Hope Munro Smith wrote in message ...
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Hope Munro Smith wrote:
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.

I guess she thought -- any bugs on the plants cannot survive such a
long journey on interstate 10 .... 8)

Probably in Texas right now there is no pending bug problems (like
California Med flies, or Washington apple maggots) and the agent
doesn't mind that much.

until soon, Hope