Rock Garden Plants at Merritt Summer 2009

These plants are available for sale. Several of them were grown from seed collected by the North American Rock Garden Society (NARGS). The NARGS has members who collect seed from all over the world, many from hard-to-access locations in mountainous regions.

Androsace lanuginosa
Anemone drummondii
Aristea africana
Asclepias eriocarpa
Boykinia major
Boykinia occidentalis
Calandrinia grandiflora
Calceolaria arachinoidea
Clematis pitcheri
Dacrydium cupressinum
Digitalis dubia
Dioscorea sylvatica
Draba paysonii
Erica otis
Eriogonum compositum
Eriogonum crocatum
Eriogonum kennedyii
Eriogonum saxatilis
Eriogonum tripodium
Eriogonum umbellatum modocensis
Eriogonum umbellatum var. furcosum
Eriogonum wrightii
Ferrulea sp.
Geum trifolium
Gladiolus saundersii
Goodenia pinnatifida
Gunnera prorepens
Hedysarum boreale
Leptodactylon californica ssp brevi
Limonium sp.
Lotus formosa
Lygodium circinnatum
Moltkia petraea
Morina longifolia
Notholirion bulbiferum
Papaver miyabeanum
Penstemon cardwellii
Penstemon cyaneus
Penstemon triflorus
Petrophytum caespitosum
Phyteuma nigrum
Pinellia pedatisecta
Podophyllum hexandrum
Polypodium guttatum
Pteris longipes
Rhododendron linearifolium
Romanzoffia californica
Seseli gummiferum
Stenocarpus sinuatus
Styrax californica
Thalictrum acaule
Thalictrum kiusianum
Thymus camphorata
Townsendia paryii
Wahlenbergia albomarginata
Xerochrysum subundulatum

Salvias at Merritt Summer 2009

We are open for plant sales most Friday afternoons.

Salvia 'Bee's Bliss'
Salvia 'Cabrillo Sunset'
Salvia 'Frieda Dixon'
Salvia 'Indigo Spires'
Salvia africana-caerulea
Salvia africana-lutea
Salvia argentea
Salvia barrelieri
Salvia brandegii
Salvia buchananii
Salvia chamaedryoides
Salvia clevelandii 'Celestial Blue'
Salvia confertiflora
Salvia corrugata
Salvia darcyi
Salvia elegans
Salvia fulgens
Salvia guaranitica
Salvia keerlii
Salvia leucantha
Salvia littae
Salvia lycioides
Salvia mellifera
Salvia munzii
Salvia pachyphylla
Salvia pratensis 'Pink Ice'
Salvia roemeriana
Salvia sagittata
Salvia semiatrata
Salvia slcarea
Salvia sonomensis
Salvia uliginosa

What We Are Up To

The Merritt College Propagation Club is a loose group of landscape horticulture students and volunteers who work at the propagation tables sowing seed, transplanting stock from one size pot to another, or making cuttings for the mist house. And of course there is the sharing of information. The group among its members often has an answer for most questions. What seed mix should I use? How strong should the rooting hormone be? Is this the right time to make a cutting or to plant the seed? Is this a seed? (This one makes for interesting answers.)

The group's purpose is to be a learning laboratory for the landscape horticulture deparment as well as to create plants for twice yearly plant sales. There are 3 greenhouses with automatic watering and temperature controls.

Call Molly Sealund, Landscape Horticulture Dept, Merritt College at 510-436-2418 for more information.

Schedule The group meets on Tuesdays and Fridays 1-5 generally year round

What we grow The group grows plants that interest them. There are many South African plants being grown, ferns from spore, plants from various collecting trips, California natives, plants in the protea family, palms and salvias. Recently several people have started specializing in edibles.