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General Subjects => Plants Wanted Or For Exchange => Topic started by: WimB on February 22, 2008, 02:25:48 PM

Title: Massonia jasminiflora
Post by: WimB on February 22, 2008, 02:25:48 PM: Hello,

is there anyone who knows where I can buy the hardy summer-flowering form of Massonia jasminiflora?

kind regards

Wim
Title: Re: Massonia jasminiflora
Post by: David Nicholson on February 22, 2008, 08:15:55 PM: Wim, although this Site is listed in the RHS Pantfinder as a supplier of Massonia jasminiflora I have to say that I could not find it in his current catalogue. Unless you get a reply from nearer home you may like to give Bob Brown at Cotswold Garden Flowers a phone call.

Best of luck.

http://www.cgf.net/contact.php
Title: Re: Massonia jasminiflora
Post by: Maggi Young on February 22, 2008, 08:44:55 PM: David, you have missed out the name of the nursery.... do you mean that Cotswold Gardens plants/flowers is shown as listing it in the Plantfinder?
Title: Re: Massonia jasminiflora
Post by: David Nicholson on February 22, 2008, 08:58:34 PM: Quote from: Maggi Young on February 22, 2008, 08:44:55 PM
David, you have missed out the name of the nursery.... do you mean that Cotswold Gardens plants/flowers is shown as listing it in the Plantfinder?

Maggi, I missed out the whole Link (mind on other things! ;D ) so have amended my post, and yes, the nursery is Cotswold Garden Flowers.

and a later edit to make things clearer. The time it has taken me to get to the point of a lucid post he could have walked to the nursery!
Title: Re: Massonia jasminiflora
Post by: Maggi Young on February 22, 2008, 09:06:02 PM: Quote
mind on other things!
I guessed as much! Have a packet of crisps on me, eh? Or can you afford your own, out of the pension!! ::)
Title: Re: Massonia jasminiflora
Post by: WimB on February 23, 2008, 07:49:01 AM: Thanks David,

I mailed him. In belgium Massonia is impossible to find. I had already tried Paul Christian but he told me he doesn't have this form...

Greetz

Wim
Title: Re: Massonia jasminiflora
Post by: David Nicholson on February 23, 2008, 10:09:03 AM: Quote from: Maggi Young on February 22, 2008, 09:06:02 PM
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mind on other things!
I guessed as much! Have a packet of crisps on me, eh? Or can you afford your own, out of the pension!! ::)

Maggi, you know I'm a Yorkshireman, you could so easily have lost your hand!

What's this Devon Cream stuff, people will think I was born here!
Title: Re: Massonia jasminiflora
Post by: ashley on February 23, 2008, 10:27:26 AM: Wim,

Silverhill Seeds list an autumn-flowering form in their 2008 catalogue (p. 22) so it might be worth e-mailing them about availability.

Contact details are: P.O. Box 53108, Kenilworth, 7745 Cape Town, South Africa
Telephone: +27 21 762-4245/ Facsimile: +27 21 797-6609/ E-mail: info@silverhillseeds.co.za
Title: Re: Massonia jasminiflora
Post by: ashley on February 23, 2008, 12:43:11 PM: Pops in from Cork

Thanks Maggi ;D ;D Hit-and-run, eh?
Title: Re: Massonia jasminiflora
Post by: Maggi Young on February 23, 2008, 01:22:36 PM: You're welcome, Ashley... not bad for a pedestrian, eh, this ability to hit and run ? Tihnk what I could get up to with a full driving licence :o
Title: Re: Massonia jasminiflora
Post by: WimB on February 23, 2008, 03:48:46 PM: Hello Ashley,

I've send Silverhill seeds an e-mail too. We'll see. If they got it, it will be interesting to sow since I'v never sown anything from South-Africa.
Title: Re: Massonia jasminiflora
Post by: WimB on February 29, 2008, 02:13:46 PM: Hello everybody, thanks for your suggestions;

Silverhill hasn't got this plant and Cotswold no longer sells this plant :'(
So, if anybody ever finds it I would be very happy if you could let me know.

Thanks
Title: Re: Massonia jasminiflora
Post by: Hans J on February 29, 2008, 03:00:45 PM: Wim ,

write to "African Bulbs" ( Rhoda & Cameron McMaster )
they have seeds and bulbs
Title: Re: Massonia jasminiflora
Post by: WimB on March 01, 2008, 05:41:05 PM: African bulbs has seed of a summer flowering form but they told me it is Massonia echinata instead of Massonia jasminiflora (a summer flowering form of Massonia jasminiflora does not exist according to them).
I'm going to try it and see...
Title: Re: Massonia jasminiflora
Post by: WimB on March 03, 2008, 04:36:10 PM: It would seem that it is the same form,
there is no consensus about the fact if it should be Massonia echinata or Massonia jasminiflora.
So I ordered some seeds from African bulbs,
is there anyone who could tell me what the best sowing conditions are?

Thanks

Wim