Protected variety

I've just purchased a pair of 'copper beauty' honeysuckle for my garden arch - I'm told that they are a "protected variety so propagation is prohibited."

I can understand this from the perspective of someone propagating for profit - ie. buy 1 plant - propagate 2 plants and sell them to double your money.

I'm assuming that this doesn't apply to propagating for your own garden - how would this realistically be 'policed'?

 

You are allowed to propagate for your own use, just not to sell the resulting plants.

 

I've not heard of " protected variety " before, but I have bought plants with " breeders rights ".

These ones you're not even allowed to propagate for yourself. However, you can apply for a special " Plant Breeders License ".

As for policing it I don't know how they do it, unless you start selling them on markets/car boots etc then you'd be under more scrutiny with the regards to the licenses.

 

You are allowed to propagate them for personal use. See here for Gov.uk link:

"These rights only apply if the plants are being used for commercial purposes - they do not apply to any act done for private and non-commercial purposes, for experimental purposes or for the purpose of breeding another variety."

 

Thanks everyone.

They came through earlier this week, I planted them next to the garden arch yesterday. The label that came attached the plants say "Breeders Rights apply".

Noticed yesterday that my jasmine have a fungal infection called 'Rust'. I'm going out shortly to zap them with 'Fungus Clear Ultra'.