EU BX donation now open
Uli via pbs (Sat, 17 Aug 2024 15:47:15 PDT)

Dear Members living in the EU,

The autumn Bulb and Seed exchange is now open for order until further
notice. This is the announcement for the EU only, please do not confuse
it with the open donation for the USA. Unfortunately we cannot serve
members outside the EU.

Please send your donation to:

Martin Bohnet

Ludwigstr. 1

73035 Göppingen     (you can also write Goeppingen)

Germany

You can send seed as well as bulbs. Please do only send clean and
healthy material and label your donation with the botanical name of the
plant/seed and your name as a donor so that your donations can be
referred to you.

Every donor will receive credit to cover postage. But please do not use
unnecessarily expensive forms of postage.

As we have done before, we ask you again to pre-pack your seed donation
into 5 portions, enough to raise a good potful of seedlings. For very
rare seed or those in short supply there should not be less than 3 to 5
seeds per packet. If you have plenty and you think that there may be
high demand, you can add a larger portion as a reserve for Martin to
fill more envelopes if necessary. Pre packing is voluntary, of course,
but it helps considerably to reduce Martin's workload. Seed envelopes
are available free of charge from Martin.

Bulbs should not be pre-packed but sent in one well labelled bag,
preferably paper and not plastic.

You will be informed through the same channels once the donation time
window will close and ordering starts.

Please make up your mind if you want Martin to send your future order
trackable. This will increase your expense for postage by 3 US $ on top
of the postage. We are asking because with the joint bulb order from
South Africa there was some headache with delayed parcels  from Martin
to southern Europe. Tracking does not really speed up delivery (I wish
it did....) but this way at least you know the whereabouts of your
parcel. I will repeat this question once the ordering will start. We
always try to keep expenses as low as possible so it is your choice.

As we have received this question with every EU BX so far: Please do not
hesitate to donate material of plants you might not find worth donating.
As long as you enjoy a particular plant yourself, someone else will as
well. A common plant in one country may be a rarity in another one. So
far we have never turned down a donation.

Please do not hesitate to get in touch with me, Uli, in case of questions

Uli and Martin

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