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Galina,those beans i put in the seedcircle are all from the bohnen-atlas.

With you Vetivert, not many parcels are this magical with a spirit of something special. This year I shall again get my twenty five advent envelopes, get my OH to fill them ( no peeking)  and lasting into January each morning with coffee and notebook and real ink pen make notes of the excitement/knowledge to come. I share with others too so over the years our circle has benefited/inspired a larger number.
Thank you to everyone and especially JanG for making this happen.
JanG I will asap put some notes together.

After writing my rather cautious text yesterday, I'm delighted to report that Ruud's parcel successfully arrived just hours later and in quite good time. Thank you, Ruud. I was eager to communicate the good news but the site was down for 24 hours or so.

Anyway, all parcels have been despatched this morning. I'm hoping that they don't get slowed down too much by the Christmas rush. And hopefully Christmas time will indeed be seedtime!  

Quote from: Admin aka Dan on December 12, 2024, 09:07:37And again - disk space issues due to logs, now tracked down and resolved ...

It's always DNS or the logs (joke for IT people)

Fingers crossed! Thanks for your efforts. Good to have it back.

And again - disk space issues due to logs, now tracked down and resolved ...

It's always DNS or the logs (joke for IT people)

Thank you for your late night thoughts, Vetivert. As far as the Seed Circle is concerned we are a little held up at the moment by factors making global exchange of seeds more difficult than it used to be. My Christmas wish is that things might ease again at some not too distant time in the future.
But hopefully, one way or another, our circle seeds should be on their way within the week, arriving around a time to enrich the Christmas season and help to make it 'seed time'.

Just having a late-night thought about seasonality, giving, and the over commercialisation of everything.

I don't think about it much these days but this seed circle embodies a counterculture and is a true gift.

Not all that many people opt to grow something throughout its lifecycle and disseminate the fruits of the process to an eager recipient. We've found each other in quite an unusual niche hobby and I'm grateful for it.

Christmastime is now also my 'seedtime' and I wouldn't have it any other way.

Quote from: ruud on November 20, 2024, 14:11:20Marie-louise
                                                                     Lazy housewife
                                                                     Rosaweisse
all three are polebeans.

Ruud,  is your Housewife the Lazy Housewife bean? From Bohnenatlas?  Is your Rosa Weiße the Rosa Weiße Stangenbohne from Bohnenatlas or the Rosa Weiße Stangenbohne Sgarz from Arche Noah? Is Marielouise from Bohnenatlas?

Looking forward to these beans. 

Quote from: garrett on December 08, 2024, 14:48:00I'll start with my list, giving whatever information I can find, photos (if I remembered to take some!) and personal impressions.

Dierama Pulcherrimum Blackberry Bells, grown from seeds originally from Plant World Seeds. Very easy to grow, germinates easily but I recommend sowing immediately with fresh seed as it's a very good candidate for winter sowing. Once germinated, the seedlings look like little blades of grass. The downside is they can take a few years to flower, but I've found them trouble free in all the years I've grown them. Here's what say about it:

Family: Iridaceae
Common name: Angel's Fishing Rods,
Dierama pulcherrimum 'Blackberry Bells

This vigorous hybrid was bred here between 'Cosmos' and Dierama robustum, inheriting some of the darkness from the former flower, but with much larger, deep purple-maroon flared trumpets on very tall, strong springy stems, arising from thick, strong, blade-like leaves. This fabulous plant, coming almost 100% true from seed, makes a strong, solid clump as it matures over the years!

Looking forward to this. I had the basic Dierama pulcherrimum a few years ago, which gradually faded out, possibly not enough moisture. But it sounds as though this hybrid version is particularly robust so hoping it has good survival potential. Such a lovely graceful arching plant and your photo shows a particularly lovely rich dark colour.

Quote from: garrett on December 08, 2024, 14:56:16Hollyhock Halo Red

I can't find out much about this one. It's a selection from the Halo series. I like it because it isn't too tall and doesn't need staking, even in my windy seaside garden. It has beautiful, silky petals. I forgot to take my own picture so I've attached one I found online. I've also found it to be rust free unlike every other hollyhock I've tried here.

Plants were originally grown from Thompson and Morgan seed.

I'm excited to hope for a rust-free hollyhock. A really nice simple flower form too.