Diane: Which dwarf narcissus were you looking for? Harold At 11:34 PM 12/3/2003 -0800, you wrote: >It is a good time to sow bulb seeds. > >The various alpine garden societies have extensive offerings of bulb seeds >collected in members' gardens, and many collected in the wild. The garden >seeds vary a bit from year to year, but the real excitement comes when we >see who has been travelling, and where. The "where" used to be specified: >1500 m alt on Mt. xx. Now the location is kept secret to protect the plants. > >Only members can have the seeds, but you can often check online lists to >see if it would be worthwhile for you to join. Sometimes if you join now, >you can ask for this year's seedlist. Seedlists are currently being >mailed out. These alpine clubs generally include seeds as a membership >benefit, though sometimes members must pay postage. There are usually >close to 6000 types of seeds offered each year. The number of packets of >seed each person is allowed is limited, and often one does not get all >one's first choices. It's like a lottery. ( After trying for 30 years to >get seed of one particular dwarf narcissus, this year I bought it from the >Archibalds, and it has already germinated.) > >Alpine Garden Society http://www.alpinegardensociety.org/ >Scottish Rock Garden Club http://www.srgc.org.uk/ >North American Rock Garden Society http://www.nargs.org/ >Ontario Rock Garden Society http://www.onrockgarden.com/ >Alpine Garden Club of BC http://flounder.ca/AlpineGardenClub/ > > >There are specialty geophytic clubs with focussed seed exchanges. Usually >these clubs sell their seeds and there is often no limit to how many you >may buy. It is often easier to get what you really want from these ones. > >Arisaema-L http://botu07.bio.uu.nl/arisaema/aeg.htm > >The Cyclamen Society http://www.cyclamen.org/indexCS.html > >SIGNA (Species Iris) http://www.signa.org/ > >The North American Lily Society http://www.lilies.org/ >The RHS Lily Group has a new website http://rhslilygroup.org/ Their >seedlist comes out in January and besides lilies includes other Liliaceae, >and other bulbous families > > > > >-- >Diane Whitehead Victoria, British Columbia, Canada >maritime zone 8 >cool mediterranean climate (dry summer, rainy winter - 68 cm annually) >sandy soil >_______________________________________________ >pbs mailing list >pbs@lists.ibiblio.org >http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php Prof. Harold Koopowitz Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of California, Irvine, CA 92697