John Nolan writes
In article , "suspicious minds"
wrote:
You only have to prove that they are not wild if you wanted to sell them
or

any part of them etc

It used to be that you were innocent until proved guilty. The reverse seems
to be increasingly the case. How on earth can you prove that particular
picked stems are not wild, if they are identical to the wild, without
considerable effort and, perhaps, expense ?

Suppose I were to gather some seed from the wild, and replant it in my
garden ?


Is that an offence, even when. spreading it around, will increase
its chance of survival ?

Except for a few plants, which you'd be unlikely to come across, there's
no restriction on gathering seeds. It's uprooting the plants that you're
not allowed to do.

I can see that this is another item that Blair's thought police will require
when you try to sell your house (and garden) !

Unlikely. Most of the schedule 8 plants are things that would only be of
interest to a botanist. The ones that are commercially available are
widely so, and the chances of finding them growing wild in a garden
setting is remote (if it were otherwise, they wouldn't be on Schedule
8).
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Kay