Re: California's "modus operandus" rules.... NOT!!!!!

From: Hermine Stover <hermine at endangeredspecies.com> on 1997.02.09 at 16:04:06(311) At 11:07 PM 2/8/97 -0600, Dewey Fisk wrote: >As a former State Plant Inspector from the State of Florida, I can tell you >that the 'Rules of Californina" are erratic at best. The situation, that >you described, of confiscation is certainly not unusual. Sometimes, it >seems that even Phytosanitary Certificates did not work. I wish you well >getting plants into California. The best way, as a private person, that I >have found is to mail them with no identification on the package.. This >way, they don't know. >Dewey +More > >Dewey E. Fisk, Plant Nut >THE PHILODENDRON PHREAQUE >Davie, Florida 33328 >FAX: (954) 680-0305 >e-mail: plantnut@shadow.net > > >Yes a private party can do thit and only the plant is lost. but a commercial mail-order nursery may not or I think the penalty is death. I have encounterd some nurseries in New Jersey who will not ship to CA because they feel they could not meet our standards. But look ath the mail-order nurseries who do, like Logees, and White Flower Farms and all those places who davertise in plant magazines. They do not report any unusual problem. each state has its own highly specific regulations. Plants grown in Florida soil may not come in, because the nematodes in Florida soil would be very ahppy here, along with our native and other introduced nematodes. and some of the other rules seem silly. But by no means is it common. Many of my friends and customers regularly have plant material shipped to them here in CA. But we all fear the Florida agricultureal inspectors. > > > 3 acres of California-grown Bamboo, Palms, Cycads, Sansevierias, Exotics. Visit us at http://www.endangeredspecies.com or (714)544-9505.e-mail to nursery@endangeredspecies.com

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