Re: Ribes

I also have R. menziesii, but it's in a waiting bed, not planted out in the garden yet. I actually got it as AGS seed in 2006! Amazing what you can find in the alpine gardening seed lists...

RickR wrote:

Schier wrote:

Mind you, if I could find the Crandall, I'd nab it!

I've made a note to collect seed for you, Faith.  It wouldn't hurt if you were to send me a reminder in August, though...
Anyone else?  I get volunteers seedlings, too, if you are in the USA.

Rick, you, know, I do not say nay to such offerings! Have to be seed, then ;)

Schier wrote:

Stephen, I also had your trade page bookmarked for years, I wonder how many of the "Gardenwebbers" had or have it saved. I never felt I had anything much that was on your wish list  in order to trade with you, you had nearly everything I had plus almost everything else, what a list!

I had no idea there were people with my list bookmarked :). I actually don't get many requests via Garden Web these days and I now know why! Those few that do also have long lists! I actually trade for most of my common vegetable needs, so I am often tempted also by more common things  :)

I actually started trading in pre-Internet days. I remember belonging to a US based seed exchange where the lists came by snail mail.

By the way, my list didn't always reflect what I was growing in my garden. About 10 years ago now I was contacted by post by a retired nursery man in the UK who had a few specific plants he was trying to get hold of. I helped him find them and over the next few years he unexpectedly sent me perhaps 600 seed packets of mostly botanical species which he had obtained from various sources including botanical garden lists which he had access to. Most I didn’t have a need for myself and therefore added them to my seed list and traded for other things I did want! Seed packets often also have too many seed for my use (I’m only looking to end up with a few plants of each species) and I'll therefore reoffer the surplus. At one time my list reached about 1,200 items, but only about 200 were collected in my own garden… It’s now only half that and would have been less had it not been for someone sending me over 100 wild collected species from Spain in the autumn (he didn’t want anything in return…). He just felt that I would help look after the genetic resources represented by wild Spanish plants which were under threat…

RickR wrote:

Hoy wrote:

Rick, you, know, I do not say nay to such offerings! Have to be seed, then ;)

Noted, Trond. :)

Thanks Rick!