02.01.10
The Washington Gardner Seed Exchange
It snowed like mad on Saturday, but I’d been waiting all year for the seed exchange, and I was determined to go. I was rewarded well for my determination - great talks by local experts, and LOTS of seeds.
Here’s my list of booty:
Wildflowers +
Artichoke ‘Imperial Star’
Carrot ‘Short n’ Sweet’ packet says “Grows in heavy soils”!
Lettuce ‘Salad Bowl’
Garlic ‘Inchelium Red’
Convulvulus ‘Star of Yalta’
Russian Tarragon*
Container lettuce ‘Garden Babies Butterhead’+
Cosmos (orange)
Lobelia cardinalis
Papever somniferum ‘Laurens Grape’ +
Parsley
Nierembergia ‘White Robe’
Sorghum vulgare
Saponaria officinalis (Soapwort)
Linarea pupurea (purple toadflax)
Lilium ‘Star Gazer’
Consolida ajacis
Salvia ‘Hotline Blue’ *
Malva ‘Mystic Merlin’
Pennyroyal
Rudbeckia ‘Cherry Brandy’ *
Seeds from WinterSown Educational. (You can go to the website to get your own!)
Tomato ‘Hong Yuen’*
Tomato ‘Huang Se Chieh’*
Tomato ‘Green Zebra’*
Tomato ‘Early Kus Ali’*
Tomato ‘Roma’*
Tomato ‘Gilbertie’*
Rudbeckia ‘Irish Eyes’+
Convulvulus ‘Star of Yalta’+
Zucchini ‘Little Tree of Sarzana’+
Tomato ‘Large Red Cherry’+
Tomato ‘Tondina Maremmano’+
Chervil (Anthriscus cerefolium)+
+ I received this in my event goody bag
* I received this from the “free” table
I also won a Neomarica gracillis (Walking Iris) as a door prize, and for filling out a survey form, a fern. All in all a fun and plant-filled day!
