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Seed Swap/Exchange, anyone?

By Anhata
Created 01/24/2006 - 5:41pm

Anyone interested in seed swaps/exchanges? I plan on starting to save seeds from my open pollinated plants this year and sharing the excess. My mother and I do this and I love it. She occasionally sends me tubers/bulbs and seeds from her garden. This year she sent me some cucumber seeds from Egypt (a friend of hers brought some back from a trip there)!

The kinds of plants I have that I can get seeds from are: (don't ask me what variety they are, don't know)

*columbine, several sizes and colors, including tiny white ones and tall blue ones, some medium purple, etc.
*oriental poppy, not sure of color
*red raspberries, yes you can grow 'em from seed!
*a rugosa rose, smallish and bushy, with wildly fragrant pink roses...I'll have to research how to gather and preserve rose seeds, but my bush makes lovely hips, I think.
*any veggies that I decide to grow this year

I don't trust my fruit tree's seeds, I think they're all hybrids.

The bulbs I can seperate and send are:

*irises, yellow and blue if I remember
*daylilies, yellow (they're lovely)
*elephant garlic

It'll be a few years before the daffodils and tulips need to be thinned.

I even have digitals of some of these, I have to fiddle with them before I can post them, though, file size is too big.

Anyone interested? Anyone? Bueller?


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