Dear All,
The items listed below have been donated by our members to be
shared.
If you are interested in obtaining some of them, please email me PRIVATELY
at <ds429@comcast.net>. Include "BX 248" in the subject line.
Specify the NUMBERS of the items which you would like; do not
specify quantities. It is a good idea to include your snail mail address,
too, in case I don't already have it. Availability is based on a first come,
first served system. When you receive your seeds/bulbs you will find,
included with them, a statement of how much money (usually $2.00/item)
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donations.), please send CLEAN, clearly labeled plant materials to:
Dell Sherk
6832 Phillips Mill Rd.
New Hope, PA, 18938
USA
Non US donors should contact me for instructions before sending seeds.
I WILL REPLY TO YOU WITHIN 24 HRS OF MY RECEIPT OF YOUR ORDER.
IF YOU DO NOT HEAR FROM ME, TRY AGAIN !!
From Jim Waddick:
1. Lilium lancifolium 'Flore Pleno' This blooms slightly later than the
typical 'Tiger Lily'. Flowers are described as interesting to hideous.
First bloom may be less than attractive, but as the plants settle in they
produce fairly uniform hose-in-hose double flowers.
They just never have the 'neat' quality of typical flowers. The plants form
stem bulbils which will each produce a new lily plant in time. They do not
produce fertile seed. Bulbils are naturally small.
These are a blend of two strains from India and Seneca Hill Nursery.
They seem identical in all characters.
2. Dioscorea oppositifolia 'Variegata' stem bulbils. This Air Potato or
Cinnamon Vine is classed as an invasive plant in some parts of the US. Here
it is a hardy, vigorous vine that does not get out of hand.
The original plant had leaves well striped and streaked with white and very
attractive. Subsequent growth is uneven with bulbils producing all green as
well as variegated stems. These were taken ONLY from stems with variegated
leaves. WARNING that these have weedy potential in some climates milder than
Kansas City.
3. Cryptostephanus vansonii seeds (Few available). This is considered by
many as the closest relative to the genus Clivia. The plant looks like a
miniature Clivia with a head of numerous, small white
(typically) flowers. Culture as for Clivia. Seeds have germinated well in
the past. Fruits take a year to ripen so these were harvested from a plant
now in bloom again. Fruits are about the size of a small cherry and mature
to a pale red -orange color. The soft pulp is bright yellow and bland to the
tongue. Each fruit has 1 to 3 seeds although more are possible. For more
info on this species and the genus see Harold Koopowitz book on 'Clivias'.
Highly recommended. A collector's items as flowers are not comparable to
Clivia, but pleasing.
From Ryan Wilson:
4. Seed of Scilla peruviana (few)
5. Seed of Camassia leichtlinii 'Sacagawea' OP. This cultivar has variegated
foliage.
From Roy Herold:
BULBS
6. Oxalis glabra
7. Oxalis hirta 'Gothenburg' ex Odyssey
8. Oxalis hirta 'Gothenburg' ex BX218 (different from above)--only a few
9. Oxalis hirta mauve ex BX179
10. Oxalis massoniana ex Dylan Hannon--only a few
11. Oxalis massonorum (not massoniana) ex Vanderhoff
12. Oxalis 'namaquensis' ex Mattus
13. Oxalis obtusa MV5516
14. Oxalis obtusa MV4719D
15. Oxalis obtusa Peach ex BX179-35
16. Oxalis obtusa MSI17B Pale orange ex BX175
17. Oxalis obtusa MSI17C ex BX175
18. Oxalis obtusa MSI17D ex BX175
19. Oxalis obtusa MSI17E ex BX175
20. Oxalis obtusa MV6235--without a doubt the most floriferous obtusa that I
grow. Blooms all winter.
21. Oxalis obtusa MV6341
22. Oxalis obtusa MV7085
23. Oxalis sp 'Uli 69' ex BX152
24. Oxalis palmifrons--will it ever bloom? Who cares!
25. Oxalis perdicaria var malacoides--heavy bloomer, only a few
26. Oxalis polyphylla heptaphylla
27. Oxalis hirta ex BX152
SEED
28. Pelargonium barkleyi--blooms in 9 months from seed
29. Massonia echinata
Thank you, Jim, Ryan, and Roy !!
Best wishes,
Dell
Dell Sherk, PBS BX