Hi all I have been in contact with George Hample of Euro Green Asia Orchids from Thailand and he has given me permission to post his email on OGD as an explanation of his position re the damaging info that has been posted here recently. Perhaps this will clear matters up. This email was initially sent to a friend of mine and then passed on to me.
I think it is worth pointing out that a group of us orchid lovers from Perth Western Australia visited Euro Green Asia Nursery in Thailand in Feb/March this year and subsequently bought a large shipment of orchids from him. This is not to say that all went without a hitch, but in the long run all turned out well and the orchids that he sent us were in fine condition and well grown. The shipment he mentions is our second which should arrive here within the month. Tony Dear Ken, Thanks for your e-mail and here the answer to it. Mr. David Grove came this year to our orchid nursery, pretending to buy plants. He was looking around, asked many questions and left. We never have heard from him again. Maybe he does not understand our operation at all and I doubt that he has any qualification to judge my qualification as an electrical engineer. For sure he has no qualification to judge our species. Our nursery in Thailand has altogether 362 registered entries of Appendix II and 30 of Appendix I. All of this entries are regularly checked by the Cites department of Thailand. Without an approval from them no plant would leave the country. To the size of our nursery here in Thailand, the plants you have seen there are the one we keep a close watch on and dont entrust them to our growers. Beside this we have approximately another 2.8 hectare with plants to the north-west of Bangkok and three contract growers working for us. Another big part of plants listed in our price list are coming from our nursery in the Philippines, about 24,000 square meter in size, at the Sierra Madre of Eastern Luzon. With both setups together we can claim that we have one of the biggest nursery, cultivating Asian orchid species in Asia. However, it will be a lesson for us to scrutinize people first before we let them in to visit our nursery, especially when they turning a visit later on into adding to a smear campaign. Regarding Mr. Lowder, the announcement at his web page has disappeared already and he has received his plants. We regret that we have not reacted much earlier and shipped the plant before but sometime circumstances are not always in our favor, first our health problems here and than the problem with the Vietnamese Cites department. Ken, please give our regards to Tony and the other members of your group. The plants you have ordered will be delivered as promised and we hope that this mess with Dwayne Lowder will not destroy our so far good relationship. Best regards George and Edith
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