@5601Lisa - I have a small burro's tail- I'll bring you a little cutting not rooted yet

That would be great, Frenchy. I'm trying to come up with plants for a pair of wall sconces.

Donna, a cutting from your fuzzy cactus would be great. Thanks.

Lisa, love your sconces! Great idea to plant them... do they get enough light for cactus plants or would a fern be better? There are some dwarf varieties of Boston fern.. If that's pothos in your photo, it looks good there!

I'd love a cutting of any pencil-type cactus that doesn't have sharp spines.

Ferns will do well in those lovely sconces. I agree with Jill on Boston fern. Asparagus fern (Asparagus setaceus, also Asparagus plumosus) will be a good choice too. It is elegant and produces very long branches draping over the edges of the sconces if you like that look.

Hoyas as well...not to mention if you planted a Hoya lacunosa you'd have the added bonus of a beautiful fragrance when in bloom.

I have a small HB of Asparagus fern--probably VERY root-bound.
I have no interest in keeping it. Anyone want it?

***If no one saw it in this Thread--I am looking to get rid of my big "Queens Tears" [plant
as it has not bloomed in the whole time I have had it.
It is quite large....Please LMK if you are interested...*****


FYI:
Asparagus Ferns are sold at HD in early summer in 4" pots as "specialty Plants'--
those are used in lg. planters to drape down the pot....(the spillers)...

G.

Gita, I'd love your asparagus fern.
Thanks for the input, friends. Ferns would be attractive in the sconces. Hadn't thought of them.
Jill, I can't remember name of plant I'm using now. It's not pothos, which I have used before. Leaves on this plant are thicker, waxy and more robust than pothos. Think I'm switching to ferns.

If not a pothos, it could be a philodendron (heart leafed, maybe), another good one for lower-light areas. I had a golden pothos that climbed all over my windowless basement office at school, watered only occasionally and lit only by fluorescent bulbs in the ceiling!

If there is something that you wanted but were unable to get during trading, please contact the offering member directly through Tree Mail... http://garden.org/mail/compose...

BULBS BULBS BULBS!

Last call before we sort out the orders tomorrow afternoon... they are going fast, so don't think, oh I'll just wait until I get to the swap and see what is left...

See the list on this post: http://garden.org/thread/view_...

So, I'm working outside pulling things together for the swap. The humidity is bad enough, but those #)(#@*$_#*)&$#P_@*&%_#*&$_#$(*_(*%&$*%#@$_&#$+ mosquitos

They are really really bad in my yard this year, too.

Big THANK YOU to Lisa for driving all the way up here to help me sort out the bulbs! We have a few things arriving late from Holland, waiting to hear back about their ETA. She left with Cam's cooler stuffed to the gills with everybody's bulbs, plus a few extras that we made available.

The extra BULBS from the group buy will be in a box near the "free to good home" table... they are not free, though... I'd like to use the honor system and ask people to simply pay for what they take, making a note of it and putting $ into the envelope. I'll put some extra PENS in the same box... extreme sharpies are $1.25 (the $1 ones have been claimed), silver sharpies are $1.

Jill and Lisa Greatly appreciate all the hard work that we all benefit from!!!!

MariposaMaid, in case you check here:
So sorry I didn't listen to voicemail until late!. We'll meet here between 10 and 11 am, thought we would leave here by 11 am to get us easily to swap by noon. Robin is going to follow me-- and Gita will ride with me and Mark.

I have 19 chrysalises here (and more cats) and expect to start tagging around Monday as they should start emerging. I have the 100 tags and have extra paper data sheets if anyone wants to tag some. Chrysalises are easy after all that feeding and cleaning of frass raising them.

I don't know if anyone noticed but there is an Aspen Hill Rd nearby Catmint's place. Just a goofy little tidbit.


Sally I hope you got some sleep last night!

Aspen Hill road - I knew there was an Aspen Hill town somewhere in Md. I guess I'm not all that original, but was that road and town named after a sweet American Eskimo pup? I think not

LOL of course it was!

Yes we live just south of Aspen Hill. Terri when I first saw your user name I thought you must have grown up in the area!

Big shout out to Catmint! Many thanks for hosting such a convivial swap. Great food, great plants and fun hanging out with friends. Feel lucky to know you all.

Glad everyone could come and thanks so much to you all for all of your help chipping in to keep everything running so smoothly--it was a real pleasure to have everyone over!