When Jane McGary wrote: >I tried to buy it [the "crested" Anemone nemorosa] there years ago and they >would not sell it to me, but I got it anyway by buying a field-grown >rhododendron from them, with the anemone rhizomes in the root ball. it really brought back some memories and made me chuckle. I guess we're all alike. When I was a beginning gardener, I very much wanted Passiflora incarnata in my garden. It's a native of Maryland, but back in those days I never saw it in the wild. [I've since been shown a site where it grows freely - and was probably introduced]. I knew of one mail order source which occasionally listed it, but I never saw it for sale in local nurseries. But I did see it occasionally in local nurseries: nursery stock grown well south of Maryland, where the Passiflora is doubtless a pernicious field weed, occasionally had plants of Passiflora incarnata growing as weeds in the pots. And so I acquired my plant the way Jane acquired her anemone. I had to buy and Ilex to get mine - I think Jane must have patronized a better nursery to get a rhodie with hers. It isn't just in the mid and lower South that this Passiflora incarnata is a terrible weed. I cossetted my plant during its first two seasons. A few years later I couldn't pull it up fast enough. Be warned! You may find that this nursery-scouting is also a good way to obtain the other native Passiflora: I've also seen P. lutea in nursery pots. Jim McKenney jimmckenney@starpower.net Montgomery County, Maryland, USA, USDA zone 7, where I have a passion for native plants, especially those illustrated in Audubon's Birds of America. At 10:48 AM 6/11/2004 -0700, you wrote: >Jim wrote, >>Suddenly I'm feeling very acquisitive and want to start a new collection. >>[of Anemone nemorosa variants] > >At a recent local plant sale, I acquired a couple of new ones from a Swiss >nurseryman who has relocated to my area. His nursery is Edelweiss >Perennials, and it has a rudimentary website (be sure you search for >Edelweiss Perennials, not "Edelweiss Nursery," which is a midwestern >bedding plant operation). I've also found an excellent list of these plants >at Long Acre Plants (U.K.) but have not received a reply to my inquiry >about whether they ship overseas. > >The "crested" form that Diane Whitehead describes as a plant passed from >garden to garden is probably the same as the one that I got from Bovees >Nursery in Portland, Oregon. I tried to buy it there years ago and they >would not sell it to me, but I got it anyway by buying a field-grown >rhododendron from them, with the anemone rhizomes in the root ball. I >expect they sell it on purpose now. They have a mail-order operation but I >don't know if they're on line. > >I don't recall whether Janet Galpin, who is working on a British National >Collection of Anemone, is on this forum, but I've corresponded with her in >the past and she probably has a good list of known varieties of A. nemorosa. > >I recently researched the British National Collections program while >casting about for something to write. In this scheme, both institutions and >individuals maintain and curate systematic collections of one genus, or one >section of a genus (e.g., there is a national collection of Japanese >Anemone cultivars). A standing committee examines proposals and certifies >the collections based on fairly elaborate criteria. Some years ago, >American nurseryman Barry Glick was trying to stir up interest in starting >a similar program in the USA, but as far as I know it never got off the >ground, or should I say in the ground. Especially with the movement to >restrict the entry of new plant species to the USA, it might be good to >explore establishing such a project now, under the auspices of a >representative and stable committee, with official input from plant >societies. (Replies to this paragraph should have a new subject line, please.) > >Jane McGary >Northwestern Oregon, USA > > > > >_______________________________________________ >pbs mailing list >pbs@lists.ibiblio.org >http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php >