Winter Gardening Fun
“Exchanging Plants, Seeds and Flowers for Winter GardeningFun” Exciting New Winter Garden Fun!GardenHere turns grey cold weather months into exciting home gardening fun. Whileother gardening enthusiast are waiting for Spring plant and seedcatalogs, GardenHere members are busy growing landscape andflower starts in their window sills to trade with other homegardeners around the country. “Winter can be a really fun time of year for home gardeners,”said Al Stubblefield, designer and owner of the GardenHereWebsite. “Many of our members in the North root plant cuttingsin kitchen glasses to offer in exchange for postage or otherplants they would like to acquire. Some members offer to tradeflower seeds they harvested earlier in the year.“Even though outside temperatures in my state can easily hitfreezing or below this time of year, I have Fuchsia starts andGeraniums in my sunroom window that will be ready for trade in acouple of weeks. There is still a bucket of Daylily and Iris tubers in the garage that I didn’t have time toget in the ground this fall. I’m sure some of our GardenHeremembers will want them when spring arri...
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...ves.”Most gardeners in the South never see snow or experiencetemperatures even close to freezing. Some garden fanatics in theNorth protect their prize plants in home greenhouses. Most ofthese gardeners have too many of some plants and would like toeither give a way some of their extra landscape plants andflowers or trade for plant varieties they do not alreadyhave.The GardenHere Internet site makes it easy to exchange plants,seeds and flowers. It takes about 60 seconds to register andmembership is free. After that, home gardeners can placemessages in the forums offering their extra plants and flowers,or tell other members what they would like in exchange. It’sall very simple and fun. “Last month I received 20 new varieties of Daylilies and twocold hardy Hibiscus plants,” said GardenHere founder, AlStubblefield. “The only cost to me was postage, which was lessthan $6 dollars. That’s hard to beat.”Here’s what another garden member had to say,“As many of you know, I started up my own eBay business a fewmonths ago. Well, turns out that a GardenHere member, Fern, hadmade some purchases from me on e-Bay recently. We fi...
...ured thisout when Fern recognized my name and address I sent her inregards to a trade we were setting up.”She sent me tons and tons of glad bulbs and bulbils, plus someseeds in exchange for my sedum, ginger and seeds from my prizeZinnias I grew this summer.“What a small world and what an awesome trade. Thanks again,Fern. I hope to trade again soon,” posted by GardenHere Member,Nicole.GardenHere Member Copperlilac had this to say, “I just finisheda trade with Maineroses. I sent her Peonies for Irises and sheincluded a great baby Lupine and seeds as a bonus.“Thanks for the great trade Maineroses.”Finally, GardenHere Member Dee wrote, “I have some babyGladiolus. I have so many different colors I couldn't tell youwhat colors they would be. By the way, do you know how to keepthem from having too many offspring? I have to throw awayhundreds each year because I have no one to give them to.Gardeners interested in joining this friendly home gardening community areinvited to register at GardenHere Forums.It only takes about 60 seconds to register and membership isfree. "Exchanging Plants and Flowers is the Neighborly Thing ToDo"
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