[Herbalist] RE: Herbalist digest, Vol 1 #220 - 1 msg

[Wendy Freeman/Otte]

Sigh..
There go all the wonderful "native" English herbs - they were shipped to England from the Mediterranean & Middle East.  According to that logic, we should send them back to their native lands, instead of mucking up our native soil with their bad influences.  (But I *like* my rosemary & creeping thyme, shaded by the banana tree!)

Migration of species has been happening for centuries.  Some good, some bad, but it happens.  We humans are probably the most common carrier.  Then we curse our own actions.

Food for thought: Did you know even fireants have an ecological purpose in life?  If you have them in your yard, you won't have any snakes!  (If this doesn't seem inspiring - ask an Ansteorran...)

--Wyllow McMuireadhaigh, who's waiting for it to cool down enough to go outside & see what survived.
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>Message: 1
>Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 22:13:58 -0500
>To: herbalist at ansteorra.org
>From: Wes Will <wwill at globaleyes.net>
>Subject: Re: [Herbalist] RE: "Killer" plants
>Reply-To: herbalist at ansteorra.org
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>>Please don't advocate genecide on an entire plant,
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>Localized.  "English" ivy has no business on my side of the pond.  NOTHING
>eats it, nothing (excepting me and my pruning hooks, hoes, and shovels)
>kills it.  It has no pests here, no specific controls.
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>Kill it.  All of it. And take those confounded English sparrows and
>starlings with it.  The North American versions were quite sufficient,
>thanks.  It has been over three years since I have seen an American species
>of starling in this area, though I have several thousand of the English
>variety pooping on my back deck and front walks every year, twice a year,
>as they migrate through.
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>Let's not even mention armadillos, Japanese beetles, Africanized bees, and
>South American fire ants.
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>>No plant is bad - just its location.
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>"Location" can be defined as a specific _hemisphere_.
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>Eoin Caimbeul
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>Time flies like an arrow.  Fruit flies like a banana.  (Unk.)
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