Comments on: Natives vs Invasives http://lovingnaturesgarden.com/2009/09/natives-invasives/ simple ways to grow your garden Tue, 22 May 2012 05:48:34 -0700 hourly 1 By: Natives vs. Invasives: Can’t we just all get along? | Conservation Gardening http://lovingnaturesgarden.com/2009/09/natives-invasives/comment-page-1/#comment-2231 Natives vs. Invasives: Can’t we just all get along? | Conservation Gardening Sat, 12 Sep 2009 01:54:07 +0000 http://lovingnaturesgarden.com/?p=1222#comment-2231 [...] Kerr, of Loving Nature’s Garden, has written a very good summary of this debate and a discussion of how she chooses the plants in her gar.... She makes two very good [...] [...] Kerr, of Loving Nature’s Garden, has written a very good summary of this debate and a discussion of how she chooses the plants in her gar…. She makes two very good [...]

]]> By: Carole http://lovingnaturesgarden.com/2009/09/natives-invasives/comment-page-1/#comment-2230 Carole Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:44:17 +0000 http://lovingnaturesgarden.com/?p=1222#comment-2230 Thanks for the shout-out, Alison. This article is a great review of the "broken" parts of our current gardening practices. I'm hopeful that more and more nurseries, including Home Depot, Lowes, and Walmart, will begin to see the value in carrying locally native plants. In order for this to happen, we gardeners must continue to ask for them because the stores need to have a financial incentive to do the right thing. I wish that folks on both sides of the native/invasive debate would stop shouting at each other long enough to realize that all of our actions have consequences. The consequences of continuing to plant invasive plants are very high. We taxpayers spend billions of dollars each year in the attempt to control invasive species. Then we turn around the following year and have to spend it all over again. This cycle has no hope of being reversed as long as we continue to be able to purchase and plant these harmful plants. Thanks for a great article. Thanks for the shout-out, Alison. This article is a great review of the “broken” parts of our current gardening practices. I’m hopeful that more and more nurseries, including Home Depot, Lowes, and Walmart, will begin to see the value in carrying locally native plants. In order for this to happen, we gardeners must continue to ask for them because the stores need to have a financial incentive to do the right thing.

I wish that folks on both sides of the native/invasive debate would stop shouting at each other long enough to realize that all of our actions have consequences. The consequences of continuing to plant invasive plants are very high.

We taxpayers spend billions of dollars each year in the attempt to control invasive species. Then we turn around the following year and have to spend it all over again.

This cycle has no hope of being reversed as long as we continue to be able to purchase and plant these harmful plants.

Thanks for a great article.

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