On 1 Sep 08, at 17:07, Leo A. Martin wrote: > This effort appears to be driven by > the hard core who don't want people growing anything not already native to > their immediate vicinity, and who regard any introduced plant as an > affront to nature. In that case, it's necessary to smoke out the real motives and expose them for what they are. This may require infiltration into the groups driving this. Be sure, everyone, to write short lettrs of complaint to your congress- critters. Snailmail, short, lucid, grammatical, polite, but don't pull your punches. You may be surprised at the results. Be sure to include remarks that a huge body of "stakeholders" hasn't been consulted. Namely hobby gardeners. -- Rodger Whitlock Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Maritime Zone 8, a cool Mediterranean climate on beautiful Vancouver Island http://maps.google.ca/maps/…