Tigridia pavonia
As some readers will know I am a seedaholic – I love the thrill of growing plants from seed. To feed my addiction I order seeds each year through the Cottage Garden Society seed distribution scheme and in the last two years also through the Hardy Plant Society scheme. I understand the RHS also have a scheme but so far I have resisted as I think it may be one step too far for me!!
Thalictrum rochebruneanum
This week my seeds from the Hardy Plant Society arrived which was a cause for much excitement. Inside the brown envelope were 30 packets of seeds each neatly labelled. I spent a lovely afternoon, snowed in, checking them off against my original order – I only had 2 packets which weren’t my first choice. For those of you who like lists these are the seeds I got this year from HPS
- Abutilon megapotamicum
- Acis autumnale
- Aconitum hemsleyanum
- Agastache uticifolia ‘Liquorice Blue’
- Aquilegia formosa
- Akebia quinata
- Andropogon geradi
- Anemone hupehensis
- Callistemon citrinus ‘splendens’
- Chelone lyonii
- Cicerbita alpina
- Clematis integrifolia
- Deschampsia flexuosa
- Dicentra scandens
- Echinops ritro ssp ruthenicus
- Kalmia augstifolia
- Kirengeshoma palmata
- Notholirion bulbuliferum
- Orthrosanthus chimboracensis
- Ornithogalum oligophytlum
- Paradisea lusitanica
- Phyteuma scheuchzeri
- Primula cockburnrana
- Romulea bulbocodium
- Roscoea purpurea
- Thalictrum rochebruneanum
- Tigridia pavonia
- Veratrum nigrum
- Vestia foetida
- Watsonia pillansii
Acis autumnale
So those are my exciting packets of anticipation – I am now waiting for my packets to come from the CGS. As the seeds are sent in by the Societys’ members some times there are issues over the viability of the seeds but I see it as a way of getting seeds for plants that aren’t available through run of the mile seed suppliers and cheaply as well.
I’ll let you know how I get on as the season progresses.
Note: the photos were downloaded off google images so I can’t take the credit for them.
January 14, 2010 at 1:17 am
What a lovely list – there are some here that I am going to have to look up – and I shall look forward to seeing them growing in your garden
🙂
K
January 14, 2010 at 6:45 am
If these would all bloom at the same time you would have a stunning bouquet. Of course that would be a drag for the garden… there are a few I am not familiar with… how exciting … soon you will have hundreds of little seedlings to care for.
January 14, 2010 at 12:04 pm
Some real tongue twisters there Helen – look forward to hearing about their progress. I like the look of that thalictrum. My CGS list got lost somewhere between himself’s knee op., my cold and Christmas 😦
January 14, 2010 at 12:26 pm
I love your list – may you have 100% germination! I have some thalictrum seeds collected from my back yard – have you had success with them before? I love the idea of getting a lot of perennials for little cost!
January 14, 2010 at 1:52 pm
gardeningasylum – I have frown Thalictrum plants from seed before and they seem to germinate fairly easily
January 14, 2010 at 4:47 pm
I love that it’s time to start getting the seeds ordered. I can’t wait to see how your garden looks. The thalictrum is just beautiful!
January 14, 2010 at 9:55 pm
How exciting! I look forward to seeing their progress.
January 16, 2010 at 5:37 pm
Oh that all brings back so many memories – I used to belong to both of those societies. I don’t grow much from seed these days but maybe I should.
January 19, 2010 at 6:44 am
That is quite a list Helen ~ I hope you have tons of space in your garden! The thalictrum is very pretty. Happy sowing!