Weedy bulbous plants
James Waddick (Tue, 23 Nov 2010 19:17:47 PST)

Dear Friends,
Perhaps I am needlessly paranoid about the 'Invasive Plant
Police', but I do not think it is the purpose of this forum or the
wiki to add injury to this white list/ black list endeavor. I am
convinced that almost any plant can be exuberant, weedy, over active,
whatever, given the right conditions*, but any (and I do mean any)
stamp of 'INVASIVE" on the wiki will merely serve as further proof of
the need for prohibition and denial of the right to grow this plant
in every other part of the country.

By keeping invasive comments into the body of 'conversations'
on individual messages, we do not give a PBS stamp to this situation.
On the email list individuals can share experiences without tagging a
plant over the entire course of its cultivation.

I just suggest we be extremely careful before we start
tagging any item on the wiki as "Invasive' and so approved by PBS.

Is this too extreme to suggest? Just think about what this
means and its repercussions. Best Jim W.

* For example, I was recently shocked to hear from Ina in New Zealand
what an "invasive weed" Lapageria rosea had become for her. Surely
there are extremely few people who would want to see this blacklisted
from growing in the US because it has invasive tendencies in N. Z.
--

Dr. James W. Waddick
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