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May 3, 2022 8:53 PM CST
Name: Lin
NW Chicago suburbs (Zone 5b)
Sorry I'm late to the party! I'm excited to attend again, after missing it last year. I've been walking the garden, jotting down possibilities. Though some things are slow to show up this year. I didn't see a link to the pre-swap page, and I was thinking it was AWFULLY late. But I have it now!

WISH LIST:

a currant bush (any other fruit bushes? Not raspberries)

white and red trillium

woodland plants (not violets, or lily of the valley, or anything invasive)

Japanese Anemone, white

Any geranium (except sanguinea and Johnson's Blue). I especially like big root geraniums. Have the pink one already.

Iris, esp. deep colors like burgundy or brown. Or bi-colors. Not lavender.

Aquilegia (columbine), any except for Alpina (dwarf alpine blue)

Short asters

Cimicifuga or actaea, going for purple leaves

Heuchera (Coral bells)

My purple heucheras are now dead. Now looking for a mound shaped, purple leaved, non-invasive perennial to take their place in the shady hosta bed.

Plumbago (ceratostigma)

Verbena Bonarensis

Hydrangeas, but not the ones that bloom on old wood.

Cherry or small tomatoes
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OFFERS:

Chocolate Eupatorium - between 2 to 4 feet tall. Tolerates shade well. Autumn bloomer.

Dwarf alpine columbine (deep purple-blue). Only a few

Mystery phlox seedlings. Could be any color, but most likely lavender-pink or white

Mystery New England aster seedlings: mostly likely purple or hot pink. 3 to 4 feet tall.

Blue Globe Thistle seedlings - average 4 feet tall once mature.

Ligularia Desdemona. Dark purple leaves. 1 to 2 year plants

Big Root geranium "Bevan's Variety"

Catnip – 1 good sized plant.

Boltonia asteroides (Native). Spreads by rhizomes; makes a colony. Have 1.

1 small Persicaria Polymorpha if I can successfully chop it off the parent.

Feverfew

Purple Perilla (annual, free seeding, I just pull out where I don't want a pop of purple foliage.)

Variegated lunaria (money plant). Biennial. Fabulous bright white edged leaves and hot rich magenta flowers. Can bring hunks of seedlings that will bloom next year AND/OR ones that bloomed already in May, so you will have "money" seedpods and your own seedlings next year. It's a knockout! The only thing I have blooming now except bulbs.

Lily of the Valley (though they're not up yet)

BULBS:
Blue scilla
Limited quantity of Ice Follies white daffodils
"There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments."
— Janet Kilburn Phillips
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