July Narcissus

[Anthony Darby]

More exercise Gerry?

There's some narcissi on that list I've not seen offered for sale before.

[Lesley Cox]

When I have a few N. b. obesus for sale they are $5 for a pot with 2 f/s bulbs in it. That's about 2.50 GBP at present.

He doesn't give a height for N. tazetta. It doesn't sount like tazetta ssp patulus whose cup is pure yellow, not orange

[Lesley Cox]

I must be sitting on a small fortune as I have lots of obesus  

I'm sitting on quite a lot of the obesus, as I suspect a few of us are.

[Anthony Darby]

Well Paul Christian must be able to sell them as his business hasn't gone pear-shaped yet? I would be interested in Narcissus perez-larae if I was back in sunny D.

[Rafa]

Anthony, I have hundreds of N. x perez-larae and also some of the fertile species N. piifontianus.

[Anthony Darby]

Unfortunately, as you know Rafa, only seeds can be reasonably imported into New Zealand, and only if they are covered by what's on the MAF list. I'm so delighted with the seeds of obsoletus and viridiflorus you sent as they have had an excellent germination rate. Fortunately both are on the MAF list (obsoletus as serotinus, which it used to be).

[Rafa]

Well Anthony, in this case if I get enough seeds of N. piifontianus, I will send to you. It was collected many times as N. x perez larae, the step before fertil status, so it is exacly the same plant appart its capacity of sexual reproduction.

By the way I sent you my seed list last week, I hope it won't be problems with MAF.

[David Nicholson]

OK, I know it's August but didn't want to start a new thread with this.

I have about 17 bulbs to spare of Narcissus cantabricus var foliosus, a few may be of flowering size but most will need another year. I'd rather they went to one individual as a packet rather than my splitting them up, first to PM me their address gets them.

[David Nicholson]

No takers?

[Anthony Darby]

Knockandhu David, not unless you coat them with chocolate and say they are cocoa beans. I think MAF would let them in then?

[David Nicholson]

Are you not allowed bulbs of any kind Anthony?

[Anthony Darby]

Not unless you go through and extensive and expensive procedure involving MAF.

[fermi de Sousa]

Not unless you go through an extensive and expensive procedure involving MAF.

Described by some as having the wallet in your right-side back-pocket extracted through your left nostril
Though, you should talk to Lesley, Anthony, as she has imported bulbs from Australia from Marcus Harvey (who probably can supply the appropriate paperwork as he does export bulbs from here to other parts of the world).

David,
you may need to "advertise" in the 'Bulbs wanted' Thread
cheers
fermi

[Lesley Cox]

I and anyone else in NZ may only import bulbs (on the bio index only) from Marcus because he has very generously gone through the expensive inspection processes that our MAF requires for us to import bulbs from anywhere. He has to have his nursery inspected each year by Australian MAF and they have to declare (a statutory declaration, so a legal document) that Marcus' nursery is free of an incredible number of assorted pests and diseases. Then the bulbs we may want to import must be inspected prior, while they are in growth, and again at the time of pre-packing and export. Marcus asks me to pay for what I suspect is just a tiny part of the costs involved with all this. I doubt if, say, as an example, Kurt Vickory or any other bulb exporter in the UK or Europe would be prepared to carry these costs and we (I) certainly couldn't afford them. I doubt if any private person (you David) would want those costs or the hassles involved either, so in a word or two, NO we can't import bulbs of any kind.