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We are also in the same quandary not knowing what to do about the great number of trees and plants we have during our upcoming move from California to Kentucky.
Unless you're prepared to incur a significant amount of time, labor, fees and unplanned inspections, you're best best is leave them in California.
Many states now have strict regulations regarding the transit of plants and animals by licensed household goods carriers. Most will refuse to accept them.
Ever since the Oklahoma City bombing and 911, some states now require all rental trucks over a certain weight limit stop at their port-of-entry regardless of whether or not the vehicle is being used for personal or for-hire transit. There's usually dumpsters at the scales in Arizona and California that are full of uninspected plants or illegal contraband.
We are also in the same quandary not knowing what to do about the great number of trees and plants we have during our upcoming move from California to Kentucky. We have pine trees and maple trees, as well as a lovely ficus, as well as other plants and trees. We hate to give them up and don't appreciate the fact that prospective buyers thus far have been very stingy on their offers. We thought about renting a refigerated moving truck to haul these trees and plants across the country but am afraid of having to deal with inspection across state liines such as crossing into Arizona and other states along the way. Anyone with any good suggestions would be greatly apprecated.
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Just make sure that the buyers know and it sates in contract that the trees and others are coming with the house. Otherwsie you can be sued for removing them.They have a right to know what isn;t include that is seen.
We have a ficus tree that dh has had for over 30 years. He bought it from a road side vendor in a 1 pound coffee can while he was in college. It is now huge, well over 14 ft tall. We have moved it more times than I can count. We have bought homes, because they had ceilings tall enough for the tree. This last move, we finally just built a greenhouse for it. DH has has huge plant collection. Everytime we have moved, we have rented the largest uhaul or Penske truck we can find, and completely filled it with his plants. We have never had any trouble with plants not doing well. About the longest we've kept them in the truck was about 3 days.
We have never moved anywhere where we had to have the truck inspected, and we have had movers volunteer to take the tree for us, but we have never trusted anyone else to touch it.
At one time dh was considering taking a job overseas. His biggest concern was what he would do with his tree.
thanks everyone i'm helping my 10 yr old with a research project about what it would take to move a maple tree across country. its a combined science and social studies project.He is also supposed to find out the costs involved. lol any thought? since he is under coppa age i'm helping with asking questions online and he's doing the other research about climate and things for this crazy project.
First step is to contact the United States Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and make sure you can legally move it. USDA APHIS | Imports & Exports
Some folks who move plants interstate illegally find themselves responsible for a heap of fines .... and their uncertified or uninspected plants in a dumpster heading for an incinerator.
Where we live the schools are teaching about the often illogical and/or unwise aesthetic decisions that our ancestors made by allowing invasive species of foreign plant and animal life to be introduced to the region.
Russian zebra mussels are threatening the freshwater of the Great Lakes, Asian Carp are destroying wild life in the Mississippi River, and Southeast Asian Kudzu is choking the natural Floria and Fauna all around the U.S.
Just because you can move a maple tree doesn't mean you should. Perhaps it's a unique approach to a combined elementary school science and social studies project.
I thought that the only limitations for moving plants were coming into CA or out of Hawaii. The import/export rules noted elsewhere in the posts relate to bringing plants into or out of the US from a foreign country.
And other states have interstate requirements?
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