Mike Lyle wrote:
:: Phil L wrote:
::: Nick Maclaren wrote:
::::: In article ,
::::: Sue Begg writes:
:::::::
::::::: I would have thought that if they were spreading by seeding
::::::: then they would have possibly crossed with something else and
::::::: would no longer be pure to the 'protected' variety
:::::
::::: It doesn't matter what a gardener, biologist or other semi-sane
::::: person thinks; what matters is what the bureaucrats and lawyers
::::: think.
:::
::: God forbid anyone should take any notice of them!....I noticed a
::: capital P on a label stuck in some lobelia seedlings in the
::: supermarket the other day...the P is for protection! - it's just
::: another 'jobs for the boys' ruling
::
:: Well...but I hope you don't want plant breeding and selection to
:: stop altogether because it doesn't pay. That "job for the boys" is
:: somebody's by no means risk-free living, and is very likely the
:: result of years of experience and training.

So?
My dad was a painter and decorator but he didn't pay the government to pass
a law stating that all DIY decorating should be banned.

::
::: like the ones where it's now
::: illegal to replce a lightswitch in your house, or replace a pane
::: of glass.
::
:: It is? OK, Officer, I surrender: you no doubt have a copy of the
:: law for me or my representative to read. I smell straight bananas,
:: wrapped (unhygienically and so perhaps illegally) in discarded
:: pages of the Daily Mail.

You have to be a qualified electrician to do electrical work and be a member
of 'FENSA' to replace glass...it's going the same way as plumbing....it's
all safety and who can argue against that? - maybe decorators *will* get a
law passed, based on the stupidity of the average person who thinks he can
reach 'if I just stand on this box....'

::
::: - To the OP, do what you want, unless you are doing it on a grand
::: scale (anything larger than supplying a couple of greengrocers for
::: example) you won't get your collar felt.
::
:: That at least is almost right. Nobody's going to hassle you for a
:: few plants from seed sold for a registered charity or even maybe a
:: bit of beer money; flog rooted cuttings to a High-Street shop, and
:: I begin to lose sympathy.

Why? - if I've had fuchsias growing for the past 20 years and decide to flog
12 dozen cuttings to the corner shop, what harm has been done? - his regular
supplier has lost a few quid?


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