Bulb ordering season ?
James Waddick (Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:51:43 PST)

Dear Friends,
Last weekend I made a trek to Pine Knot Farms for their open
house(amazing hellebores) and Barry Yinger of Asiatica Nursery had a
sales table there. So did John Lonsdale of Edgewood Garden.

If you are not familiar with Asiatic, I urge you to take a
look at the web site http://www.asiaticanursery.com/.

Barry had dozens of plants for sale from tropical to woody,
perennials and so much more. All rare and choice items. Speaking of
bulbs he had some wonderful things for sale. I bought a few tubers of
Arisaema. All of the Arisaema he sells are blooming size tubers of
around 36 species and selections. They look great. Either fully
dormant or just starting to make roots. An excellent time to get
them, give them slightly larger pots and wait for planting season in
the garden. Barry does not recommend watering these until they show
signs of growth.

He sells a few species in extra large size tubers and the
rarest varieties are a bit more expensive, but it hard to beat these
for quality, rarity and price. I recommend you look at these now.

He sells a good variety to hard to find bulbous plants of
other genera too such as Caladium (exotic Thai varieties), Crinum,
Cardiocrinum (3 different), Lilium, Paeonia and a few Iris (another
of my purchases). Everything just looked perfect and his web site
induces severe plant lust.

Meanwhile, here it continues to be chilly, dull, grey and
damp; a good time to look at rare plants and place an order.

I recommend you take a look. This note is an unsolicited
note without Asiatica consent or knowledge.

Best Jim W.
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Dr. James W. Waddick
8871 NW Brostrom Rd.
Kansas City Missouri 64152-2711
USA
Ph. 816-746-1949
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