Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species
Geography
UK : you do NOT need a CITES permit to buy our CITES plants. (take me back to FAQs)
All other countries (now including EU) : CITES certificates are needed when any CITES listed plant crosses an international border. CITES is international, permits are needed for all listed genera (even artificial garden hybrids) sent to customers in the USA, Switzerland, Norway, etc. from any other country. Permits are needed no matter where you buy your plants – if you are in the USA and buy from Canada, then you need a CITES import and export certificate. If you buy an orchid on eBay from another country, then you DO need a CITES export permit to match your own import permit, despite what you might be told.
We will no longer be shipping CITES plants outside of the UK.
Certificates
All of our CITES species are covered by certificates and every last CITES plant that we grow is legal, traceable and fully accountable. However to export these we are increasingly spending hours upon hours of office time, filling in applications which are getting progressively more expensive, nit-picking and complex each year. It is impossible to do this economically and so faced with cumbersome and often ludicrous legislation, we have decided to call a halt to exporting CITES plants.
We will no longer be shipping CITES plants outside of the UK.
Plants affected by CITES
We mark each CITES genus on our site and each species to advise you. CITES also applies to man-made, artificial hybrids which only exist in cultivation and garden cultivars which have never ever been wild plants. From our range the following are some of those affected : Cyclamen, Galanthus, Podophyllum hexandrum (but no other Podophyllum), Sternbergia. All Orchids (e.g.. Bletilla, Calanthe, Cypripedium, Dactylorhiza, Epipactis, Habenaria, Pleione, Pogonia, Ponerorchis).
None of these are now available for shipping outside of the UK
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