silver birch catkin seeds

renarts:

Never assume a place has been "picked clean". My father goes back to some of the same sites we went to as kids with the newest metal detector (He's the Canadian Distributor) and still pulls new goodies from the ground. His oldest find (and oddest find in Canada) is a small Spanish coin from the 1600's.

I hope to get out a few times this summer and check some of the local spots, there's plenty of silver coins still out there in the ground.

Cheers;

Gregory

There may be some in northernmost florida but the soil and conditions in central florida just can't support silver birch. We do get some River birch up near the GA, FL border but they don't have the catkins.

Would love to let my dogs in the water here, but can't...too many aligators where I live. Maybe I can talk the residents of little Quebec over in Tampa to try and plant some silver birch trees there. Prevent them from feeling homesick and give me a chance to run over there and get the catkins.....

I've got a bunch of cannonballs and some great artefacts from part of the Spanish plate fleet that went down off the beach here. Dove about 60 yards from shore and there are cannon, ballast stones, cannon balls in the sand. Every storm uncovers something new. Any silver or treasure was long salvaged and its just the "ugly" stuff left.

renarts wrote:

hmmm, pay the $5 for the seeds that are already packaged, cleaned and just the seeds, no chafe or spend a hour or so rooting around the ground for brich seeds (a seasonal gig) and taking them home, drying them out, breaking them up and separating the chafe from the seeds.  Ya have to ask, whats your time worth to you. Besides, I live in FL, no birch trees here. Too hot. Canadians we got.... Birch trees, not so much. Mail order can be fun.

renarts:

Oh I could do it the easy way, bur where's the fun in that. Besides, it's an excuse to get out with the dog and roam through the woods. Instead of the usual trek through the neighbourhood the dog can get into the water and have some fun while I look.

Besides, I used to spend 10 hours at a time in the search of musket balls, cannon balls etc from the War of 1812 by digging them up one at a time after finding them with my metal detector. So looking for catkin seeds shouldn't be too difficult.

I'm sure if you look around Florida you will find a birch tree or two...they are everywhere, just like Canadians....lol

Cheers;

Gregory

hmmm, pay the $5 for the seeds that are already packaged, cleaned and just the seeds, no chafe or spend a hour or so rooting around the ground for brich seeds (a seasonal gig) and taking them home, drying them out, breaking them up and separating the chafe from the seeds.  Ya have to ask, whats your time worth to you.

Besides, I live in FL, no birch trees here. Too hot. Canadians we got.... Birch trees, not so much.

Mail order can be fun. 

gburdon wrote:

zokissima wrote: /\/\ lol, you're right, at that price, they're a great deal. These things are kinda impossible to come by here. Even though I live in a major metropolital area, I've heard of no place, nor have I been successful for finding a single florist, retailer, or art supply store, that has these. zokissima: Surely there has to be ONE silver birch tree in Toronto. Mayor Mel couldn't have killed them all off...the again he does do those commercials for Bad Boy furniture... Anyway, I am heading to Bancroft this week......COTTAGE WEEK!!!....sweet! I plan to venture into the surrounding brush and locate as many as I can find. If I get enough I will send you some. Taking a few kits with me to work on in between naps and meals and naps. Cheers; Gregory

lol well that's a mighty fine offer from you. In all hoesty, I've not taken honest time to look at actual TREES, and may have to do that.

Just teasing, of course.

HOWEVER... (and there's always a however) if, by chance, you happen to stumble upon a veritable GOLDMINE of catkin seeds, I would love to get in line for some. If there's anything in Texas that you can't find in Canada, I'm always up for a good ole fashioned horse-trade. Maybe some Chicken fried Steak, perhaps? I'll use Chicken Fried Steak to bribe the custom officials as well.

And it's funny, I'll always take a time out to build a model. Yesterday I built a Ford Mutt from suspension to primer coat in about 5 hours. It will be part of a grossly, historically innaccurate diorama for my father in law- his father (USAAF in Burma). I could post the pics in a brand new forum thread and title it "Spot the Innaccuracies". I think that might be fun.

Is anyone old enough to remember "Find the Pope in the Pizza"?

SteveM wrote:

Hey... what about me??!!

Steve:

If U.S. Customs doesn't confiscate them crossing the Border (Plant material remember)

I will be happy to send some your way you pay the postage.

Now be a good boy and go to your time out corner and build a model until I get back...lol

Cheers;

Gregory

Hey... what about me??!!

zokissima wrote:

/\/\ lol, you're right, at that price, they're a great deal. These things are kinda impossible to come by here. Even though I live in a major metropolital area, I've heard of no place, nor have I been successful for finding a single florist, retailer, or art supply store, that has these.

zokissima:

Surely there has to be ONE silver birch tree in Toronto. Mayor Mel couldn't have killed them all off...the again he does do those commercials for Bad Boy furniture...

Anyway, I am heading to Bancroft this week......COTTAGE WEEK!!!....sweet! I plan to venture into the surrounding brush and locate as many as I can find. If I get enough I will send you some.

Taking a few kits with me to work on in between naps and meals and naps.

Cheers;

Gregory

The only other stuff that I've seen is Hudson and Allen's Forest litter. Not bad at all, but it looks like you end up with more "litter" than leaves. I might try it but, frankly, the Ausfwerks stuff is less expensive and looks a little better.

/\/\ lol, you're right, at that price, they're a great deal. These things are kinda impossible to come by here. Even though I live in a major metropolital area, I've heard of no place, nor have I been successful for finding a single florist, retailer, or art supply store, that has these.

I ordered a couple of bags from Ausfwerks; upon closer inspection, I might find that they were in my "backyard" the entire time. However, for less than 5 bucks a bag, it's a great deal for someone who actually considered planting his own silver birch from seedlings.

SteveM

I get them from my neighbor's front yard.

Look around, they're not that hard to find, unless you live in the desert SW or somewhere else without trees.

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Zokissima, you saved me.

www.ausfwerks.com

 

They sell them there...

Go to the AusfShop section, then click on the Ausfwerks Design link. They're called Grunddeckung. Its a site in the USA, being run by a great guy. You won't have problems with them, that's for sure.