Seattle Plant Exchange

Orange Flowers in the Shade

Photographed this last year in Alki neighborhood. Love it and want some (does anyone want to exchange?), but don't know what it is!

Burgundy Flower

Unidentified plant of the day. What is it?

If they're not weeds, they certainly grow and spread like weeds...

My mom came to visit last week, and she is notoriously sympathetic to plants others consider weeds.   We debated, and she insisted the following plants are not weeds:

 

What do you think?

Facts are appreciated. Opinions always welcome...

First Meetup Member!

Welcome to our first Meetup Group member, who suggested exchanging indoor plants. Her plants keep "making babies" and she wants to find them new homes.

I've always had a bit of a black thumb with indoor plants, so this discussion topic hadn't occurred to me.

Thank you!

Now we just have to start scheduling some events. Any venue suggestions are appreciated.

SPX Meetup Group Established

I've created a Meetup Group for establishing connections, scheduling events, and creating a gardening calendar.

Membership is free:

http://www.meetup.com/Seattle-Plant-Exchange/

I will be working on gradually adding events and appreciate any suggestions!

Snapdragon?

This looks like a snapdragon, but any help identifying more specifically is greatly appreciated.

Yanking Weeds and Sowing Seeds

Starting this blog is like starting a gardening project. I've done a lot of staring into space, thinking about where to begin.

So I'll start with a picture:

Not terribly exciting, I know.  But this picture was the inspiration for my most recent gardening / landscaping project, as well as for this blog.

I unearthed sunken concrete chunks that -as a whole- comprised a driveway in the 70s (thanks to my neighbor for the history lesson), but required some attention in their current function as pavers in a garden path.  This is what I did...

The path is refreshed, but the surrounding beds are a bit of an overgrown hodgepodge.  My vision entails irises, ferns, bleeding hearts, and some sweet woodruff, none of which are currently in the beds. What to do with the plants that are there?  Well, I feel dysfunctionally guilty about getting rid of any plants.  And I'm sure I'm not the only one. So I had this idea for facilitating a vibrant gardening community - the Seattle Plant Exchange. 

In addition to addressing dysfunctional guilt, the SPX is a means for discussing and discovering everything related to Seattle-area horticulture.  I am in the process of creating a Meetup Group to organize meetings, so members can get together in groups or coordinate plant swaps between individuals.  I'm also developing some guidelines for communicating and scheduling swaps.

This will just take on a life of its own, I suspect and hope.

While it does, I am in need of some ferns, white bleeding hearts, and sweet woodruff.  I will post again soon regarding plants I have available to swap. First I have to take some photos.

Happy gardening,

Hillary