Thank you Iain For general information, we are allowed to have seed sent to us as long as it is on the bio-security site, which is: http://www1.maf.govt.nz/cgi-bin/bioindex/… I just put Iris in the Genus box and press "Enter". However, as my knowledge on Irises is minimal, I have no idea which of the many Irises which come up, are Japanese Irises, if any. This is just another learning curve. ;o) And thank you Jim for that very nice tale, I am definitely going to have some of these. Am sold on the one I have got. Ina Auckland NZ where it is 23 degrees C And lovely and sunny Ina we just might be able to help from Auchgourish BG where we have a large collection of Iris species but I have a feeling that there are strict import regulations for seed material into NZ. Can you clarify this Ina? Regards, Iain -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 6 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 130697 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len/ The Professional version does not have this message __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4707 (20091221) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com/