon digitalis ‘Husker’s Red’
Mountain Mint (Pycnanthemum muticum)
Feverfew (Tanacetum parthenium)
Common Lilac
Knautia macedonica
More to come…
WANTS:
Rhubarb
Parsley
Plume Poppy (Macleaya cordata)
Pachysandra
Pussy Willow
Nicotiana
Haves:
Roma tomato
eggplant
sweet pepper
hot pepper
broccoli
Want:
purple coneflower
petunia
big boy tomato
basil
cilantro
begonia
cosmos
dusty miller
cleome
dahlia
lantana
coleus
Hello,
I have:
SEEDLINGS
dioicus aruncus (goat’s beard), buttonbush, parsley, rosemary, oregano, thyme, chamomile, lemon balm, nettles, , heirloom roma tomatoes, heirloom beefsteak tomatoes, carrots, tarragon, leeks, radishes, habaneros, highbush blueberry, raspberry, blackberry
ESTABLISHED SHRUBS
azalea (gerard’s fuschia), crimson pygmy barberry, ‘goldmound’ spirea, ‘little princess’ spirea
I want:
native woodland shrubs, groundcovers and wildflowers
Laura – I do have a little bit of pachysandra protuberens. I can divide it in exchange for some of the anise hyssop. Maybe we can do a parsley-for-penstemon trade, too?
Toshi, You are way to generous to offer to share your pachysandra procumbens – thank you, but no way! That’s a special plant – in my eyes – and you should let your patch grow. I was looking for the ordinary pachysandra terminals. I have plenty of both the penstemon and the agastache, I’m sure you’ll go home with a bunch of both. If you don’t already grow pycnanthemum, you must! It’s native, great for filtered sun edge of woodland plantings and is one of my favorite perennials in the entire garden.
For everyone interested and attending, this is how we are going to select/swap plants:
- Plants will be sorted into categories: annual, perennial, veggie, herb, tree & shrub, houseplant.
- When we start, everyone will pick one plant. Then you will pick a second plant. We’ll proceed this way for a few rounds to ensure all gardeners get as many of their “top picks” as possible. (In my experience, each person is always excited about something different, and that is why swaps are such fun!)
- After a few rounds of single selection, we’ll switch to free-for-all. Take what you want, and make sure everything finds a home.
Haves:
Sedum
Dicentra alba (white bleeding heart)
Campanula Sarastra (purple bell)
Pink Chimes (pink bell)
Hydrangea
Coreopsis verticillata
Coreopsis lanceolata
Dwarf Coreopsis
Solomon’s Seal
Ajuga
Dicentra eximia (wild bleeding heart)
Hope to have more…
Wants:
Rhubarb (also)
Helleborus
Gaillardia
Delphinium
Lupin
haves:
siberian iris
assorted sedums
helianthus “summer sun’
japanese painted ferns
salvia ‘cardonna’
astible “unknown”
ajuga – ‘chocolate’
korean mums – various
verbascum – southern something or other….
more to come…..
wants:
any scented geraniums
coneflower
verbena bonariensis
elephant ears….
plectranthus (any)
vinca (ground cover) periwinkle….
I’d like some plume poppy, too!
I have some odd balls that I have potted up in 4″ pots.
mahogany colored monarda(bee balm)
scarlet monarda(bee balm)
vinca-atropurprea
vinca-var foliage with pale blue flower
assorted dwarf hosta
lily of the valley-rosea(pale pink)
I also have a very large area of regular vinca if anyone needs a lot of it. Follow me home and dig your own.
Also have a large bed of pachysandra and ferns that is in need of thinning. Again dig your own.
Wild flowers: I can give you access to red trillium, blood root,may apple, violets and maybe even some jack in the pulpits, dig your own. I will not disturb these just on the chance someone may be interested.
I have:
Purple Siberian Iris
Alaska Shasta Daisy
native wildflower Blue Eyed Grass
Galliardia Goblin
Golden Stonecrop (which is super fast growing, somewhat invasive, AND easily removed)
White Yarrow
Blue Flax
Northern Sea Oats Grass
Yellow Flag
annual Plains Coreopsis
Coreopsis Tickseed
Great Blue Lobelia
White English Daisy
Japanese Maple Seedling
Oregano
Would Like:
dwarf and perennial Coreopsis
Anemonies especially Japanese
Lobelia Cardinalis
“different colored” Monarda
Oriental Poppies in red or pink
other perennial Poppies
Laceleaf Maple seedling
Flowering Cherry seedling
Magnolia Tree seedling
I have:
Hosta
Siberian iris
Caryopteris
Tradescantia
variegated Lamium
Ligularia ‘the Rocket’
an unknown orchid
Aster ‘Woods Blue’
And Pat, I have one small anemone ‘Andrea Atkinson’ I can bring.
Maybe a few more things….
I also have rhubarb that I would be happy to give to anyone who wants some, but unfortunately it’s way too big now to divide. So anyone who wants some can feel free to give me their contact info at the swap, and I’ll give you a piece early next spring. It gets so big I can generally only divide it in March!
I would like:
Tiarella
Heucherella
Knautia
Salvia
Gaillardia
Hakonechloa
Dianthus gratianopolitanus
Heirloom tomatoes
I have never been to a plant swap before and woud love to visit one. Please send me any info available . Thanks susan