Re: Concern for us collectors(Please Read)

hello Connie,
    This one has been around for some time. It pops up ever 6 months or so in the
nursery trade magazine in one form or another.
    Yes it is "serious" and is not going to go away. What form it actually ends up
being is any one's guess.
    To a large degree this initiative is the results of a grass roots movement
that has been escalating for some years now. The conversation groups, native plant
societies. "Exotics" and "non-native invasives" are buzz words now. All of the
groups I belong to have one or two meetings a year on nothing but these subjects.
All the major gardening magazines have picked up on the subject as have the
newspapers. It is a hot button that gets fast interest and reaction.
    I have nothing against having my level of "enlightenment" raised a notch or
two on occasion, but this topic will continue to be mostly knee-jerk reactions for
some time. Like all movements, fads and forced enlightments it will go too far to
one extreme and then changes will begin to occur to correct the process.... mostly
after the button has worn out an no longer easily pushed.
    The U.S. is one hey of a big and very divers county. What is invasive in you
neck of the woods may or may not be invasive in my garden. We go through that one
all the time here on these gardening lists.
    If events happened exactly as the "whitepaper" envisions then I along with
most other small nurseries are out of business. I, however, do not think it will
end up that way. Will there be more legislation on import of plants? Probably.
Government is the worse offender and needs to clean its own house first.
    Gene Bush     Southern Indiana    Zone 6a     Munchkin Nursery
          around the woods - around the world
genebush@otherside.com     http://www.munchkinnursery.com
----- Original Message -----
From: connie hoy <coneh@USWEST.NET>
Subject: [SG] Concern for us collectors(Please Read)


> Hello to all.
> I am enclosing the following posts as it gives insite as to whats going
> on within the industry and what the various agencies have pending to
> regulate *anything* thought to be invasive..An exerpt states:
> "It's been reported at http://www.geocities.com/nowhitelist/whtlist.html
lots of snipping.....
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