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Old Jun 21, 2019, 4:10 am
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flatlander
 
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Surprisingly many countries allow import of cut flowers on a personal basis even if their agriculture requirement are otherwise harsh. For example the USA https://help.cbp.gov/app/answers/det...-united-states

Carrying them onto an aircraft is no problem, other than other passengers crushing them. Do be careful of placing a bunch of flowers on their side if there is any water-retaining material on the end of the stems, even one that claims to be nonsplillable. In my experience they tend to leak if not upright.

You can, on a shorter flight, take a window seat and put flowers by your knee between your leg and the fuselage. They usually survive that.

I bring flowers from Amsterdam to the UK every so often. The Netherlands has more interesting varieties of tulip flowers for sale than the UK does.
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