[Pollinator] [beemonitoring] Re: Recent New York Times Articles

Tue May 16 19:07:16 PDT 2017

The funny thing is that right after I purchased the plants at Home Depot I
shopped at a local nursery about two miles away and also bought two
plants.  Look at who was hiding in the Astilbe pot.  Let this be a lesson
to all of us.  Don't buy a garden plant unless a Dekay's snake is using it
as a safe  B & B.

Peter

On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 9:02 PM, Jessica Newbern <jlnewbern at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I paid close attention to this while buying plants for my office garden
> and home. I wish they would stop doing this. If the plants don't work out,
> they don't work out...try something else. I've been watching my plants to
> see which are doing ok, and which ones to avoid. I can't control
> everything, but I can adapt my garden based on my observations. It just
> seems like the best way to garden.
>
>
> ~ Jessica
>
> On May 16, 2017, at 9:28 PM, Anita Collins frozenbeedoc at verizon.net
> [beemonitoring] <beemonitoring-noreply at yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> i was giving a talk at the local garden club today and was hearing the
> same story!  Their network is also spreading the word about NOT buying
> these items.
>
>
>
> Anita Collins, Ph.D.
> USDA, ARS retired
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Bernhardt bernhap2 at slu.edu [beemonitoring] <
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> To: Kelly Rourke <kr at pollinator.org>
> Cc: 00—Pollinator 00—Pollinator <pollinator at coevolution.org>; Bee United <
> beemonitoring at yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Tue, May 16, 2017 3:15 pm
> Subject: [beemonitoring] Re: [Pollinator] Recent New York Times Articles
>
>
> Dear Kelly:
>
> Thanks for sharing but poisoned plants are much closer to my home in Saint
> Louis than I anticipated.  I went to our local Home Depot to buy my wife a
> bag of potting soil (I'm big on romantic gifts).  While there I treated
> myself to two pots of perennials.  Upon taking them home and planting them
> in the garden I received an unpleasant surprise.  When I removed the little
> plastic sign-stake that identifies the plant and its growing conditions I
> found a smaller narrow stake.  The stake announced that the plant had been
> treat with  Neocon herbicides and this was all perfectly safe and legal
> according to the EPA.  Surprise, I then looked at the second plant (a
> ground cover) in the second pot and found the same stake.
>
> This is literally overkill. The first plant is a Japanese hybrid hosta. If
> you grow these plants you realize that they live almost forever and
> virtually no insect eats them.  I have a typical shady backyard with the
> usual populations of snails and slugs and they leave the hostas alone.  I
> wonder if I should return to Home Depot and see if every (most) of the
> annuals and perennials have been treated?  Perhaps other members of NAPPC
> might make visits and check their local franchises?
>
> Peter
>
> On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 12:34 PM, Kelly Rourke <kr at pollinator.org> wrote:
>
> https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/15/health/pesticides-epa-chl
> orpyrifos-scott-pruitt.html
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