Plant Swap Input Requested
I'm putting on a plant swap for my neighborhood association next week.
I've never even been to a plant swap, but thought it sounded like a fun idea. I'm looking for input on how it should be run. Are their standards or guidelines, like swapping plants of the same size? Do folks set out their plants like a garage sale, on a blanket or table? Like I said, I've never been to one and I'm not sure what to expect or how to set up the area. I'd love to hear even the most basic of suggestions. Thanks. |
Plant Swap Input Requested
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Plant Swap Input Requested
Janet Baraclough.. wrote:
Pure swaps versus paying money, is always a bit of an issue. Some attendees will be new gardeners or recently moved in, and have nothing to swap, so it makes sense to decide a fixed price per plant portion or pot, and to have a cash float for change. Lots of newbies would take anything, and since they'll hopefully come back and participate the following years, encourage them. People who have no plants to offer can bring edible things, a batch of their favorite brownies, for example. Turn the plant swap into a little garden party. Suja |
Plant Swap Input Requested
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Plant Swap Input Requested
The message
from escapee contains these words: Our garden club brings at least one plant and numbers are picked from a hat. If, at the end of the first round there are plants left, it is a free for all. I always bring tons more plants than I take. It's getting harder and harder to find things I don't already have. I did, however, fine a variegated artemesia the other day. Our garden club holds a raffle at every meeting (great fundraiser, tickets are 5 for one pound). The prizes are whatever plants, unwanted xmas gifts etc anyone brings, but they aren't numbered so as each number is drawn from the hat, the winner gets their pick of what's left. I got a dierama pulcherrima last time :-) When we started doing the raffle, some people donated gardening books they no longer wanted. Then someone had the bright idea that donated books should instead become a communal gardening library for all members. They are kept at a member's house for collection and the list is circulated at meetings (over a hundred and growing). Janet. |
Plant Swap Input Requested
The message
from escapee contains these words: Our garden club brings at least one plant and numbers are picked from a hat. If, at the end of the first round there are plants left, it is a free for all. I always bring tons more plants than I take. It's getting harder and harder to find things I don't already have. I did, however, fine a variegated artemesia the other day. Our garden club holds a raffle at every meeting (great fundraiser, tickets are 5 for one pound). The prizes are whatever plants, unwanted xmas gifts etc anyone brings, but they aren't numbered so as each number is drawn from the hat, the winner gets their pick of what's left. I got a dierama pulcherrima last time :-) When we started doing the raffle, some people donated gardening books they no longer wanted. Then someone had the bright idea that donated books should instead become a communal gardening library for all members. They are kept at a member's house for collection and the list is circulated at meetings (over a hundred and growing). Janet. |
Plant Swap Input Requested
The message
from escapee contains these words: Our garden club brings at least one plant and numbers are picked from a hat. If, at the end of the first round there are plants left, it is a free for all. I always bring tons more plants than I take. It's getting harder and harder to find things I don't already have. It's been a long while since I've participated in a local garden club's trade encounters. When I did so, I found it pretty much useless unless I lacked some amazingly common & weedy perennial or wanted to start a new hen-&-chicks from a single ball. I have right now a "Youth" azalea in its second year very successfully started from a broken limb, & a "Loder's White" rhody that was rooted from an old lower limb scarred & placed right in the ground & almost time to cut it loose from the parent to transplant in its own location. I'd bring such really nice things to trade but all I could get for 'em is a pot of scilla or bergenia or some pea seedling a child brought, so instead I'll just wait until there's someone who needs a nice wee shrub as an outright gift. My taste in plants runs toward strange woodland wildflowers & shade plants, & those aren't the things running rampant in everyone's yard resulting in plenty to trade. But if you've visited peoples' gardens & know there are plants you'd really like starts from, they'll surely have things that are not growing fast enough to trade bits of willynilly, but which will eventually need to be divided. If you've some pretty nice things to offer on-the-side for specific plants, maybe you can get some wonderful plants not already being traded every year, promising something specific & nice for something specific & nice. -paghat the ratgirl -- "Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher. "Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature. -from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers" See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/ |
Plant Swap Input Requested
The message
from escapee contains these words: Our garden club brings at least one plant and numbers are picked from a hat. If, at the end of the first round there are plants left, it is a free for all. I always bring tons more plants than I take. It's getting harder and harder to find things I don't already have. I did, however, fine a variegated artemesia the other day. Our garden club holds a raffle at every meeting (great fundraiser, tickets are 5 for one pound). The prizes are whatever plants, unwanted xmas gifts etc anyone brings, but they aren't numbered so as each number is drawn from the hat, the winner gets their pick of what's left. I got a dierama pulcherrima last time :-) When we started doing the raffle, some people donated gardening books they no longer wanted. Then someone had the bright idea that donated books should instead become a communal gardening library for all members. They are kept at a member's house for collection and the list is circulated at meetings (over a hundred and growing). Janet. |
Plant Swap Input Requested
The message
from escapee contains these words: Our garden club brings at least one plant and numbers are picked from a hat. If, at the end of the first round there are plants left, it is a free for all. I always bring tons more plants than I take. It's getting harder and harder to find things I don't already have. It's been a long while since I've participated in a local garden club's trade encounters. When I did so, I found it pretty much useless unless I lacked some amazingly common & weedy perennial or wanted to start a new hen-&-chicks from a single ball. I have right now a "Youth" azalea in its second year very successfully started from a broken limb, & a "Loder's White" rhody that was rooted from an old lower limb scarred & placed right in the ground & almost time to cut it loose from the parent to transplant in its own location. I'd bring such really nice things to trade but all I could get for 'em is a pot of scilla or bergenia or some pea seedling a child brought, so instead I'll just wait until there's someone who needs a nice wee shrub as an outright gift. My taste in plants runs toward strange woodland wildflowers & shade plants, & those aren't the things running rampant in everyone's yard resulting in plenty to trade. But if you've visited peoples' gardens & know there are plants you'd really like starts from, they'll surely have things that are not growing fast enough to trade bits of willynilly, but which will eventually need to be divided. If you've some pretty nice things to offer on-the-side for specific plants, maybe you can get some wonderful plants not already being traded every year, promising something specific & nice for something specific & nice. -paghat the ratgirl -- "Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher. "Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature. -from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers" See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/ |
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