I think I may have been one of those people :) I don't keep records, but I certainly received a pink banana from someone last summer. It grew & I kept thinkin' it sure looked like a canna, but what do I know? I've never grown a banana before. Then it bloomed!
No problem for me though, I liked it anyway :) Funny, I was just thinking about that this morning, then saw your message.

I think we've all "been there, done that". We get so excited about trading for something we don't have that we trade off starts of new plants before we've even grown them.

I've learned to be more patient now. I'm an avid daylily collector and it's important that my plants be accurately IDed before I trade them to someone else. So I don't trade my plants anymore unless I've seen them bloom (or grow) and took pictures of them and then researched them to be sure they were correctly IDed by the source from which I received them.

So many of my first daylilies were misnamed. And I traded them under those names, disappointing other traders. But when you know better, you do better, right?

Thank you for stepping up to the plate and owning your mistake. Cannas, one of my favorite plants, really are a nice substitution for a banana. Maybe your traders weren't too disappointed.

I remember last year I was new at harvesting seed. I promised out seeds from plants that didn't even have seed heads yet. Then, on top of it they never went to seed. I promised out seed and when I went to gather it spilled the whole plate of seeds all over the ground. It's one of those things, we all do it. I know how it feels to have to write those e-mails though and give you lots of credit for admitting you were human too :)

Kim

Ha, butterflychaser! I also traded daylilies early in my membership here. I had ordered daylilies & kept the names to them, but always assumed the daylilies were what they were sold to me as. Now I have a bit more experience & know that some nurseries are not that reputable, & have found that several of my daylilies weren't what they should have been. So hard to tell sometimes from catalog pictures though.

Good for you wanna for trying to make things right. Many folks wouldn't attempt to do so. Opening up a box from a plant trade is like opening a box of chocolates. You never know what your gonna get.....