We are open only by appointment at least one day in advance, please contact us if you plan to make a visit and take away your email order.

We produce and export Hoya plants, Hoya cuttings, botanical plants, rhizomes, bromeliad, adenium, heliconia, ant plants, air plants and caudex, bulbs, aroids, ferns and fern allies. We can reserve fresh Hoya seeds, spores, fresh Orchid seeds, fresh Adenium and Plumeria seeds.

  We have exported plants and plant products since 1999

Our nursery is situated ( see the map ) in the province of Phang Nga, near Khok Kloi town, in an agricultural area covered with Hevea plantations and vegetable gardens, bordered by forests and rivers, but only 35 km to Phuket international airport in Thailand . We are only 10 km to the nicest beaches.

 Tattooed Hoya hearts : unusual presents for friends and family.

Trees bring air flows and shade on aleyagarden site

 The plants are debagged, washed, treated, wrapped cautiously and fast in an area where light is reduced. In the often cloudy Phuket province the temperature is on average 4 Celsius deg. lower than anywhere else in Thailand, humdity is often higher : the conditions are perfect for packing live plants.  Below : packing at night time

      

                       During a cycling tour near aleyagarden          

 Ahoy ! We welcome experienced campers in tropical nature, our tents and the use of basic facilities near the river that borders the site are free.



  Beautiful beaches are just 10 km away - but be careful with RIP CURRENTS near the shore in the rainy season ( May to November ) . Also be aware that a relatively calm Adaman sea with moderate waves can always hide one stronger wave, anytime, that will submerge with a much higher energy you or your kids.
To this regard Layan or Nai yang beaches have the safest slopes. Naiyang extends along the many large trees of a beautiful park.

•  RETAIL price list - we charge a 15 $ fee for the phytosanitary certificate; It is free for retail orders of 150 $ in plant value; we resend at half prices damaged Hoya plants - Hoya only - reported within 7 days following delivery, postal transport is free over 500 $ of plants.

• WHOLESALE list : we also export plants WHOLESALE, the minimum of purchase is 300 $, small plants of 10 - 15 cm are sold by 3; the local charges ( incl. all documents : phyto and customs )  are invoiced by our agent,  transport is never free, no replacements nor compensations are given but prices are the lowest. Bank transfers only. Your account and balances are in the Thai currency : THB. Get more THB when you buy them online on TransferWise.

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 email us to receive in your mailbox our lists in Excel format or  download them here.

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 In this retail shop we sell before the weekends to all countries generous plants, take pictures before closing the parcels and confirm sending by email with the postal registration number and pictures : you can watch them on our facebook page : https://www.facebook.com/aleya.garden

 In picture : various Hoya seedlings 

 You can track your EMS parcel and sometimes before delivery small parcels air, on the Postal site of your own country in three steps on Track-Trace :

and on these two other tracking sites :

 

Usually Small Parcels Air cannot be traced online but the registration number is necessary to claim the parcel at the post office.

 Options of payments and Prices

- You may have to register in your country before importing live plants.

- If you import often by the post you may be traced as a professional importer, hence at some point  you would have to pay import taxes and duties at a customs center where you would have to fetch the parcel : the post would deny you the simplified procedure of receiving parcels and possibly paying taxes at your home.

This may explain why your parcels have been delayed after many imports that were delivered normally to your door.

- in the USA there is no permit up to 12 plants. An import permit is required for 13 plants and more : 

- permits are free, they can be requested quickly online on the USDA site and they cover 5 years. See how to proceed here. Plant purchases with import permits tend to be processed faster by the customs than parcels of less than 13 plants to repeat buyers without permits. The green - yellow label with the permit number is stuck on the parcel which goes directly to the phytosanitary station before being forwarded to your address place ( written on the parcel ).

Regarding transfer from your Paypal account to our Paypal account : since Paypal account holders * are allowed to keep the goods forever and over 180 days after their purchases cancel the payments ( even cumulated payments ** )  we only accept PayPal transfers to our PayPal account for small payments and these payments must be non refundable PERSONAL TRANSFERS ( for splitting expenses, gifts, family or friend purposes ). We will offer you a converted $ price to THB ( Thai currency ) and will request to receive this net amount in THB : hence the conversion charge and fees will all be on your side. Do not send us any paypal payment for GOODS and SERVICES as we would return it, possibly minus a transaction fee kept by Paypal. 

Click here to see how to send a personal payment to our Paypal account

 See the much cheaper methods of payment that we offer in the next section below.

* Even though most national laws do not extend the individual consumer protection to purchases for professional purposes, Paypal is not concerned with the national laws of their account holders.

* * Purchases can be cumulated and all payments returned : after receiving a parcel the silent buyer - consumer or professional buyer - will have the seller believe that claims are not scheduled so orders can recur and be sent safely. The scam will work until the first claim that will alert the seller, within 180 days. At that time the seller may be obliged by the buyer to return the first and all claimed payments for goods and services that followed.



   With TransferWise, Azimo, Currencies Direct .. the much cheaper transfers ( take a classic bank or Paypal cost of transfer and divide it by up to 10 ) are also faster , both recipient and sender are notified, exceptional delays are not likely to happen and mispelling the receiver's details is not an issue as rectifcation is possible even lately.

There are basically only 2 mistakes that may occur : trying to send us Euro or $ instead of having the money sender company send us Thai currency against your local money ( $, Euro, Rubble, Zloty, SEK etc   ) ; or sending under your name on the site of the money sender company  whereas your bank account is linked to a different name;  these mistakes can be rectified easily or the transfer can be cancelled at no cost by email, the staff of the money sender companies are fast and very responsive.

In contrast to money sender companies , banks take huge fees ( about 50 $ in the recipient's country ) to rectify an international transfer that had mispelled names or mistakes ( recipient's data, SWIFT, account number, bank address etc ). Plus the transfer is slowly sent back  and it must be sent again, with all the costs.

Most banks will not charge you a fee for a local bank transfer to the money sender company, as their account is held in the same country (or banking area, for Euros) as your own, and domestic transfers are normally free. Here in Thailand we won't be charged either, for the same reason.

If you buy from us wholesale repeatedly, as we prepay your transport cost in Thailand we surely have balances after shipments, they are in THB; not only the money transfer companies are cheaper than the banks they also always give you more THB against your currency compared to bank or Paypal : with all this, that is much lower fees and a better exchange rate than the banks or Paypal, you end up after transferring the money with bigger balances in THB than if we kept them in Euro or $. 

Here are a text guide and a video , the video shows how to send Euro from a bank account in Pounds via TransferWise site, one of the money transfer companies, but to us you will send the Thai currency bought with your currency in your bank account : you can use your euro, pounds, Russian ruble, US $, Hungarian Forint, zloty, Turkish lira, Swedish krona .. etc to buy the THB. We will receive THB, not Euro or $. 

 TransferWise support offers a number of ways to get in touch, including live chat. If chat is available, you'll see a small green 'live chat' box in the bottom right corner of the screen on all pages of transferwise.com

 TransferWise is trusted all over the world, read all the reviews

First we send you our details as the recipient and our bank account details in Thailand  : TransferWise will ask you these details for your payment. 

After you deposit your local money ( euro, zloty, krona etc ) on TransferWise site they email you that it is on its way to them from your bank account; in this email they also give you the number of the transfer to us and the date before which this transfer ( in Thai currency ) will be in our account in Thailand. You can forward us this email.

Then when TransferWise gets your money both you and us receive confirmation that the transfer in THB is on its way to aleyagarden bank account.

Your Guarantee  :

 By choosing for your retail purchases : TRANSFERWISE, AZEMO, CURRENCIES DIRECT etc. or the more expensive MONEYGRAM, WESTERN UNION, or WIRE TRANSFER you prefer to avoid the possibility of a Paypal dispute : instead you benefit from lower prices on a discounted retail plant list and a clear guarantee right away.

You understand your risk when importing plants from abroad. Unless delivered in soil within 24 hours all the plants that we ship will appear damaged to some extent. Regarding packing our obligation concerns the means, we can't specify the outcome.

• Low retail plant prices
  
• Our fee for the legal documents is only 510 thb ( about 15 $ ), free over 150 $ in  the retail list. But with wholesale orders we always charge these 15 $ whatever the value ordered.
  
•  Repeat orders are welcome anytime
  
• Get FREE shipping by EMS on retail orders over 500 $
• Take small parcel air to save on transport if it is worth taking the risk for you
  
• We resend at half price in a next order any number of Hoya plants bought from the retail price list and reported damaged upon arrival for any reason, if they are reported within 7 days following reception. Other plant types are excluded from this guarantee. Plants bought from the wholesale price list are therefore excluded from this guarantee
  

The Secrets Behind Professional Plant Acclimatization

Why do some imports record higher survival rates ?  this concerns humidity control after arrival for a week or two : water vapor in the air is the most important aspect of acclimatization; also there is a real science in bathing plants in solutions that contain hormones such as gibberellic acid.

Warm baths, lower light, controlled temperature and steady humidity in the air that surrounds the plants after travel make a real difference on the survival rates. 

Envelopes, Small Parcel Air, EMS


Cuttings may be sent in registered envelopes safely, at low cost and almost as fast as the other methods below : contact us ( your country may not require a phytosanitary certificate from Thailand. We charge 510 thb ( about 15 US$ ) for this certificate if the plant value in the retail order is less than 150 US$ - We always charge 15 US$ for orders from the wholesale list whatever the amount ordered above the min 300 US$).

To most countries Small Parcels Air take 2 weeks on average, EMS parcels take 1 week on average.

Hoya cuttings weigh 45 gr, small rooted and 30 cm rooted plants 105 gr.

Follow our directions and calculate your transport cost from the Thai post website.

 Download our Retail Plant list or contact us at aleyagarden@hotmail.com to receive it in your mail box

Transport is free for retail orders over 500 $. But the transport is never free for orders from our wholesale list.

Payment methods : you will need to convert your currency to THB, the Thai currency. Find the cheapest transfert cost for the amount of your plant order on :
https://www.monito.com/

monito.com will compare and review for you 465 money transfer companies : Currencies Direct, Azimo and TransferWise are usually the cheapest solutions for the amounts you will transfer to us.



Click - Zoom and see on the picture below : with MoneyGram in February 2016 it cost 10$ to send us 300 $ with your debit or credit card from your computer at home or at a counter in town.

  RETAIL ORDERS : You may  

  * have a slow postal system,   selected * the most fragile plants, * the cheapest method of transport :  small parcel instead of EMS  ( EMS are more likely to go through customs ), * or preferred not to pick up the parcel to avoid taxes, * you did not comply with registration rules in your country, * you don't have the necessary equipment that provide sufficient humidity for the acclimatization period of 2 weeks, or * it was very hot, or * delivery was reportedly attempted at your place and you were not present, or * you did not check the status of your parcel on a tracking site, or * the parcel was smashed in transit * etc ... whatever the reason we resend the damaged Hoya plants at only half their price in a next order if reported within 7 days following reception

 

• If your parcel is lost or intercepted for missing ( or lost ) documents we resend it plants and transport 100 % free of charge.

Buying plants at a nearby shop involves less risks than buying plants shipped by mail.If you feel that you would not cope with dead plants in the mail or with a lower survival rate than you hoped for, we advise you not to buy plants online over long distances.

Check   which Hoya plants are more fragile here  before sending your order to :  aleyagarden@hotmail.com





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