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Specific Families and Genera => Pleione and Orchidaceae => Topic started by: mark smyth on November 10, 2014, 07:37:48 PM

Title: orchids from ebay.de
Post by: mark smyth on November 10, 2014, 07:37:48 PM: Does anyone have any experience buying hardy or winter green orchids from ebay.de? Who is a reliable/safe seller?
Title: Re: orchids from ebay.de
Post by: Sempervivum on November 10, 2014, 07:49:22 PM: Hallo Mark,
with popow-orchids I've had good experiences, but his range is limited. Mr. Schreiner is also highly recommendable, but currently I can't find an offer at Ebay. But he has his own shop:
http://www.gartenwerkstatt-schreiner.de/ (http://www.gartenwerkstatt-schreiner.de/)
The bulbs he sells are unusually large!
However, IMO the best sellers for Pleione are british, e. g. Ian Butterfield.
Best regards - Ulrich
Edit: I thought of Pleione and did not read that you asked for hardy orchids. Mr. Schreiner also has a good range of Cypripedium.
Title: Re: orchids from ebay.de
Post by: mark smyth on November 10, 2014, 08:10:05 PM: Thanks Ulrich
Title: Re: orchids from ebay.de
Post by: Sempervivum on November 10, 2014, 09:45:57 PM: BTW: Some german sellers practive keyword spamming intensely. I'm upset about this and would never buy from such seller.
Title: Re: orchids from ebay.de
Post by: Catwheazle on November 11, 2014, 02:39:37 PM: On ebay i dont by orchids anymore. First, they are more expensive than usual, sekond: forget the names, third: there are a lot taken from wild. Quality is often very poor, wont say dead plants. So i buy my hardyorchids by calling the seller. Popow is ok, Pinkepank.....plants are ok, but the origin ??? So hardy ochids i buy mainly at Gerd Adolph, or Frosch Gerd Raschun, Austria or U. Schuster, Illertissen.
greetings
Bernd
Title: Re: orchids from ebay.de
Post by: monocotman on November 12, 2014, 12:38:34 PM: Mark,

if you want some cyps from that part of the world then Frank Schmidt at Floralpin is excellent.
Plus he breeds and grows all his own plants - not something that you can say about many
cyp vendors.
I have bought lots of his plants and they are superb with large root systems,

Regards,

David
Title: Re: orchids from ebay.de
Post by: Steve Garvie on November 12, 2014, 01:51:43 PM: Another plug for Frank (Floralpin).
Nice guy, great plants, lovingly packaged.
Title: Re: orchids from ebay.de
Post by: mark smyth on November 12, 2014, 03:42:28 PM: Thanks for all the replies. I'll Google Floralpin
Title: Re: orchids from ebay.de
Post by: Maggi Young on November 12, 2014, 03:50:55 PM: Quote from: Steve Garvie on November 12, 2014, 01:51:43 PM
Another plug for Frank (Floralpin).
Nice guy, great plants, lovingly packaged.
F rank Schmidt, Floralpin: http://www.floralpin.de/ (http://www.floralpin.de/) - web ordering closed a for the season.
There are pages in English too, Mark ;)
Title: Re: orchids from ebay.de
Post by: mark smyth on November 12, 2014, 03:52:45 PM: You beat me to posting a link
Title: Re: orchids from ebay.de
Post by: monocotman on November 13, 2014, 09:59:55 AM: Mark,

check out his form of Sabine pastel.
It is unusually good and beats the other forms generally available hands down.
It was made with an unusually tall macranthos alba.
Huge pure white true alba flowers with the shape of macranthos. Plus it is very vigorous.
Mine is now up to 6 shoots after just 2 years growing.
I posted a photo of mine in the cypripedium thread earlier in the year.

http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=11591.60 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=11591.60)

Regards,

David
Title: Re: orchids from ebay.de
Post by: Anthony Darby on November 14, 2014, 07:41:00 AM: I grew Sabine from a £3 "Lucky Dip" seedling from Paul Christian. Beautiful flowers on it.