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Originally Posted by natedogg1026
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.
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Nate, you're comparing apples and oranges here. You are comparing digging up a Sabal minor from the wild with purchasing a banana from a nursery? I don't get it. This isn't a native/nonnative issue here. The big thing you're missing here is that it's *illegal* to dig stuff from "the wild", whether it's government property or someone's private property (without permission). It best to go through the proper channels to get permission in this case. It is irresponsible to just go dig something up without asking first.
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The basic argument is that things should be left in their natural habitat.
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Yes. If you don't have permission from the landowner to dig it up, it should be left alone.
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So getting it from a nursery makes it O.K.? Buying seeds, O.K.?
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Yes! What's wrong with that? Most of these nurseries either grow stuff from seed or cuttings, or buy their stuff from someone else who has grown it from seed or cuttings (from stock plants).
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No matter how you look at it you are moving plants out of their origin for your own benefit.
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Not really, as I explained above. I don't know of any (reputable) nursery that goes out into the wild to dig plants from someone elses' property.
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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.
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I don't have any plants that were dug from someone else's property, without permission, in my yard. They were either already in the landscape, grown from seed by me, purchased from a nursery, or dug WITH PERMISSION from someone else's property.
Besides, Sabal minor is very difficult to transplant once it is established in the ground.