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Hey, fair enough, spreading invasive species is bad. But how exactly do you imagine something like that happening? In general, folks are going to buy plants @
by 40four 7y ago
Hey, fair enough, spreading invasive species is bad. But how exactly do you imagine something like that happening?
In general, folks are going to buy plants @ Lowe’s/ Home Depot or their local nurseries. It’s not that easy to gain access to plants that are not compatible with your native biome.
I don’t think the chances are very high of someone buying seeds from a foreign seed company, germinating them at home, and planting a large scale public project like this.
- tzs 7y agoThat's true for the case of someone introducing an invasive species that is new to the region. But what about someone further spreading an invasive species that is already there? My yard, for example, contains a mix of native plants and invasive plants. Some of the invasive plants produce pretty flowers, and if I hadn't looked them up it would not have even occurred to me that they were not native. I could easily imagine someone with such an invasive but pretty plant in their own garden purposefully spreading it, not realizing that it is not native and the place they spread it had until then only native plants.
- intrepidhero 7y agoActually it's super easy. Alot of those nice decorative plants at the big box store, especially when buying "wild flower seed" are not native, and highly invasive.