Jim, are you sure? So if I want to register a new seed strain of Aquilegia, how do I do so via Touchwood? How do I search past registrations for named selections of Aquilegia canadensis? etc... As best I can tell Touchwood just has an amazing collection of cultivars and species. They don't seem to be an international society or an official holder/registrar/recorder of named cultivars. Or maybe they are and I just can't find that info on their (massive) website. I'm accustomed (spoiled??) to using Google for finding websites for plants that strike my fancy... like: http://www.gesneriads.ca/ http://www.signa.org/ http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… http://passionflow.co.uk/passiflora-hybrids.htm/ http://www.brazilplants.com/menu.html At this point the question is rhetorical. I'm just baffled such a site doesn't exist for Aquilegia. Touchwood's site does not satisfy my scientific curiosity about this genus. Nor does Google. And that's annoying for almost 2012. Sorry - forgive my OT rant. Time to go study the BX 300 offerings! Woo hoo! 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 > >