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Subject: What's your fav. seed catalogue/company? From: katlaughing Date: 05 Jun 02 - 02:29 AM This is meant to go along with the "What's Blooming" thread. There are so many wonderful plants mentioned in it, I thought it would be nice if everyone would post a name and a link, if possible, to their favourite source catalgue or company, so the rest of us might drool, order from them, etc.:-) I just ordered a catalogue, for the first time in about 15 years, from what used to be a favourite in our house, the Park Seed Company. For herbs, I go to Caprilands or, I go to Logee's which is the premiere source for tropical and sub-tropical plants, too. Thanks, kat |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your fav. seed catalogue/company? From: Hrothgar Date: 05 Jun 02 - 03:28 AM Too sophisticated for me. I buy herb seedlings at the local fruit shop, and shrubs etc at the nursery. Otherwise I just replant seeds from my own plants. Did you know coriander will try to take over a whole garden if you let it run amuck? |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your fav. seed catalogue/company? From: Rustic Rebel Date: 05 Jun 02 - 04:51 AM Hello Kat. This is a nice idea for a thread too! One of my favorite places to buy seeds and plants is...Goodwin CreekThey have a nice site on the net, and wonderful people own the nursery. Another great place for seed isPinetree garden I used to get a lot of herbs seed from a company called the Flowery Branch, but I don't know their web site. Happy gardening! Rustic |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your fav. seed catalogue/company? From: MBSLynne Date: 05 Jun 02 - 07:03 AM Suffolk Herbs and Chiltern Seeds. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your fav. seed catalogue/company? From: MBSLynne Date: 05 Jun 02 - 07:03 AM Suffolk Herbs and Chiltern Seeds. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your fav. seed catalogue/company? From: MBSLynne Date: 05 Jun 02 - 07:04 AM Sorry that last one came out twice. Don't quite know how it happened. Sorry, also, that the names aren't clickable on. Don't know how to do that. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your fav. seed catalogue/company? From: sian, west wales Date: 05 Jun 02 - 08:01 AM I like Chiltern too... ... and they have a comprehensive print catalogue as well(although the print is a bit small for my old eyes!) Thompson and Morgan are more 'bog-standard' Click here but mail at least some of their stock internationally. Seems to me that I read that I'm legally allowed to take 5 packets of commercially packaged seeds over to Canada from UK, so I'm assuming that this works for mail-order too. sian
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your fav. seed catalogue/company? From: GUEST,Foe Date: 05 Jun 02 - 09:51 AM Excellent seeds and catalogue from Johnny's Selected Seeds in Albion, Maine. www.johnnyseeds.com They grow and test their own seeds and have a large herb and heirloom tomato selection. The catalogue has propagation and growing info before each type of seed. I'm a little biased as my ancestors settled in Albion in the early 1800s |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your fav. seed catalogue/company? From: SharonA Date: 05 Jun 02 - 11:46 AM Then there's Burpee (full name: W. Atlee Burpee & Co.) |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your fav. seed catalogue/company? From: Bobert Date: 05 Jun 02 - 03:44 PM Wayside Gardens is one of my favorites but fir God's sake, DON'T BUT NUTHIN FROM THEM. Their plants are real small and their prices are too high. But Wayside does seem to offer stuff before other folks so it's a good resource catalog. I'll post again later when I get home with some names and phone numbers of good places to order stuff from. Bobert |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your fav. seed catalogue/company? From: MMario Date: 05 Jun 02 - 03:49 PM Bobert - glad to hear someone else has my opinion of Wayside. Their wholesale prices are frequently above the retail prices of some other growers; and we have not had good luck with the size or survivability of their plants. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your fav. seed catalogue/company? From: GUEST,Peter from Essex Date: 05 Jun 02 - 04:30 PM Perhaps this should be split into separate UK and US threads. For the UK definitely Chiltern Seeds. For plants Hopleys of Much Hadham. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your fav. seed catalogue/company? From: MMario Date: 05 Jun 02 - 04:34 PM Then how are we supposed to know which company to ask people to |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your fav. seed catalogue/company? From: katlaughing Date: 05 Jun 02 - 04:58 PM Peter, it's okay, really. I love to see whatever is available there, too, just to see the beauty if nothing else...of course Bill Sables could hide a few seeds, at least, in that beard! |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your fav. seed catalogue/company? From: GUEST Date: 05 Jun 02 - 06:21 PM Seeds of Change http://store.yahoo.com/seedsofchange/ |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your fav. seed catalogue/company? From: GUEST,ET Date: 06 Jun 02 - 10:13 AM Both Parks and Pinetree have been good but there's also "Renee's Garden" - she started Shepherd's and sold out but couldn't evidently get out of it entirely. Now she has a small line out- good seeds, both flower and vegetable, and best of all - the veggies TASTE good, not just the largest, reddest, etc. There is a website, I think it's just reneesgarden.com but you can probably find it with Google. Also like a lot Jardin du Gourmet out of St. Johnsbury Vermont - the 30 cent seed packet people. They send a very few seeds of some - but then who needs more than a half-dozen of angelica? They also have a nice variety of herbs and give some idea of uses (culinary/medicinal/dye). Nicest part is they're affordable if you just want to try a LITTLE bit of something to see if it'll grow at all in your area. As for "running rampant" chervil and chamomile have taken over about half the garden, but I discovered chervil works quite well in flower arrangements too so that will probably be taken care of shortly! Chamomile tea from "fresh" stuff (flower centers only) is a treat not to be missed, but patience is required (a quart jar full is about 2-3 bushels and several hours of TV away.) ET |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your fav. seed catalogue/company? From: Allan S Date: 06 Jun 02 - 11:10 AM Good old Burpee Tho I understand the Burpee family sold the business to a large conglomerate. Harris in NY state the best for varities here in New England Good corn seed in 1/2 pound packages Kitasawa [sp]? in california for oriental veg Kirtchoff [sp]? in South Africa for different varities they have Gem Squash which I cant get here in the States |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your fav. seed catalogue/company? From: Jon Freeman Date: 06 Jun 02 - 11:32 AM UK, Marshalls, at least thats Pip's main source for vegatbles apart from local sources and I enjoy eating the produce. I'm not so fussed about the things you can't eat. Jon |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your fav. seed catalogue/company? From: GUEST,JTT Date: 06 Jun 02 - 11:45 AM Suffolk and Chiltern, of course (esp Chiltern, which has groovy little articles on every seed); the Organic Catalogue, produced by the HRDA in England; Future Forests in Cork (futureforests.net, I think), who did the planting for the Celtic garden that won gold at Chelsea; Johnny's in the US, Future Foods, which has things like viilli and khefir and tef and qinoa. And the Organic Centre in Ross Inver, though I don't know that it actually has a *catalogue* as such. Oh, yes, and of course the Irish Seed Savers' Association in Clare. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your fav. seed catalogue/company? From: IvanB Date: 06 Jun 02 - 11:48 AM I believe one of the problems with Wayside (which is owned by the Park family and operates out of the same building as Park Seed, despite their different mailing addresses) is that it's a southern company and thus the plants they sell are really not well acclimated to northern gardens. My stepdad has a cottage about 20 miles from Park/Wayside and I've had good luck buying plants from them at their store and planting them at the cottage. But I share Mmario's and Bobert's views of Wayside for mail order. I have used Park Seed and been very happy with them. Shepherd's Garden Seeds, which was mentioned above, is another good one as is Cook's Garden. Two plant sources I haven't seen mentioned, but with which I've had good success are White Flower Farm and Bluestone Perennials. Of the two, Bluestone is far more reasonable, although Whiteflower has wonderful plants and a pretty liberal replacement policy. They once replaced some lily plants that failed to grow for me and gave me some hints on what might have happened to them as well. The replacements grew like a charm and some of them were transplanted to our present house when we bought it. White Flower, btw, were the purchasers of Shepherd's Seeds, mentioned above. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What's your fav. seed catalogue/company? From: Deda Date: 06 Jun 02 - 12:43 PM I've had very little luck with stuff I've started from seed, whether I bought the seeds at stores or sent away for them -- so I'm resolved to switch to buying seedlings next year, except for lettuce and other really early veggies. Maybe I'll let some of the ones I have now go to seed and use those next year. I live in Colorado, just east of the Rockies, in what's normally a semi-arid climate and currently is in drought (although we had a wonderful soaking rain a few days ago -- reservoirs are still way below normal), gets brilliant sunshine 300 days a year, so July and August can be very hot and dry. I don't know exactly why the stuff I grow from seed is so weak but it just never seems to last well at all. I've tried starting them in around late March or so, and by Memorial Day when I can safely put them in the ground most of them have lived and died. |