Some of you will know I am the NC holder for diascia. I've been propagating the species material I've had for 15 years (much of it brought in by Hilliard and Burtt from their studies of the species in the 1980s, and by the generosity of RBGE at Logan) on an annual basis, so, no wonder, the species are now in decline as a result. Some are already lost in the wild, due to govt policies, more grazing in areas where they grow etc. So I now need to try to grow the species from seed if I can get it. I've begun cross pollinating where I have more than one taxon for a species, and this has been occasionally successful. I've also had some seed from Silverhills too, but they don't always travel to the places where they grow, and its probably not commercially feasible to collect them anyway. So this is a plea, if anyone is able to legitimately obtain seed from any of the species of diascia except D. barberae which is commercially available here, please let me know. Many thanks
