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Growing Joy with Plants - Wellness Rooted in Nature, Houseplants, Gardening and Plant Care

Episode 80: Plant Laws and Patents

Growing Joy with Plants - Wellness Rooted in Nature, Houseplants, Gardening and Plant Care

Maria Failla- Happy Plant Lady and Author of Growing Joy: The Plant Lover's Guide to Cultivating Happiness

Education, Wellness, Gardening, Leisure, Eco Therapy, Nature Therapy, Self Care, Health & Fitness, Houseplants, How To, Home & Garden, Mental Health, Plants

4.8912 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2019

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

We have a variety of guests all sharing knowledge and stories about the laws around shipping and selling plants in the US

Transcript

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0:00.0

Okay, so here is the story about how I almost got put into planty jail.

0:04.0

So, apartment botanist was just a few months old and I was online shopping and experimenting with, you know, buying from here and there and everywhere and I was

0:14.4

particularly looking for this plant called the Deschidia numeralia hopefully I'm saying

0:19.7

that right it's a also known as the string of nickels or a button orchid.

0:24.0

Really pretty hanging plant with these cute little button round leaves.

0:28.0

And I couldn't find it anywhere and it was recommended to me to shop from this place on ETSE that was selling it

0:35.3

it had a listing for it so I went ahead I purchased it it came from South Korea and it came

0:39.2

within a week really really fast came the plant was beautiful and I thought from there all was well so a few

0:46.5

months later I started seeing on Instagram these posts pop out about people basically complaining that the USDA was coming over to

0:55.3

their house and taking their plant and it happened to of course be the same

0:59.7

plant that I had gotten and from the same place.

1:03.0

So I was like, oh shoot, I think that the USDA is going to come take my plant.

1:07.0

And I remember joking with my family at the time, like, hey guys, I think the government's going to come over and take my plant.

1:12.0

And they're like

1:12.8

stop it less like you're being so dramatic and I was like all right so then a few

1:17.6

weeks later my mom was over the apartment she was helping me clean being

1:21.6

really helpful and all of a sudden my front buzzer rings and I talked to my door man I'm like hey what's up and he's like so the

1:32.0

USDA is here and I was like wait who he was like the United States Department of

1:38.0

Agriculture I was like oh that USDA send them up.

1:43.0

So they come up and I kind of shout to my mom.

1:46.9

I was like, hey Ma, shut the vacuum off.

1:49.5

The government's here.

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