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Old 08-06-2006, 12:43 PM posted to rec.gardens
 
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Hi to all!!!

I'm Deedee from Reunion Island. Reunion is a small French area in the
Indian Ocean, between Madagascar and Mauritius.

I've been swapping seeds (and other things like stamps, phonecards,...)
for about 10 years now.

I have a lot of seeds of tropical species to swap. All the seeds come
from my own gardens, or from my neighbours and friends who are also
gardeners.

I pack all fragile seeds in hard pack in more of a paper or plastic bag
that I use for all seeds. Packs are put in a safe envelope (bubble
wrapper when they are numerous). I ship worldwide with prioritary mail
with advice, growing tips from my own experience if you need.

I'm looking for some pygmy drosera seeds (carnivorous pygmy sundews) in
exchange of my seeds or shipping & handling cost or other items that I
collect (see below: stamps, phonecards).

Regarding s&h cost, I can email the Reunion price list / cost (in Euro
and in French) to everybody who requests it by email. But, to let you
have an idea, the cost of an international letter (under 20 g) is about
$1.30/$1.40 (depends on the cost of $ ref. to Euro) and the cost
doubles about every 20 grams in more (I hope you understand me, sorry
for my poor English...), so the s&h cost depends on the total weight of
the envelope.

Find under my update list of available seeds with average numbers of
seeds packed (numbers of seeds per pack depends on the size of the
seeds + the numbers of seeds the flower/plant/tree give + the numbers
necessary to get a good percentage of germination (following my own
experience) and also to have enough seeds for everybody who want some:

- tabebuia heterophylla (pink tabebuia) flowers look like orchids
(between 30 and 50 seeds per pack)
- asclepias curassavica (butterfly weed hawaï princess) (between 5 and
10 seeds per pack)
- mimosa pudica (sensitive) (between 5 and 10 seeds per pack)
- vinca rosea white (white periwinkle) (between 5 and 10 seeds per
pack)
- vinca rosea pink (pink periwinkle) (between 5 and 10 seeds per pack)
- hibiscus "cream coffe" (between 5 and 10 seeds per pack)
- albizzia julibrissin (pink silk tree) (between 5 and 10 seeds per
pack)
- belamcanda chinensis (leopard flower) (between 5 and 10 seeds per
pack)
- datura innoxia (white) (between 5 and 10 per pack)
- red bird pepper (one of the hottest in the world) (between 15 and 25
seeds per pack)
- red cayenne pepper (between 15 and 25 seeds per pack)
- hot pepper achard (between 15 and 25 seeds per pack)
- lemon "citron péi" Reunion (between 5 and 10 seeds per pack)
- cotton (between 5 and 10 seeds per pack)
- canna edulis red (indian shot) a pure tropical flower easy to grow
(between 5 and 10 seeds per pack)
- callistemon citrinus (red) (between 15 and 25 seeds per pack)
- false pepper tree (Brazilian pepper-tree / Christmas berry-tree)
bright red berries which have a flavour both sweet and spicy and are
used as
spice or substitute for pepper (I got the information that the seeds
must be used only for bonzaï or in a closed garden (a "serre" /
veranda, I'm not sure of the word in English) due to the fact that this
plant is too invasive, propagation must be prevented (between 20 and 30
seeds per pack)
- duranta repens (cayenne vanilla tree), flowers are blue and fruits
are orange, it smells vanilla, it's also called "cayenne vanilla tree
(between 10 and 20 seeds per pack)
- bauhinia monandra (pink orchid tree) great small tree with wonderful
and smelly flowers (between 5 and 10 seeds per pack)
- bauhinia purpurea (purple orchid tree) great small trees with
wonderful and smelly flowers (between 5 and 10 seeds per pack)
- bauhinia var. alba (white orchid tree) great small trees with
wonderful and smelly flowers (between 5 and 10 seeds per pack)
- caesalpina pulcherrima (red small flame tree), this is one of my
favourite flower (between 5 and 10 seeds per pack)
- caesalpina giliesii (yellow small flame tree), this is one of my
favourite flower (between 5 and 10 seeds per pack)
- tecoma stans (gold trumpet) (lovely small tree with beautiful yellow
flowers) (between 30 and 50 seeds per pack)
- passiflora caerulea (passion fruit/vine) (between 5 and 10 seeds per
pack)
- passiflora edulis (passion fruit/vine) (between 5 and 10 seeds per
pack)
- jacaranda (mimosaefolia) tree with blue/purple flowers (between 30
and 50 seeds per pack)
- spathodea campanulata (gabon tulip tree) wonderful orange flowers
(between 30 and 50 seeds per pack)
- plumeria (frangipani) mix of white/yellow and pink/yellow (between 5
and 10 seeds per pack)
- cananga odorata (ylang ylang) (between 5 and 10 seeds per pack)
- clitorea ternatea (between 5 and 10 seeds per pack)
- ravenala madagascariensis (the traveller tree) (between 5 and 10
seeds per pack)
- plumbago capensis (between 5 and 10 seeds per pack)
- coffea arabica (between 5 and 10 seeds per pack)
- musa velutina (between 5 and 10 seeds per pack)
+ a few palm seeds and other big seeds (small pack between 3 and 6
seeds per pack for all, big seeds) of:
- phoenix roebellini
- trachicarpus fortunei
- caryota mitis (fishtail palm)
- livingstonia chinensis
- chrysalidocarpus lutescens (areca palm)
- butia capitata (jelly palm)
- adansonia digitata (baobab)
- mucuna pruriens (velvet bean)
and some other flowers, plants, trees I have to check + others I'll
have soon (crossandra, datura fastuosa blue, datura suaveolens, other
kinds of hot pepper, canna indica, petrea volubilis, citrus hystrix
(combava), heliconia wagneriana, adenium obesum (desert rose),
antigonon leptopus (coral vine), delonix regia,...

Let me know what you're looking for (as long as it's not a
protected/endangered specie) and I'll let you know if I can get or not.

For those who don't want to pay s&h cost (unless they have seeds of
pygmy drosera that I'm looking for), there is another possibility to
get my seeds as I'm not only a drosera pygmy seeds collector. I also
collect mint and used collection stamps and phonecards. For stamps, I
have some thematic collections (billiard/pool, carnivorous plants, and
many other themes), I also collect stamps with all themes from Vatican,
Monaco, old French and English colonies. For phonecards, I collect
thematic phonecards (same themes as stamps) + chip cards of many
countries.

Well, feel free to contact me (on my email address only please
, if you have problems to reach me on my email,
post here and I'll reply to you by email).

Have a nice day!

Kind regards

Deedee

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