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Seedy Subjects! => Seeds Wanted => Topic started by: fleurbleue on November 30, 2010, 05:34:53 PM

Title: Shortia seeds
Post by: fleurbleue on November 30, 2010, 05:34:53 PM

No Shortia seeds on the seedexchange list  :-[ and I have not found them to buy from nurseries. Can somebody help me ?  :D Thanks in advance for your advices

Title: Re: Shortia seeds
Post by: WimB on November 30, 2010, 07:06:23 PM

Nicole,

if you become a member of the Göteborg Connoisseur Club (you can join for free) of the Göteborg botanical Garden you'll receive their seed-catalogue every year. There is always seed of three or four Shortia/Schizocodon species available from that list.

See link: http://www.gotbot.se/kulturvast_templates/Kultur_XForm.aspx?id=51524

Here below a picture of my seedlings from last spring (sown in February 2010).


Also, Ian Christie sells them sometimes: http://www.alpine-plants.co.uk/

Title: Re: Shortia seeds
Post by: fleurbleue on November 30, 2010, 07:58:15 PM

Thank you very much WimB  :D What nice seedlings !

Title: Re: Shortia seeds
Post by: johnw on December 01, 2010, 12:00:35 PM

Quote from: fleurbleue on November 30, 2010, 05:34:53 PM

No Shortia seeds on the seedexchange list  :-[ and I have not found them to buy from nurseries. Can somebody help me ?  :D Thanks in advance for your advices

Nicole - I have some soldanelloides I collected for a forumist 14 days ago. Also some mis-placed uniflora seed from the summer, they may be too old. Send me your address via a pm.

johnw

Title: Re: Shortia seeds
Post by: Diane Whitehead on January 06, 2011, 07:15:29 AM

The Göteborg list just arrived and has no Shortia seeds this year.

They do have Schizocodon.