KAREN'S SEED EXCHANGE
Some Links to check out -
The Kiwi Violet Room
Virtual Seeds Co
Gardenbed.com
Gardenweb Australia
NZPages Websites Directory
Kings Seeds (+ Heirlooms)
New Zealand Gardening Site
New Zealand Search Engines
Cyber Seed Co
Nestlebrae Exotic Seeds
The Gardening Launch Pad
SEED EXCHANGE LIST
- As At 12.3.2001
1. Karaka tree - Corynocarpus laevigatus
2. Blue Agapantha
3. Blue Morning Glory Climber
4. Heartsease - "Johnny Jump"-Up
5. Snapdragon, Medium mixed
6. Small Marigold
7. Tall pale yellow Marigold
8. Orange & Yellow Calendula mixed
9. Sweet Basil
10. Lettuce, Mixed Salad Leaves
11. Tamarillo tree - delicious edible red fruit (tree tomato)
12. Tiger Lily (small bulbils)
13. Lavender angustifolia - Munstead
14. Aquilegia mixed - Granny's Bonnets
15. Cape Gooseberry - Physalis peruviana
16. Lavender pedanticulata - species
17. Cinereria - Medium Mixed
I am Interested in Obtaining any of the following Seed:
# Neem Tree
# Jujube tree
# Lychee tree
# Coffee Bean Tree
# Green Tea Camellia (sinensis)
# Tropical and Subtropical trees and plants
# Rare Fruit and Nut trees
# Heirloom Vegetables
# Perennials
# Bulbous plants
# Houseplants
# Gesneriad seed or rhizomes
# Anything new or different
I am also interested in swapping cuttings from my garden. We have many different things on our property, some of them still unidentified, but beautiful, some things have been here many years, and some we have planted ourselves in more recent times. Our ultimate aim is an Edible Landscape and Perfumed Garden.
These are some of the trees and plants we have growing:
TREES
+ 2 different Magnolias, 1 is a huge tree and large white fls, 1 is smaller tree with smaller pink fls
+ 4 Palm trees
+ 3 Cabbage Trees
+ 2 Flowering Cherries, 1 old white, 1 new pink
+ 1 Huge Gingko tree, female, has nuts on it now
+ Several large Camellia trees
+ 2 Silver Birches
+ 1 Horse Chestnut tree
+ 1 Robinia Frisia
+ 1 Silver Dollar Gum
+ 2 Maple Trees
+ Several Karaka Trees
+ Several beautiful leafed and timber tree, probably native
+ Several Maori herb tree, NZ native
+ 1 Chinese Daphne tree (yellow fragrant fls)
+ 1 Red Kaka Beak
+ 1 Decorative Silver Pine-type tree
+ 2 Rubber trees
+ 1 Lemon Verbena
+ 1 Kowhai Tree
+ 1 Silk tree ?
+ Other unidentified trees
FRUIT & NUT TREES
+ 3 Old Red Plums, 1 Yellow Plum tree
+ 1 Old apple, excellent pulp when cooked, appears to be disease and bug free
+ 1 huge Old red apple tree, inedible and sour!
+ 2 Figs - 1 Old Unknown one, 1 Brown Turkey
+ 1 Columnar apple
+ 2 Macademias - 1 Species, 1 collected and grown from seed from High School
+ 1 Seedling Walnut
+ 1 White Sapote seedling
+ 5 Orange Trees, all different
+ 1 Satsuma Orange
+ 1 Grapefruit tree
+ 1 Meyer Lemon
+ 1 Seckle (Honey) Pear Tree (Heirloom)
+ 1 Dual Apricot tree -
+ 1 Almond tree ?
+ 1 Hass Avocado, grafted
+ 1 Japanese Quince
+ 3 Feijoas - 1 Unique, 1 Seedling, 1 huge Old tree which crops well
+ 1 Red Tamarillo
+ 1 Yellow Tamarillo
+ 1 Pomegranate
BUSHES & VINES
+ 1 Daphne
+ 1 Winter Sweet
+ 6 Different Named Lavenders
+ 8 Different Named Old-fashioned Climbing Roses
+ Miniature Roses
+ 1 Hebe
+ 3 Hydrangeas, large blue and pink
+ 1 Humulus Lupulus - Hops vine
+ Banana Passionfruit - Invasive in NZ - self-seeded
+
Let me know if you would like to do a Cutting Swap as well, or instead.
I also save Stamps, so would really appreciate a Nice Stamp on the Envelope.
And I will do the same for you!
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