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Rusty Hinge 2 writes:
| The message
| from "Christina Websell" contains
| these words:
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| Some years ago now I sent some nigella seeds to my friend in
| Australia, as a
| friendly gesture so she could have love-in-a-mist in her garden.
| She blasted me about how it was not allowed. I had no idea it wasn't. She
| never planted them.
| What would be the possibility of these seeds I sent being a danger in
| Australia? What the **** would happen? It's an annual. It's not
| likely to threaten Australia, is it?
|
| Diseases might be introduced. Read up on cane toads and rabbits. They're
| not plants, true, but were introduced with the best intentions...

Also annuals can cause ecological harm, just as much as perennials,
especially in arid ecologies. And Australia is well-known for those!

| Look at Japanese knotweed here, and Oxford ragwort...

There isn't a serious problem with Oxford ragwort in the UK, despite
the nonsense talked about it. It causes trouble only in mismanaged
pasture, even to notoriously dim and delicate horses. One of the most
common forms of that is, of course, having paddocks dedicated to horses
without managing the pasture by frequent mowing or otherwise.

But the UK has a MUCH more resilient ecology than Australia, because
almost all of its flora and fauna are recent.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.