UK Plant deliveries suspended because of Brexit

Nollie

So its happening already. Brittany Perennials (French) have suspended all plant exports to the UK and Ireland because of Brexit. I’m wondering how long it will be before the UK nurseries (e.g. Burncoose, Hayloft, Beales) that export to Europe will do likewise? 

Janie B

https://www.plantpref.co.uk

... from 17 March ...

Hostafan1

Fransen Hosta in Holland will only ship to EU unless customer wants to arrange all customs/ shipping , certification etc

Hostafan1

I read in The Garden that the EU won't accept new British hybrids unless they go through the EU system as well as UK system so breeders are unlikely to pay twice . 

pansyface

Nollie, as card-carrying members of the EU, I’m sure that the Irish must be unhappy, to say the least, at being dragged into and lumped in with the British fiasco.

Nollie

I think they do mean Eire, islander, they list ‘Ireland’ as having different postage rates to ‘the UK’ in the same way they list seperate postage rates for other EU countries. Unless and until there is some clarity over how the Irish/Northern Irish/rest of UK customs borders are going to function I would imagine they, or the other plant exporters mentioned, don’t want to take the risk of having to compensate purchasers of soon-to-be dead plants caught up in lengthy border delays. I agree tho, I wouldn’t be best pleased if I lived in Ireland. Just another example of Brexishambles, Pansyface...

pansyface

Ireland is a sovereign country. The fact that it might in future have a border with a non-EU country is irrelevant when I comes to its dealings with other EU countries, such as France.

After all, France has a border with Monaco. Does that mean that Spain should halt all dealings with France because France has a border with a non-EU country?

Hogwash.

Just another example of the French making rules for the sake of it.

I used to have French language students stay with me to learn English. They were forever telling me that in France there is a law for this and a law for that. When I said that in Britain we have relatively few rules, in comparison, and that I would find France very hidebound, they replied “Oh well, we don’t pay any attention to them.”

Here is a taste of what I mean.

Nollie

Spain are not known to willingly follow EU rules that don’t suit them either, often have to be forced to after ecj battles. 

In the case of this particular plant supplier, I can’t speak for them or their motivation so can only guess its because plants from Brittany normally, for reasons of economy and/or logistics, pass via the UK en route to Ireland, so they could be caught up in border delays and phytosanitary certification issues. On the other hand, pansyface, they could indeed just be being bloody French 🙄 

Lizzie27

@Nollie, I've just PM'd you.

Lyn

That’s a lovely place Islander , nice when you can buy local. I’ve never wanted a plant sent from another country, but I suppose people do.

pr1mr0se

The French seem to have a rather idiosyncratic way of dealing will rules and regulations.  Remember the BSE crisis?  EU banned our beef in 1996 for 10 years.  France continued to impose a ban long after the ECJ ordered it to lift the blockade.  No fine was ever paid by them for doing so.  They (France) also conveniently seemed to ignore the fact that they, too, had BSE reported in, among other things, gelatin products in the early 1990s thus compromising the food chain.