Bulbs from South Africa - 2010

[bulborum]

You are right Cohen
seeing growing a plant is fun too
many plants flower just a short time
leaves are important too

I just bought from over 100 African species seeds
and hardly can't wait till they arrive

Babiana's from last year did well
so I bought a whole collection of them
in a few years I hope to show the results

Roland

[cohan]

wow! where did you buy your seed? i am still not finding much of the kind i like-i like penrock's list, but most of their seed seems to be old...and i still may order there again from desperation!
all the other lists i have seen have mostly larger plants or those mostly for flowers...

[bulborum]

I found a lot here :   http://www.bidorbuy.co.za/category/8372/Garden_Outdoor_Living_Pets_Gardening_Plants_Plants_Seeds_Bulbs.jsp   

one of them but a little expensive:   http://www.bidorbuy.co.za/jsp/tradesearch/TradeSearchLinkResultsPage.jsp?PageTitle=Bulb%20Seeds&IncludedKeywords=Bulb&KeywordHandling=AND&TextColumn=Trade_Title&SellerId=390651&tradeListDisplayMode=picture  

much cheaper but more work to go through the list is :   http://www.bidorbuy.co.za/seller/1343111/BEing_Plants  

most easy is you just type the first name of a plant in all category's in the find list
and you see all the results (or none)

Roland

[PeterT]

Last spring, (northern hemisphere), I bought seed and corms of Babiana species from Cameron McMaster in South Africa as well as other species such as Massonia and Drimia, all the seeds have germinated well and the corms grew most of the summer. His current list includes Babianas

[cohan]

i've looked at the mcmasters list, as well as gordon summerfield and silverhill, nice things, but not much of the sort of dwarf plants i am looking for, at least not at last look (that's why i say, mostly pretty garden flowers on those lists).... or worse--descriptions only of flowers, without even saying how big the plants are!! and many of these things are not findable on google to see what they are like... lol

speaking of which, peter, do you have the mcmaster's most recent list, could you send me a copy?

[PeterT]

will forward you a copy, I mentioned the Babianas because of Rolands referance.

[cohan]

thanks...the babianas are stunners, no arguments there

[David Nicholson]

Another one worth looking at

http://lifestyleseeds.co.za/usd/index.php

[bulborum]

Good site David

I forgot this one
I bought my babiana's (16 different ones) there last year
ordering is just a little complicated
but they germinated well

Roland

[YT]

Hi, all! Lachenalia viridiflora has started to bloom now. Original seeds were from Silverhill just a decade ago. I really love this jade green flowers and heavy spotted leaves.

[Gail]

Fantastic photo of an amazing plant!

[mark smyth]

and a few more
Depressa.
Pustulata.

wow  Michael are your benches heated?

[mark smyth]

Just read the heat is set for 0c 

[PeterT]

Well it's going to have to do some warming up to reach that in Derbyshire Mark 

[bulborum]

How to find your African bulbs back

Roland