In article o.uk,
Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 09:59:04 +0100, Sacha wrote:

Collecting wild flower seed from the wild is quite legal providing
you have the landowners permission or it is on common land.
It is recommended that when collecting seed, not more than 20%
of the crop is taken.

How do you know, as an individual, when 20% of the "the crop" has
been taken? When you have taken 1:5 seed heads? But how do you know
that some one else hasn't already taken 1:5 seed heads? Or that
another person won't be along later to take another 1:5...

That's just a rule created by people who like to order other people
around. There is no harm in collecting 100% of the seed of plants
that are sufficiently common or not limited by the amount of seed
they generate. Blackberries, elderberries and sloes are examples.
The point is that you WON'T collect more than a neglible proportion
of the population's seed, and the plants don't rely on seeding every
year, anyway.

Also, unless they have changed the law, it's still perfectly legal
to collect without permission, except for specified plants. Wild
plants and animals are not property, though the establishment has
done their best to turn them into that by back doors :-(

I am extremely old-fashioned, and still believe that using one's
intelligence is a desirable objective.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.