Perhaps familiarity. When I was younger we used to be able to go out and have much greater access to the fields and woodlands and out native flora was much more observable. Many of those places are now under asphalt or fenced off or otherwise inaccessible. I know I came late to wanting to grow more natives. Randy > I wonder why that is? > > --Lee Poulsen > Pasadena, California, USA - USDA Zone 10a > Latitude 34°N, Altitude 1150 ft/350 m > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > -- * * A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. - Thomas Paine --- * *