Seed import to US via airport

[Emil]

I'm going to the Chelsea Flower Show later this month, as well as visiting a lot of British and Dutch gardens and a few nurseries. I anticipate wanting to bring some seed packets back to the US. Cyclamens and such. Or is there some legal allowance for this? Should I just put them in packed luggage and hope for the best? It seems the small lot import permit is for seed that will go through a processing facility as opposed to being brought through customs with the purchaser. 

Thanks for your help!

[janemcgary]

After all that walking you will have some dirty socks. Seed in socks, socks rolled up in a ball. Has not failed the writer.

[Diane Whitehead]

Dirty socks may mask the smell of seeds.

Canadians are allowed to import most seeds.  Once when I was coming home with dozens of packets I had bought, and declared,  a sniffer dog in the airport came up and sat beside my suitcase till I had pulled every packet out to show the inspector.