Follow up message from Francisco Torres Padrón
http://www.rareplants.eu/shopDear customer,
it may be getting boring to receive another update just two weeks after the first one. But as of 16 March 2021 the deadline for the transitional period has - miracly - been changed to from former 31 March 2021 to now new 31 December 2021.This means that we can keep on shipping seeds (*) to the entire UK until around mid December this year:
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/import-plants-and-plant-products-from-the-eu-to-great-britain-and-northern-ireland?fbclid=IwAR30Cy3npKZ0M4_U42NK06cplAbvG3eWkA0IbX-uAyqggkKSzOiXazW7TE4#importing-from-the-eu-to-gb-from-1-january-2021(*) Please note that a couple of species cannot be shipped to the UK anymore since 1 January, as these are regarded "high priority plants", and as such they would need some special permits. Thus the following species and cultivars can definitely not be shipped anymore to mainland UK (still so to Northern Ireland): all Capcisum spp. and cultivars ("hot peppers", "chilis", etc.), Helianthus annuus (common sunflower), and Linum usitatissimum (common flax).
But as this entire deadline chaos would not have been sufficient, just this week a new future local law has been announced for the Canary islands, which will make it impossible for us to maintain most of the Canary endemics we have been cultivating and propagating for more than 30 years and selling seeds for more than 20 years. This in many aspects rather unfortunate law is still a draft only, yet it is foreseeable that there won't be too many changes, at least not concerning locally endemic plants. Member companies of all local plant breeder associations simply do not grow too many of those, so these are of least interest to them to be included in a future "whitelist", which may cover a dozen of these Canary endemic species only.
In the past decades many of these species have been much enjoyed by gardeners throughout the world, and in particular by UK customers: Canary buglosses (Echium spp.), Canary cineraries (Pericallis spp.), giant houseleeks (Aeonium spp.), white sages (Sideritis spp.), and Canary rockroses (Cistus spp.), just to name a few.
In order to later discard as few seeds as possible into the trash bin (yes, we will be obliged to do so), we have started to drastically reduce our remaining stock.
Seeds from these species are either available in regular packages at greatly reduced prices, from formerly on average € 4,99 to just € 0,99 per package. These will be sold as long as (the overall small) stock will last. Once sold, they will be discontinued:
http://www.rareplants.es/shop/prodtype.asp?CAT_ID=94376132Or also in larger quantities in certain species and at highly reduced prices, which may not only be of interest to plant nurseries but also to private gardeners:
http://www.rareplants.es/shop/prodtype.asp?CAT_ID=94375916We hope that many of these outstanding species will be still enjoyed by many gardeners in the UK in the future !
Have a splendid springtime !
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All the best
Francisco Torres Padrón
