I'm always trading plants with my elderly backyard neighbor and her daughter, as well as with my next door neighbor. Even if something doesn't need dividing, my elderly friend and I trade cuttings. I grow a lot of plants in containers and when I get tired of something, one of my neighbors is always happy to take it.

I think trading is a great idea, I have friends and neighbors that I trade with quite often.

Love trading! One year I planted so many baby spider plants that my garden group called me Spider Woman.

Boopaints said:One year I planted so many baby spider plants that my garden group called me Spider Woman.

Becky I so love your sense of humor.
I love trading plants, or just plain giving them away.

Yep we do that with outdoor plants. Sometimes I will go out the back door and there will be a whole bunch of something sitting in a dish of water from my neighbor to the east. I try to divide and give things back too. Spiders though! Oh Becky, I have so many (hanging at my windows in lieu of draperies that there is never a time that I am not rooting more in the kitchen! I have a spider epidemic here!!!!

Until I got here,(ATP) I never thought of trading, I've always given cuttings of anything I have to anyone who wanted it.( Maybe that's why I don't have plants to trade, they are already gone ) Strangers coming to my Yard Sales have admired plants, even my treasured Iris and Daylilies and I shared with them. I really love giving plants.

Lynn, I wasn't joking that time....they really did call me Spider Woman. And gave me a certificate too!

Jamie, I have solid green, variegated with the while in the middle and just got one with white down the sides. I planted them in the ground, facing east and even in Phoenix they did well. Now they are all inside or on the balcony!

Becky I knew you weren't joking. : ) You just make me laugh and smile.

Faye, I have always done the same with my plants. Then I found I could trade them for plants I would love to have. Wow, it's like finding a gold mine.

Problem with trading is that while I make every effort to catalogue (see pix attached) and label, I can't always identify them in future years and lose track of the names so I end up with NOIDs (expensive NOIDs but Noids all the same!) I must get better at this but every year I add more...EGAD!

Becky, my spiders go out for the summer but come back in as the temps change. Here's a pix from a few years ago...but like THIS all winter long...(can't dust or clean windows!).

I used to have spiders like that and Creeping Charlie. Loved them all.

Oh see, I gave Creeping Charlie resposibilty for the lawn. That keeps him so bizzy that he has no interest in the plants.

JaeRae said:Oh see, I gave Creeping Charlie resposibilty for the lawn. That keeps him so bizzy that he has no interest in the plants.

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What? Is your Creeping Charlie different than my Creeping Charley? (The one I know is as invasive as the dickens up here!)

Jamie, those are some serious spider curtains!

That's only ONE window Becky ...then they all go nuts havin' babies and I take pity on them and have cups of rootings all over the place!

The Creeping Charlie I had wouldn't survive outdoors in the winter time. Or at least I didn't think it would.
I just googled it.
Good thing I never put it outside.

Jamie! I'm the same...I can't toss them. I started painting small clay pots and after rooting the baby, planting it in some MG and giving them as hostess gifts etc!

Good idea. I take mine down in the summer and set them on the porch so they can breathe and I can clean the windows better. A couple got waterlogged during heavy rains, I didn't attend to them and so they died (at least down to manageable size) ...and I was NOT SAD!!!!

Jamie, We had a surprise freeze here one winter and I went outside to find blackened spider plants. SW forum friends encouraged me to just cut them back to the soil level. I had nothing to loose. Now they are the prettiest I've ever had!

Chit! I din't need to know that.