Dear Friends and customers,
We love aquascaping – and that means
that we love plants! This inspired us to create many pages filled with
images of beautiful plants for you – our fellow aquarists and
aquascapers. We sorted our plants into colour groups and added the
scientific names to help us all to avoid the confusion created by the
many different common names.
While we keep and sell many of these
species, we may not always have all the plants you might see in these
images. There are several reasons for this. The first is that plant
growth and harvesting is a natural, and therefore a seasonal process.
Bad weather also plays a very big role, as we and our suppliers have all
at some or other time lost entire batches of plants because Mother
Nature chose not to play along. There are times when we do get the
rarer species, but these are frequently booked in advance, while the
remainder literally sells before we can display them in our shop.
We are of course also dependant on
wholesalers locally and overseas. They too do not always have stock of
the plant species we require. In the case of imports, our overseas
suppliers often only sell in bulk, meaning that we have to buy a large
assortment of plants to make the export process from their side worth
their while. We therefore need larger local orders to warrant bringing
in a specific species, just as we need to be sure that we can land them
at reasonable prices.We are currently attempting to find suppliers who
are interested in sharing consignments, in order to make imports viable.
This leaves us with those cases where a
specific species might be beautiful and very desirable, but can also be
found on Nature Conservation’s blacklist! These plants are on that list
for a reason! After all, it would be selfish to import a plant that
could invade and destroy our own precious waters and plant species. So
let us all refrain from trying to obtain illegal species and work with
what is legal and available.We nevertheless hope that you won’t
appreciate the beauty of those forbidden species in our images any less!
For those species we can import,
but where we are waiting for specific orders until we have enough to
warrant a consignment, we are happy to add your name to our “Wanted
Plants ” list. We know this costs patience – both yours and ours. But
that is how things work, and we believe that our energy is better spent
in perfecting our aquaria and creating magnificent aquascapes with what
we currently have, rather than being angry because we cannot get what
we want. Trust us, if at all possible, we will go out of our way to
deliver what you want as soon as we can!
Either way, whether you are already
engaged in the aquarium and aquascaping hobby, or still wondering
whether to venture into it, we hope that the broad knowledge provided by
our plant pages offer will bring you nothing but enthusiasm and joy!
In the meantime we are planning a series
of aquascaping demonstrations, with the goal of making them super
creative and inspirational. We also hope that these get-togethers will
allow us to begin a plant exchange. So, if you have a surplus of
plants, or are an expert, or an experienced, green-thumbed old-timer, we
would like to hear from you! And if you are a first-timer, this is
certainly where you should begin, and we would welcome you doubly! Send
us your name and contact details if you want us to let you know for when
these events are scheduled. Click on any of the link below to find suitable plants for your aquarium you might be looking for.
Now go forth, wade through our plant images and above all, enjoy!
