Seed Donation 2013 to SRGC Seed Exchange

[Maggi Young]

       
2013 Seed Donations to SRGC

A Seed exchange is  only as good as the seed donated- please support the SRGC Seed Ex. by making a donation of seed from your plants.

     

Please send seed donations, individually packaged per variety, preferably in a paper envelope, and cleaned of all seed cases, debris, insects, etc to:-
Prof. Stuart Pawley, Acres of Keillour, Methven, Perth, Scotland, UK, PH1 3RA.

Please include your name and address and a clearly written alphabetical list of the seed you are sending.

Please don’t be put off if you only have a small amount of seed of a species, or only a few species to send - it may be the small amount or seed that no-one else has, and that someone would love to have.

The deadline for seed to arrive at Stuart’s door is 31st October 2013.
If you have “late maturing” seed that cannot be sent until later, please send the information about this as early as possible and before 31st October, to Stuart at gsp.srgc@btinternet.com. Send the list in the text of an e-mail, not as an attachment. Stuart can’t afford a computer virus at this critical time. It is important to send the information early so we can produce the seed list in good time.
Please send late seed as soon as you can.

This coming seed list will be the 67th for the SRGC - please collect seed from your plants and donate to the seed exchange 

                                             

                                             

[David Pilling]

Hi,

I got meconopsis napaulensis from the SRGC seed ex 2010/2011, nice plants, which have now flowered. One plant was yellow and the rest red. Trying to check these, I read that m. napaulensis and regia are unknown in cultivation, and what are grown are hybrids.

As what should I submit the seeds from these plants?

[Maggi Young]

I would suggest  :  M. ‘napaulensis’ (hort)

[David Pilling]

Hi Maggi, good suggestion, 'hort' does not seem to be something used in the SRGC seed list - presumably I add that, the good Prof. deletes it and all is as it should be.

I could put m. n. hybrids.

Alas they've (as advertised) proved to be monocarpic, the leaf rosettes in Winter were good.

[Maggi Young]

'hort' is something that I believe James Cobb would go along with -  and that's good enough for me.

The ways of the professor are often  beyond my comprehension - he dances to his own tune.

[deplantspecialist]

Maggi,
It seems that every body ( also foreign members), have to pay for there seed order, from now on. Is that also for seed donors? I don't read that in the papers.
Please let me know,

regards Peter

[David Nicholson]

Maggi,
It seems that every body ( also foreign members), have to pay for there seed order, from now on. Is that also for seed donors? I don't read that in the papers.
Please let me know,

regards Peter

Have a look at http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=10803.0

[deplantspecialist]

Thanks David,

I've read that in the latest SRGC issue, but I see nothing if donors must pay also fot ther seed request,

regards Peter

[Michael J Campbell]

I thought that the annual 2013 subscription for foreign members included the fee for the seed order. If so then we are being charged twice.
 

[Maggi Young]

The charge being made is for the post and packing of the seed, not the seed itself.
All members must pay.
The SRGC subscription year runs, as it always has, from October to October: thus subscriptions paid in October 2012 entitled  overseas members  to the basic  Seed Exchange allocation without extra payment in the winter 2012 season.

The new subscription for the year 2013-2104 is due now. Rates now only take increased Journal postage into account, and seed is charged additionally.
I hope this is clear . 

Edit : note added -I should have noted that donors have always paid towards their seed.  One of the reasons why all members should be so grateful to them for their support of the club.

[Botanica]

Hello Maggi 

My English is not very good, and i have a little confusion about the seed exchange 2013.
I read (understand) that all members could pay for seed this year . 
For my example, i pay my new subscription for the year 2013-2104 last week for "Overseas - Membership" and i send most of 10 packets of seeds tomorrow for SRGC exhange.
Last year, i have seed packets for zero euros ...and this year i could pay what ?
Could you explain me in simple word , why this change and what could i paid for packet of seed ?



Have a good day in the garden for all members 

[Maggi Young]

Hello Sandy - this year you will pay £5 (7 euros) for your main seed allocation - as a donor you can receive 25 packets of seed  for this amount.  ( 16 packets for non-donors)

Each 25 packets of seeds from the surplus seed will cost £5.

It is  because the postage costs have risen so much for the journals  and seed  that the new charge has been introduced.

[Rogan]

As I will be on pension (not retired!) from January next year, I will have to review all my international subscriptions carefully. The new seed-exchange charges, coupled with the increase in postage / subscription rates and our weak currency make the whole excercise quite expensive! 

Perhaps registering for the 'electronic' journal makes more sense to people from 'foreign' countries http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=10804.0 would be a viable option?   

[Maggi Young]

Perhaps registering for the 'electronic' journal makes more sense to people from 'foreign' countries http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=10804.0 would be a viable option?   

I think that the possibilities to enjoy the journal on a screen or reader - with the chance to enlarge text and pictures at will is a big draw for the electronic subscription option, Rogan - and the cost of that, even with seed exchange costs, is a VERY good deal - in the UK or overseas.

[Jean-Patrick AGIER]

Hi Maggi,
I've understood well the changes which have been introduced for overseas members regarding the seed exchange. Would you please consider the fact that sending seed for the exchange from other parts of the world is also "expensive". A bit more I assume than for UK people. I have sent some seeds to the 2013 exchange but really don't know whether I'll ask for anything in return. And, of course, I'll consider about sending something for the 2014 exchange. I'm sorry.
JP