Swap Your Plants

I was thinking about what I wrote in my post on experimenting and I inspired myself to simply begin a project that I have been mulling over in my head for a couple of years now.  I plan to build a walled garden,  as part of a small holding that we are somehow going to get our hands on.  On the outside we will get another two horses to keep our first one company and also to provide all the fertiliser needs of the garden.  There will be courses on liberty training and other natural ways of looking after horses.  There might be a meadow if we're extra lucky and have space and on the inside there will be lots of vegetables, many many types of fruit and lots of scented flowers and herbs. 

The garden will be used for education, for fun, for dreaming and more.  It will be built entirely from old discarded items and will be run on completely sustainable principles.  It will use money only if all other ways of achieving something have been exhausted and so will rely on people's imagination all the way.  As the idea develops in my head I will write more about it but for now I'm going to start collecting plants.  I'm looking for fruiting plants at the moment mostly, but also perennial flowers and herbs.  Anything that you have that you can either take a cutting of, gather seeds from or donate the whole plant will find a home...soon.  If you would like to do a swap then I can give you a physalis plant, or a melissa plant.  I'm working on get some cuttings from other plants that I have so watch this space. 

I want to gather the plants now so they have a little chance to grow and be ready for planting when the time comes.  There are many other things that I will be throwing out requests for as the whole idea takes off and if you happen to have any ideas that you think I would like then please email me(link on left).
I've no idea where this will go and how it will actually work but I'm really excited to be simply starting.  Stand by for more information...

Comments

[Jane]

Sorry I've not visited for a wee while. I like your idea of a plant swap - but how would it go crossing borders do you think? (I got jip for even visiting Ireland during the foot-and-mouth outbreak!)

[Maria]

Weeell, I was thinking that within Ireland people could swap actual plants but outside of that they could swap seeds....Got any seeds?