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  • From: Sherlock Terry <sherlocksmith@gmail.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] champagne rhubarb
  • Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2011 12:57:07 -0400

I knew I saw Champagne rhubarb listed the other day in a vegetable seed
catalog. I haven't ordered from this place and I don't think they have a
website, but the catalog is really interesting, especially for us short
season folks.
http://www.hanovergardens.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Solstice_Seeds_Catalogue_2010.pdf

-Sherlock
VT

On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Lori Rizzo <larizzo@charter.net> wrote:

> Some of the houses sell crowns - can these be shipped from the UK? Also,
> my
> daughter is in Germany and I was thinking of having her bring seeds back.
> Would this be a problem with customs/USDA? Also, any contacts I could get
> for this?
>
> I'm growing Gaskins Perpetual this year.
>
> Lori
>
> Lori Rizzo, RN BSN MBA
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Lon J. Rombough
> Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2011 11:26 AM
> To: North American Fruit Explorers
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] champagne rhubarb
>
> Early Champagne can be grown from seed. UK seed houses have it and can
> ship to the U.S. Search for Early Champagne seed
> -Lon Rombough
> Grapes, writing, consulting, my book, The Grape Grower, at
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>
> On Apr 10, 2011, at 8:00 AM, Road's End Farm wrote:
>
>
> On Apr 10, 2011, at 9:44 AM, Amelia Hayner wrote:
>
> > where would one LOOK for "champagne rhubarb" ?
>
> To my surprise, that got quite a lot of google hits.
>
> In the first page of hits, there was at least one place selling the
> plants; but it's in England. I don't know anything about the company:
>
> http://gardenshop.telegraph.co.uk/plants/_/vegetables/kitchengarden/
> edible-plant-stem/rhubarb-champagne/classid.1000000103/
>
> Maybe somewhere in the later Google pages there's a USA source.
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