We specialize in quality plants indigenous to South Florida and the islands
of the Caribbean, suitable for blending your landscaping into the surrounding
natural vegetation.
Send us your list. Even if we don't grow them ourselves, we can get them at one
of our neighboring nurseries. We load and send full containers only.
We can consolidate several smaller orders into a full shipment to one
destination. Get together with your
neighbors and make a list. When the container arrives, you can all work
together unloading it and installing the plants.
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Call your favorite transport company and tell them to
deliver the container to us. If you want, we can book it for you. |
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For most Caribbean destinations, a phyto-sanitary
certificate (diminutively referred to as a "phyto") is
required. We input your plant list into the USDA
Phytosanitary Certificate Issuance & Tracking System (PCIT).
We must do this at least 2 business days before the desired inspection
date.
The inspector from the Department of Agriculture comes
and inspects the plants for pests. |
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When the inspection is done, the inspector comes into the office and logs
into the PCIT website, makes any adjustments to the phyto and then prints
out the form on official USDA phyto paper. |
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Once we have the phyto, we are ready to start loading the
containers. We can fit some pretty big pieces on a 40' flat rack.
At right, and below, are photos of a 25'+ mahogany in a 100-gal container
being prepared and loaded on the flat rack. |
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To protect the plants from damage, we individually sleeve
them before loading them. The smaller plants are placed in paper
wrappers. |
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The bigger plants are encased in woven poly sleeves.
The poly-weave material allows them to breathe during their journey. |
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The containers are carefully stacked with a mixture of larger and
smaller plants, to minimize empty space without damaging the merchandise.. |
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It takes us just a few hours to load a 40' refrigerated
container. |
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At right and in the next two photos below is a 30' tall Caesalpinia
ferrea Brazilian Ironwood from our nursery. We are loading
it for a project within the state of Florida |
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Plants from our nursery have gone all over the
world. Some are in botanical gardens in Europe and in
temperate portions of the US.
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Due to the kinds of plants we grow, we primarily ship to
islands of the Caribbean. Our plants have been sent to assorted
islands of the Bahamas, the Virgin Islands, the French Antilles, Cayman
Islands, Turks & Caicos and St. Kitts & Nevis. |
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At left, Adansonia digitata Baobab,
in a 200-gallon container being prepared for shipping to its new home in
one of the Caribbean islands. |
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At right, loading multiple-stem Veitchia
palms for shipping to the Caribbean. |
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Here is a 40' flat-rack container, ready to go.
They told us at Tropical
Shipping that our containers are the best packed of any they have ever
seen.
Even after six days at sea, everything arrived in the
same condition as when it left here. |
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