Hello swapping pals!

I've received packages from:
@Amewis1
@Aprilard1
@Bluespiral
@colcol
@DeerXing
@DirtCheapGardener
@feebean
@heavenlyfarm
@ishareflowers
@Joa922010
@luvsgrtdanes
@maryjoz5
@Mountainlakecorner
@NancyRehbock
@RoseA32
@ruby_dog
@theflowerlady
@vma4922
@wildflowers

Almost everyone has mailed theirs. I know some people have been delayed by the weather and the Presidents' Day holiday. That's okay! I should receive almost all of them by the end of the week.

Thanks everyone,
Jess

@audreydee I also received yours.

@nofonan your package was delivered today. I'm expecting a very full mailbox on Friday too.

@poisondartfrog @hammerojustice @janinilulu I just got your packages.

@okieheart your package came today.

There are a couple of packages still en route to me that are in wonky places according to tracking. I'm guessing it's weather related.

I'll let you know when they arrive!
Jess

@thomasjones2266 your package came this morning!

The last two packages arrived today.

Everyone's seeds will be in tomorrow's mail!

Thanks everyone for an amazing swap. It was my first time hosting and there were a few kinks, but you were all so gracious and understanding. Thanks also for all the sweet messages and cards.

Jess

Thanks Jess for all of your hard work on the swap!

Thanks from me too, Jess. All your hard work has certainly enabled a lot of dreams - I especially look forward to growing that 'Clementine" columbine with its salmon pink color that you contributed to this swap - I couldn't find a source for that one any other way at the time. Anything like a sunset's bronzing of pink (Cosmos 'Antiquity') or rose (there's a bronzed geum* like that) or those chocolate pink morning glories made some of my mornings amazing in the past. It was another trader in our circle over the years that infused me with this love of orange - @poisondartfrog .

Am very glad you joined this circle - I think it goes back maybe as far as the 1920s when farm wives used market bulletins** from their state agricultural departments
to trade seeds and plants for what we might now refer to as "'old' school 'homesteading'" items (couldn't resist @StitchWitch) .

karen
* hmm. Evidently there's two plants that I often confuse with each other:
- 1) ishareflowers' Geum coccineum 'Cooky' (Avens) - a very satisfying shade of orange in this swap, and
- 2) Potentilla nepalensis 'Miss Willmott' - a bronzed pink - now being offered by a currently open seed exchange at https://www.nargs.org/ (which I heartily recommend readers join).
(Also see: Potentilla thurberi 'Monarch's Velvet' with that bronzed rose color going on, too - https://www.gardenia.net/plant...

** See: Gardening for Love: The Market Bulletins, by Elizabeth Lawrence, edited by Allen Lacy - https://www.bibliovault.org/BV...

apologies for lack of brevity here

Oh goody! Thank you, Jess, for hosting a great swap! It was a great one, I think!!

I've already started sowing seeds but it will be nice to get some of those new seeds in soil when they arrive.

Can't wait for mine to arrive!! Thanks for hosting a wonderful swap!

Good job Jess! I wouldn't have guessed it was your first time.

Thank you, Jess, for hosting this wonderful seed swap!
Thank you, All, for your precious seed offerings!
Thank you, Karen, for your book recommendation!

Thanks so much Jess!

Can't wait to get my package! Thank you everyone for a great swap and a special thanks to Jess for stepping up and hosting your first one.

Jess, you did a great job hosting! It was nice to join in and not have to do anything 🤪

I'm heading over to the mile high swap threads to post a photo of my first winter sown seedlings.

@bluespiral, I sent you the Clementine salmon Rose Columbine seeds. They're beautiful!

@ishareflowers - oops Thanks for setting me straight on that one - A seed isn't just a seed to me - it's the friends and family who shared them, as well.