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Bay Area (Calif) plant exchanges?

Since so many of us are in the San Francisco Bay Area, I was wondering if
any of you wanted to get together and trade plants, seeds, etc.  I can't
really afford to buy all the new plants I want.  Even the seeds get pricey.
I'm in a new (to me) house with tons of garden space and not a lot of
plants, so I'm starting to put in a lot of things. And am doing a lot of
planting this month.  My main interest is in plants that are edible
(including teas and herbs).

This is what I have that I can give to others.  Everything is 100%
organically grown (with just about no nasty chemicals that are approved by
organic certifiers either):

- Orchid divisions.  Mostly reed stem epis
- A pereniel I've been told is New Zealand Impatience, but I can't find
that listed so who knows?  White/pink.  I have rooted off shoots or cuttings.
- Bulbs: white calla lilies and some unknowns (daffidils?)
- Camillias (pink and red) you can take cuttings.
- Some other bushes to take cuttings from (white flowers on one and others too)
- Apple trees for scions (don't know variety but is old and good with no
water even)
- Orange and lemon (2) trees 
- All the lemons you can carry
- Lemongrass already divided and rooted in a pot
- Mother-in-laws tounge already divided and rooted in a pot
- Rooted potted plants of that vinelike houseplant that looks like a
philidendrum but isn't
- African violets you can take leaves from
- Oxalis that is a houseplant with bronze leaves and pink flowers...if you
can figure out how to divide it safely
- Tons of aspergus ferns in pots already
- Tons of several succulents, many in pots
- Strawberry plants.  A friend gave me a ton of them a couple days ago and
we have some leftovers.  They grow well locally and the berries are the size
of ping-pong balls, I'm told
- Rhodies, azaleas, hibiscus (double peach), and fushias to take cuttings from
- Several kinds of geraniums to take cuttings from, including scented
- Jade, jade, jade, jade
- other stuff I can't think of at the moment or am too lazy to write down
in full

I am looking for the following (organically grown and treated strongly
preferred):

- Cane berry divisions.  blackberries, raspberries, etc...not Himilayan!
thornless preferred of course
- Blueberries and kiwis to plant
- Seeds of tomatoes and eggplants that come true to seed and do well in Bay
Area gardens with medium heat (I mean seeds from your plants)
- Seeds of other annual veggies
- Herb seeds or divisions
- Vanilla orchid division
- Cactus pads, the flat kind you eat
- Asperagus and artichokes to plant
- Open to many others, especially edibles that grow in our climate with no
additional water, but also to others

If anyone is interested, just let me know.  I'd love to meet folks.
Because of my disabilities, the logistics can get complicated but should be
okay.  My SO can come and dig out offshoots or whatever needs digging.

Cyndi
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Oakland, California            Zone 9 USDA; Zone 16 Sunset Western Garden Guide
Disabled, chemically sensitive, wheelchair user          Organic Gardening only
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"There's nothing wrong with me.  Maybe there's                     Cyndi Norman
something wrong with the universe." (ST:TNG)                   cnorman@best.com
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