Hello everybody! I joined PBS some years ago, thinking I've found a group of persons who are having the same opinion as I have about environmental care, loss of biological diversity and so on. From what I hear and see there are great differences among us how we look upon things when we carry out what seem to be the most important thing in our lives: how to care about, and protect our plants. As long as possible I try to avoid pesticides, fungicides industrial fertilizers and so on. Only using what I can produce in the close environment. But still, because of my great interest I'm trying to get a wide variety of foreign plants that I can grow in my garden. With this comes a great deal of responsibility. I try to afford seeds to members in the different societies that I joined, but I never take seeds from rare species and never collect bulbs or corms. Here in Sweden we have had entire populations of orchids being eradicated during one night because of "planthunters", who dug up everything, this is definitely nothing that anybody of us wants. In the same way I try to think if any of the species that I offer can be an invasive species if (when) it ends up in a new environment. This is of course very difficult to say in advance, but one thing is to avoid wind spread seeds. On the other hand, you can hope that the receiver of foreign seeds realize that there is a responsibility as well to make sure that the actual species is kept in a safe way. Greetings from northern Sweden -----Original Message----- From: pbs <pbs-bounces@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> On Behalf Of Marc Rosenblum via pbs Sent: den 3 oktober 2022 10:02 To: Elaine J via pbs <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> Cc: Marc Rosenblum <ivanhoe3@charter.net> Subject: Re: [pbs] Wild collecting …warning: long post but not a rant 😀 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. On 10/2/2022 9:52 PM, Elaine J via pbs wrote: > —- > > A recent seed request asked for wild collected seed. > > I was thinking even if local laws are followed, it may not pan out > well for the wild plants because climate conditions are becoming more > erratic. The laws could have been created years ago when climate > cycles were more stable which allowed plants to regrow consistently. > > If wild plants are over gathered they may sadly, no longer exist in > the wild. > > ...... In my opinion, both Franklinia alatamaha, and Castanea dentata [ and likely many others] illustrate that dissemination in cultivation is a very effective [liely the most effective] means of conservation. _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> PBS Forum https://… --- När du skickar e-post till SLU så innebär detta att SLU behandlar dina personuppgifter. För att läsa mer om hur detta går till, klicka här <https://slu.se/om-slu/kontakta-slu/…> E-mailing SLU will result in SLU processing your personal data. For more information on how this is done, click here <https://slu.se/en/about-slu/…> _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> PBS Forum https://…