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Old 09-05-2005, 01:39 PM
Victoria Clare
 
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Default charity plant sales - plant licences?


I have got involved with a dog rescue organisation, and was thinking of
growing a few plants for a sale or ebaying to raise a little cash for them.
(I know it's a bit late this year, but I'm thinking about it now)

Now, most of the things I grow are tough little sods or they would not make
it through periods when I am not concentrating properly on gardening
(horror!)

In this category, I have an almost unkillable osteospermum, a specially
tough (it appears) sort of bizzy lizzy, a few random geraniums and
pelargoniums, the dratted ivyleaved toadflax, aquilegias, a creeping
campanula, convolvulus sabatius, loads of ferns, a couple of sorts of
strawberry, leycesteria formosa, not to mention the hawthorns and hollies
that scatter themselves annoyingly about in a prolific manner.

Now most of these things shlep around my garden making more of themselves
pretty much unaided. I have so much of them I often have to howk them out
and compost them. It seems like a good fundraising tactic to stick them in
pots instead and flog them at a fair or a car boot or something like that.

HOWEVER - I have no idea where I got many of these plants. Some of them
were found already at this house, others I took with me from previous
gardens I've owned or rented, or were given to me by their owners when I
admired them in passing.

But some of them *probably* at some point came from garden centres or
specialist growers and originally had those scary 'do not propagate from me
or we will despatch our winged monkeys of death' messages on them.

Is this a likely source of trouble? Would I be safer sticking to just
growing on seeds?

Victoria
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gardening on a north-facing hill
in South-East Cornwall
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