I need some advice please. I've bought seeds before for exotics, but can't remember name of the company,I've dome a search, but they weren't in the ones that came up.i'm after some hardly banana seeds, and elephant ears.Any ideas of a supplier of exotic seeds.
exotic seed source
Chiltern Seeds do some exotics - I think they do bananas (not sure about hardly bananas though LOL)
http://www.edirectory.co.uk/chilternseeds/pages/banner.asp?companyid=211
Wait a sec here Phi -
She said "hardly banana seeds". Have you ever tried to find the seeds in a banana fruit???
;)
The Organic Gardening Catalogue (Chase Organics and HDRA)have an exotic seeds section. They have a "jungle banana" in their rainforest collection (together with baby papaya, emerald ebony, forest flame, paradise bird and rain tree). Don't know if it's hardy though. You can find them on-line at: www.OrganicCatalog.com
Can you get real banana seeds, though - I thought they reproduced vegetatively?
Yes, that's what all the current hooha is about with the threat of losing our commercial bananas, grown for fruit, to disease, as they are seedless. However, there are many other species bananas which do have seed.
Baa
Feb 26, 2003
How about
ANi Direct
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/anico/seeds.htm
Silk Tree
http://www.silktree.co.uk/
Jungle seeds
http://www.jungleseeds.co.uk/
Or someone off here
http://www.personal.u-net.com/~treetops/supplies.html
thanks for the tips,have been scouring the sites,and ordered some banana seeds ( I too wondered how you could grow those tiny little specs that you see in the middle of a bananan!!)some elephant ears and something else, which my mind has temporarily forgotton ! :-( Will soon have my garden looking like a jungle...depending on the weather of course.