European Union Plant Health PassPort

   European Plant Health Passport: EU/IRL/DAF/2684

Description: EU/IRL/DAF/2684 or older passport: EC/IRL/DAFF/2684
Species: Either single species or sold in mixtures and blends.
Grower number: 2684
Variety: Mixed or single species
Grades: A or B. (c)
Grade A: complies to Directives regarding seed purity, chaff 5% and weed seed 5%.
Grade B: applies to meadow harvested seeds containing mixtures where more than one species is harvested at on time and or where the chaff content is greater than Grade A.

Date of issue: All seed is sold fresh or from storage from the previous years harvests. Most seed is produced in the previous year and is then cleaned over winter and sold in the current year. Some species are produced over many years, others are produced once every few years and stored.

Packers Number: DBN is the primary producer of all native Irish wildflower seed, the primary number is IRL/DAF/2684.
Wholesalers, distributors, third parties and landscape firms also sell our seed. These companies use there own identity, however if our primary plant health number is not on the seed then the seed is not guaranteed native Irish and suitable for conservation.

Size: Not relevant to wildflower seed.
Class: N/a
Net Wt: The net weight of seed mixtures and some single species is for seed only, where chaff occurs in a mixture additional weight is added to the net weight. 

Chemical treatment:  Within E.U. Borders: For Native Irish and Seed intended for use within the E.U. No chemical seed treatment is applied unless specified by the customer.

Chemical treatment beyond E.U. Borders: For Seed intended for use beyond the E.U. Chemical seed treatment is applied as specified by the relevant Dept of Agriculture and the customer.

Organic, Natural, and or Biological Seed Production: Design By Nature has seed derived from Organic farms. As this seed is blended with seed from conventional or non organic farms, we cannot claim that our seed is organic. However most of our seed is produced from natural ecosystems.

EUROPEAN PLANT HEALTH PASSPORT:
All crops are available to be inspected by DAF ( IRL) for disease. Wildflowers do have disease problems and every effort is made to collect and propagate from healthy stock. However to date our crops have had no notifiable diseases. Common diseases are rust, mildew and dust mite.

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