Bjornar

[Susan Band]

Has anyone heard from bjornar (arisaema) lately? The last time I heard was in July. He usually is talking about his seed list by now. Hope he is okay.
Susan

[WimB]

Last I heard, he was okay. He was moving though, so it might be he is too busy with the move...

[Susan Band]

Great. It gets a bit worrying when he goes quiet for a long time.

[arisaema]

Sorry for disappearing, been a bit burned out on plants (and seeds, mountains, awful roads, rain), but I'm working on the seed list now and hope to have it online in about a week.

[Susan Band]

Glad you're  still on the go. When you see pictures of the roads you travel on you never know what might happen. Looking forward to your new  list. Everything from last year is doing great.
Susan

[Maggi Young]

Bjørnar' s new list is online now : http://trillium.no

[Liz Mills]

What a superb seed list.  My order for Lilium and Nomocharis has gone already and I'm keeping my fingers crossed that he still has some seed of the plants I'd love to try to grow.

[fermi de Sousa]

Not a good time for Seedaholics!
First the SRGC Seedex and now Bjornar's list (yes, I succumbed!) and AGS's should go "live" today!
Bjornar was very helpful and reassuring when I contacted him.
I think this Forum offers great support for these sorts of small enterprises which provide us with more access to the diversity of plants which the "supermarket" seed-suppliers ignore because they can't be supplied en masse.
cheers
fermi

[arisaema]

Thanks everyone for the orders and compliments, it's fun to be able to offer seeds of plants that have never been in cultivation, or that have been extinct from cultivation for decades. I have to apologize for the cost of some of the seeds, but it's a one man business, and the cost of travelling to some of the remote locations keep increasing every year. Haven't been too active on the forum lately either, sometimes you need break doing other things to keep the interest alive 

Hopefully we can get some of the nicer ones established and reestablished from responsibly collected seeds, without having to resort to importing wild collected plants. I have some rather terrible news regarding one of the habitats I visited, but that's for a later post - need to get the backlog sent out first. All I can say is, please do not buy adult bulbs of any Lilium yapingense (or L. nanum) from Chinese suppliers!

[Brian Ellis]

Christmas has arrived in the form of my order.

Happy Bunny

[art600]

My fingers are crossed 

[Liz Mills]

VERY EXCITED for I've just had an e-mail to say that my seeds have been dispatched.  Fingers crossed that I get everything I asked for.

[art600]

VERY EXCITED for I've just had an e-mail to say that my seeds have been dispatched.  Fingers crossed that I get everything I asked for.

Liz

I too received notification of despatch plus a PayPal refund for those items that were sold out - Frits.   So if no refund you should get all your ordered items. 

[johnw]

Has anyone had germination yet on any of Bjornar's Lilium seed ?  I wonder about L. souliei (last time it sprouted immediately), L. euxanthum and L. yapingense in particular.  Any strategies?

[Yann]

souliei already germinated in february and now georgei are sprouting over the compost.

I sown them early december, in a mix of 60 % german turf, 30% perlite and 10% of seramis.
Pots are kept under glass, frost free. Between december and January i left the pot in a shaded area and watered the seeds every 2 weeks. I now water them each week and the pots are receiving day light but always with in shaded zone of the greenhouse.

Last year 70% of the soulei germinated, they now are 1cm bulbils.

You need to be patient, Lilium germination can be erratic.