Quote from: DNotes on November 08, 2015, 09:22:04 PM

Quote from: TeeGee on November 08, 2015, 02:17:47 PM

Are international shipments a thing for daylilies? I figure it would come down to the country they're being sent to, but I have a strange thought that customs here would consider a plant a 'biohazard'? - like what if it had a spider on it or... something...snake? (we don't have any snakes or dangerous spiders or anything in NZ).

We used to do international shipping, if the customer would pay the additional fees for inspection and customs. We would still have issues where it would get delayed so long they would be dead by the time they reached their destination, or even in some cases destroyed. As a whole, it turned into a losing proposition.

The regulations for shipping plant material are very strict. A member of the state regulations must be present when shipping any international shipment. He must count and look at each and every plant for which all dirt and debris must be removed. Some countries require they be dusted and your counts must be exact for each box as each box has paperwork that must match what is in the box. Very very time consuming for us and the state inspector. So no there is no way that spiders, snakes, bugs etc can go through as the state inspector looked for all of that.