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Title: Viola Pacifica
Post by: maggiepie on April 12, 2009, 05:40:15 PM: Am hoping someone can give me some information on Viola Pacifica.
I received some seeds from NARGS and can't find any information about them. ??? ???
Title: Re: Viola Pacifica
Post by: Gerdk on April 12, 2009, 05:51:12 PM: It is a nice, white flowering species from the Russian Far East - Section Adnatae (related to V. mandshurica for instance). Sorry no pics!
It is very tender and I lost all my plants recently because I forgot to keep them inside when it became frosty.

Gerd
Title: Re: Viola Pacifica
Post by: maggiepie on April 12, 2009, 06:13:02 PM: Gerd, thanks for the information, but it surprises me that a plant from Russia would be frost tender, I thought it got very cold there. ???
Title: Re: Viola Pacifica
Post by: Gerdk on April 13, 2009, 07:29:31 AM: Quote from: maggiepie on April 12, 2009, 06:13:02 PM
Gerd, thanks for the information, but it surprises me that a plant from Russia would be frost tender, I thought it got very cold there. ???

Helen,
The area around Vladyvostok experiences a regular snowcover in winter -
this might be the reason that some violet species from there are so tender.
Also I made the experience that a lot of the Adnatae violets are difficult
to overwinter, even when from northern latitudes - Viola selkirkii for instance.

Gerd

P.S.
Please save some seeds for me if you will have some from your plants
Title: Re: Viola Pacifica
Post by: maggiepie on April 13, 2009, 01:22:56 PM: Gerd,

I would be happy to share the seed with you now, of course being from a seed exchange you take your chances.
Title: Re: Viola Pacifica
Post by: Sinchets on April 13, 2009, 02:02:08 PM: Oh no- are NARGS reknowned for this as well?
Title: Re: Viola Pacifica
Post by: maggiepie on April 13, 2009, 02:48:40 PM: Hi Simon, I just mean that seed exchanges can't give guarantees that seed donation names are accurate.
I've never had seed from them before, this year they had a huge surplus of seed and decided to allow chapter members to participate in the surplus seeds sale.
Oh if only AGS would do the same ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Viola Pacifica
Post by: Maggi Young on April 13, 2009, 03:30:05 PM: Quote
Oh if only AGS would do the same
But I think they do, Helen ??? They have a main and a surplus seed distribution just as the SRGC does, then the very last remaining seed goes to the shows to be sold off there, I think. Not that the last step helps you overseas, I know, but it is pretty standard practice for AGS and SRGC exchanges.
Title: Re: Viola Pacifica
Post by: veteran vet on April 15, 2009, 10:46:00 AM: The AGS certainly does sell off surplus seed, at least they have at most AGS shows I have attended this season. You self select from the seed available at the show, usually is £1 for three packets. The problem is trawling through hundreds of packets, even if they nare in alphabetical order!
Title: Re: Viola Pacifica
Post by: Gerdk on April 15, 2009, 01:34:34 PM: Quote from: maggiepie on April 13, 2009, 01:22:56 PM
Gerd,
I would be happy to share the seed with you now, of course being from a seed exchange you take your chances.

Helen,
Sorry, forgot to say ' Thank you ' here for this kind offer!

Gerd
Title: Re: Viola Pacifica
Post by: maggiepie on April 15, 2009, 09:35:45 PM: Gerd,

I am hoping to get them to the post office in the morning. :)
Title: Re: Viola Pacifica
Post by: Michael J Campbell on April 15, 2009, 09:52:16 PM: Quote
I just mean that seed exchanges can't give guarantees that seed donation names are accurate.
I know what you mean Helen. From 12 pkts of different named Fritillaria AGS seed, I got 10 acmopetala, 1 pallidiflora, and I pontica, all inaccurate. I don't get seed from that source anymore.