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Old 26-07-2003, 03:12 PM
Frogleg
 
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Default Cross-country move with plants?

On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 19:45:08 +0000 (UTC), Hope Munro Smith
wrote:

Frogleg wrote in
:

I sent some of my favorites with the furniture in the moving van
(commercial) from west to east coast. I was not confident of survival,
but several, well-watered and surrounded (not on top) with cardboard
'cages' made it.

You can FedEx them, but best check on regs and packing advice.


Which plants made it under these conditions, do you remember?


It was a long time ago, but a 4.5' tall Euohorbia trigona, and a small
rosebush are the ones that linger in my mind. I still have descendants
of the trigona. The little rose struggled for several years, putting
out one blossom per season (I'm *not* a rose person) and finally
succumbed to a February thaw and subsequent March blizzard. They wee
in the van for at least a week, I didn't know diddly about plants at
the time, and the move was made in early July. In fact, a moving
co. should have info about packaging and plant importation. In a
perfect world, that is. :-)