Re: seed collecting
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: seed collecting
- From: G* O*
- Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 07:12:39 -0400
Pat,
First, let me make it clear that I would NEVER take seeds from a nursery,
botanic garden or private garden without asking. But in your case described
below, I think worrying about it is making a real mountain out of a molehill.
If you really feel guilty about it, go ahead and ask. Or better yet, show
the plants to the land owner and see if he/she wants you to start some
plants for him/her! You're right; might make a great new friend.
Gerry
At 08:37 PM 7/5/00 -0500, you wrote:
>
>The farmland in my area is delineated by tree lines between fields. I
>have the owner's permission to walk there (in the perimeter), so I'm not
>trespassing. I see some lovely flowers, some I have no clue what they
>are, and they simply blow their seeds every year with no one to enjoy
>them. And a lot of my walking plots are for sale as commercial
>developments . . . I shudder to think what my ethical debate will be
>when the bull dozers move in . . . .
>
>I have yet to *do* anything about that *wasted* feeling, but have stood
>and looked and thought long and hard about simply shaking the seeds into
>my hand and walking home. I've also seen seed heads at the botanical
>gardens just blowing their seeds and the gardeners weeding out the
>seedlings the next spring . . . .it seems so wasteful! I can't imagine
>taking the seeds, but it seems like something better could be done (the
>Dutch thriftiness in me is showing, I guess.)
>
>
>I wouldn't even think of taking seeds at a private nursery or garden.
>I'm not fussy about walking up to a previously unknown neighbor and
>asking if I might have seeds of something I admire - I've made wonderful
>gardening friends that way! I'm gracious enough (I think) to take
>rejection well, and always offer what I can of my own stock to anyone
>who asks.
>
>
>Does that make my position clearer?
>--
>Pat
>pattm@execpc.com
>Zone 5 - SE WI
>
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