Re: Select Seeds



Graham Rice wrote:

> The new catalogue from Select Seeds arrived today - and it's wonderful! I'd never seen it before, being a British gardening writer only now getting to grips with the American seed trade I've recently been looking at many American catalogues but this one is outstanding.
>
> How they make a living I can't imagine as the ratio of varieties to pages is very low... but I was thrilled to see that so many varieties which are so hard to find were included:
> Like the old Victorian striped snapdragon 'Brighton Rock';
> Like an extensive collection of pre-Spencer sweet peas;
> Like the Victorian variegated annual hop;
> Like 'White Linen', the white California poppy;
> Like a long list of double and fringed opium poppies;
> Like the invaluable but so rare 'McGregor's Favorite' ornamental beet;
>
> I've recently finished a book, Discovering Annuals, to be published in the UK by Frances Lincoln and in the US by Timber Press in the spring. And I was delighted to see that many of the varieties that I was tempted to exclude from the American edition, thinking them unavailable in the US, are in the Select Seeds catalogue.
>
> I've no idea if their service is prompt (they say 6 days maximum) and I've no idea if the packets come with good information. But the listing is exceptional and the catalogue a delight to read...
>
> Graham Rice
> Northamptonshire, UK (and sometimes in NJ, USA)
> Zone 8, (6b)

  To Graham & anybody else interested,
         I personally know the lady who puts out the catalog. Her last name is Stickney and she is a very nice & good-hearted person and I am sure that the quality you see in the catalog is the same service you will get from her.  Judy Showers (http://www.epix.net/~jshowers
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