Thanks so much for going to this effort. "Crescent Bloom" is a website where they're selling a book called "The Compleat Botanica" but no plants or seed. I've held the greatest hope for San Marcos, but as of now they're out of stock. Sheffield's looks good, but seeds require stratification and scarification, they say. Lotusland sounds like a wonderful place to visit, but not really commercial. I found this plant under the name "Toona sinensis" at Cistus Nursery in Oregon, even, but it's the same story: out of stock. River Rock Nursery (also in Oregon) says they're having trouble propagating their cuttings. Still searching for a plant...
Maybe you can help solve the black mustard mystery (Brassica nigra). Southern Exposure was supposed to have black mustard, but when I ordered it, it was actually brown. Same thing with Richter's. I notice that now both seed companies have removed it from their catalogs, and now black mustard is extinct commerically in the U. S. Even the mustard seed available for Indian cookery in shops is all brown. All this coincides with the rise of commercial medicinal sources galore of "black mustard extract" and the concurrent denunciation of black mustard as a non-native invasive (in the Midwest, as I recall).
Bill
S. Oregon coast
Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.