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Hope Munro Smith wrote:

(Patty Winter) wrote in
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In article ,
Hope Munro Smith wrote:

My husband and I are relocating to California from Texas, and we are
getting contradictory information about whether or which plants we can
take with us.

Hope, the California Dept. of Food and Agriculture has a web site
about their Pest Exclusion Branch. I see links from their home page
to specific pages about bringing house plants into California and
about the fire ant problem.

http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/phpps/pe/


Patty

Ok, it seems like you can bring the ones that have not been outside or at
least not where fire ants or other critters might have set up housekeeping:

http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/phpps/pe/faq_hse_plnts.htm

Just dropping a note to the group to let you know we reached Fresno
safely. We had absolutely NO problems at the border getting our plants
through. The agent at the inspection station asked if we had any plants,
we said "yes a few houseplants" then she asked us where we were from,
noted it on her clipboard, and waved us through. We think the agent just
didn't want to get out of her booth, since the outdoor temperature was
about 103 when we crossed the Cali-Arizona border! Everything lived, a
few sunburned leaves but that's it.

until soon, Hope