In article , "shannie" writes:
| Walking among the fields today a few miles from home I came upon two
| planning notices for houses on posts outside two different fields. Whilst
| walking through these fields I noticed many many primroses naturalised in
| the ditches. I know it's illegal to remove them, but when the diggers move
| in they will be destroyed. If I aquired the owners permission would it be
| legal for me to remove them and put them inside and outside in my own
| ditches. My gardens are surrounded on all sides by blackberry ditches and
| there are some there already low down among the ferns. I love to see these
| wonderful spring flowers in the wild and hate the idea of the diggers moving
| in and mowing them down.

It's legal with the landowner's permission and until recently without.
One of the unspeakable legislation changes of recent years has been
to make wild plants effectively property, in the same way that wild
animals were by that Norman land reiver.

Don't don't get caught by some offensively bureaucratic dog in the
manger.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.