"But please don't go out into the wilds and collect plants there. Leave that to the conservation experts, who won't be digging up any specimens either. They will select a few seeds from various populations and grow them on, thus taking no plants, but getting a diverse sampling for the future." I'm not sure what you mean by conservation experts, but conservation, like botany, is not necessarily connected with horticulture by any means. Anyone who is concerned about the conservation of nature, presumably including most or all PBS members, should be careful to discern* ex situ*conservation (cultivated plants) from *in situ* conservation (plants in wild areas). There may be a little overlap sometimes but these disciplines are as far apart as cooking and farming (both involve food, but ...). Even the "conservation experts" speaking at scientific conferences often conflate these realms. Dylan