".............. You have to admit plant registration does restrict the
spread of new varieties. A number of times I've found a plant via the Web
that sounded fantastic and that I would happily spend quite a bit on, but
there is no UK /European supplier, and the nursery that bred the thing is
not set up to make international sales, or not interested in retail.
............"

Sorry Victoria but I can't agree. There's no way that having Plant Breeders
Rights(PBR) on a plant are going to hinder it's sales overseas, in fact it
can work the other way, If I knew that if I could import a plant from say
Australia and thanks to PBR I would be the only one licensed to grow it in
the UK I would be much more interested than going to all the expense of
importing it and just hoping that there wont be another 100 growers offering
it within a year from the plants they had bought in the first year.
The fact that a nursery finds it to expensive to go through all the
rigmarole of phyto sanitary certificates etc to export one or two plants is
not really surprising

David Hill
Abacus nurseries
www.abacus-nurseries.co.uk