Re: gardening giggle

**A*@aol.com**

Agreed, Private individuals should be almost totally free to plant whatever 
they wish on their own property.  I personally suspect that very few 
individuals would care to grow a tree solely in order to use its leaves in 
dried arrangements.  However, it seems that a density of specimens is 
necessary is needed to have any species become invasive.  I suspect that if 
Norway Maple had not been almost the only street tree on the eastern 
seaboard, that we would not have been screaming "it's invasive" in 1982.  
Norway maple also does not seem to be able to get into healthy natural 
forests.  However the square footage of natural forests in the US is not huge 
and we might want to not have several exotic species all barging in at once.

Barbara
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