Botanically Inclined – Seed Adventures – Plants seeds for everyone: wildflowers, medicinals and alpine species

The last week when orders for moist-packed seeds are accepted and shipped
24 – 28 November!

Trillium grandiflorum

Uvularia grandiflora

Asarum canadense

Clintonia borealis (Blue beads) fruits

Diphylleia cymosa fruits

Saruma henryi

Euonymus obovatus fruits

Clematis occidentalis var. occidentalis seeds

Clematis hexapetala

Latest from Wildflowers of North America

ORG&HP Society membership gift

The time of gift-giving is almost upon us. The most important gift that someone can receive is, in my opinion, one that will facilitate and advance one of his/her passions; something that will help develop life-long skills or/and helpful habits. So,…

Latest for October

Wildflowers of North America

The latest seeds collected and added/replenished in the inventory belong to the following native species: Ceanothus americanus, New jersey tea Desmodium nudiflorum, Naked flowered tick-trefoil Euonymus obovatus, Running strawberry-bush…

Moist packed seeds update

Wildflowers of North America

As announced, we are ‘back to business’, thanks to Canada Post resuming activity. It seems that all works well for the time being. The regular check-up on the moist packed seeds yesterday revealed the first signs of germination on Trillium…

Canada Post strikes, again

Propagation, Wildflowers of North America

Instead of talking about fruits and seeds and plants, we are back again to notices about the new and unexpected Canada Post employees nation-wide strike announced last evening. This is a situation out of our control, the only thing that can…

Maple-leaved Viburnum

Wildflowers of North America

Just a few words to announce the seeds of Viburnum acerifolium, my favourite Viburnum, for many reasons. First, this eastern North American native shrub is very hardy and adaptable, growing from sun to shade, in deciduous and mixed woods.…

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Using the Germination Page

Propagation

The winter arrived and there isn’t much to do in the garden anymore. The best past time for some of us is to continue sowing seeds 😊 Preferably, the sowing of most species that require cold/moist stratification in order to germinate well,…

Winter ready

Propagation

***Reminder: a free membership to ORG&HPS is on offer, apply: here *** We are all now preparing our gardens, sowings and seedlings for the winter. I already provided a few easy solutions for storing various pots in a previous post, available…

ORG&HP Society membership gift

Propagation, Wildflowers of North America

The time of gift-giving is almost upon us. The most important gift that someone can receive is, in my opinion, one that will facilitate and advance one of his/her passions; something that will help develop life-long skills or/and helpful habits. So,…

Friday’s seeds special mix

Propagation

A mix bag of seeds for today. After the first snow, usually we start thinking about the stocking stuffers. These are all seeds from garden grown plants, in limited quantities, that were just added in the inventory. Maybe you will find something…

Friday’s seed with Water arum

Plant portraits, Propagation

The abundance of red fruits of the Water arum, Calla palustris, draw my attention the past weekend while looking for (and not finding) skunk cabbage fruits. Although the last, bad experience of extracting the seeds from the Water arum…

Friday’s seed with Uvularia

Propagation

Packing Uvularia grandiflora (Large-flowered bellwort) for orders in the past days I noticed few seeds with already emerged radicles - shown in the image above. From any given lot of seeds, some are always in a hurry to germinate; the others…

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Germination page

FAQ – Moist packed seeds

What species are usually available as ‘moist packed seeds’ and when

THE SEEDS SHOP CONTAINS FEW MAIN CATEGORIES. NOT ALL SPECIES ARE OFFERED EVERY YEAR AND SOME CAN BE A ONE TIME OFFERING. WE DO NOT COLLECT LARGE SEEDS QUANTITIES, AIMING TO OFFER FRESH SEEDS AS AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.