I'll add a bit to Jim's recommendation of Touchstone by saying she is indeed very easy and pleasant to deal with, and the seed she sends is fresh and lively. HOWEVER - she mostly sells seed of selected strains of A. vulgaris, and as they're open-pollinated the seedlings are highly variable. Ellen On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 1:32 PM, James Waddick <jwaddick@kc.rr.com> wrote: > >With as much obvious interest as there is in columbines, I'm really > >surprised there's no national or international society. No Aquliegia > >registry? Etc... > > > Dear Dennis, But there is. > > http://touchwoodplants.co.uk/Touchwood%20garden.ht… > > Touchwood Garden is the UK Nat'l Coll of Columbines. Carrie > Thomas is very easy to correspond with and you can import seed from > the UK with little trouble. Been there, done that. > > Good luck. Jim > -- > Dr. James W. Waddick > 8871 NW Brostrom Rd. > Kansas City Missouri 64152-2711 > USA > Ph. 816-746-1949 > Zone 5 Record low -23F > Summer 100F + > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > -- Ellen Hornig 212 Grafton St Shrewsbury MA 01545 315-806-4276