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NARCISSUS / Re: NARCISSUS 2025
« Last post by Maggi Young on February 13, 2025, 06:13:42 PM »Anne Wright beside her Farrer winning plant, photo by Julia Corden

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NARCISSUS / Re: NARCISSUS 2025« Last post by Maggi Young on February 13, 2025, 06:13:42 PM »Anne Wright beside her Farrer winning plant, photo by Julia Corden
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Seed Exchange / Re: SRGC Seed Exchange 2024-2025« Last post by Richard Green on February 13, 2025, 05:56:10 PM »This is an update for our overseas members. You will know that there are more and more problems each year with sending seed overseas. Both Brexit and Phytosanitary certificate regulations have caused us some big problems. Here is a summary by country or area:
European Union (including Switzerland and Northern Ireland, excluding Norway) - your seeds have been checked by the Scottish Government Seeds Inspectors in Edinburgh and they have provided Phytosanitary Certification to allow the seeds to be sent from the UK to your area/country. Unfortunately, this year it seems that allium seed is not allowed by the EU to be imported from UK into the EU, so sorry to those of you who ordered allium. These allium seeds have been removed from your orders, but it happened too late to add any replacement seeds. The seed has left the UK and we have friendly members organised to ensure your seeds are delivered soon - so orders are being made up now. They should be mailed to you in the next two weeks. Australia - the box of seeds for your orders has just reached Sydney (12 Feb). It may be inspected under Australian BICON rules, and should then be delivered shortly to our friendly member who is helping to ensure your seeds are separated and delivered correctly. They will be distributed as soon as possible. United States of America - your seeds were mailed to your chosen USDA APHIS Inspection Station three weeks ago. Unfortunately a number of envelopes were returned by the Royal Mail (in some cases twice). This was due to misunderstandings by the Post Office about Customs forms and other barcoded labels. These problems have now been resolved, and all envelopes mailed out, but some may be delayed this year. It may explain the delays experienced by Eric and Marc (see previous posts). Rest of World (including Canada, Norway, New Zealand etc) - your seeds were mailed three weeks ago, and we know that some have been delivered in Canada, China and New Zealand, so the rest should now be in your own country's postal system. We hope this explains the position for your country, and that you can be patient for a little longer. Exporting seeds to you is now a big and major undertaking. Apologies for any delays which are now entirely out of our control. 43
NARCISSUS / Re: NARCISSUS 2025« Last post by YT on February 13, 2025, 02:36:16 PM »Congratulations on winning, annew
![]() Your winning medal proves not only your growing skills but outstanding breeding work with your life! 44
Seed Exchange / Re: SRGC Seed Exchange 2024-2025« Last post by Eric NY on February 13, 2025, 01:16:21 PM »Hi all,
I have already recieved 2 of the 3 packages I expect. First one arrived on Friday 2/7/25 and the second on Monday 2/10/25. The package on 2/10/25 was held up on Thursday by APHIS in Jamaica NY. I had wrong spieces listed on taxa list. They asked for updated permit. I went online and added the correct species to the permit, it took less than a half hour to submit the update and recieve new permit. I forwarded the permit to the inspector at end of work day on Thursday about 2:30pm. The seed arrived on Monday. They took about 2 weeks to arrive, which is greatly reduced from last year. Last year they arrived in early March. Thanks for everybody involved in making the exchange a success. Especially, Marc for being the donation contact in the US. Eric Duma 45
Plants Wanted Or For Exchange / Re: Andean Tropaeolum species« Last post by Vinny 123 on February 13, 2025, 08:26:26 AM »Rather late on the scene, but two are offered by Chile Flora.
They are trustworthy but incredibly slow and never, ever, so far as I know, answer emails. Packet quantities are very generous and germination excellent. The main problem, apart from no contact, is the cost of shipping etc. 46
Plants Wanted Or For Exchange / Re: Looking for species hellebores« Last post by Vinny 123 on February 13, 2025, 08:21:00 AM »People who donate to seed exchanges can get overethusiastic in their description/claims.
Not infrequently data provided is for the parent plant, not the seed. This is particularly obvious if growing plants that carry the same identity/label but are from different sources. 47
Seed Exchange / Re: SRGC Seed Exchange 2024-2025« Last post by MarcR on February 13, 2025, 05:50:38 AM »I received 1 package of 3 expected on Monday 2/10. It is not unusual for packages mailed together to arrive separately. They might arrive at APHIS together and depart several weeks apart. Small APHIS PPQ stations like Seattle [Seatac] have only 2 inspectors and commercial shipments are given priority.
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Plants Wanted Or For Exchange / Re: Looking for species hellebores« Last post by MarcR on February 13, 2025, 05:15:56 AM »Hi Jeff,
I was referring to Seed Exchange entries referenced as Wild collected with a location specified. Even wild populationa are OP, and can [and sometimes do] form natural hybrids. 49
Plants Wanted Or For Exchange / Re: Looking for species hellebores« Last post by Jeffnz on February 13, 2025, 02:46:24 AM »Hi marc
While it may be available from a seed exchange it is more than likely open pollinated and hence no a pure species. Many years back there were nursery plants labelled as Early Purple, purported to be a species. It turned out to be a hybrid. This is one danger of seed exchanges which applies across all the donated seed lines. 50
Plants Wanted Or For Exchange / Re: Looking for species hellebores« Last post by MarcR on February 13, 2025, 02:28:40 AM »Roberto and Jeffnz,
While it is true that wild collectrd Hellebore seed is not commercially available, it sometimes appears on the garden society seed exchanges. In my opinion, the best of thhese are: the SRGC, AGS, and HPS (in the UK); the PBS, NARGS, and HPS Mid Atlantic Group (in the US) and the Ontario Rock Gagden and Hardy Plant Society (in Canada) |