I found your email addy and have sent you an email - thanks!

Michelle, Thank you. It did come thru on the new E-mail. Hopefully it was just a problem with AOL not accepting them, but they were not in the "spam folder" so I was not sure. Gerry

You can also make your e-mail visible... then anytime you post, it would show up in your "posted by" line... like: Posted by brazosvalleygardener TX Zone 8 (JWS@brazovalley.com) on Tue, Jul 3, 07 at 9:43 ...but the e-mail address will be clickable--this way anyone can contact you thru their e-mail client program in case thru GW doesn't work... but you're wide-open to receiving more spam that way.

It is my understanding that the daylily rust was brought in by the nursery trade, in a situation where quarantine was (inadvertently or otherwise) not exercised properly. Bringing seeds in is more of a worry if the seed is a weed species, or if the seed itself is dirty - contaminated by bacterial or insect pests. There are very few diseases that will be brought in with clean seed. Importing plants is a much higher disease risk. I agree though, that we should not encourage those people who might be trying to avoid the normal, legal methods of plant importation.... just because they want a particular plant. Re importing stuff in containers - we bought slate in castlemaine, that had been imported from india. The crates are supposed to be inspected before leaving india, but the crate previous to ours contained live lizards (hitchhikers) and when we finally got our slate, there was a dirty knife in the crate all the way from india. They are truly slack, and it is amazing that we don't have far more problems that we do.