The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #118665   Message #2692199
Posted By: Bobert
02-Aug-09 - 12:00 PM
Thread Name: BS: Gardening, 2009
Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009
Well, as I have pointed out, God's creatures have since the beginning of time been middle-men in hybridization... Birds, insects, and just about every other living thing has carried polin from one plant to the next and thus there are always new hybrids that are naturally being hibridized all the time...

But if I have it correct, Verser, if man does the same then that is some evil thing???

Illogical...

And as for natives??? We have lots of "natives" which are indeed harmful to plants and animals... Some are poisonous... Some are water hogs... Some are terribly invasive... Yes, natives... Not exotics... Take a maple, for instance... A 20 foot maple, which is good for very little will spread a very hogish root system out 30 feet in every direction for its trunk??? That maple will suck up enough water to grow a year's worth of food for an entire family of humans??? What's with posion oak and ivy??? They are native... Ilantis trees??? Natives... Virginia Creeper??? Etc...

But if I plant a lovely evergreen azalea because the flowers are not only pretty but support the bee population I am an enemy???

Huh???

Beam me up...

B~