Natural Selection seed list for 2007.
Aconitum napellus, monkshood, purply blue flowers, poisonous, (n)Alisma lanceolatum, narrow leaved water plantain
Allium babingtonii, bulbils 5 for £1, autumn, winter, (young plants spring)
Anagallis arvensis, scarlet pimpernel, (n):
Arabis stricta, Bristol rock cress (n)
Borago officinalis ''Bill Archer'' , the variegated leaf form, sometimes almost completely white, best sown ''in situ'' in well cultivated ground, and marked, ££2.50p
Brassica oleracea ''Ragged Jack'', cut leaved form;
Centaurea calcitrapa, red star thistle, monocarpic so save seed.
Cichorium intybus, chicory:
Cucubalus, baccifer, berry catchfly, (n)
these wid carrot ''cultivars'' are quite experimental, and though they do not stay constant for long are fun if you can get your eye round the smallness of the flower. Although I have named the mother plants perhaps the best bet is to have a mixture of all forms, £2.
Daucus carota, pink flowered, cultivar name ''Jane''s Lace''
Daucus carota, new cultivar name, ''Ballydowling Lace'', green flowered, ''Myopic orbits'' the smallest flowers, ''Soraya'' red and white in the flower.
Helleborus foetidus ''Chedglow'' yellow leaf, (Au), ££1.50p
Heracleum sphondylium roseum, pink (n) flowered hogweed, Au, (£1.50p)
Hieraceum aurantiacum, orange hawkweed,
Lapsana communis ''Inky'' v (n)
Lathyrus niger, black pea
Matthiola incana (n) sea stock;
Papaver somniferum ''Igor'', dark form (n);''Summer pyjamas''; ''cut-petal''.'
'Chedglow'' variegated foliage red flowers, this disappoints and was hardly a discernible character this year, only for variegated plant nuts, and price reduced to£1;
Petroselinum crispum ''Hank'', formerly misnamed variegatum, this seed strain discovered in the neighbour''s garden, and named for him. It was known from Japan, but then lost to cultivation and as far as I am aware was not named.£3. A few and some plants.
Plantago m.''Tony Lewis'' new cultivar name, a fertile form of besom plantain.£2
Potentilla rupestris, (n)
Rumex obtusifolia ''golden my foot'', yellow foliage, a % of seedlings.
Scrophularia nodosa tracheliodes, figwort (n); Scrophularia scorodonia, balm leaved figwort
All Sorbus seed £2.
Sorbus anglica, Au; S. arranensis; Au; S.bristoliensis; Au;
Sorbus devoniensis, Devon whitebeam,Au;
Sorbus eminens, this flowered for the first time this year in seed orchard and had a most pleasant scent Sorbus latifolia; Au; Sorbus lancastriensis Au; Sorbus wilmottiana, Au
Sorbus croceocarpa,
All seed£1.50 unless otherwise stated.