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Ballotas

I got plants of Ballota pseudodictamnus at Companion Plants, seed of B.
acetabulosa from Alplains (it is not listed in the 1997 Alplains
catalog...4:6 w strat & I had some success with just chilling the
package, if it wasn't a dry storage requirement being fufilled), plants
of B. nigra variegata at Siskiyou Rare Plant Nursery and seed from Plant
World seed- germ at @ 70*F w/ Light (?)
B. "All Hallow's Green": Plants Canyon Creek Nursery, seed from B&T -has
some more complicated requirements than 70*F?. Ballota africana at
Silverhill Seeds seemed to have a dry storage requirement of 1 year ?)
Ballota saxatilis at Seed Guild (may be out?) may have more complicated
requirements, but one germinated out of very few. at 70*F.
(Ballota africana has bitten me with that strange bug
that makes me sound like a conniseur: "An exquisite combination of both
texture and architecture" Yeesh! :-) but yeah, looks like Brass ivy all
frosted in patina over short Grecian columns, with (the granddaddy of
all seed setters- seeds from the ground up), Chenopodium bortys
interspersed to look like fountains of jade pearls frozen in time and
space (dwarf the Chenopodium by withholding water). Who would know I'm a
herbalist now? :-)
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