I have noticed a few people mentioned buying seeds from China. I was wondering if imported seeds can spread or introduce plant diseases into this country.
I was,also wondering about people who take cuttings / collect seeds while on holiday.
In London. Keen but lazy.
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Everything is so much quicker now. The early plant hunters probably took months to get home. Long enough to spot and eliminate problems.
Try not to take it personally aym. Idiotic decisions are made and we all know it. No individual, plant hunter or otherwise, has been accused of anything
In the sticks near Peterborough
I think that bringing a plant into the country without quarantine is the gardening equivalent of smuggling a potentially rabid puppy in your hand luggage.
dutch elm came in with a shipment of bananas .
Is anyone advocating the banning of all imported fruit and veg?
What about imported fabrics , wood, leather etc? All can carry pathogens.
A friend of mine was stopped entering New Zealand and had a necklace confiscated as the beads were made of wood. I know someone else who was stopped crossing from one Australian state into another because she had a banana skin in her bag.
We have to draw the line somewhere.
Very much sitting on the fence. I don't have any answers, but I don't trust China one bit.
The risk from plants seems obvious, but is it the same for seeds?
or fruit and veg?
Could've done without the darned rhododendron
or knotweed 
The EU has very strict controls of what can be brought into the zone but from EU to the UK it's pretty much a free-for-all. If we leave EU god only knows what would happen - I think we'd have to hugely expand the government Border Force and hire lots and lots of inspectors at ports and airports.
Few pathogens infect seeds so fewer restrictions apply.
all of them Jinxy? really?
Back on the fence for me.
All of those that have spread and spread and spread into the wild Hostafan