Greg's Indigenous Plants & Landscapes

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Melbourne region

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Who needs potentially invasive exotic plants when we have environmentally safe native plants like these!


Important Notice

If you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer then at present the pages re-load, when you hit either the "Add" or "Subtract" buttons, and you then have to scroll back down to the item you just added to your shopping cart.

This is due a short coming of Microsoft Internet Explorer that cannot see 'book marks' if they are embedded inside a table. It may have been fixed in version 7.0 of Internet Explorer but I do not know for sure.

I do know that this is not a problem in many other web browsers.

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Ordering Plants

Please click here if you would like to learn how to order plants using my online nursery.

SPECIAL

 $3.00 per tube for orders of 12 or more.

Offer applies to non-aquatic species only, including Carex sp listed under "Grass Like Plants".

Postage will be most cost effective for multiples of 12 tubes or 4 14cm pots + 6 tubes.


Payment Security

Placing an order via this online nursery is 100% safe, as far as credit card numbers and bank account numbers go, because all you will be doing is sending me an email with the plants you wish to purchase. 

I do not process the payments directly myself. Payment takes place external to this website and, if you choose to make an online payment, then the security of this is subject to the web security arrangements of your bank, Paypal or Paymate.

Given that millions of online transactions take place via the web sites of these institutions they are pretty safe. But if you choose not to trust them then you can always mail me a cheque or money order.

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Online Shopping Websites For Small Businesses

The JavaScript programming behind my online nursery can easily be adapted to sell any product at fraction of the cost and effort of larger more complicated systems.

System Features & Usage

  1. It is a simple and inexpensive online order receiving system ideal for small businesses taking their first step into online selling. 
  2. Upon receiving an order from a client you then email them invoice for payment. This invoice can be created with what ever software you prefer to use and saved on your hard disk where ever you choose to do so.
  3. There are major security issues with handling credit card and bank account numbers etc that I was not prepared to deal in setting up my online nursery. So I left out the internal payment system along with the complicated and expensive web security features that are required. Goods purchased from my website can still easily be paid for online but my customers do so via the website of their bank, of Paypal or Paymate rather than via my website. The most common method of payment for plants ordered from my online nursery is direct bank deposit.
  4. There are no tracking or accounting systems with my system as these sorts of features add to the complication and expense in setting up and maintaining the website. All my  accounting and order tracking take place via the business systems I had setup prior to creating my online nursery.
  5. It requires that your web hosting service has Microsoft FrontPage extensions, PHP support and Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP) installed.

My website and online nursery consistently appear on the first page of results in Google for a number of different search words and phrases. So I can provide you with advice on how you can achieve similar results in a reasonably short period of time.

Email me if you would like to try my system for your online sales.

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Empty Tubes & Pots

If you are going to purchase some of my plants then please consider carefully how you dispose of the empty pots. Please don't just drop them in the bin and send them to land fill.

Here are your options with respect to the empty tubes:

  1. If you know of any other indigenous nurseries nearby then please return the empty tubes to those establishments. They, and myself, will re-use the tubes over and over for as long as they remain intact.
  2. See if your local council depot will take your empty tubes. They often have stock piles of them left over from their revegetation projects. They periodically return the empty tubes to the indigenous nurseries from whom they obtain their plants.
  3. Some retail nurseries have bins where you can deposit your empty pots. They are recycled one way or another.
  4. At the very least drop them in your council recycle bin.

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Postage Costs

Postage is calculated on box volume rather than absolute weight and the cost increases in fairly large jumps of box volume rather than smoothly. 

Within metropolitan Melbourne postage will around $10 for any where between 1 and 50 tubes while for rural Victoria it will be around $15.

For other states, where air freight is involved, postage cost will be the same for 1 to about 12 tubes.

I use pre-loved boxes from the local hardware store and there are limits to what box sizes are available regularly. Boxes that formerly contained Liquid Nails, in which I can fit 12 tubes, or metho and turpentine, into which I can fit 24 tubes or 4 x 14cm pots plus 6 tubes, are most often available. 

So in all cases it does not make sense for you to order 1 or 2 plants when you will be paying the same postage as you would for 12 plants or more. It is not particularly wise to have me post you a half empty box.

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Overseas Sales

If you are wishing to purchase my plants for an overseas destination then I am afraid I cannot help you for the following reasons:

  1. There are biosecurity and quarantine issues in exporting living biological materials from Australia and I am not equipped or prepared to deal with the complicated and time consuming process of obtaining an Australian export permit and foreign import permit. Nor am I prepared to circumvent biosecurity and quarantine laws of Australia or other countries.
  2. Plants are dispatched by regular Australian post and this works perfectly well for destinations within Australia. However plants are very unlikely to arrive in an acceptable condition at destinations in other countries after a protracted journey overseas and through the destination country.
  3. There is also a real risk of some Australian native plants becoming environmental weeds in other countries, and I am not prepared to hypocritically fight against exotic environmental weeds in Australia while contributing to distributing Australian environmental weeds overseas.

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