commercialising new varieties
 

I've one, maybe two, plants that I reckon are worth marketing. Any
recommendations as to whom I should contact. (I've found PlantNet UK and
ex Blooms.)
--
Stewart Robert Hinsley

commercialising new varieties
 

On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 18:23:15 +0100, Stewart Robert Hinsley
wrote:

I've one, maybe two, plants that I reckon are worth marketing. Any
recommendations as to whom I should contact. (I've found PlantNet UK and
ex Blooms.)

Is it worth the effort for the private individual?


--
Chris

E-mail: christopher[dot]hogg[at]virgin[dot]net

commercialising new varieties
 

On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 18:23:15 +0100, Stewart Robert Hinsley
wrote:

I've one, maybe two, plants that I reckon are worth marketing. Any
recommendations as to whom I should contact. (I've found PlantNet UK and
ex Blooms.)

Is it worth the effort for the private individual?


Plants of what?

Some firms are better than other for certain kinds of plants

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

commercialising new varieties
 

In article , Chris Hogg
writes
On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 18:23:15 +0100, Stewart Robert Hinsley
wrote:

I've one, maybe two, plants that I reckon are worth marketing. Any
recommendations as to whom I should contact. (I've found PlantNet UK and
ex Blooms.)

Is it worth the effort for the private individual?

According to the advertisements from the above named organisations yes,
but the deal is that they do the work, and pay you a royalty. (But, I
don't as yet know what the terms are.)

I've started a cross-breeding program, for botanical research as much as
for the production of varieties of horticultural merit, so I'm likely to
have more material than the average private individual (but maybe not as
much as the chap half a mile away who's been breeding Irises for years).
But, I don't think it's worth the effort to try to market direct to
customers (or garden centres).

Successful varieties sell tens of thousands of plants. It doesn't take
much of a royalty on that number to generate a reasonable supplement to
one's income - at least enough to pay the expenses of the web site and
research program.
--
Stewart Robert Hinsley
http://www.malvaceae.info

commercialising new varieties
 

In article , David Hill david@abacus
nurseries.freeserve.co.uk writes
On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 18:23:15 +0100, Stewart Robert Hinsley
wrote:

I've one, maybe two, plants that I reckon are worth marketing. Any
recommendations as to whom I should contact. (I've found PlantNet UK and
ex Blooms.)

Is it worth the effort for the private individual?


Plants of what?

A Lavatera x clementii hybrid (seed parent 'Candy Floss', but plant is
effectively, IMHO, an improved 'Eyecatcher'). A hybrid Malva, but I'm
not sure whether it can be propagated - it doesn't seem to be very keen
to mature fruits, and as the pollen parent is annual, and the seed
parent not reliably perennial, I'm not yet sure whether it behaves as an
annual or a perennial, or whether it can be vegetatively propagated.

Some firms are better than other for certain kinds of plants


--
Stewart Robert Hinsley

commercialising new varieties
 

On 25/7/04 18:23, in article , "Stewart
Robert Hinsley" wrote:

I've one, maybe two, plants that I reckon are worth marketing. Any
recommendations as to whom I should contact. (I've found PlantNet UK and
ex Blooms.)

Stewart I've emailed you some information on a company that specialises in
this sort of thing. But it's worth pointing out to you and the group that
any new plant must not have been sold previously or even given away to
anyone else. A good and interesting new variety of a popular plant can be
quite an earner for its breeder but potential patent (Plant Breeder's
Rights) must be carefully protected before it's registered.
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove the weeds to email me)

commercialising new varieties
 

On 25/7/04 18:23, in article , "Stewart
Robert Hinsley" wrote:

I've one, maybe two, plants that I reckon are worth marketing. Any
recommendations as to whom I should contact. (I've found PlantNet UK and
ex Blooms.)

Stewart I've emailed you some information on a company that specialises in
this sort of thing. But it's worth pointing out to you and the group that
any new plant must not have been sold previously or even given away to
anyone else. A good and interesting new variety of a popular plant can be
quite an earner for its breeder but potential patent (Plant Breeder's
Rights) must be carefully protected before it's registered.
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove the weeds to email me)

commercialising new varieties
 

On 27/7/04 20:08, in article ,
"Chris Hogg" wrote:

On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 18:23:15 +0100, Stewart Robert Hinsley
wrote:

I've one, maybe two, plants that I reckon are worth marketing. Any
recommendations as to whom I should contact. (I've found PlantNet UK and
ex Blooms.)

Is it worth the effort for the private individual?

That depends on the plant. If it's a really good one, nurseries all over
the world can be licensed to reproduce it and then pay a royalty to the
original breeder. He or she will have had to pay to register it as 'theirs'
and usually an agent is involved in collecting the royalties but it can be
worth quite a lot.
The breeder doesn't have to be the only person that actually grows it.
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove the weeds to email me)

commercialising new varieties
 

On 27/7/04 20:08, in article ,
"Chris Hogg" wrote:

On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 18:23:15 +0100, Stewart Robert Hinsley
wrote:

I've one, maybe two, plants that I reckon are worth marketing. Any
recommendations as to whom I should contact. (I've found PlantNet UK and
ex Blooms.)

Is it worth the effort for the private individual?

That depends on the plant. If it's a really good one, nurseries all over
the world can be licensed to reproduce it and then pay a royalty to the
original breeder. He or she will have had to pay to register it as 'theirs'
and usually an agent is involved in collecting the royalties but it can be
worth quite a lot.
The breeder doesn't have to be the only person that actually grows it.
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove the weeds to email me)

commercialising new varieties
 

In article , Sacha
writes
Stewart I've emailed you some information on a company that specialises in
this sort of thing.

I tried to contact you by email, but my message seems to be falling foul
of spam-filtering (not the 'weeds' spam-trap) at your end. The reply-to
address I use on UseNet works (don't remove the dollar signs), or
alternatively use my forename. Removing the dollar signs gives a spam-
trapped address.

BTW, thanks.
--
Stewart Robert Hinsley

commercialising new varieties
 

In article , Sacha
writes
Stewart I've emailed you some information on a company that specialises in
this sort of thing.

I tried to contact you by email, but my message seems to be falling foul
of spam-filtering (not the 'weeds' spam-trap) at your end. The reply-to
address I use on UseNet works (don't remove the dollar signs), or
alternatively use my forename. Removing the dollar signs gives a spam-
trapped address.

BTW, thanks.
--
Stewart Robert Hinsley

commercialising new varieties
 

On 28/7/04 20:49, in article , "Stewart
Robert Hinsley" wrote:

In article , Sacha
writes
Stewart I've emailed you some information on a company that specialises in
this sort of thing.

I tried to contact you by email, but my message seems to be falling foul
of spam-filtering (not the 'weeds' spam-trap) at your end. The reply-to
address I use on UseNet works (don't remove the dollar signs), or
alternatively use my forename. Removing the dollar signs gives a spam-
trapped address.

BTW, thanks.

Please email me at
.
and I'll send the info. to you again. It took a long time to bounce back
and I only received that notification tonight, having emailed you this
morning.

Your email address sounds very complicated so an explanation in a sig.file
might be of use to you?
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove the weeds to email me)

commercialising new varieties
 

On 28/7/04 20:49, in article , "Stewart
Robert Hinsley" wrote:

In article , Sacha
writes
Stewart I've emailed you some information on a company that specialises in
this sort of thing.

I tried to contact you by email, but my message seems to be falling foul
of spam-filtering (not the 'weeds' spam-trap) at your end. The reply-to
address I use on UseNet works (don't remove the dollar signs), or
alternatively use my forename. Removing the dollar signs gives a spam-
trapped address.

BTW, thanks.

Please email me at
.
and I'll send the info. to you again. It took a long time to bounce back
and I only received that notification tonight, having emailed you this
morning.

Your email address sounds very complicated so an explanation in a sig.file
might be of use to you?
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove the weeds to email me)

commercialising new varieties
 

In article , Sacha
writes

Please email me at
.
and I'll send the info. to you again. It took a long time to bounce back
and I only received that notification tonight, having emailed you this
morning.

Even blank messages to you are being "rejected on content". I'll try
again with the subject line changed.

Your email address sounds very complicated so an explanation in a sig.file
might be of use to you?

It's not complicated; if you just hit reply it should get back to me.
For some reason your original message was sent to an address different
from the one in the post.
--
Stewart Robert Hinsley

commercialising new varieties
 

In article , Sacha
writes

Please email me at
.
and I'll send the info. to you again. It took a long time to bounce back
and I only received that notification tonight, having emailed you this
morning.

Even blank messages to you are being "rejected on content". I'll try
again with the subject line changed.

Your email address sounds very complicated so an explanation in a sig.file
might be of use to you?

It's not complicated; if you just hit reply it should get back to me.
For some reason your original message was sent to an address different
from the one in the post.
--
Stewart Robert Hinsley