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darius So.App.Mtns., United States(Zone 5b) Mar 29, 2004

From the Weekly NMPRO e-mail for Mar. 30, 2004
(Nursery Management and Production)

Connecticut growers fight invasive bill The Conn. Legislature's Environmental Committee voted last week to push a bill that would ban plants estimated worth $18.7 million to the state’s nursery industry.

Plants listed in the ban would include Acer platanoides, Berberis thunbergi, Euonymus alatus, Miscanthus sinensis and Rosa rugosa. Growers representing six nurseries testified, and nurseries are cooperating to hire a lobbyist to work in conjunction with Conn. Nursery & Landscape Assoc. lobbying efforts, said Bob Heffernan, CNLA exec. secretary.

The bill goes against recommendations made by the Conn. Invasive Species Council, created by the Connecticut Legislature. (800) 562-0610.

(A 2nd bill calls for a $100 fine per plant for violating the ban. The bills do not provide a phase-out schedule or compensation to growers or retailers. )

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Dravencat Edgewater, MD(Zone 7a) Mar 30, 2004

Dang, thats harsh.

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darius So.App.Mtns., United States(Zone 5b) Mar 30, 2004

Yeah, D'cat, I agree. But my real question is WHY??

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ecobioangie Mableton, GA(Zone 7b) Mar 30, 2004

It says that they are invasive species?

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Frankay Northport, ME(Zone 5b) Mar 30, 2004

When we moved here 7 years ago we found a couple Rugosas. Have been fighting back the black rasberries threatening to cover them for years. They are still here, barely. Invasive? There is a small-flowered white rose that grows like Kudsu. It tries to cover apple trees and grape vines. Some vines are 3 inches thick and 40 ft. tall. I keep hacking.

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Horseshoe Efland, NC(Zone 7a) Mar 31, 2004

I prefer to grow rugosas (nice hips!)...

That white flowered rose we just call wild rose (it's actually considered an "heirloom" cus it came to America via the early immigrants). I don't care for it much at all!

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Frankay Northport, ME(Zone 5b) Mar 31, 2004

Are those the same "early immigrants" who brought us starlings and "english" sparrows. Pheasants, Killer bees. We have been messing around, introducing species, like we know what's good for us. I have a liscence to hunt turkeys this spring. I can buy a frozen Butterball for about $6. I've had a hunting tag for a few years. Never shot a deer or anything as game. I have shot 'coons and squirrels as varmints from the porch. Tonight there is a skunk in the barn. I tossed a box of mothballs around. Hope he goes away. Hunting for me is a rare day walking alone in the woods, no drinking booze, home by dark(always with a compass) I have to say I didn't see anything. I saw everything.

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