Back to seeds

The feeling that the late summer is slowly sliding towards fall is more and more pronounced and with it the thought of seeds.

So, while the inventory work is getting under way in parallel with seeds collecting, we are getting back to weekly updates on seeds, plants and other worthy garden subjects to talk about.

When will the Shop open for orders?

This fall the Seeds Shop will reopen somewhere in the first or second week of September (it will be announced). Orders are not accepted until further notice.

This way, we’ll have the chance to hopefully collect a few more species. It will also address the complains of having to order a few times in order to get seeds that are placed gradually in the inventory.

There will always be late collections: from species that are starting to flower now, like Gentiana andrewsii, or for those that mature their fruits in September/October (or even November: Asclepias exaltata), and who knows what ‘gifts’ will be arriving from friends.
Meanwhile, seeds collected in previous years will be available.

What to expect in the Seed List?

Various seeds offered as moist packed are kept in moist vermiculite and will be available to ship as soon as orders are accepted. These species are written in green in the Seeds List and recommended to be purchased first.
Fruits of Podophyllum peltatum, Mayapple and Clintonia borealis were collected last week and Caulophyllum thalictroides (blue cohosh) is lining up. Hydrastis canadensis seeds are already moist packed.

After a rainy start of the season, the drought made an appearance and some species have been detrimentally affected. Some spring flowering species, like Primulas, have stood up to the occasion and there are more garden cultivated species and forms to choose from this fall.

Many North American native species will be available like every year, from A – with Arisaema triphyllum and Actaea species to V – with various Viola species.
First time offerings: Kalmia angustifolia and K. polifolia and we hope to have back in the inventory few species that were missed last year like Viburnum acerifolium and Lindera benzoin.

Non-native species speaking, by browsing the Seed List with attention, one will also find a few choice, garden and wild collected species like: Gypsophila cerastioides,
Clematis alpina ssp. sibirica, Gentiana gelida, Phyteuma confusum, Silene lerchenfeldiana, Soldanella hungarica and S. pusilla…

*Of course that the Seeds List is currently ‘in the works’ and may change until the Shop re-opens.

 

The late summer-fall gentians have flowered a bit earlier this year and by watching them there is always the desire to have more! With patience, by late fall we will know if the capsules contain good seeds.