Hmmm, never noticed the Brian thing. :)
Pots for lilies... I always plant them out in the garden. You'd say with the drought we had last year I;d start planting all in pots to control water. Wrong... I only go to my garden about 2-3 times a week and Saturdays... and well, in pots, in the heat... they would DRY up.
About sending stuff, yes I mainly trade seeds but occasional roots, corms, bulbils may happen :)
I only had an incident when some lily bulbils I mailed to Canada got confiscated... I think I left some dirt on them (didn't clean properly) but most attempts are successful.
And receiving is not really a problem. if envelopes/packages come from outside the EU they all go to a post office with a customs officer but the small ones go ignored. Sometimes they may ask "What's inside?" but it's OK. I always give an ellusive (spelling?) answer like "I don't know, I think my mom received something from a friend" ...but I realized even an answer like "Some seeds, plants" doesn't lift eyebrows.
