New Bulb and Seed exchange scheme for EU-countries

To all EURO Pacific Bulb Society Members:

We would like to announce the start of a new Bulb and Seed exchange for
countries of the European Union. (EU)

As for those of you living in the European Union, requests from the BX/SX
had to be restricted to seeds only and even that with more and more
foreseeable difficulty. As bulbs could not be ordered at all, the board of
directors of the Pacific Bulb Society has taken your frustration into
account and decided to set up a European Branch of the Seed and Bulb
Exchange.

Only fully paid members of the Pacific Bulb Society can participate. If

are not sure about your membership status you can contact the membership
secretary Jane McGary janemcgary@earthlink.net or the treasurer Arnold
Trachtenberg Arnold140@verizon.net. Maybe the new EU Bulb Exchange is an
incentive for you to join the society?

We very much apologize towards our non EU members. This new scheme can

be accessed by members with a postal address within the European Union

the United Kingdom for this year). We are very sorry not to be able to

outside the EU (and UK) for legal reasons. For those of you not sure
whether
you can order seeds or bulbs from the U.S.A. or the EU, or if you have not
ordered before, please contact Luminita Vollmer, Exchange Director at
luminita.vollmer@gmail.com .

The language of our society is English. But If you do not feel confident

communicating in English, you can contact Uli Urban, our new EU Board
member, in German, French (and basic Spanish and Portuguese)
johannes-ulrich-urban@t-online.de

There will be two distributions per year of seed as well as bulbs, one in
autumn for winter and spring growing bulbs and one in spring for summer
growing bulbs. The first one is scheduled for September. All the

details will be announced in due course.

So.. please think of the many fellow bulb enthusiasts when you dig up

or when you harvest seeds. As the EU covers very different climates and
many
members will have a greenhouse: all bulb and seed material is welcome.

success or failure of this new scheme depends on your participation.

Your contacts will be Johannes Ulrich Urban (Uli)
johannes-ulrich-urban@t-online.de and Martin Bohnert (Garak)
garak@code-garak.de . They will be announcing all future EURO seed and
bulb
exchanges.

PLEASE NOTE: The Scottish Rock Garden Club will not hold its seed

for the 2020-2021 year. Please see their website at
http://www.srgc.net/site/ . No word yet about the Alpine Garden Society's
exchange. The Cyclamen Society makes no mention of their seed exchange as
to
whether it will be held. Please check with them at
https://www.cyclamen.org/seeds/ if you have any questions, but so far I've
not heard that it has been cancelled. My suggestion would be to check the
societies that you belong to if you have not heard whether they will hold
their usual seed exchanges.

Regards,

Robin Hansen

President, Pacific Bulb Society

robin@hansennursery.com

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