Sharing seeds of rare plants

Sharing seeds of rare plants
James Waddick (Wed, 12 Nov 2014 18:36:23 PST)

Dear Friends,

Sad to say that CITES does little to preserve Endangered Species losses and does more to preserve authority.

The Biodiversity Protection Treaty is also a farce because it rarely actually works and results in rare plants moving illegally (by definition)

And all too often Botanical Gardens, Federal and State Authorities do everything to preserve their power, authority and ‘expertise’ : often through down right bullying.

Jim Mc wrote

Which is why so many of us have learned (often the hard way) that asking for forgiveness is easier than getting permission.

I have learned to deny every thing at every level. Who me? What package? Is that a plant?

And that’s why I suggest that any distribution of rare plant materials be handled extremely carefully and NOT advertised or distributed to unknown growers.

Best You know who.

James Waddick
8871 NW Brostrom Rd
Kansas City, MO 64152-2711
USA
Phone 816-746-1949