This arrived in my inbox this morning - Hop Plants from Willingham Nurseries

[Fal]

This arrived in my inbox this morning, I'm sure anyone else who's bought hop plants from them before got the same email. But I thought it would be interesting for those who are on the look out.

Hop Plants from Willingham Nurseries

Just to let you know that we now have over 20 varieties of hop plants available - please visit the website to place your order online. Because hop plants can be cropped for more than 20 years it is important that your new plants are free from virus and viroid diseases. All plants from Willingham Nurseries are certified disease-free having been tested by DEFRA for Hop latent viroid (HpLVd), Verticillium wilt, Arabis mosaic virus (ArMV-H), Apple mosaic virus (ApMV) and Hop mosaic virus (HpMV). All our plants are female and bred true to type to ensure you harvest hops of known characteristics, (note, male plants are not needed for the production of hop cones). Don't be tempted to buy untested plants or rhizomes and never fall for the trick of buying named seed - it doesn't exist. Named varieties are the result of genetic crosses and the only way to breed true to type is by taking genetically identical material from the parent plant - you have been warned.

We now have good stocks of most varieties although Phoenix and Nugget will not be available until after Christmas. We have a new strain of Saaz (named after the former Austrian city of Saaz now Žatec, in the Czech Republic) and Bavarian Hallertau - two of the four Noble hop varieties and by far the most widely grown in the Czech Republic and the German Hallertau region. We have also tried to make sure that we don't run out of Cascade this year and to bring you two new US varieties - Chinook and Galena - an excellent high alpha variety.

We are keeping prices the same again this year at £6.95 each and £7.50 for the odd one or two which require a royalty payment (Cascade, Chinook, Prima Donna, etc). Postage within the UK will stay at £3.95/£5.95 (10/100 rhizomes) and postage to Europe at £5.95/£8.95. Please note that deliveries to Europe (excluding UK) are not tracked unless you specifically ask for that and an additional charge will be made.

Non-EU countries require a phytosanitary certificate which we obtain in batches about every 3 - 4 weeks. We do this to spread the cost so there can be a delay in processing some non-EU orders - please be patient, it's worth the wait! Due to increased charges by DEFRA in the UK we have to charge a contribution of £7.50 per order - please select the correct shipping option at checkout. We don't expect any problems with shipping to Norway this year but there is still a problem with Russia because of a trade disagreement. As soon as that is sorted out we will resume shipments.

For orders outside of Europe please contact us and we will send you a quote for shipping and certification.

Happy Hopping!

Mike

[barkar]

Would this work with parcel motel re the size of each plant ? Not familar with buying plants other than getting rhizomes from generous people on this forum

[hopapotamus]

thanks for posting this fal .
what hops grow best in ireland , or what varities would have been grown here when we had a hop industry?

[hopapotamus]

just bumping this , i am thinking of getting 10 or so i would assume new zeland hops would do well in ireland as it is in a simular zone to ireland , but would be nice if whoever was buying but up what they are thinking of ordering so we could build up a "hop bank" for spring time swops of ryzomes and cuttings during summer rather than everyone buying the same types ,. i got a plant from taf this year given freely and would like to pay it on .

plus it could be like pampas grass for brewers ........helping to identify swingers i mean brewers in your neighberhood lol

[imark]

Would this work with parcel motel re the size of each plant ? Not familar with buying plants other than getting rhizomes from generous people on this forum

Yes they would be fine for size in parcel motel but they ship here directly anyway. Each one is just like a small 8" stick and they post them in an envelope unless you're buying loads.

[beerfly]

i got 2 last march, came in a padded enveolpe.