I am pleased to present you my first seeds list composed mainly of native plants from France. The seeds were harvested in nature or in my garden located in Isère, near the Rhone valley. All taxa collected in recent years are listed. For each, I have or had between 0 and a few thousand seeds I've sown, given, exchanged, still have some or emptied the packets, I have enough to offer you or just enough for me to try to grow them. However, if a plant is not available, you can ask anyway, I might be able to get you some seeds aside this year or soon.
This is a google translation of the french site, sorry for the mistakes.
I have started collecting a lot of seeds for 2-3 years now. These seeds are used mainly for me to multiply these plants. A lot of seeds were destined for the exchanges but these work poorly outside of seed list exchange as SRGC, SAJA ...) As I also buys seeds from around the world, why not fund these purchases by some of my crops? Here is the result.
All seeds were harvested by me. I do not sell and do not trade (or very rarely) received seed from exchange. I'm also very open to exchange, and, naturally, I will be interested by wild originated plants from known origins. Feel free to offer me your seeds.
First, because these are the ones I meet when I walk around my home or while on vacation. Then, because I think there are lots of beautiful flowers in our countryside and mountains, flowers that have nothing to envy to what one can find in garden centers. Personally, I find them more delicate, less artificial. They deserve to be discovered, multiplied, admired. Finally because it is not easy for many of them to get them. I must sometimes go through foreign nursery to buy plants growing in France. Through this site, I hope to help some of their discovery, promotion and dissemination.
I attach great importance to the origin of plants. Each plant (seed, cuttings, shine) I collect or buy is labeled with the place of origin. Some species may well appear more than once in the list as from different areas, whether harvested in nature or in the garden. To minimize genetic pollution, if you have a choice, try to buy plants from your area. The seeds harvested from the garden, however, are open-pollinated. Crosses with wild plants, between species or between plants of different origins are possible, I can only guarantee the origin of the mother.
Some people might be surprised that I pick plants and harvest seed in nature. Say it right away, no, I am not a robber. I am very careful in all my samples to have the lowest impact on the populations sampled. I prefer the seeds, cuttings, chips, runners ... The uprooting of whole plants is rare and concern a few young plants growing in healthy populations. When I harvest the seeds, I try not to take all the seeds of the same plant (some fruit or flower stem per foot) and I especially try to charge only a very small fraction of seeds produced by the local population, even if the species is very common. This is one reason why I generally collect few seeds from each taxa collected in nature.
I try to have the seeds of the highest quality because I also sow them myself. This does not preclude having failures ... All seeds are harvested and cleaned manually. Cleaning starts with sorting using strainers and ends with a winnowing by blowing on it. This eliminates much of the empty seeds. Seeds are stored at room temperature in the summer in order to allow the end of their maturation, then in fridge during winter.
Wild plants are identified at the time of harvest. I use different floras (Flora gallica, Flora of the Mediterranean France, Flora corsica, Illustrated Flora of the Pyrenees ...) and tallywith different sites known issue (Siflore, PIFH, Chloris, Silene, FloreAlpes ...). However, the identification of fruit plants is sometimes impossible and my botany skills have their limits. You will therefore find in the list some species only identified to the genus or family. There must also be some mistakes, please report them to me.
I preferred to keep it simple: € 3 for seed harvested in kind, € 2 for those collected in my garden, € 1 for the seeds from previous years. The number of seeds per package is indicative. The objective is to provide a minimum of 25 seeds per package (up over 100 for the finer seeds) but for some, I can not provide more than 10.
Shipping costs are extra.
I think the easiest way for payment is Paypal. I also accept payments by check labelled in euros.
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