A Seed Saver's Garden

[ducks4you]

SO STUPID!!
Nursey's HERE sold Callary Pear Trees, SUPER invasive, and, like @Zeedman said, water spinach will certainly die out where I live, which is one zone warmer than Zeedman and Certainly warmer than @heirloomgal .
On Mid American Gardener, the retired manager of a local nursery talked about selling them some 30 years ago, and showed an aerial photo of his neighbor's property, next to a regularly tilled farm field, the tilling which has kept this tree from progressing more than 5 acres worth.
He said:
they are messy
they have wicked thorns
they reproduce themselves bc there are no native predators that eat on them
Gee whiz!
I Guess constant tilling keeps them from reproducing successfully.
Do they think that somebody is going to dig up water spinach, transplant it in their southern zone yard and let them go to seed?!?!?
I don't think, since burning bushes are still sold regularly, that American gardeners are going to give up their love of non native species.
I guess we need a black market.

 

[heirloomgal]

SO STUPID!!
Nursey's HERE sold Callary Pear Trees, SUPER invasive, and, like @Zeedman said, water spinach will certainly die out where I live, which is one zone warmer than Zeedman and Certainly warmer than @heirloomgal .
On Mid American Gardener, the retired manager of a local nursery talked about selling them some 30 years ago, and showed an aerial photo of his neighbor's property, next to a regularly tilled farm field, the tilling which has kept this tree from progressing more than 5 acres worth.
He said:
they are messy
they have wicked thorns
they reproduce themselves bc there are no native predators that eat on them
Gee whiz!
I Guess constant tilling keeps them from reproducing successfully.
Do they think that somebody is going to dig up water spinach, transplant it in their southern zone yard and let them go to seed?!?!?
I don't think, since burning bushes are still sold regularly, that American gardeners are going to give up their love of non native species.
I guess we need a black market.

So true ducks, invasiveness it's all relative to where we live. Some people really worry about the invasiveness of morning glories or chufa nuts, I have no issues with them. My Chinese Lantern plants, which I had for over a decade, never even got invasive and in some places they really will take over. When you dig deep into the invasive species awareness groups and their literature, you realize quickly that it isn't really invasive plants vs native plants it's about invasives we like/invasive we don't like.

I was once speaking with this young lady at a seed swap who had a table with invasive species handouts and such. I mentioned to her I was surprised to see dandelions were not on their invasive list? She looked at me with authentic puzzlement, and said.....'oh, we only really focus on ones that give us problems'. The poor dear.

 

[heirloomgal]

I am too. You can also get water spinach seed from Agrohaitai... I think? They have a link, but won't even open it for me because of my location.

I looked a little closer at the packet so see if there was any specificity like you mentioned, but L.P.1 is all I can see.