Re: Native Plant Rescue

**"* B* <g*@netsurfusa.net>**

Carlo
    We have a Dutchman's Pipe vine on my garden gate. That is native. We 
also have an non-native Dutchman's pipe vine that we have let run in the 
display rows in the nursery. Over the years the pipevine swallowtails will 
take the foreign vine back to the soil each summer while the native will 
have only a few eggs and some foliage damage where they have fed. This 
consistently happens each summer.
    I have heard absolute statements made about non-native and native 
plants, insect needs, and know they simply are not true. I was wondering 
what was being stated this time around. Carolyn's read of the book came 
across as a reasonable approach to education on the subject.
    Gene E. Bush
Munchkin Nursery & Gardens, llc
www.munchkinnursery.com
genebush@munchkinnursery.com
Zone 6/5  Southern Indiana

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <carlobal@netzero.net>
> Interesting Gene, isn't it? If insects can't eat alien plants, some people 
> might get the inference that aliens are what we should be growing to avoid 
> pest problems...
>
> I've just received the book and will have a review up on my website in the 
> next week or so...
> Carlo A. Balistrieri


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