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This is a dedicated thread for discussing article: Sale of Invasive Water Plants Now Banned
I sometimes see roadside contractors on the motorway verges carefully looking for and pulling up specific plants and piling black bags of them up for collection by a wagon, does anyone know what these plants are and why they're being removed?
I wondered about Hogweed?
Paul the RHS kinda misses the point about 'native flowers' and biodiversity. It's the biodiversity of the the native flowers we need to maintain and increase because if they took the time to look, many areas are losing or have lost what were fairly common species 50 years ago. And as I know you know the reasons for this, so I don't need to repeat them for you.Royal Horticultural Society wades into the Natives v. Alien thing. Seems that we'd have just holly, ivy, foxgloves and a very few other self-starting, immediate post-Ice Age species if we were to go "Pure Native". No apples, no....
No more environmental xenophobia: British wildlife has a taste for the exotic and can thrive on non-native plant species - Nature - Environment - The Independent
As for fish.
Carp....