[PCA] QUESTION: Wildflower Seed Postcards

Wed Apr 25 10:17:43 CDT 2007

I profoundly disagree.  We all started somewhere- don't forget that.

  William Schlegel

>From: "Becky Erickson" <beckyerick at socket.net>
>To: "Steve Erickson" <wean at whidbey.net>,"Olivia Kwong" 
><plant at plantconservation.org>
>CC: native-plants at lists.plantconservation.org, 
>apwg at lists.plantconservation.org
>Subject: Re: [PCA] QUESTION: Wildflower Seed Postcards
>Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 00:13:11 -0500
>
>I agree -
>The general public does not know wild seed should be planted in December to
>germinate. Fewer know what the seedlings look like and fewer yet know the
>specific habitat of most wild species. How many people know that Iris
>virginicus takes about 4 months to stratify (cold/wet), then needs to be
>planted in a moist/wet, sunny spot such as a rain garden? If this habitat 
>is
>good, it will bloom the second year. It is a mystery to most that Indian
>paintbrush is an annual that needs other native plants to parasitize. Blue
>columbine is indigenous to montaine wetlands (high altitude moist soils).
>Gaillardia and Oenethera usually prefer dry sandy soil in full sun; if sent
>to be planted in damp clay soils of the Midwest, they certainly won't
>persist.  And on and on . . .    I think it is absurd to use these valuable
>seeds to be "thrown to the wind" (sent to people ignorant of their value or
>habitat needs). Usually these seeds will be sent to people and places where
>they won't persist so they can't really be considered alien invasives, but
>what a waste!!!!!!!!
>
>A postcard with a good photo of the plant, their cultural/habitat needs and
>encouragement to visit the plants in their ecoregion printed would be of 
>far
>greater benefit toward the education of the uninitiated than to send them
>seeds that need to be used in the region they came from.
>Becky Erickson
>Retired Missouri Ecotype Program Coordinator
>Ashland MO 65010-0496
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Steve Erickson" <wean at whidbey.net>
>To: "Olivia Kwong" <plant at plantconservation.org>
>Cc: <native-plants at lists.plantconservation.org>;
><apwg at lists.plantconservation.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 6:16 PM
>Subject: Re: [PCA] QUESTION: Wildflower Seed Postcards
>
>
>|I don't know of any regulation, but how about common sense.
>| The NPS should know better than to sell these things.
>| -Steve Erickson
>| Frosty Hollow Ecological Restoration
>| ==================================================
>| > I thought I'd just bring this up as an interesting topic for
>| discussion.
>| >
>| > The Alien Plant Working Group Chair, Jil Swearingen,
>| recently got an
>| > e-mail from a bookstore manager for two National Park
>| Service National
>| > Monuments about wildflower seed postcards.  Although the
>| product in
>| > question instructs the buyer not to open it within National
>| Parks, it
>| > also
>| > said that the packets can be sent & planted in most parts of
>| the world.
>| > The species used for the product being discussed were Wild
>| Iris, Indian
>| > Blanketflower, Primrose, Indian Paintbrush, and Blue
>| Columbine.
>| > However,
>| > quick Google search shows that all sorts of companies sell
>| similar
>| > postcards with a variety of species and I know I've seen
>| cards made from
>| > plantable paper with seeds embedded in the fibers.  I know
>| that people
>| > already trade seeds for things via postal mail, but postcard
>| products
>| > like
>| > these have the potential to become popular with the general
>| public and
>| > increase planting of seeds outside their natural areas.
>| There's also
>| > the
>| > invasiveness question as well.
>| >
>| > Anyone have any thoughts about the matter or know of any
>| regulations
>| > that
>| > come into play here?  It seems like it would be nearly
>| impossible to
>| > enforce rules for mailed postcards because they might not
>| be easily
>| > detected.
>| >
>| > Olivia
>| > CPC/PCA
>| > http://www.nps.gov/plants/
>| >
>| >
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