Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Tropical Garden # 24, 1 by rjuddharrison

rjuddharrison wrote:
Clemen, I did try to germinate a couple, and will try again probably in spring. I have noticed however that I should be germinating tropical vine seeds right now. I try doing morning glories etc in spring here and that's way too late for this area.

LOL, there IS a little story about keeping those Tamarind seeds so long. We created a bug collection exhibit from that period in our life. Some very weird and BIG bugs. My mother had them mounted in a plexi glass case in a faux nautural enviornment after they moved back from the states and won 1st place in a contest at one the WA state fairs. One of the decorations was alot of the seeds we had collected. Years of wear finally persuaded me to disemble the collection. I was actually doing it in the green house because it was cold that day, and decided to put a bunch of the seeds in pots. Voila!

I still have a bunch of different seeds my mother had collected, some of which sprouted, but later died, I've learned a bunch more about seed sprouting from those regions, and am going to try again on some of them. It's funny, because she knew no names of the plants, so there are descriptions of the plants like fuzzy red bloomed shrub. LOL.

I have no idea what this grows..but I did sprout one..this is the one I'm going to try again.