• I would like bulbs of Freesia ‘Burtonii’, or would like to know if anyone sells these. Will pay all costs. Mary Mathieson, email: lantern-light@xtra.co.nz • I am a Napier gardener looking for three abutilons: a green-flowered, a pink one and a white one with a pink centre. I can swap cuttings for orange and [...]

• Has anyone some ‘Patty’s Plum’ oriental poppy seeds to spare? Alison, email ajwilson27@gmail.com • Can anyne help me find or provide a piece of an old-fashioned, long-stemmed, single white daisy. I will pay postage. Stephanie, 120 Alpha St, Cambridge 3434, email smw@clear.net.nz. or ph 07 827 7537. Send your plant requests and notices to: [...]

• Can anyone help me find a Calliandra portoricensis, the large fragrant shrub sometimes called the white powder puff tree. Wendy, South Auckland, ph 021 872 276, email gardening@xnet.co.nz • Everyone admires my Leucospermum ‘High Gold’ and a neighbour would like one. Does anyone know we can get one? Suzanne, 1 Diana Place, Wanganui, 4500, [...]

• Has anyone got any white kaka beak seed pods? Happy to pay costs or swap for red pods. Dawn Scannell, ph 06 844 0154, email dawn.scannell@hotmail.co.nz or write to 205 Poraiti Rd, RD 2, Napier. • Can anyone help me find the rose called ‘Suzanne’ which I know used to be sold in New [...]

• Can anyone spare a tuber of the Chinese artichoke (Stachys affinis)? All costs met. Gillian Vine, email gillianv@ihug.co.nz • Can anyone help me find the rose called ‘Suzanne’ which I know used to be sold in New Zealand by a Waikato nursery no longer operating. All costs paid. Mary, email mary@fitzi.co.nz Send your plant [...]

• Can someone help me find some tree onions (or Egyptian tree onions). Happy to pay costs. D Rosser, 1184 State Highway 12, RD1, Maungaturoto 0583. Egyptian tree onions, Allium cepa proliferum, are available from The Fragrant Garden, 60 Port St East, Feilding 4702. Ph 06 323 4233, www.fragrantgarden.co.nz – Editor. • Does anyone have [...]

• Does anyone have plants or cuttings of charms or cushion mums, the low growing chrysanthemum plants? Happy to pay all costs. Annette, email yorkshire@xtra.co.nz • Would someone like to sell me some Eremurus (foxtail lillies) from their garden and can someone tell me where to buy them? All expenses paid. Bernie Christian, 275 Glover [...]

• I would like to hear from anybody who has or knows where to obtain yacón tubers (Peruvian ground apples). Happy to pay all costs. Murray Young, 87 Cockerell St, Brockville, Dunedin 9011, ph 03 476 3735, email retail@youthgrow.org.nz • Does anyone have seeds of purple perilla or know of any suppliers. I will pay [...]

• I am looking for leaf cuttings of named African violet cultivars. In particular, I am interested in some of the old Ballerina hybrids and ‘Melody Kimi’ but will consider other named varieties or chimeras. Happy to for leaf cuttings and postage. Bruce Andrew, ph 09 631 5065, email brucea@actrix.co.nz • I am looking for [...]

• Does anyone have spare water lily plants please? Happy to pay costs. Annette, email yorkshire@xtra.co.nz • I am looking for Heuchera ‘Amber Waves’ and would be grateful if anyone can help. Happy to pay costs. Pam, 07 827 2144, email plantsncurlies@yahoo.co.nz • Old NZ rose nursery catalogues and posters wanted, especially ones from Avenue [...]