If you are anywhere near Olympia, watch for the annual plant sale at Lawyer's Wholesale Nursery in May. The sale usually takes place on two consecutive weekends in May, and for those four days, it is open to the public. Pay by check and they'll send you a flyer the next year. If you don't find a flyer (all plants aren't listed), check their website in early May -- the sale tends to be the last two weekends in May, I think.

They usually have both varieties of Caragana, and cheap, too. The sale is almost exclusively for bare root perennial plants of all kinds: fruit trees, conifers, ornamentals, etc.

7515 Meridian Rd. SE (So. of Yelm Hwy.)
Olympia, WA 98513-8906
(360) 456-1839

Sue

Here is a link that might be useful: Lawyer Nursery

Why did you want to grow it, to try it for food? Or because it is rumored to fight breast cancer? Any proof on the anti-cancer claims?

I googled Siberian Pea Shrub and found several different sources. However it is thorny and invasive, so maybe not the best for a landscape plant, unless the anti cancer benefits might be true.

According to the pfaf website, it is C. arborescens that has an anti-cancer effect, not C. microphylla (boisii). Arborescens can grow to 18' tall and seems like too much trouble to me, microphylla according to J.L.Hudson where I bought the seeds only to 8'? I guess I will have to be sure to keep them trimmed. It has grey-green foliage and sounds attractive.

I'm looking for plants along the permaculture principle of mixed communities with multiple purposes, and one of my needs is for plants to cover the ground and shade out weeds so I don't have to work so hard fighting weeds, especially weedy grasses. It's also supposed to fix nitrogen. C. microphylla also should have an edible seed produced in abundance.

Here is a link that might be useful: pfaf

I want to grow this as a supplemental chicken feed for our
animals over the winter (when the cost of everything else is twice as high). Has anyone seen any info on this?
I would like to dry and crack the peas, like corn, if that
is possible. Have you seen any sites or books that give
info on this?? Thanks