Importing Orchids MyOrchids.de

[JayPeg99]

Originally Posted by Roberta

I know that the owner of myorchids.de (Dr. Beyrle) does not come to shows. It is a small operation, not a full time job for him. I'm just guessing, but I suspect that the European and especially the Australian terrestrials that Tarzane Group has sold came from there. (Especially for the Aussie ones, I don't know of anybody else in the northern hemisphere who is selling them... and it's a huge benefit, since flipping seasons on highly seasonal plants is difficult with a low success rate, these come already acclimated since they are grown from seed)

This effort by the Tarzane Group is quite new... they sold some European terrestrials in 2021 and again in 2022, then fairly late season they had a few of the Australian terrestrials. They were very successful, so perhaps they will import more next year. (like most of them were sold out within minutes of the "drop"... I lost out on a couple of things I wanted in the time it took me to enter my credit card info after entering them in my Shopping Cart.) Of course it's great to get these from a domestic vendor - they have done all the import paperwork, that's something they do for a living.

Do you think that if I reached out to the Tarzane Group I could ask to add in a few orchids to their next shipment into the US?

[Roberta]

Originally Posted by JayPeg99

Do you think that if I reached out to the Tarzane Group I could ask to add in a few orchids to their next shipment into the US?

They're a business... they sell these. Get on their mailing list, they do give advance notice since they are in high demand. Then set your watch to jump on as soon as the "drop" happens. And express your interest - I expect that they will import more if they know that they can sell them. Prices are quite reasonable - about the same as you'd pay if you were ordering directly, maybe even less by the time you figure in shipping and CITES. They also may have other sources for the European terrestrials, but the Australian ones very likely come from myorchids.de.