At 08:28 PM -0500 12/15/07, Carrie DeJaco wrote:
>I recently bought a house with a decent sized yard that I am trying to convert
>from grass to native plants. It is very difficult to find nurseries that 1)
>have native plants, and 2) have employees who actually know which plants are
>native. I feel like I need to take my plant books with me every time I go!
>
>Carrie DeJaco
>
May I suggest finding, participating in and supporting your state and local
native plant societies, and your local tree-planting and urban forestry groups?
They're always great places from which to get involved with activist change
efforts. (Home Depot can be quite receptive to organized calls for native
vegetation-savvy staff at specific locations, and certainly to offers of
training initiatives that would make their staff more systematically
knowledgeable on this issue. Offer to run a workshop, for instance.) And I
have found that there is a whole hidden (if microcosmic) world of activist
effort and dedicated commitment in many parts of the country--folks that would
dearly welcome the additional participation of those savvy in ecology.
Cheers,
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Ashwani
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