Southwestern Native Seed.

[Giles]

I came across this website http://www.southwesternnativeseeds.com/ and wondered if anyone had ordered seed from here or knew if it was still up and running?
Thankyou

[astragalus]

I've ordered in the past from Sally Walker's Southwestern Native Seed.  Always excellent seed from a very knowledgeable plantswoman.  I assume she is still running her seed business, but don't really know for sure.

[ashley]

I assume she is still running her seed business, but don't really know for sure.

Yes it's a very interesting list that looks current to me, with 'New Arrivals' as recent as last November (2015).

[Giles]

Anne, Ashley,
...thankyou.
I always enjoy finding new sources of seed, but needed a bit of reassurance before sending off an order.
Giles

[Lesley Cox]

Sally (she was Sally McLaggan then) used to live in NZ and worked in the Invercargill Botanic Garden, perhaps others too. But that must have been in the 60s maybe, a long time ago anyway. I don't think I ever met her but those who knew her had great liking and respect for her and her knowledge. Then she went off to the USA and presumably married there, and started her seed business.  It looks from her note re change af address that she has been in that same business for 41 years. She must be getting on though. Aren't we all!

[astragalus]

Lesley, she is really an amazing person.  She basically lived in an ancient little camper for months by herself during her seed collecting travels.  I was amazed that the camper could make it more than a mile and she was in some very remote places.  We were on the same trip once in Utah and she'd be on the next ridge hunting seed while the rest of us were taking a break.

[Tim Ingram]

She sounds just like Lester Rowntree who travelled around in a car with the passenger seat removed to give more space for plant and seed collections! I have had seed from Sally Walker quite a few times and it comes beautifully packaged and clean, and often from particularly outstanding plants in the wild.

[astragalus]

Tim, she once gave me instructions on how to get a close-up photo of a rattlesnake in the wild.  After listening to step one, which as I recall consisted of somehow placing an empty cooking pot over the snake, I tuned out.  She never said she'd done it herself!

[Giles]

...seed arrived promptly, carefully packed.....

[astragalus]

You can be sure it will also be properly labeled.