In article , Nick Maclaren
writes

In article ,
(Neil Jones) writes:
|
| 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.
|
| Yes that's fine. It would be just as if you bought them at a nursery.
| Getting plants to grow successfully in wild locations is complicated.
| Ecology is very complicated. There is a paper in the scientific
| journal Nature this week that talks about the bugs in the soil
| affecting which plants grow in a wild system but since there are
| primroses there all ready it should work.

No, it WOULDN'T be just as good buying them at a nursery! Encouraging
that practice is ecologically irresponsible - which is one of the
reasons that obscene Act is so harmful.

If you buy native plants at a nursery which have been raised in a
nursery not dug up from the wild, and which your are going to plant in
your own garden, that is no more ecologically harmful than growing alien
species in your garden.

By naturalising nursery-grown plants, you are effectively importing
an inbred and alien strain of plant to the area, thus harming the
wild stock.

That is very true, but Jane wasn't suggesting that. She was talking
about planting in her garden, where it don't matter as much.

But I agree with you, it is not a good idea to sow wild flower seeds
from other sources into the wild.
--
Kay Easton

Edward's earthworm page:
http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/edward/index.htm