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Nov 19, 2015 3:41 PM CST
Name: Rick Corey
Everett WA 98204 (Zone 8a)
Sunset Zone 5. Koppen Csb. Eco 2f
Frugal Gardener Garden Procrastinator I helped beta test the first seed swap Plant and/or Seed Trader Seed Starter Region: Pacific Northwest
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I just activated these:

"Chinese" Snow Peas. Pole - 5' vines. OP. 70 DTM.
Pods stay sweet & tender even when large. Leafy young tendrils for soup.
Territorial #PE627 (2013).

and


Lavatera:
Tree Mallow (Malva thuringiaca subsp. thuringiaca 'Rosea')

syn. Lavatera x clementii [P Zone 5]
Collected Summer 2015 from my yard.

This is a little aggressive about re-seeding if you don't deadhead it. Tall, woody, perennial plants that I cut down to 6" each Fall or Spring. Prefers dry, poor soil or clay. Tends to shoot up tall and then flop if pampered.

Unless some neighbor has a Lavatera that doesn't show from the road, these were isolated from any cross-pollination. I had many growing on my property, all from one shipment from Hirt's Nursery, so I expect this seed is "pure something". Everything that has re-seeded looks exactly like the parents, over 3-4 years.

However, Hirt's called this 'Barnsley', a "periclinal chimaera" of the cultivar 'Rosea', but it looks exactly like the cheaper, common 'Rosea'. Maybe it reverted to plain pink before the first tiny plant grew up. Probably it really was 'Rosea', so seed should come true.

If really 'Barnsley', seed might be hybrid F2: variable offspring. (That is, if a "periclinal chimaera" has variable offspring when self-crossed. I don't know.)

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