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Title: searching prunus prostrata
Post by: christian pfalz on July 26, 2012, 05:04:41 PM: hello all,
i´m searching prunus prostrata from greece and other dwarf shrubs from turkey or greece....
thanks a lot
cheers
chris
Title: Re: searching prunus prostrata
Post by: Giles on July 27, 2012, 02:01:23 PM: It's easy from seed.
F.W.Schumacher sell it http://www.treeshrubseeds.com/catalog.asp?submit=Paging&genus=p&sql=SELECT+ID%2C+GENUS%2C+SPECIES%2C+ORIGIN%2C+Priceoz%2C+Price25lb%2C+PriceLb%2C+Price25oz%2C+Price06oz%2C+Pricepkt+from+SEED+where+UseFlag+%3D+%27Y%27+and+GENUS+%3E%3D+%27p%27+ORDER+BY+GENUS%2CSPECIES%2CORIGIN&curpage=3 (http://www.treeshrubseeds.com/catalog.asp?submit=Paging&genus=p&sql=SELECT+ID%2C+GENUS%2C+SPECIES%2C+ORIGIN%2C+Priceoz%2C+Price25lb%2C+PriceLb%2C+Price25oz%2C+Price06oz%2C+Pricepkt+from+SEED+where+UseFlag+%3D+%27Y%27+and+GENUS+%3E%3D+%27p%27+ORDER+BY+GENUS%2CSPECIES%2CORIGIN&curpage=3)
They sell 3$ pkts for amateurs, but you will have to pay for a phytosanitary certificate.
Can pay by card over the 'phone.
I've ordered from them several times and have never been disappointed.
Title: Re: searching prunus prostrata
Post by: Darren on July 27, 2012, 03:15:06 PM: Great source Giles - have bookmarked it.

I've read that the really prostrate plants I've seen in Crete etc are kept that way by grazing and become much 'shrubbier' in gardens when protected. Anyone know?
Title: Re: searching prunus prostrata
Post by: christian pfalz on July 27, 2012, 05:03:22 PM: thanks....for the link.....
cheers
chris
Title: Re: searching prunus prostrata
Post by: Tony Willis on July 27, 2012, 05:21:35 PM: I have one I collected on Mt Parnassus in 1985 as a cutting and it is still only 20 cms high. Not many goats grazing it in my garden so it is naturally prostrate.
Title: Re: searching prunus prostrata
Post by: christian pfalz on July 27, 2012, 05:47:37 PM: hi tony,
can you show us a picture ?
cheers
chris
Title: Re: searching prunus prostrata
Post by: Maggi Young on July 27, 2012, 05:56:09 PM: I think this plant has never looked lovelier than in Oren's pictures :

http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=9179.msg248984#msg248984 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=9179.msg248984#msg248984)

Who would not like to have it grow so well in their garden? 8)
Title: Re: searching prunus prostrata
Post by: Tony Willis on July 27, 2012, 07:02:57 PM: Quote from: christian pfalz on July 27, 2012, 05:47:37 PM
hi tony,
can you show us a picture ?
cheers
chris

Sorry I do not have one and in any case it never flowers like the one shown by Oren. When I have seen it in the wild on several occasions in Greece it has been very sparse flowered and mine is in cultivation.