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Rand B. Lee (http://www.RandBLee.com) maintains a list of Dianthus Retail Plant & Seed Sources at http://www.randblee.com/pdf/Dianthus Sources.pdf. Some of the information requires updating and the Rand’s list is replicated here with updates as they become known. If you find information which should be corrected please send updates to me via DM. Where possible links to vendors in the Garden Watchdog have been added and missing or incorrect links to vendor websites have been update as addendums to the original list.
Canyon Creek Nursery, 3527 Dry Creek Rd., Oroville CA 95965 (530-533-2166): good selection heirloom pinks. Website not available. GWD Link:http://davesgarden.com/products/gwd/c/497/
Sunnyslope Gardens, Phil Ishizu, 8638 Huntington Dr., San Gabriel CA 91775 (1-626-287-4071) chrysanthemum specialists, but best U.S. mail-order source for perpetual-flowering greenhouse type carnations, including the very fragrant ‘Lavender Lace’. Website not available. GWD Link:http://davesgarden.com/products/gwd/c/1488/
Weiss Brothers Nursery, 11690 Colfax Highway, Grass Valley CA 95945 (1-530-272-7657; order online http://www.plantperennials.com): small but good selection rockery, Allwood, Cheddar pinks, including rare ‘Blue Pygmy’ and ‘Velvet ‘n’ Lace’. Website no longer supported. GWD Link:http://davesgarden.com/products/gwd/c/1087/
Willow Pond Nursery, PO Box 192, Hewlett NY 11557 (516-374-2522; online orders http://www.willowpondnursery.com): interesting selection maiden pinks, rare species pinks including D. carthusianorum, and only U.S. plant source for the black sweet william ‘Sooty’. Website no longer supported. GWD Link:http://davesgarden.com/products/gwd/c/2198/
Wrenwood of Berkeley Springs, Route 4, Box 8055, Berkeley Springs WV 25411 (304-258-3071; online orders http://www.wrenwood.com): good selection garden and rockery pinks, including rarish ‘Sonate’ and ‘Little Bobbie’. Website no longer supported. GWD Link Not Found.
Retail Seed Sources:
Aimers, 81 Temperance Street, Aurora, Ontario, Canada L4G 2R1 (905-841-6226; fax 905-727-7333): English strains of carnations, pinks. GWD Link:http://davesgarden.com/products/gwd/c/180/, this may not be correct.
Chiltern’s Seeds, Bortree Stile, Ulverston, Cumbria LA12 7PB United Kingdom (telephone direct from U.S. by dialing 011-44-229-581137; online catalog http://www.chilternseeds.co.uk) very broad selection pinks, carnation, sweet William, and dianthus species seed; takes US credit cards. GWD Link:http://davesgarden.com/products/gwd/c/221/
Select Seeds Antique Flowers, 180 Stickney Hill Rd., Union CT 06076-4617 (860-684-9310): a few nice dianthus strains, including ‘Crimsonia’, a rare scented fringed red; indexless catalog very frustrating to read. Website:http://www.selectseeds.com/ GWD Link:http://davesgarden.com/products/gwd/c/177/
Carnations and Pinks For Garden and Greenhouse: Their True History and Complete Cultivation, by John Galbally with Eileen Galbally, Timber Press, Inc., The Haseltine Building, 133 S.W. Second Avenue, Suite 450, Portland OR 97204-9743 (ISBN 0-88192-382-6)
This book, by two world-famous British dianthus authorities and breeders, is the best book on the subject of growing carnations and pinks indoors and out. Some of the terminology is unfamiliar to North American readers ― “John Innes compost,” for example, which is unavailable in the U.S.A. ― but this is a trifle compared to the enormously practical experience that went into the creation of this book. John Galbally is now dead, but his wife continues their work together. Highly recommended. GBW Link:http://davesgarden.com/products/gbw/c/1000/
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