Re: Wild Palms
First off, I seem to have offended someone by suggesting "taking from the wild" but how do you think our gardens got so beautiful?? Someone went out in the wild and snatched one up and brought it home, cloned it and stuck it on the market. I do not feel it is any more wrong for me to do it than a nursery too. So get some boxes and start shipping things back to their origin. Bye bye nana's, Cause they are not native to N. America. Ship all of your Hostas back to Asia and all of your other(non-native plants) back to where they came from, if you know. I do agree that when a plant is near extinction it is best left alone and that is the type of info. I like to know. But when they are a dime a dozen I don't see a problem. Come to Kansas and I'll load you up a ton of Sunflowers, Coneflowers, or Black Eyed Susans but I bet you've probably got some already. Basically the U.S. has become a melting pot for plants and it's gardener like us who have made it that way. Its a little late to go back now and honestly, who would want to??! The basic argument is that things should be left in their natural habitat. So getting it from a nursery makes it O.K.? Buying seeds, O.K.? No matter how you look at it you are moving plants out of their origin for your own benefit. I guess what really burns me is that this is a banana site. I bet 80% or more of the people on this site are not in an area that has native bananas. You don't see many people from China asking why their Chinese yellow Banana isn't flowering. They walk right by them as I do with my Oak tree's. I think its great that their are hosta's in Ohio, NANA'S IN TN., and Sunflowers in Texas. God put the plants here for us to use and enjoy. So if you are going to say it's wrong for me to do what everyone else has already done you better check YOUR garden. Not trying to be rude by anything I said just letting people know their is two sides to the story.
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Banana's are a safe addiction. Right?  Maybe I need classes. 
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