suspicious minds writes

. It is an interesting point. Are you alowed to
"weed"
weeds in your own garden if the plant is technically protected
elsewhere?

I think it's a case of keeping things in proportion: if a rare orchid
springs up in your private field, as happened to one cricket club, you
have to protect it, and would presumably want to. Otherwise, Old Mother
Common Sense rules: gardening is gardening, and weeding isn't illegal.

You are not allowed to pick, uproot or destroy any wild plant listed in
Schedule 8 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 even if it is on your
own land! You can of course with do what you like with any other wild plant
on your land with the exception of bluebells which can't be sold.


Wow! That's the heck of a list!
http://www.naturenet.net/law/sched8.html
What's the position with things like pennyroyal which are commercially
available and that you may have planted in the first place?
--
Kay