Each trader that is coming to swap list that they are coming on the exchange page. They then list what plants or other item they have to trade(In the past all type of things have been traded) On their plant page. You check the list of each trader to see if you want any of their plants or if you have any plant they want. You email that person and make an offer. We try to pot all plants as early as possible and mark them. Each person brings some type of food for our lunch. This is prearranged trades. we also bring extra plants to trade. We have had some trader to only bring a tray of plants and others to bring a church vann full. It is up to the trader. Yes, you can bring cuttings but if making a prearranged trade, let the other person know. All types of plants have been brought in the past. Wild plants- house plants - vines -shrubs - water- sun - shade. All types (except the crazy weed) To enter Oak Mt cost 2 dollars each person. No cost for the swap. We all go thinking not to find any plants we want, but come away surprised. Lots of the trader have been trading with each other for years , so we really like for new people to come. Hope this helps. See you at the swap. Tony

Here's a question I would ask, do you add fertilizer to your pond? Because if it's a just a normal pond with lily pads & other aquatic plants. Not to mention if you have fish in it. Then it could simply be that you put your plants in a nutrient rich environment & even alkaline. And since you let your pond evaporate, I can imagine there is a build-up of of minerals & other salts. Hence why your plants are not doing so well, even if you planted them in sphagnum peat moss. They have soaked up all these salt & now it is ruined for carnivorous plants. Member ken2256 advice is sound, so that is the 1st step you can do to rescue your plants. But we have to know what you have. We are assuming that you may have Sarracenias but what if you have a tropical Nepenthes, we might give you the wrong advice that will kill your plant. Carnivorous plants grow in acid rich bogs, or nutrient rich fens. I don't know what kind of sundew plants you have, unless you can post a picture of them. But most sundews can survive being submerged. And if you have North American Sarracenias & not tropical Nepenthes (there have been some people that not knowing what they have thought Nepenthes were sarracenias & were growing them wrong. So we need a better description what you have). They often grow in environment that normally get flooded.

Actually, it was Menard's, a much smaller hardware chain. There is no Lowe's near here, unfortunately. I used to pass one on my way to school (70 miles away) until I graduated last fall. I would plan an hour before class just to stop there! That's where I got all my Orientals to form the backbone of my lily collection. (And more perennials than I can count) All those turned out to be true, so I was lucky. But the Regals never grew. I'm open to surprises: I've found it often makes gardening more fun. If I feel I have to have something specific (like the Black Beauty I needed last fall), I'll go ahead and order from B&Bs or somewhere. After posting here this morning I google searched these varieties. For two, Monte Negro and Navona I found pictures/listings that matched the pictures on the box;(now lets see if the actual flowers match the names!) For Toronto, the one that is supposed to be salmon with a yellow center, I found listings for a both the yellow as pictured, and a solid pink lily! For Kansas I found nothing at all. That picture is SO pretty I sure hope it will be like that; I'm not a fan of yellow, but this was so delicate and soft. For Bahia Blanca found nothing. Do post that picture of the blue lily! Sounds fascinating.

with a house plant.. NEVER confuse what it would do in its native habitat.. with what it can do.. indoors ... why is your house plant not outdoors for summer???? and if you want to try such.. NO DIRECT SUN EVER .... tuck it on the north side of a house... even full shade outdoors is significantly more intense than indoors.... it would need to be hardened off to light... before allowed any sun ... if ever .... you dont mention where you are.. so i dont know if it can ever be put in full sun ... FL is much different than say.. WI ... welcome to GW .... come back often ... ken