Seed and plant exchanges are simple and easy ways to get most - or even sometimes all - of the plants and seeds you want completely free. It takes a little work on your end, but if you like to try out a variety of different plants or you love starting new flowers and plants from seeds, then you should locate an exchange in your area or find someone using one of the online gardening forums.
In a plant or seed exchanges, when someone has extra flower and plant seeds, they offer to trade them for something else. Or you can offer to perform a service in exchange for someone sending you a plant or seeds that you can't find. Usually in the online forum, the post will state what kinds of seeds they have, and what kinds of seeds they're wanting to trade for.
If you have the seeds wanted, and you want what they're offering, you contact them and make arrangements to send your seeds to them in the mail, and they'll send theirs to you.
