[Arisaema-l] Pacific Rim

[Barry Yinger]

I don't know about Canada, but I can tell you from extensive personal experience that it is not possible to charge enough money to make it worthwhile to export plants from the US to other countries. Customers will never accept how much work it is, and how frustrating the experience can be.

Barry Yinger

On Feb 5, 2012, at 2:39 PM, Peter Taggart wrote:

> 
> 
> On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 5:31 PM, James Waddick <jwaddick at kc.rr.com> wrote:
> >The phyto certificate is very reasonable compared to other nurseries
> >in North America, and so is 20% to bare root the plants, compared to
> >other nurseries with exclusive catalogues. Many of the Items are a
> >little more expensive than in Britain, but are comparable.
>  
>        I think many gardeners in the US might have some fears about
> importing plants even if....  The exporter has the
> responsibility for getting a phytosanitary inspection and
> certification. Plants have to prepared according to regulations and
> this takes time which costs money.  Except for the import permit and
> cash, and a bit of worry, this is all done by the exporter.
> 
>        Some of these regulations seem odd for American 'importing'
> from far off 'Canada', 
> 
> Dear Jim, 
> I think you misunderstood me. I was referring to the cost to a person not on the continent of North America  wishing to purchase plants from nurseries on that continent.
> It seems strange to me that a purchaser in the USA should be any more worried over importing plants from Canada than any one else.
> I don't grudge payment for the work the nurseries do, I observed 20% was reasonable.. etc
> 
> From my experience Joe Pye Weed is good  value. It seems to me, from their new website, that Pacific Rim also offer very good value for those wishing to import plants from them to countries outside the North American Continent, as well as those in the USA. 
> 
> From reading the export costs of other nurseries in their catalogues and web sites, both Canadian and the USA nurseries sometimes have costs around to $70.00 or more per item, in addition to the price of the plant, depending on the size of the order. (This is not including CITES plants). That seems prohibitive to me.
> Best wishes
> Peter
> 
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