Comments on SRGC Seed Exchange No. 66, 2012-13

[WimB]

Received the seedlist this morning  When will the online-ordering and list be ready?

[Maggi Young]

Hello Wim,
 Good to hear the paper list is arriving with members.

The online seed request service will not be available until next week some time.

 I will place announcements here and on the main website etc when that happens. 

Seedlist No. 66 for 2012-2013 is available to browse/download here :

http://files/.srgc.net/seedexchange/SRGCSeedlist66.pdf


Please read useful details here  before the online  request system goes live: http://www.srgc.net/site/index.php/extensions/seed-exchange       

N.B. Distribution of Seed will not begin until the first weekend in January.
 

[Maggi Young]

Seedlist No. 66 for 2012-2013 is available to browse/download here :

http://files/.srgc.net/seedexchange/SRGCSeedlist66.pdf


Please read useful details here  before the online  request system goes live: http://www.srgc.net/site/index.php/extensions/seed-exchange       
 

N.B. There was an error in the url - it is now corrected!     

[John Aipassa]

Yeeeeeeehaw!

[gote]

Folks : a typo on the url has now been fixed!!   

Agreee

Göte

[David Pilling]

Interesting to see cosmos atrosanguineus (chocolate cosmos) in the list - truly non-extinct now.

[fleurbleue]

I have got some seeds on my Cosmos atrosanguineus plants grown from seeds offered by a nice forumist and I wanted to share them now with the other forum members interested in 

[Maggi Young]

I have got some seeds on my Cosmos atrosanguineus plants grown from seeds offered by a nice forumist and I wanted now to share them now with the other forum members interested in 

Wonderful! Exactly what the Seed Exchange is all about - and aided by the Forum - makes me VERY happy!   

[Menai]

I notice item 635 Bulbinella eburnifolia. I think this name is incorrect. It should be B. eburniflora. I have discussed this with Pauline Perry whose work on this genus was published by the NBI in 1999. As a descriptive term eburnifolia is unlikely. The problem has occurred before. I think it must be one of those cases when someone has a blank moment and the error just gets copied.

Erle

[Maggi Young]

I notice item 635 Bulbinella eburnifolia. I think this name is incorrect. It should be B. eburniflora. I have discussed this with Pauline Perry whose work on this genus was published by the NBI in 1999. As a descriptive term eburnifolia is unlikely. The problem has occurred before. I think it must be one of those cases when someone has a blank moment and the error just gets copied.

Erle

I'm sure  you are correct Erle :

 From Kew plant lsit....

Bulbinella eburniflora P.L.Perry

This name is the accepted name of a species in the genus Bulbinella (family Xanthorrhoeaceae).

The record derives from WCSP which reports it as an accepted name (record 301425) with original publication details: S. African J. Bot. 53: 436 1987.


I will point this out to Stuart Pawley  and to Ian Pryde, who may be able to make a note for the packing and distribution.

[annew]

I have got some seeds on my Cosmos atrosanguineus plants grown from seeds offered by a nice forumist and I wanted to share them now with the other forum members interested in 

It makes ME very happy also! 

[Maggi Young]

I will point this out to Stuart Pawley  and to Ian Pryde, who may be able to make a note for the packing and distribution.

Ian Pryde  is on the case! 

[Tasmanian Taffy]

I am not sure if this is the right thread for this but  some forumists have mentioned the rarety of chocolate cosmos.It is sold here in Tasmania in the nurseries every year.
I have bought it a couple of times,but I can't seem to keep it more than one season.I will try again this year and collect the seed so I can send some to next years seed exchange.
best wishes to all John.

[John Aipassa]

Cosmos atrosanguineus is available in almost every garden centre every year here too. I always thought it was a common plant and never thought of it being rare or extinct. Well in the wild it is, but it certainly lives on abundantly in our nurseries here too.

[David Pilling]

Cosmos - for many years only a non-self fertile clone was available. So lots of plants but no seed. TV gardeners always used to say "this is extinct in the wild". There is still debate about the wild but fertile forms did exist in NZ - see the threads on this forum. In 2012, there was besides the old clone, a new variety "choca mocha" available in the shops. Presumably there will be many more in the future.

I tried to get seed from crossing the old clone and choca mocha. I did not succeed. It was so cold and wet I doubt I could have got seed off the common annual cosmos.

See:

 http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=6197.0