Buying your weeds: Mistakes Beginning Gardeners make Part 7: Recycling plants--what a great term! And you'd be amazed what i

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Recycling plants--what a great term! And you'd be amazed what is out there to recycle. As you say, Ellen, a lot of abandoned houses and buildings have wonderful plants that are doomed to extinction unless someone rescues them. When a new development comes in, the bulldozers roll in and thousands of native plants are destroyed. It's not hard to get permission to go in and save these. Unlike collecting from the wild, where digging the plant could lead to its extinction, this is actually rescuing things from certain doom. And there are other ways to recycle plants and save money in the process. Watch what happens in municipal gardens when the spring bulb foliage starts to yellow. It usually goes to the dumpster. Rename your house "The Dumpster" and get a free spring garden. Carol(virtually gardening)

-- posted by Carol Wallace