I brought all these plants home on a plane! Here's how ✈️ 🌿
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- What's a gardener to do when you want to bring plants home from a trip with you? Well, you jettison your clothes to the checked baggage and bring those plant babies in your carry-on. Here's how I do it.
My name is Erin and I love sharing inspiration and information with real-life gardeners. I live and garden in southeastern Wisconsin, zone 5b.
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Shout out to my mom for holding the camera for this one. I didn't really intend to make a video while I was there so I didn't bring a tripod. :)
Yay, Mom!!!!
Great job MOM, I hope you enjoyed the Florida sun too. Erin is your best ray of sunshine and mine too! I bet you are a great newfoundland grandma too!
Thank you mom
Mom to the rescue 😁
If you hadn't told us, I wouldn't have known. Well done!
My husband just told me to not get any ideas. He said, "She's not talking to you." 😂
🤣🤣🤣 Tell him I’m definitely not. 😉
I never would have thought that TSA would allow you to fly with plants! Good to know!
*adds plant shopping to my vacay itinerary 😂
No kidding!
Lol! Girl! You had me rolling 😂😂😂 I completely feel your determination ❤ You know you are a TRUE gardener when you are willing to load them in a suitcase and fly them home! Now I don't feel so bad when my teen daughter's shame me for buying another plant by asking "Mom! Where are you going to put it"?! ...somehow I always find a spot in my little garden on the Southside of Tucson, AZ ! 😂😂😂
This is the best video! I joke about bringing plants home from vacation. My husband will be thrilled! 🤣
Tell me you're an obsessed gardener without telling me you're an obsessed gardener. MUST have all the plants!
We should buy more plants, there's room in the suitcase! Made me laugh out loud! 😂❤😅
this was next level plant witchcraft and I am so impressed!!!
I've brought live plants home via carry on (paper grocery bag). But I wasn't brave enough to pack them up like that. Now I can get several more! Thanks for showing us how!!
Who knew? Not me, but now that I do.... ❤ Thanks Erin (and Erin's mom) for taking time to fill us in. ❤
That was impressive packing. I hope everything does well!
I do this every time I visit my mom😊
Plants are always my souvenir from vacations! 😅 Glad all your beautiful plants made it home safe and sound.
Erin, I love you. You are the funniest and the best.
I saw that wink…stinker! 😉
I’m another one whose mind you just blew. I had no idea this could be done. ✈️ 🪴 Awesome tips!!
That fern is cool looking. Looking forward to seeing how you work these into your garden.
LOL!!!!!!! You're killing me here!
I was amazed as I watched you put those plants in the suitcase. This is genius! I will give it a try.
This is so cool! I never would have thought to bring back plants from vacation. Hope the planting after you got home wasn’t too laborious.
the towel comment ...the wink 😂 thanks for the laugh Erin. Great idea to buy the plants down there
Brilliant!! I knew you of all people would figure out how to bring tropical plants back to Wisconsin!! 😂
Yup, only a gardener would throw their stuff to the mercies of the cargo hold to carry plants onto the plane. You go, girl!
I’ve brought plants home in my carryon for years. Never had a problem.
You always have great videos and this one was extra fun!
I brought a little tiny pine seedling from Traverse City Michigan to Northern Indiana by car. I nurtured and cared for it and it was pronounced dead after 3 months. YOU bring plants from one end of the country to the other, on a plane! and they look like they all have smiles on their cute little leaf faces. Hmmm.... Travel plans may need to be changed now.
I'm in the TX Gulf Coast area (subtropical), and I grow firecracker fern. It is one of my favorites! The hotter it gets, the more it thrives! Doesn't require much water, either. It is truly a FULL sun plant, even in my far south region. I've also grown the gold Duranta, but it kept getting too big for the space I wanted it and it started getting super thorny (which I didn't know it did when it starts maturing). Best wishes with your new plant babies!
Good to know! I had no idea you could transport plants that way in the US! Can’t wait for my next trip to LA:)
What an excellent video. Thank you so much.
Where there's a will there's a way.!!! Go Erin!!
Where there’s a will there’s a way!
Hooray that all of the plants made it home alive! What fun!
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It was such fun to watch your video. I'm doing this for years now every time I coming from Spain. My handluggage is packed with cacti and succulents. Never had a problem with the airportcontrole in Spain and Belgium where I live. 👍👍
As a Floridian I feel surprised or almost flattered that you would want our boring (to me) tropical plants, when I usually watch your channel to dream of having plants I can't have. 😉
We always want what we can’t have. 😀
I love the will that finds a way🎉
Hey Erin, this is a very timely video and thanks for it. My husband and I are in Gulf Shores right now. Girl, I’m taking plants home in my car!!! Woohoo! Ohio here we come🥰
I’m continuously impressed by your creativity. I never would have thought to do this.
Well dang, I was just in Naples and didn’t even consider this as an option! Will be definitely be doing this on future vacations
You make bringing plants back an art
Erin,
Very cool--thank you! 😊
I m flying from Atlanta to Michigan with 2 very large plants. Your video was the most helpful of any that I’ve seen. I’d already planed to put them in my suitcase but your instructions were thorough and to the point. Thank you🍁🍂🌼🎋
Great idea!🤔
Erin, a great video I can totally relate. I winter in FL and bring plants back to MN along with pre sprouting elephant ears. On your next visit check out Bonita Bromeliads Nursery variety is endless. 😂
This video came out one week to late for me...was just in Florida and went to a huge street fair; the "rare" houseplants were so affordable! I saw that wink...lol!
lol I do the same thing…I live in Canada. So taking most of the soil off the plants and rolling them up in wet newspaper for the 4 hour flight. I WISH I could bring plants home from the US😢
Love this! I have brought succulent cuttings and bromeliad from my sisters garden in California, but never big plants. Wow, great packing!
I flew with plants without containers in carry-ons a couple of times but never took the dirt out. I let the Security folks know before scanning. Putting the plants in cardboard boxes and locking the plants in a position that will better protect the leaves.
Fun! I found one of the firecracker plants last year at Lammscapes….but it was SUPER tiny. It took forever to do anything, no flowers for me. Please update us on how that one does for you! It does have a really neat texture to add to containers.
Not that I needed another reason to enjoy your channel but I LOVE this one!! Of course I’ll totally deny this comment, claiming someone hacked my account if the hubs sees this 😂 Can’t have him checking my bags next trip 😜
Love this! Love Florida especially Naples ❤❤❤❤ heading there in 13 days 🌴🌴🌴🌴😎
Great information, thanks😊
oh yes, plants on the deck at a vacation cottage. but I was driving so they were more and larger than yours.. BTW Fine Gardening had an article on trees and they featured Aralia variegata and listed Forest Farm as a source
😮 no words….
You are one of a kind!
So interesting, didn't know you could do that... you're my kind of gal...❣️
That's so cool. My cousin lives in Cape Coral and we usually stop at this place that has Bromiliads and orchids. I usually bought small plastic storage tubs and put them inside and threw rubber bands around the lids. Then tossed in carryon. We are driving down to NC in a week and plan on stopping in at Creekside Gardens then on to Florida. I have to pack light so I have room for plants. My cousin has ginger she was happy to dig out for me and plumeria hopefully they made it thru the winter as they are dormant now. Love your video. Your mom did a greatbjob filming
Hey Erin! I’m in the Chicago area and have bromeliads I bring out onto my porch in the summer and then inside to grow as houseplants during the winter and back out again 😊 I just want to warn against watering them inside their cups while indoors. Without wind and heat and the bright sun, the water will be stagnant and the cups will get mushy and slimy and your beautiful plants will likely die. Just bottom water them or you can water directly onto the soil until it’s nice enough to have them outdoors. Beautiful selection! Enjoy!
Oh excellent tip! Thank you!
I was so nervous I didn’t think they were gonna fit. They did turn out nice great info. What a great idea to make a reason to travel just shop for plants❤😊
This is a brilliant idea!! 😊
Oh my goodness you are in my neighborhood💕💕💕 wish I had known you were there💕💕 I love your show.
Have you made it to Selby Gardens in Sarasota area? The bromeliads are amazing there!
Whoa how awwsome to bring plants home from a trip! Hope they do well for you!
Great job loading up your suitcase, with plants. Thanks for sharing. 👍❤️🙂
That was an amazing pack up! Plants looked great upon arrival home.
Wow, ingenious! Thanks for sharing this tip~ never thought of it and didn’t think possible, now I know. Thanks again. Enjoy them.
One week you're a doctor the next week you're an importer. Hope you enjoyed the warm FL sun, I'm in northern ID - same zone as you wishing I was somewhere warm.
Dang it! Why hadn’t I seen this before I returned from Naples Florida on March 7th???? I’d love to try my hand at Bromeliads in my zone 6b Mid Missouri Garden. I will definitely do this next year on my annual visit. Thanks so much for showing and telling.
Went oversees with a group and one girl brought herbs in her suitcase which when we landed in NY the police dog immediately found her out 😂
Honestly, this is a question I have had and did not know who to ask! Thank you for sharing this with us. The best part was when you used the two suitcase straps to protect them in place. Made me smile. I never use those straps! Now I know why they are there (For plants!)😂
I believe that was your towel. Wink, wink! 😜
New Snowbird here. I went to Driftwood for the first time to get plants for my new Christmas pots. Since I'm driving back to Chgo burbs this year, I've got room for plants. I was considering bringing the Diplidemia (?), Sun Patience, gray trailing plant, and new house plants home with me. I may need to go back to Driftwood for more. Feeling encouraged when I fly in 2025, I can pack a few. Many thanks!
Been there, done that ✅! I live in the Deep South and I went home (Ohio) around Mother’s Day one year and I saw all the beautiful coleus they had out at a nursery. I purchased them and snuck them in my suitcase that I checked in on my way back to Louisiana. I secured them in a shoe box since they were fairly young and in a six pack container. My daughter thought I was crazy 😜 and a friend of mines thought i was Breaking laws.
I did not want to chance going through tsa with them and I did not want them going through them like I was smuggling drugs. So now that We know………Gardners will be holding up the tsa line with our new babies 🌱 🪴 🌺. Thanks for Sharing!
I travel with a hotel towel too 😉
:)
Loved the rendition of dire strait’s beryl…. I think
Oh Erin, Florida vacation and plant fever. Hey I ordered my plants from Jung today, living in zone 4 WI I have a little longer wait then you. At least they will keep my plants safe while I wait!!!!
You are so irrepressible!
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Plant Jenga!😂😂😂
Excellent description!
Definitely worth it for domestic flights! Tropicals are so much cheaper in Florida
This was such a great video. Trying to decide where I want to fly to and which carryon bag!
Definitely not the time for compression packing cubes but heavens, that towel from home...! We'll be bringing another plumeria cutting from up the road in Venice but we're driving so no one cares if it looks like a lethal club. Hope you had some great sailing!
Fun video!!! Im going to England next week would be fun to try this!
The Malachi Crunch!!!! Haven't heard that phrase in a long time. Nice Happy Days reference!!
Firecracker plant is kinda a weed in HI! There’s huge ones in my FIL’s neighborhood !
Lol, what was that sly grin when using a towel "from home"?! 😅
Who me?
Literally laughed out loud at the wink! 😅
Great video! I have always wanted to try this, thanks for this information.
I love that blue fern!
I've done this but in checked baggage. Plants have survived.
Good to know. I read that cargo holds are generally 20-30 degrees colder than the temperature in the cabin, so that would certainly be fine for a lot of plants. I was a little worried about tropicals though.
nice! 🪴✈
So cool!❤
I bet TSA called you the crazy plant lady!
Not a single for comment from them. I was a bit disappointed.
@@TheImpatientGardenerI’m surprised they didn’t want to unpack them to see if you were smuggling anything in them. Now I want to try bromeliads too. Maybe I should take a trip to Florida to buy some cheap! LOL
@@fransak2723 Seems like a good excuse for a trip to Florida to me. 😀
This was a real nail biter of an episode!
Brilliant👏👏👏👏
I would never have believed it.
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I like the way you think! I saw masses of that glorious rusellia thingy growing in the Dominican Republic last week - so beautiful. I am eager to see how it performs for you. Sadly, the only thing I brought home from vacation was a bottle of rum. 😂
You rock! I absolutely love and totally appreciate your kind of sarcasm, so I am cracking up!! Very well thought out process and such a great idea!! I am a 46 year old snowbird (3rd winter in Florida) from northern lower Michigan. I have plants that I want to take back to freezingasscold home. In a very short 3-4 weeks left of my almost 6 months here, but didn’t know howthehell I was going to do it with the 2 day drive. Now I know!! And special tip of you are ever in the area just over the skyway bridge from St Pete, is the local jail and they sell the cheapest and best plants!! My husband went for me because I didn’t know what that was all about just yet. The inmates grow them, a deputy sheriff sells them. We now have a beautiful agave, a 2.5’ traditional 3 arm cactus, a big Christmas cactus, another landscape size succulent with no identification, and 4 poinsettias for $23!! You can imagine my sheer joy when hubby came home!!
Pulmairia is a weapon! 😮
This is very much your brand; the kind of video that makes me crack up 🤣. This has vibes of Tarantino's Jackie Brown, and you should've added some music, a sound track to take it up a notch. Pam Grier (playing Jackie Brown) is awesome, of course. But when it comes to who's gonna play you in the upcoming Hollywood movie (after the memoir that you need to write) I had in mind Kathleen Turner circa 1985. And they can now get her to look that young, etc, with AI, right? I mean, completely fabricated by computers, even dead actors; scary what they're gonna be doing. But for Kathleen Turner playing you, it's all worth it.
I would kindly caution folks to make sure it is legal to transport plants into your home state. I would be hauled off in handcuffs if I dared transport any plants from Florida into California. Well, that may be an exaggeration but the plants would definitely be confiscated and destroyed. When I spoke to the ag department I can totally understand as the insects that harbor in the soil are devastating to crops here. Especially to the citrus growers. One pest that I haven't seen here yet and don't want to is Japanese Beetles and they are one listed that can be in the soil of plants from other states.
We made the mistake of plant shopping day 1 of a 2wk fly & drive trip to CA. Had to bring them into motel rooms, store by the windows, keep watered and uncooked in the car between hotel stops. But yes DO bring home plants from your US vacations. Not international trips.
Can any of these started by seeds way ahead of time?
I’m sure the firecracker plant could be.