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Rick R.:
Australis, don't forget about Ian's Erythronium e-book.  An incredible amount of information, and he gives it to us free!

Download the pdf here
https://www.srgc.net/filessub/general/ERYTHRONIUMS-IN-CULTIVATION%20-2016-IanYoung.pdf
or from the SRGC home page.

Australis:
Richard, you are most welcome. It hasn't really made any headlines and only a few gardening publications seem to have picked it up (my wife stumbled across it in one of her gardening magazines).

Rick, thanks for the reminder! I had seen that but completely forgot about it. I'll take a look now.

Australis:
Well, it seems that three of my four orders have made it thus far, so I am hoping to start the Erythronium seeds on the weekend and have stored the Fritillary seeds for later.

Vinny 123:
I am amazed that Australia has not had a requirement for phyto' cert's before. If anyone had asked me, I would have guesed that they had, long, long ago.

Well over 20 years ago I worked for a company shipping plastic sheets (for printing) to Oz, and all pallet timber had to be pressure-treated. I have also read that Oz only got modern poultry strains via smuggling as there was no legal quarantine procedure available (although some arrangements have been in place in recent years).

If the UK charges for phyto' cert's are similar to other countries, which I suspect they are (£25-35 per shipment), the answer for any society seed distribution that is large enough, is to bulk ship everything and then split the shipment in the receiving country. It would be unmanageable any other way.

Australis:

--- Quote from: Vinny 123 on May 11, 2022, 02:04:59 PM ---I am amazed that Australia has not had a requirement for phyto' cert's before. If anyone had asked me, I would have guesed that they had, long, long ago.

Well over 20 years ago I worked for a company shipping plastic sheets (for printing) to Oz, and all pallet timber had to be pressure-treated. I have also read that Oz only got modern poultry strains via smuggling as there was no legal quarantine procedure available (although some arrangements have been in place in recent years).

If the UK charges for phyto' cert's are similar to other countries, which I suspect they are (£25-35 per shipment), the answer for any society seed distribution that is large enough, is to bulk ship everything and then split the shipment in the receiving country. It would be unmanageable any other way.

--- End quote ---

Australia has a rather inflexible Biosecurity system, unfortunately. It often comes down to the customs staff member or BICON staff member as to whether things like misspellings or things that don't fit an exact import case get through or not.

I agree, the only way any seed exchanges will be able to send into Australia is to have a local rep to split up the shipment and send domestically. It will really depend on whether there's enough members in Australia for the affected societies to even consider doing this, since the phyto cost + domestic shipping would need to be included in either the seed exchange pricing or membership (depending on the group). It simply wouldn't be worth it for just one or two Australian members, unfortunately.

It also means that many of the overseas seed suppliers I have bought from in the past will no longer send to Australia. Several already stopped sending back in 2018 when the packaging requirements became more strict and so far only two suppliers I am likely to import seed from will actually get a phyto cert when needed.

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