Overseas Seeds Suppliers

I have had good ressults with seeds from these two

http://www.koehres-kaktus.de/index1gb.htm

http://www.penroc.co.za/buy.html

About to sow seeds from MG and they have a good reputation

http://www.mesagarden.com/

Many people speak highly of these as well

http://www.silverhillseeds.co.za/Currency.asp

For lithops seeds you can not go past Francois Hoes in Belgium also had great results with Haworthia seeds when he had them avaliable.

http://users.skynet.be/fhoes/rsasucculents/index.htm

Anyone who want to grow Adenium Mr. Ko's seeds are great and they always puts in extra seeds.

http://www.adenium.com.tw/

If I can think of any others I will add to or please add your own as I am always on the look out for new seeds suppliers.

Oops forgot to put in this one

www.kakteen-haage.de

This nursery has been established since 1822 and the seed list is long.

Damn! Alot of them onlt accept credit cards! Too bad for me then...good links though.

That is the only reason I got a credit card so I could buy seeds from O/S

Just got the one with no charges and the smallest minimum

Other wise its ebay !!

Try botanical-archive
kaktus-king
rare-cactus

Have gad good success with all of these

Hmmm I wonder if a regular debit card would work for O/S seed orders? Might be worth looking into. I would really rather not having a credit card, evil things lol

Thanks for the ebay seed sellers too BTW

I think if you have Visa connected to your debit card it will............maybe??

BTW I agree about the evil things

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Just got the one with no charges and the smallest minimum

and that would be?

By charges I meant no yearly fee just to have the thing.

He means which card. I would be interested too as I would love to purchase from some of those O/S sellers and I presume PD does too. Can't beat it. A bonus is that cultivated & collected Arios and Astros (seeds) are permissable by ICON & AQIS.

Westpac bankcard no annual fees

ANZ visa debit (not credit) same as a credit card but you can only spend your own $ , the card works the same as a normal credit card.

cheers for the links betty!

I haven't ordered from here yet, and i've heard mixed reports. Still, could be good, he is very well known in the international cactus community.

http://www.cactusknize.com/

Anyone Had any issues with Australian Customs with Lithop and or Adenium Seeds from Overseas Suppliers

I personally have never had problems with these arriving safe and sound. Infact the last 8 orders from overseas i have only had 2 inspected and only 1 packet of seeds confiscated and that was copiapoa dealbata which was labelled as such now if it was labelled copiapoa cinerea ssp dealbata it would have made it through. I always check with aqis list just to make sure.
There is a lithops supplier in Aust selling seeds.
http://www.ozlithops.com/

Thought I would add some feedback of my experiences so far with my overseas orders

Lithop Seeds from http://www.rarexoticseeds.com arrived no sign of opening for inspection

Lithop Seed From http://www.worldseedsupply.org/ arrived no sign of opening for inspection

Adenium Seed From tw-adenium-seeds (ebay) arrived no sign of opening for inspection They also included PHYTO SANITARY CERTIFICATE

i have had seeds from mesagarden. great service and good seeds. AQIS stole 3 out of about 50, and where completely obstructionist when it came to justifying their decisions. i queried a faucaria ssp which was pretty inocquious and it was a case of "fight us and lose or give up on your seeds and go away", so i went away. LOL

both my deliveries where opened.

btw, where is the AQIS list now? i searched but no luck.

I think is what you are after... AQIS ICON search

http://www.aqis.gov.au/icon32/asp/ex_querycontent.asp

Make sure that in the For end use section you put in seeds for sowing

Found it!

Would anyone like a copy of all the cacti/succulents at AQIS as an excel spreadsheet?
thought i might rip their data.