Moist packed seeds – Botanically Inclined

The Seeds Shop is open for orders!

The early fall Seeds List has been updated as much as possible, with an emphasis on the moist packed seeds. Other species that may be available later have been marked; but the success of fruits/seeds collecting cannot be a sure thing!
Please read the notes with various announcements from the top of the List before ordering; as well the Shipping & Delivery page, otherwise you may not be able to place orders.
Everyone will notice that the Shipping and Handling rates have remained the same. I gave up on the idea of this ever becoming a profitable endeavour, but we must continue to grow plants from seeds!

Available Helleborus species; Hydrastis canadensis – moist packed seeds; Hydrophyllum canadense – may become available later.

I will continue with plant portraits and seeds announcements throughout the fall. Sowing-wise we should concentrate on those species that require sowing right away like:

ALL Moist Packed seeds! – written in green (they cannot be shipped in the winter); please remain aware of dubious on-line offers in this regard.
Paeonia and Helleborus species
Lilium species
the newly offered Streptopus species
Actaea, Aralia, Hydrophyllum, Ilex , Cornus

We remain committed to only collecting a small quantity of seeds from the wild areas, and only from well-established populations. Therefore, we have to be less wasteful and learn how to make due with less. I am sure that sometimes packets with seeds remain forgotten in some drawer… Like in the previous years, species with limited seeds in the stock can only be ordered as 1 pck./person. All the other species, at least for the beginning of the season, can be purchased in max. 2 pck. /person.

Many thanks, as always, to those few friends who generously contribute with seeds, enriching our Shop offerings.

Without further ado – To the seeds and sowing! Thank you all!
It is a continuous learning and rewarding experience like no other.

Best wishes to all readers for successful plant growing and beautiful gardens in 2019!

For today, a germinating seed of Paeonia wendelboi – a bridge between the past year and the present one.

Paeonia wendelboi germinating seed (at warm); the root appeared in winter 2018 (it was very tiny but nothing escapes my magnifying glass, or so I like to think). The shoot will start to grow only after a cold period, the way it goes with most peonies.

And a message, seeds speaking generally:

Do not forget that this is the perfect time for sowing species which require cold/moist stratification!
If done too late, especially in the case of a mild winter, the cold period won’t suffice and the seeds will need one more cold cycle to germinate.

I would like to draw your attention especially to a few moist packed seeds.
Beside the fact that for a very good price you can get seeds which will most likely germinate, by comparison with sowing them dry, some, like Aconitum spp. , may be an one time offer. Others, like Thalictrum thalictroides, which require more driving to the collection site, will be offered only on alternate years.

Even with the garden collected seeds, it can happen to miss the seeds of species like Saruma henryi.
Thus, it is always best to get these kind of seeds when available.

You can easily find them all by browsing the Moist packed Seeds and Corydalis Seeds categories.