Re: older forms of Cineraria - Pericallis (Senecio) cruenta

And why doesn't Annie's Annuals sell them?

--- Joe Seals <gardenguru@yahoo.com> wrote:
> HEM Zaden, a commercial seed producer in The
> Netherlands still offers a few strains of old-time
> Cineraria.  I won't swear on it but I'll bet they
> sell
> some of it to an American retail seed company.  You
> might try these two best bets:
> 
> J.L. Hudson, Seedsman, Star Route 2, Box 337, La
> Honda, CA 94020, no tel. orders; send catalog
> requests
> to : J.L Hudson, Seedsman, PO Box1058, Redwood City,
> CA 94064
> 
> DiGiorgi Seed, 6011 North Street, Omaha, NE 68117,
> Phone: 402.731.3901, FAX: 403.731.8475
> 
> Good luck,
> Joe
> --- Sean O'Hara <sean@support.net> wrote:
> > Hi folks -
> > 
> > One of my favorite winter/spring flowers is
> > Cineraria, with its bright 
> > magenta, clue, purple, and lavender daisies.  This
> > Canary Island native 
> > annual grows over our mild winters and flowers
> > easily on heavy clay in 
> > partial shade during this part of early spring.
> > 
> > Unfortunately, annual breeders seem to feel the
> best
> > place for these plants 
> > is not in the garden but in the flower shop and
> have
> > breed them smaller and 
> > more compact each year until they hardly resemble
> > the loose, airy sprays of 
> > delicate flowers we used to know.  Instead, these
> > are little 'tuffets' of 
> > leaves with a compact, low crown of flowers,
> usually
> > strongly banded in 
> > white, creating a very jarring (to my eye) effect.
> > 
> > Recently, I've had various inquiries from others
> who
> > miss the 'old' plants 
> > as I do.  I am wondering if anyone know of a seed
> > strain still being 
> > offered, perhaps by some heirloom seed company, of
> > the taller and looser 
> > Cineraria, and perhaps in the solid colored forms
> > rather than this banded 
> > type that has replaced it?  Yes, I still know of a
> > few old gardens where 
> > the Cineraria are still allowed to self-seed where
> I
> > could possible gather 
> > seed myself, but this would not necessarily help
> > others in far ranging 
> > areas.  And besides, it'd be nice to make sure
> > someone is safe-guarding 
> > this germ-plasm for the future!
> > 
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Seán O.
> > 
> > No. Calif. Branch of the Mediterranean Garden
> > Society
> > Seán A. O'Hara - Branch co-chair
> > (510) 987-0577; fax (707) 667-1173;
> sean@support.net
> > 710 Jean Street, Oakland, California 94610-1459,
> > U.S.A.
> >
>
http://www.MediterraneanGardenSociety.org/branches_CANo.html
> > 
> 
> 
> =====
> Joe Seals
> Santa Maria, California --
> where the weather is always perfect
> and my garden always has something blooming
> and birds galore
> 
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=====
Joe Seals
Santa Maria, California --
where the weather is always perfect
and my garden always has something blooming
and birds galore

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