Favorite Plant Sources

Adam
We are not set up for major mail order and so don't ship most things
that are in growth. Also, we can only ship bare root (which I don't
personally care for many things). However, shipping dormant geophytes
has proven relatively easy, and I've also shipped a number of cacti and
succulents (also agaves) since they are easy bareroot. I'm in the
process of putting together a list of our geophytes and the availability
of cacti and succulents can be found on our website at all times (see
CHECK CURRENT PLANT AVAILABILITY). In addition we have some terrific
young palms and cycads coming along (e.g.,the relatively rare
Encephalortos caffer).

Speaking of geophytes, our second titan arum bloom for the year started
opening about 1 hr ago this evening and should be in full force
('stench') tomorrow morning. I may pollinate this one to supplement the
seedlings we now have (which we've been selling as a houseplant--they
are doing fine in a number of homes).

This work is being done to raise funds to support the Garden collection,
which I have recently determined is one of the most diverse in North
America. We are preparing an article on our South African geophyte
collection for an upcoming issue of The Bulb.
Paul

Paul Licht, Director
Univ. California Botanical Garden
200 Centennial Drive
Berkeley, CA 94720
(510)-643-8999
http://botanicalgarden.berkeley.edu/

On 7/28/2010 7:26 PM, Adam Fikso wrote:

Hello Paul. I asked once about a year ago if I could have something
shipped from one of your plant sales and was told that I could not.
Could you please explain how it is done? or give me the name of a
person who would do the next time I see something I like? I used to
live in Berkeley (back about 65 years ago and the Bot Gard was a
favorite place of mine).

----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Licht" <plicht@berkeley.edu>
To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>
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Marie
We have definitely been shipping material even though we do not have
a formal mail order website. To simply, we tend to send geophytes
when dormant.

Paul Licht, Director
University of California Botanical Garden
200 Centennial Drive
Berkeley, CA 94720
(510)-643-8999
http://botanicalgarden.berkeley.edu/

On 7/28/2010 12:50 PM, Denise Marie Ortiz wrote:

I beleive I have contacted the UC botanical garden and was told they
do not do any mail order at this time. I sure wish they would
because they have a lot of what I want!!

Marie
Tolleson, Az

Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:14:03 -0700
From: plicht@berkeley.edu
To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [pbs] Favorite Plant Sources

Denise
The UC Botanical Garden offers a variety of unusual geophytes and the
proceeds go toward supporting the collection (which incidentally
contains many geophytes from around the world).
Paul

Paul Licht, Director
Univ. California Botanical Garden
200 Centennial Drive
Berkeley, CA 94720
(510)-643-8999
http://botanicalgarden.berkeley.edu/

On 7/28/2010 6:58 AM, Denise Marie Ortiz wrote:

I am fairly new to growing bulbs. I would love to see a current
list of dependable sources for those rare bulbs. I also agree the
PBS BX is a wonderful source!!

From: jacobknecht@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 00:06:38 -0700
To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [pbs] Favorite Plant Sources

I agree with Mary Sue, the PBS BX is a spectacular resource!

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