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Posted on Wednesday, December 05, 2007 - 12:58 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Does anyone know where one can purchase seed ?
Here is what it looks like.

http://www.srgc.org.uk/discus/messages/1105/1108.html?1065899770

Totally gorgeous!!

Maggiepie - New Brunswick, Zone "4b"
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Posted on Wednesday, December 05, 2007 - 04:56 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

it is somtimes available from

http://www.hillkeep.ca/

It is a wonderfull alpine but hellish to grow. There was a recent article in the AGS bulletin by Mike Brown on its cultivation.He grows it to perfection

Tony_willis - Lancashire, Zone "7"
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Posted on Wednesday, December 05, 2007 - 05:19 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Tony_willis wrote on Wednesday, December 05, 2007 - 06:02 pm:


Hi Tony, since March, Hillkeep has taken time out and only doing orders for minimum 350$.
I tried emailing the guy who posted in the SRGC forum but the mail bounced.
I am not a member of AGS)-:

Maggiepie - New Brunswick, Zone "4b"
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Posted on Wednesday, December 05, 2007 - 10:28 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

What a pretty find. Hillkeep is the only place I saw it too. Must be somewhere. Maybe as the season progresses a little, it will show up in a catalog. You got me looking now.

Loretta - NJ, Zone "6"
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Posted on Thursday, December 06, 2007 - 12:13 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

try here: http://www.rhs.org.uk/rhsplantfinder/pfregions.asp?ID=23054

Hans_jørgen_kuus - Nordborg, Zone "6 South Denmark"
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Posted on Thursday, December 06, 2007 - 07:52 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

fredcarrie@fcarrie.fsnet.co.uk

This gentleman grows the plant with no apparant
problem.

Perhaps you could coax seeds from him?
Fresh seed is best.

Corinne

Taramark - Iowa, Zone "4"
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Posted on Thursday, December 06, 2007 - 12:16 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Hi Corinne, first thing I did was email him but it bounced.
The posting was 2003 so not really surprising.

Maggiepie - New Brunswick, Zone "4b"
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Posted on Thursday, December 06, 2007 - 12:19 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Hans_jørgen_kuus wrote on Thursday, December 06, 2007 - 01:19 am:



I don't see any Hans.

Maggiepie - New Brunswick, Zone "4b"
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Posted on Thursday, December 06, 2007 - 12:24 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Loretta wrote on Wednesday, December 05, 2007 - 11:34 pm:

You got me looking now


I'll post here if I find some Loretta, can you do the same?

Maggiepie - New Brunswick, Zone "4b"
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Posted on Thursday, December 06, 2007 - 05:53 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

But of course!

Loretta - NJ, Zone "6"
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Posted on Thursday, December 06, 2007 - 06:22 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

MaggiePie,

Sorry about that! It seems like yesterday...

I will check my fridge to see if I have any seeds left.

Corinne

Taramark - Iowa, Zone "4"
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Posted on Thursday, December 06, 2007 - 09:39 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Taramark wrote on Thursday, December 06, 2007 - 07:28 pm:

I will check my fridge to see if I have any seeds left.


You had some seed?
Have you grown these plants Corinne?
Now you have me really curious :-)

Maggiepie - New Brunswick, Zone "4b"
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Posted on Thursday, December 06, 2007 - 11:30 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

They have it:

Aberconwy Nursery WAbe
ContactDr & Mrs K G Lever
AddressGraig, Glan Conwy, Colwyn Bay, Conwy, LL28 5TL
United Kingdom
Telephone(01492) 580875
Opening Times1000-1700 Tue-Sun mid-Feb-mid-Oct.
Mail OrderNo
Min Mail Order in UKNo minimum charge
Min Mail Order in EUNo minimum charge

Hans_jørgen_kuus - Nordborg, Zone "6 South Denmark"
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Posted on Thursday, December 06, 2007 - 11:46 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Maggie Pie,

Sorry, no seed here.

Paraquilegia anemonoides is sometimes listed as
P. grandiflora.

Corinne

Taramark - Iowa, Zone "4"
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Posted on Friday, December 07, 2007 - 06:39 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Hans_jørgen_kuus wrote on Friday, December 07, 2007 - 12:36 am:

They have it:


Hans, I am looking for seed rather than a plant and this nursery doesn't do mail orders.
I am wondering why something so beautiful is so hard to find, perhaps it is because it has to be hand pollinated to produce seed.

Maggiepie - New Brunswick, Zone "4b"
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Posted on Monday, December 10, 2007 - 04:00 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

perhaps it is so hard to find because it (almost)always dies before it flowers and if you get one to flower it is not self fertile.

For years the only plants in cultivation were at Branklyn garden in Perth from the original Ludlow and Sherrif collection. Latterley it has been collected many times because under its various names anemonoides,grandiflora,microphylla, it is a common plant across the himalayas and is seen by lots of people on plant holidays

Tony_willis - Lancashire, Zone "7"
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Posted on Monday, December 10, 2007 - 04:22 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Tony_willis wrote on Monday, December 10, 2007 - 05:06 pm:

perhaps it is so hard to find because it (almost)always dies before it flowers and


I think perhaps I should look for something more user friendly.
Thanks for the input Tony.

Maggiepie - New Brunswick, Zone "4b"
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Posted on Monday, December 10, 2007 - 10:24 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Oh well. Have you seen Glaucidium?

Loretta - NJ, Zone "6"
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Posted on Tuesday, December 11, 2007 - 07:31 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

They had them at GN last time I looked at their list Loretta.
Have you grown them?
It does look like a beautiful plant.

Maggiepie - New Brunswick, Zone "4b"
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Posted on Tuesday, December 11, 2007 - 02:20 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Glaucidium is a wonderful woodlander which is easy although slow.It comes in a nice mauve form or in white. It is slow from seed but usually germinates well and the only real problem is slugs which can eat of the emerging crowns so protection is essential

Tony_willis - Lancashire, Zone "7"
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Posted on Tuesday, December 11, 2007 - 03:25 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

How slow is slow Tony?
I'm getting a bit long in the tooth for really long term plants:-)
In Oz I planted a firewheel tree in my garden and it took 16 years to flower but what an amazing sight it was when it finally did .

Maggiepie - New Brunswick, Zone "4b"
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Posted on Tuesday, December 11, 2007 - 05:23 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

I grew them from seed once but they all damped off. I was so excited to see them germinate so it was deflating watching them slowly rot. So I picked one up from Evermay Nursery when I ordered the A. jonesii. It came with a wilting leaf and all of them wilted in turn. It is still alive though and has a bud ready for next spring. You might get a better sized plant from Seneca Hill Perennials.
I just mentioned Glaucidium because the flowers on Paraquilegia reminded me of them. But it is a larger plant in size and texture.
I'm glad you said it was easy, Tony. I have hope for that one.

Loretta - NJ, Zone "6"
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Posted on Monday, December 17, 2007 - 12:48 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

I would think about five years to flower but could be shorter. Give it a go, my friend who is 86 says he has stopped sowing tree seeds and I told him not to be so pessimistic.

Tony_willis - Lancashire, Zone "7"
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