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Hi all,

Okay, back from Honolulu, where I had an absolutely fantastic time; totally fell in love with the ocean, and spent lots of time just sitting on the lanai watching and listening to the waves.

Anyway, while I was there, I met a beader in the hotel lobby who was selling jewelry made with mgambo (velvet) seeds; said she got them from a tree in her backyard (lucky lady). I've been looking on line and only found one website that had them for sale. I was wondering if anyone here could suggest more places to look for them? I'd love to get my hands on a bunch of these.

Thanks, Carla

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Carla
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Barbara

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Hi all,

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Barbara Forbes-Lyons

Thanks for the page, Barbara, but: I just bought some , paid $0.35 per seed too.

Hoping I get some trees to grow, then you can page me again in about 5 years. (said the guy I bought them from - probably the same guy that you (Carla) found on a web site, if it was at the Plantseeker/Backyard Gardener noticeboard, there's a thread about them). Hope some day I'll remember to plant those seeds (been living without much electriticy since mid February, working more than full time and dealing with a high school senior. It's taking its toll.)

The name of the guy I bought the seeds form is Kristof, email address is snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com (sorry, I'd rather be able to sell them myself, probably at a lower price, but this is the best I can do right now).

Aloha,

Maren Palms, Etc.: Tr> Paging Maren...!

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m.purves

Thanks for the name/address, Maren. That's a better price than I found at the one site I came across.

Good luck with the growing...and the teenager :)

Cheers, Carla

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Carla

don't tell him that , he may raise the price some more. - He does charge extra for drilling, which was fine with me as I was looking for seeds to grow trees.

As I forgot this earlier: I have seeds of a tree that's related, tulipwood, harpullia pendula. They are about the same size, not gray and fuzzy but black and shiny - undrilled so far -. I have a few hundred of those, $16.-/100 (about 2oz), includes shipping in the US. (Pictures can be found e.g. here:

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> Good luck with the growing...and the teenager :) Thanks, I think the teenager will be fine (I hope, she's sick at the moment, and I'm more worried about that than about senioritis at the moment), I just hope we get our electricity back soon. We're going on 3 months (if they don't connect our new panels soon we'll refuse to pay. It's ridiculous to have to pay $20.- per month for 2 (!!!) kWh, well, OK, last month it was

3kWh).

Aloha,

Maren Palms, Etc.: Tropical Plant Seeds - Hand-made Jewelry - Plants & Lilikoi

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m.purves

Maren, Boys do grow up, eventually. When my son was 15, his life ambition was to be a crack head in Philly and live on a heat grate. He's now

23, about to graduate from college cum laude with a double major of finance and global business. So....just hang in there, they all have a timetable - it's not always what you'd like or where they should be according to the schools or the books, but it'll happen. Just love him, pray and try to be good to yourself - lots of bubble baths late at night did it for me. I'll keep you in my thoughts and prayers. Been there,

Patti

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Patti

Patti you're a sweetheart! She's a girl (one who was planning on studying physics - at some point in the not too distant past -, and is now after talking about studying dance and then theater gone to 'or maybe I don't go to college at all, or at least not right now'), but the same applies.

Thank you!

Maren (got > Maren,

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m.purves

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