When I import live plants or bulbs, I carry them on. No chance then of them freezing in the baggage hold or going astray. Also, I clean them. Once I didn't - a nurseryman in Japan did it for me and handed them to me as I was enroute to Narita. When I was going to the inspector, I noticed there was still dirt on the roots, so I had to wash the roots in a sink in the Ladies'. Diane Whitehead