Re: Psued has been banned (in New Hampshire)

 "John, Sue, & Brianna Foster" <fostesky@adelphia.net> wrote:

>>>As of 6/01/04 Iris psuedocorus has joined the ranks of
invasive plants in the state of NH. No growing, selling,
transporting or cultivating of it.

http://agriculture.nh.gov/pdf/topics/list_of_invasive_species.pdf
http://agriculture.nh.gov/topics/plants_insects.htm    <<<

Hi Sue and all,

I also live in New Hampshire (in New England - northeast United
States). I include this geographical information for out-of-U.S.
folks on this list. 

Some disturbing  background on the invasive plant listing in New
Hampshire. About three years ago, my husband and I attended a
training session for volunteers to 'map' the state of New
Hampshire state and federal lands - mainly the hard-to-reach
forests of the White Mountains where we live. 

Our 'job' was to recognize and chart certain areas where the
invasives were to be found and I guess the feds and others would
try to eliminate them. Anyway,  during our training, the class
hiked out to an area and
did some charting and then returned to the classroom. 

In this area we scoured there were NO Iris pseudoracorus but
plenty of our wonderful native Iris versicolor which delighted
me. However, the other 10 or so other people and the INSTRUCTOR
had charted those wild stands as Iris  pseudoracorus to be
destroyed!

I tried to explain that not all iris in New Hampshire
(especially in the Northern White Mountains) are not invasive
plants. Iris pseudoracorus, I think, is more of a problem in
USDA Zones 4 - 6 and we were in Zone 3. 
It had absolutely no effect  since an iris is an iris to these
people or so it seemed.

The Iris versicolor remained on the banned listings for that
area. I refused to go back for the next training and I wrote a
letter to the state and never heard back.

The list is over-reaching and impossible to enforce in any
meaningful way...but it is the New Hampshire way = use
ill-trained volunteers to save a buck. 

**If they can tell ua how to eliminate Polygonum cuspidatum
(commonly known as Japanese knotweed) from our garden (it was on
our property when we bought it), we would appreciate it. My
husband has written to the state and also the  New Hampshire
extension service and the solutions they gave us didn't work. We
even tried chemicals to no avail and we do not use chemcials in
our garden. 

Ellen (Iris pseud. can be very well controlled in gardens as we
all know)











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Ellen Gallagher

The Society for Siberian Irises:  http://www.socsib.org
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