IMPORT UPDATE … November 2025

We’ve now imported around 100 new hybrids into the country. Our most recent shipment includes 60 new hybrids from Germany from a world renowned nursery that is over 400 years old.

The process is always fraught with risk and stress. We rely on the sender to not only package things correctly, but include all the correct documentation and send it with a freight forwarder.

On arrival in Australia, the box is inspected by customs, then forwarded to a DAFF approved provider for packaging inspection, plant inspection, fumigation with methylbromide before finally sending to an approved quarantine nursery for at least three months to observe healthy growth. Two further inspections are required before the plants can then be released to us.

Even the smallest of shipments requires an Importation Permit, Notice of Importation, Phytosanitary Certificate, Commercial bill of sale, Declaration of Importation to assess duties and taxes as well as liaising with all the providers and the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry.

The good news is that we’re hoping in the next season or two, we will be able to start supplying some of these new hybrids to you.