On Sat, 24 May 2003 00:21:10 +0100, Janet Galpin and Oliver
Patterson wrote:

...I'm pretty sure Hepatica
nobilis has to be sown absolutely fresh, so probably wouldn't work from
Seed Exchange seed.

I've had reasonable, sometimes good, results from exchange seed
of Hepatica. I always give it a long soak before sowing, up to
two or even three weeks and it can take a year to emerge, but
it's by no means the hopeless case it's often made out to be.


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Rodger Whitlock
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada