Seedlist Bjørnar Olsen

[Yann]

Seeds arrived yesterday, it was very fast from HK.

[Leena]

My seeds had also arrived last week.. like a Christmas present.

[arisaema]

All short lived seeds are now half price, I'm going on vacation in 10 days, and want to sell out as many of them as possible while they are still fully viable  I'm also pleased to say a customer tested the viability of Primula agleniana, 7 out of 11 seeds germinated after being treated with GA-3.

The sale includes all Aconitum, Anemone, Cardiocrinum, Clematis, Crawfurdia, Dicentra, Meconopsis, Omphalogramma, Panax, Primula, Stellera, Thalictrum and the Umbelliferae, in addition to Iris barbatula, Lilium ?souliei and L. yapingense.

http://trillium.no/

[arisaema]

Quick note to say all seeds are now half price, with ephemerals 75% off

I've also listed some rice grain bulbils of Fritillaria davidii collected at Xiling Xueshan last week. The bulbs grew rather exposed, so I was able to collect them with minimal disturbance of the mother bulbs.

[P. Kohn]

We too ordered seeds and they arrived safely today. We ordered a single species last year (Lilium henrici), This year a larger order, one or two items being unavailable by the time we spotted the new list. Will report on germination success.

[Maggi Young]

Just posted by an SRGC member on Facebook -
" flowering from Bjornar's 2013/14 seed. Really pleased with the huge size of the flowers. Primula agleniana alba."

[P. Kohn]

I promised to report back on germination success with seeds from this source. We ordered 11 species of which eight have germinated, I don't expect Clintonias to germinate until the second year, and the Meconopsis wilsonii was probably my fault as I  moved my meconopsis pots with my other seed pots into the conservatory this year which was definitely a mistake. For wild-collected seed I regard this as a fantastic success rate - much better than any other wild collected material that I have tried.

[Afloden]

I've had great germination on Polygonatum, Thalictrum, Clematis, Cautleya, and probably way too good on the Hedychium. I wish I could grow all the alpine Lilium and Meconopsis in my too hot climate.

[mark smyth]

I bought a lot of Geranium seeds from trillium.no but germination has been very poor. Anyone else buy Geranium seeds?

[arisaema]

Did you get some germination, or none at all? I had feedback from one customer who got a few plants of every Geranium on last year's list, and another (2013) who didn't get any plants at all - but the latter also bought garden seeds of G. delavayi, which I know were viable, so I'm wondering if it could have been partly bad luck with winter/spring. Geranium are near impossible to collect in the wild, so if most people fail it's easier just not collecting them, I've really only bothered because it's a genus that used to interest me.

[arisaema]

Thanks for the feedback! The only seeds I know for a fact have been bad are Arisaema, turns out seeds of the alpine ones in sect. Arisaema cannot survive drying out, which no one sadly seemed to have realized until this spring Everything else is all over the place, with some people getting near 100% germination and others none at all.

I'd be interested to hear feedback from those who bought the following:

Geranium - see other thread

Acers - these germinated like crazy in my fridge, but that doesn't necessarily mean they can take three weeks shipping.

Lilium yapingense - from both 2013 and 2014. I know some had very good germination on these, while other excellent growers had none.

Souliea vaginata

Addendum: ...and Clematis

[Susan Band]

I had 100% on geranium pylzowianum BO-14-078. But I am ashamed to say I let them dry out and killed them before they were potted. Sorry Bjornar 😟

[mark smyth]

I took photos of each pot and will show them later

[mark smyth]

the pot contents

[mark smyth]

and the last two