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Any sites for rare/endangered etc. seeds? Veggies, flowers.....??

flowersandthings

20 years ago

Does anyone know of a site where or a site that can guide me to people who sell seeds that are "endangered" or risk becoming extinct? Any type of seed would do...... natives...... flowers...... etc. ..... vegetables would be fine too...... like heirloom etc. or wild vegetable varieties....... I'd just like to grow a few..... Thanks. :)

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Flowerkitty
20 years ago
I don't have a lot of experience with seed sellers so I canÂt tell you who is reliable. What I do is work backwords. My state government web site has a list of endangered and threatened species. Find the site for your state and do searches to see which plants grow best on your property - sun, shade, wet, dry. Use that list to search for the plant names.

Searches often turn up places that sell the seeds. Some sellers have sites with great information. I save the URLs and will be buying seeds and plants as my budget allows. There are a lot of sites that donÂt turn up when you search for a plant name. You could try the Garden Watchdog at DaveÂs Garden, which has reviews of plant sellers, or just search topics like Ânative plant seedsÂ, Ânative plant sellersÂ. Search Garden web also, there are many old posts about different sellers and bad or good service.

I know seeds from some of our endangered Michigan plants can be found. I have seen sellers for threatened milkweeds, queen of the prairie etc.

I like reading sites like Easyliving, Prairie Moon, Oak Prairie Farms. fraser's thimblefarms had dwarf raspberry, sunlightgardens had pussytoes. With wildflowers, availability changes all the time. I think it is best to make just a small order the first time.

Keep reading gardenweb and donÂt forget to copy down any good information you find. I keep losing information because I cant find old posts

Here is a link that might be useful: Michigan List of Threatened Species
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