Can anyone recommend a good website (non-eBay) for buying seeds?

The best selection would have to be from this bloke:

http://www.cactus-seeds.com/

..And he's just outside Melbourne.

Thanks Lach, I am a bit over looking on eBay atm.

I have limited stocks of seeds that might be of interest to you too.

www.seedsaustralia.net

Thanks watertrade.

Do you want any help with e-commerce websites? I can help you with a free one if you're interested, let me know. I just noticed on your website you were planning on upgrading it

Thanks Olga,
someone else just offered to help me with the website actually - I agree that my existing site looking like it really needs it

Hi Olga... just saw this and thought it might be handy to add this link as well. It's the AQIS allowable imports list for Mammillaria. Also at the bottom of the page is a new search option that you can enter different genera into. I keep this open when looking at o/s seed places like Botanical-Archive to make sure they are on the allowable imports list (just bought some Mam. duwei, albicans, perezdelarosae and Echinocereus scirius from them yesterday... will see how they go ).

Allowable Mammillaria Imports List

I'm with Lachy, I've always had pretty good results with Vlado's seed & his seed is reasonably cheap.
Not as cheap as some of the OS suppliers but then you don't have the customs or quarantine hassles either.

good to see you are going to give seed raising another shot olga... i am sure you will enjoy it.

regards
Darren

Couple of suppliers of seed>


http://www.koehres-kaktus.de/index1gb.htm


http://www.mesagarden.com/


http://stores.ebay.com/BOTANICAL-ARCHIVE



All sell to Australia, just be mindful of AQIS restrictions.

HN.

On the matter of Botanical Archive, do you have any experience with growing seed from them? I have been saving my pennies for months to get a few seeds from them that I can't find anywhere else, but I'm wondering what their overall germination's like, as I'll only get 5 seeds for each of the species that I'm looking at.

In a way it's lucky that not all of their inventory is on Schedule 5!

I'm looking at Koehres too... if anyone's interested in placing an order, perhaps we could place one large order? Drop me a PM if so... it'd whittle the cost of the postage down a bit. And on the subject of Koehres, are the phyto certificates that they offer (at € 18.00!) mandatory? I've never gone O/S for seed before, so I'm a bit of a noob with the protocols.

Drat this spikey addiction!

Can't comment on Botanical Archive, so you'll have to be our Guinea Pig

Koehres are good and no, you don't need the Phyto for seed from Germany. However if ever you should order from a US supplier you would need the phyto...

WoodDragon,

I find Botanical Archive quite expensive for what you get. If you search hard enough you will probably find what you're after for much less. That being said I have ordered from them before, no certificates, and no worries it all arrived not a problem.

I would avoid bulk orders, a friend of mine got a heap of people together and did a bulk order. It was stopped by quarantine who charged them more than the total price of the seed to check over the contents. Once it was checked all was fine and nothing was taken out, the fee for quarantine's time and effort was not refunded. Beware.

Thanks for that HN.

What constitutes "bulk" in "bulk order"? I'm looking at quite a few species from Koehres, because some of them are so cheap, and I wouldn't want my own personal order to look big enough for the Q boys and girls to spread it out on their tea room table!

Not if they're going to charge me for the privilege...

Yes, you need to avoid the look of your order being commerical quantities, or AQIS may charge you to inspect. In the past I've ordered 80 packets at a time without problems, but now I usually try to keep orders to 40 or so max as it keeps postage down as well.

Be aware that Koehres will also charge you a credit card surcharge of 3.6% if that's how you're paying...