Be wary of bringing your faux foliage with you!
Nov 5th 2018, 10:06 am
#1
Concierge
Thread Starter
Joined: Jan 2013
Location: Western Australia
Posts: 21,138
Be wary of bringing your faux foliage with you!
Bloody hell. Quarantine at Fremantle port inspected my shipping container today, and two of my artificial trees need to be either treated or destroyed. I had no idea that they contain real plant material - the branches of one and the moss around the other - they were advertised and bought as artificial. I feel pretty terrible about inadvertently shipping something that could be dangerous to Aussie flora, but luckily bloody good spotting by Quarantine!
Treat is $1,100, destroy $88. Bye bye plants, I really liked you but not that much!
Treat is $1,100, destroy $88. Bye bye plants, I really liked you but not that much!
Nov 5th 2018, 2:55 pm
#2
Lost in BE Cyberspace
Joined: Sep 2007
Location: Canberra
Posts: 8,378
Re: Be wary of bringing your faux foliage with you!
Bloody hell. Quarantine at Fremantle port inspected my shipping container today, and two of my artificial trees need to be either treated or destroyed. I had no idea that they contain real plant material - the branches of one and the moss around the other - they were advertised and bought as artificial. I feel pretty terrible about inadvertently shipping something that could be dangerous to Aussie flora, but luckily bloody good spotting by Quarantine!
Treat is $1,100, destroy $88. Bye bye plants, I really liked you but not that much!
Treat is $1,100, destroy $88. Bye bye plants, I really liked you but not that much!
Nov 6th 2018, 11:52 am
#3
Crazy Cat Lady
Joined: Apr 2004
Posts: 65,493
Re: Be wary of bringing your faux foliage with you!
Weird that they were sold as artificial. Good job you didn't have them as carry on on the plane. You'd have been on Border Security. 
