Re: Planting something more appropriate

About coconuts, theres a good example of a very good "weed" in regions
it can grow in, such as the tropics. Most of the coconut trees ive
heard, in many of the pacific islands got there by way of humans.
Although many got there by currents. I heard theyr'e native to
somewhere in the Malaysian area. But its a highly useful plant and
generally colonizes beaches mostly. Sort of what would the chinese have
done without bamboo, what would polynesians have done without the
coconut.
	Indigenous plants are extremely important to their environments. Not
to mention many are beautiful. Many of the beach plants native to this
area are quite beautiful in bloom (Such as sand verbena, and beach
morning glory, and bush lupine), some are edible like wild strawberries
and some  are important to certian species of fauna, such as the beach
buckwheat is to the endangered smiths blue butterfly (whose larvae only
eat this one plant). I remember seeing how wonderful and beautiful the
local dunes look when cleared of all the ice plant that chokes out the
indigenous plants. Many of the dudleyas became visible, the various
ground hugging perrenials that flower throughout the year, and many of
the shrubs one again began to flourish without the iceplant choking
them out (two beautiful beaches in this area with the dunes restored is
Seaside State beach, and Marina state beach).

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