Re: My Garden Is On The Hit List For Eradication

Lee Ann Reiners wrote:
> 
> But do the rights of the individual override our rights to have a
> balanced environment?  Here in Pennsylvania Purple Loosestrife
> is a noxious weed.  It has taken over many wetlands, choking
> out native species and ruining the biodiversity of ecosystems.
> One of the reasons it became such a pest is because its seeds
> escaped from gardens.
> 
> Do you really want to spend thousands of dollars to help encourage
> the death of an ecosystem?
> 
> Lee Ann Reiners
> 
> ----------
> > From: DScha62861 <DScha62861@aol.com>
> > To: perennials@mallorn.com
> > Subject: Re: My Garden Is On The Hit List For Eradication
> > Date: Wednesday, May 13, 1998 5:05 PM
> >
> > Ok , but is  it harmful??  I would want definite, verifiable proof.
> >
> > And I have fought the state, county and IRS -- when I felt it is
> something
> > important to me --- yes it did cost --- and I won in every case!!!!
> Because
> > in most of these cases they reacted without reason or before they knew
> what
> > was what.
> >
> > Deb
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Having just received my National Gardener Magazine, a bonus for
membership in the American Horticultural Society, there is quite an
extensive article on the loniceras that were brought into the states
which have become invasive weeds, choking out native flora.  I have
never seen these particular honeysuckles offered commercially, and don't
sell them, either.  But one person in the article was mentioned having
grown one listed as banned, which really proved to be quite safe, and
how they managed to save it (I think).
It really was an excellent article, striving to point out, also, that
many people whose job it is to eradicate, don't know the how or why of
botany and that you can successfully argue the point.
-- 
The Greenhouse Nursery
81 S. Bagley Creek Road & Hwy 101
Port Angeles, WA  98362
(360) 417-2664
Zone 8
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