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Kimjy

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Dwarf Kalmias
« on: June 07, 2010, 12:43:57 AM »
Kalmia season has arrived - always gets me really excited !!  ;)

Kalmia 'Elf' is in full bloom now - really love this plant. Does anyone know of or grow any other good dwarf Kalmias ?
 

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Re: Dwarf Kalmias
« Reply #1 on: June 07, 2010, 03:12:39 AM »
Kalmia season has arrived - always gets me really excited !!  ;)

Kalmia 'Elf' is in full bloom now - really love this plant. Does anyone know of or grow any other good dwarf Kalmias.
 

These are worth tracking down - Tinkerbell, Tiddlywinks, Minuet and Little Linda.  As most - if not all - were bred by Dick Jaynes check out his nursery list for descriptions and any new ones. Also a shot of Dick and his wife when they visited a few years ago and standing in front of 'Elf'.

www.brokenarrownursery.com

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John in coastal Nova Scotia

Kimjy

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Re: Dwarf Kalmias
« Reply #2 on: June 08, 2010, 02:01:25 AM »
These are worth tracking down - Tinkerbell, Tiddlywinks, Minuet and Little Linda.  As most - if not all - were bred by Dick Jaynes check out his nursery list for descriptions and any new ones. Also a shot of Dick and his wife when they visited a few years ago and standing in front of 'Elf'.

www.brokenarrownursery.com

johnw

Thanks for the tips and the photo - really great to put a face to the guy behind this !

I'm in UK so I think we may have some difficulties importing evergreens from the US, although it's easier from Germany where there seem to be a few more suppliers with a bigger range than here .. still very limited in the UK. Minuet, I think, has filtered through for sale here in small numbers but the others will be very scarce if available.
I'll put them on my hit list and start hunting !


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Re: Dwarf Kalmias
« Reply #3 on: June 08, 2010, 05:52:30 PM »
Kim,

there are a lot of new cultivars available here in the nursery area in northwest of Germany. But the main problem is that a lot of mislabeled Kalmia grow here. A decade ago there were micro propaged from a company and sold in high quantities. But we get not what we have on the labels. So we have a funny, mixed population of cultivates. This take place 5 to 6 years before the company recognized that they have not the cultivars they sold. So the cultivars are often mixed.

Here a link to a specialist nursery, with a couple of cultivars

http://bulk-boskoop.nl/en/

And a link to get a poor man  :P

http://www.kalmia-society.org/nurseries.php?lang=gb
Uli Würth, Northwest of Germany Zone 7 b - 8a
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Kimjy

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Re: Dwarf Kalmias
« Reply #4 on: June 13, 2010, 06:53:11 PM »
Kim,

there are a lot of new cultivars available here in the nursery area in northwest of Germany. But the main problem is that a lot of mislabeled Kalmia grow here. A decade ago there were micro propaged from a company and sold in high quantities. But we get not what we have on the labels. So we have a funny, mixed population of cultivates. This take place 5 to 6 years before the company recognized that they have not the cultivars they sold. So the cultivars are often mixed.

Here a link to a specialist nursery, with a couple of cultivars

http://bulk-boskoop.nl/en/

And a link to get a poor man  :P

http://www.kalmia-society.org/nurseries.php?lang=gb

Thanks Uli - that's very helpful information and explains why the prices vary so much. The Kalmia Society website also looks very helpful for sourcing plants. I have purchased Kalmias from Hachmann nursery who sent them to the UK without problems on plant passport. They travel well and are very happy here so I am quite confident to buy more this way.

One of my most favourite plants.

Kim


 


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