MOUNTAIN GARDENS

SEED LIST

2002

SOURCE: All seeds collected by Joe Hollis and apprentices between 1999 and 2001, at Mountain Gardens (MG), or other Gardens (NC mtns. or piedmont), or from Naturally occuring plant populations (most in western NC) - details on request

DESCRIPTIONS: annual, biennial, perennial; herb, (herbaceous - nonwoody), shrub, tree, vine, grass, evergreen, deciduous, Tender - not hardy here (average annual minimum = 0 F), ss = self-sows (at Mtn Gdns)

HABITAT: gdn = prefers garden conditions (reasonably full sun, good soil and moisture); other preferences as indicated. part shade (shadier than ‘light shade’, but less shady than ‘woods.’)

PART USED: leaf; stem, stalk; flower, flowering; bark; root; fruit; herb; plant; seed; young; shoots; wood;

USE: Edible (includes plants used for beverages or seasoning); Medicine; Fiber; Ornamental; Nitrogen Fixer; Dye, ink, food coloring, etc.; Honey. Insecticidal; Fragrance, incense, etc. (...)=minor or obsolete uses. This information is offered as an aid to plant selection and further research. Please do not ingest any plant without more specific information (preparation, dosage, etc.)

NB!! (Warnings): Weedy (excessive seedlings - at Mountain Gardens); Invasive, spreading by rhizomes,runners, etc., Poisonous (in total, or some part, or at some season, etc, - not a complete list); Thorns, spines, prickles; Stings

This list will be revised and expanded as time permits. Revisions will be available at website: mountaingardens.net - where I also will be posting a complete list of useful plants growing here, a list of Chinese medicinal herbs under cultivation, etc. Suggestions for revisions are welcome. If requesting further information, please include S.A.S.E. for reply.

Major sources for this information are:

-Cornucopia: A Source Book of Edible Plants, Steven Facciola. Kampong Pub. 1870 Sunrise Dr., Vista, CA 92084

-Peterson’s Field Guide to Medicinal Plants, Eastern & Central North America

-Hortus III

-Oriental Materia Medica, Hong-yen Hsu, Oriental Healing Arts Inst.

-Color Dictionary of Herbs & Herbalism, Malcolm Stuart, ed. (orig. pub. as part of :

-the Herb Society of America Encyclopedia of Herbs & their Uses, Deni Bown

- Manual of Woody Landscape Plants, Michael Dirr

-Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas, Radford, et al.

-Dictionary of Economic Plants, J. C. Th. Uphof

-Tanaka’s Cyclopedia of Edible Plants of the World

-A New Compendium of Materia Medica (Pharmaceutical Botany and China Medicinal Plants), Ling Yeou-ruenn, Science Press

-Edible Wild Plants of Eastern North America, Fernald, et al.

ORDERING

Seeds are $ 1.50/ packet, plus $1.00 for shipping - any size order (1 pkt /$2.50, 2 /$4.00, 10 /$16.00, etc). Send check with your order. (Sorry, not yet set up for electronic ordering; you are welcome to email your order and I will confirm availability, but you’ll have to mail payment).

Excepting a few large or rare seeds, packets will contain at least 25 seeds. Panax & Caulophyllum - pkt is 10 moist-stratified seed. (Hydrastis & Trillium also supplied moist stratified). Dioscorea (Shan Yao) - pkt is 15 bulblets. Fresh seed is important and will be supplied for Sanguinaria (ca. May 31), Tussilago (April-May), Myrrhis (Jul-Aug) - please include S.A.S.E. for this service.

Larger quantities are available of many spp, for growers or retailers, inquiries invited, as are your want list or request for medicinal herbs not listed here.

It is no coincidence that many of our most useful species are ‘weeds.’ Emerson said that a weed is ‘a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered;’ but ‘a plant whose virtues have been forgotten’ would be more accurate. Weeds provide some of our most nutritious foods and effective medicines, while remaining committed to their primary purpose: to clothe the soil.