Shops, nurseries... in Europe
 

Time to give this brand new European section a new, dynamic look.
I posted this once somewhere, but it would me much more appropriate in this section, so here it goes...

Since I didn't have much of a succes with other ways, I would be interested in knowing all the possible shops, nurseries and places all over the Europe, from East to West, from North to South.

That's when it occured to me that such a list would be very handy and useful resource for all the Europeans...
If every person adds 1 company at least, we surely will get them all. Let's make a list of all the shops and nurseries offering tropical plants (must not be only banana, but preferred).

Also, your experience with shops, comments on shipments, anything will be noted and recorded to provide most accurate information for all the members to see. Hope anyone of you, who can, will contribute.
You can also always pm me and I will add the new item into this list...

*FLAGS were borrowed from Small Flags*


Achim's Bananen Shop (press here for direct e-mail contact)

A'lombre des figuiers (press here for direct e-mail contact)

Amulree Exotics (press here for direct e-mail contact)

B & T World Seeds (press here for direct e-mail contact)

Canarius (press here for direct e-mail contact)

Cemunnos Web Shop (press here for direct e-mail contact)

- nice people

České trópy (press here for direct e-mail contact)

- they tend to change the prices even in the middle of the shipment, so you suddenly get somehow more expensive plants

Crazy Palm's (press here for direct e-mail contact)

Europalms (press here for direct e-mail contact)

EXOGA, Exotische Garten (press here for direct e-mail contact)

JungleSeeds (press here or here for direct e-mail contact)

- "none of the seeds I have had from Jungle Seeds have ever germinated" (Island Cassie)

La maison du bananier (press here for direct e-mail contact)

MBM (press here for direct e-mail contact)

- but I was told they only hardly ever reply to e-mails

Palmaris - Les palmiers du Monde (press here for direct e-mail contact)

Palmenverkoop.nl (press here for direct e-mail contact)

- cheap, their prices for hardy palms are astonishing as well as other interesting plants
- personally, I have extremely good experience with them
- they ship to the whole Europe
- difficult communication, because the shop owner can speak English or German very little.

Palmscenter (press here for direct e-mail contact)

Raziel SLR (press here for direct e-mail contact)

Ready To Grow (press here for direct e-mail contact)

Sandeman Seeds (press here for direct e-mail contact)

Sementes (press here for direct e-mail contact)

Semillas La Palma (press here for direct e-mail contact)

Sunshine Seeds (press here for direct e-mail contact)

Tiny's Shop for Bananenfreunde (press here for direct e-mail contact)

TropicaFlore (press here for direct e-mail contact)






Thailandplant (more information: e-mail)
Luckys-Palmen-Ecke (more information: e-mail)

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So I hope that our list will have better success than "Faster than the speed of love" by Brian Griffin... Gosh, I love this joke.

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Bravo Jack!
Hope that this will help to all members from our part of the World.
In my country for now I foundt only one nursery that sometimes have some Super Dwarfs for sale.

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Any nursery's a good nursery...

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Simon at Amulree has a very good selction of Bananas.
Amulree Exotics | Tropical Garden Plants, Exotic Plants and Wholesale Plants

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fantastic list of nurseries
in Spain I know at last one

SEMILLAS LA PALMA
http://http://www.semillas.de/cgi-bin/shop_es/shop.cgi


you can obtain bananas and other tropicals, are located in La Palma Island (Canary Islands)


cheers
carlosfv

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just a word - none of the seeds I have had from Jungle Seeds have ever germinated - and when I contacted them - they didn't reply

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you can add this one:
palmaris - la pepiniere Palmaris

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Hmm, one of mine greatest wishes these days is to get once on this list, with mine nursery!
Well, U newer know :).
:woohoonaner:

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I will more than gladly put you there once.
Maybe it's almost time to hang your service to the god's electric company on a coat hanger (and god said: "Let there be light") and start doing what you love the most now. :D
Btw this is my post nr. 555. :D

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Haha Jack, there are many things I should hang there :ha::ha::ha:
BTW Congrats!
:woohoonaner:

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But you know, that once hobby becomes work, it's not the same hobby as it used to be before?
You could also open large citrus station. :D That would be good in your region...

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Just realised no ones mentioned Achims bananenshop.
The perfect place to find a Saba for anyone thats after one

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The first one. :ha:

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I was wondering if all the shops mentioned here ship all over europe / eu? If not, could that be marked aswell? I personally use mypalmshop.com (located in the netherlands) for my palm stuff and they do sell bananas too. Not many tho', at the moment they are offering only Ensete maurelli and Musa basjoo. The 'nanas I have are bought through ebay. Maybe we should also include those ebay stores that always sell them?

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Just wanted to tell the people in Europe how lucky you lot are!! LOL
The nice thing that Europeans are so lucky about is that they have much more united shipping policies and can often get things shipped from UK all the way to the Nederlands, and even better when you live in Eastern Europe, you can get things shipped easier, because they haven't quite pulled hard on the regulation strings yet. I guess the US has it's reasons, and we could have had a much worse breakout of Sigatoka had it been less enforced.

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Inside EU sending is no problem. I also received a pup from Ante (not in Eu) within 5 days after sending it, so it's not a problem.

Shops see it as a problem only if there are issues with certiphicates. As long as Europe is concerned and you pay the shipping, there's no problem there. Or at least I haven't experienced any.

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Biggest shipping problem all over world is LACK OF GOOD WILL wich I prooved many times. In the bigging there was theme that shipping naners between USA and Europe isnt even possible and I recived lot of plants(pups), few large corms and several other plants from US.
I succsesifully shipped few plants to SEA. Unfortunally, didnt recive any but many of U knows reason why :(.
Trading and shipping naners among Europe members goes smoothly too. I hope that I will proove that with foto documents by the end of this week again :).
Im waiting for new shippment, wahoo!!!
It isnt hard. U just need to have willing parts on both ends, right? ;)
:woohoonaner:

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I sincerely hope so too. They were way too small to be kept like this during weekend. :bananas_b I can't really believe how cheap the connection between us 2 was. :D They sent it as a letter even without weighing, scanning... trying it. Wow. They didn't even need manifest or anythinbg like that.
I was even tempted to send you one 0,5L Kofola, so that you try, but than you would be addicted and with no Kofola around, you could easily run out of steam in late autumn (bringing several 2L bottles next year in summer... :D ).

I'm, newly, expecting a pup from southernmorst, African-like Calabria sometime next week (during a deep cold spell, damn, but it's probably not goping to be very much better), so I hope that everything goes alright. :ha:

Ante, just one thing, if it is too beaten up, please, use some photo editor to make it look better. ;)

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I have never had a problem shipping US to UK in either direction, normally takes about 7-10 days.

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Hi! RJ, i know you from BGI :ha::ha: it's nice to see familiar name here, specially since i am new.

Cora

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I see that a few of the links don't seem to work any more, any chance of an updated list, Jack? I think it's time to buy some new 'nanas!

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I'll look into it as soon as I have some free time. ;)

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There is a seed store in Germany that insists upon uploading cookies in your computer when you try to order. My security caught a worm virus in the cookies so be careful. :2239:

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Another interesting nursery here:

Bananier www.crazypalmgarden.fr

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Is there a shop in Europe who sell online a banana specific fertilizer (20-5-30 or the like) ?

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I just bought potassium nitrate pure which has NPK: 13-0-46. If you add this from time to time, you'll be feeding something more close to banana fertilizer with your desired NPK.
I ordered it at this german shop: Kaliumnitrat kristallin reinst 1kg - Artikeldetailansicht - Dillnuss Online-Shop.
They ship within the EU. I wait for my delivery. Should be here soon.
The problem with potassium nitrate is, that most shops won't ship at all or only small quantities, because that stuff could be also used to build bombs. But I just ordered 1,5 kg with 100% pure cristalline potassium nitrate.

And there is Tine's Shop, also in Germany Tine´s Shop fuer alle Bananenfreunde : 3 kg Bananendünger Bananen Dünger
She has also banana fertilizer NPK 14:6:24 and is shipping to EU countries!

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Thank you BB73 !!
Im'going to look at those shops.

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is there any place in europe where i can find a Musa Viente cohol ?

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No, I don't think so. It is rare even in USA.

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I wrote to "going bananas" in Florida who is the only seller I found on internet but they replied that they do not ship anything to Europe anymore due to our strict regulation about living plants and customs .... they said that most of the time , the plants spent so many day in quarantine that once they got to their final destination were badly damaged or almost rotten...

That's really a pity for us, amatour gardeners... but on the other hand it make sense on keeping Europe safe from biological treats.....

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An italian adress here:

Raziel - Vendita Bulbi, sementi e Fiori. Vendita online Bulbi e sementi per fiori

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Great!

Thank you!

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Just got back from Auchan (a sort of Wal-mart) and saw a nana on a shelf.... it was pretty big and looked like a dwarf cavendish to me.. I looked at the tag that was made of plastic with the picture and the instructions and to my surprise it was labeled only "MUSA" ...... I was upset because it was not a hand made label from a farmer but a professional one you see in many greenhouses...
Ok, not evereyone knows or care about the specific cultivar , but it's like if I want to buy a "Fuji" apple tree and every tag says only "apple tree"..... there are dozens of different apples just like bananas....
It was a shame , because it was sold only for 7€ and was tall like 1 meter with great foliage.

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Quality bananas in Europe can be bought for less, but are very rarely available. You're right, the most widely sold variety is Dwarf or Super Dwarf Cavendish (90% of the time). Other 8% would probably be basjoo and sikkimensis.

The only real hope for Europe is trading.

Also, it's shame about the taxonomy. It really needs to be worked at. But I'm not a biologists, so I can't really say much into this matter.

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Hello,
Though his speciality they are the seeds and the palms, also they have some bananas.
I have bought without problems.

EUROPALMS
Europalms - Musa

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Hi!
Thank you for the link. I've placed an order a week ago for an Allagoptera arenaria with europalms but I had to cancel it because shipping was really too expensive.... it was something like 35€ for a 20cm palm worth 10€ ....

I had a better experience with canarius.... I bought the allagoptera for 6€ and a Gran Nain for 14€ and shipping was 20€

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another place to find some mysterious (because of the african names) bananas:

- Pflanzenversand Hans- Günter Röpke

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LOL, do I have to hire an african interpreter to understand their names ?

Seriously , why they don't write the common known names of those MUSAS ? Or do they are new and differents cultivars?

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Hi
Has anyone mentioned this website before Palmscenter-Exotica ?? Superb quality of plants, contact in English available, low prices, fast shipping.....:goteam:

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Exotic Plants and Foods from the Canary Islands - Canarius

For the moment it has only two types of 'nanas (Gran Nain and another red one that I don't know) but I've been told that in September they'll put many different 'nanas for sale.

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Another good german shop: Musa Red Iholene - Musa Praying Hands - Musa Hajaray - Musa Chini Champa - Musa Itinerans Yunnanense

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Cmmon, 55€ for D. Orinoco:ha:???
:woohoonaner:

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Ante, 55€ to German isn't what that same amount of money is to you. ;)

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Even for Germany, it seems expensive.

In Tine´s Shop fuer alle Bananenfreunde , you have D. orinoco for € 22.50

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No, it's 55 for 3 plants:
Set-Angebot - Dwarf Orinoco, Dwarf Red und Dwarf Cavendish

It's not the cheapest shop on the web but 27€ for "difficult to find" 'nanas is not excessive while the most common costs 12.50€

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Sorry , my fault. I apollogise :).
Lack of sleep I guess:ha:
:woohoonaner:

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You should stop chasing female tourists at night. :)
*JOKE*

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:ha:

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Is it correct that Musa "Kluai Roi Wi" is Musa Thousand Fingers? I ask because in the palmscenter-shop you get one for 11,60 and a Red Iholene for 11,50. That`s cheap, right?

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So it seems.....
1 Bulb of MUSA CHILIOCARPA BACK. Musa (AAB group), Kluai Roi Wi', 100 hand Banana Plant, ThailandPlant.com

Kluai Roi Wi:
This is the Thai name for what we commonly know as '1000 Fingers' or 'Pisang Seribu'

http://www.bananas.org/f2/year-growi...nas-11667.html