I ran into similar problems living in CA.
Good luck with your new place!
When I lived in Newport Beach back in the day I rented a house that had an apricot tree.
The apricots tasted like candy—incredible.
Do what you need to do—but get some!
It’s because they don’t want to aciddent import various blights and diseases that could wipe out the local orchards.
TBH, you should get trees from a local nursery. They may cost more but they’ll be better adapted to the local weather/climate and have a better survival rate.
The American Chestnut forest was destroyed by a blight that was imported on Japanese chestnuts.
They are desperately trying to hybridize or GMO a resistant American Chestnut.
www.tacf.org
Drive into Nevada and buy the trees rent a U-Haul truck to bring them home!! I work at Home Depot part time landscapers are driving into Arizona to buy gas powered landscaping tools because they can not get them on line delivered to Ca. California has become a complete disaster!! I moved from the coast to Palm Desert it was like moving to a different state SANITY!! Newscum is worried about crap like this instead of his whole state burning to the ground!! Landscapers trying to work ALL DAY with battery operated tools is INSANE!! These battery operated tools are damned expensive and the run time is not enough to finish ONE DAMN HOUSE!!! Go get your trees AND you will feel great giving Newscum the middle finger by doing it!!
The same reason they have fruit and vegetable check points entering California, it is a huge agricultural state and they don’t like the risk.
Are you sure it’s not a pest control issue with the fruit trees? It’s serious, that’s why there’s checkpoints out in the desert on the way into California too. Bad stuff coming in on fruit can kill lots of our trees here, so...
I did Nazi this coming from Governor Mousselini and his Fascist minions...
Note to Kevin in California:
They own you, no matter where you go if it is controlled by the Blue Genies who are meanies to all. But at least you may not be in a 15 minute city, for now at any rate. 🤣
If you had moved to Louisiana you could have had a bigger house on 15 acres, while saving 50% of your, and you could have planted all of those trees you wanted also. 🤣
If you mostly want to cover and fill a bare patch of land, and are not too picky about aesthetics, Bamboo can be hardy and very useful.
Send to a friend in a nearby state and go pick up.
I had a similar problem looking to buy 20 additional 30-round mags for several of the family’s long guns...
Everything was fine until, at the online checkout, I was notified that MD says “no”...
So, I had to drive across a state line to get those particular Christmas presents for the grandkids and great-grandkids...
This one is not BS. California has to date successfully avoided several common agricultural pests by tightly controlling imports.
The easy thing to do is to find the nearest place in maybe Nevada or Arizona (or Oregon if you’re that far north) which might have them and purchase them in person, then rent a large vehicle and drive them home.
I doubt the staties and county mounties are looking for agricultural products on the highways.
You moved from one place in Cali to another place in Cali and somehow thought it would be different? I think I see the problem.
We used to pick peaches in Palmdale. But that was forty years ago. I don’t know if any orchards remain. You could probably get some cuttings there.
Welcome to California—that’s just the start of it!
Know your state.... Moving within the state doesn’t change state laws. California is a shxthole run by azzholes so this should be no surprise.