In article , "David
(Normandy)" writes

5. Giving plants away may be considered to be starting a business or trying
to take trade away from registered garden centre businesses. There are very
strict protectionist laws regarding doing anything like that here.

Good god how sad and what a waste of lovely plant swap meetings. How
utterly short-sighted of the French! What a waste of good plants as
well! How do you stand if you want to give plants to a friend then? How
do Plant societies work?


Weird laws aside, it is not a bad place to live :-)


Sounds awful! (Though it does have on its side the fact that you would
only get MFI sales adverts twice a year!)
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Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk