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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 3:15 PM, Peter Bernhardt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bernhap2@slu.edu" target="_blank">bernhap2@slu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dear Kelly:<div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>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?</div><div><br></div><div>Peter </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 12:34 PM, Kelly Rourke <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kr@pollinator.org" target="_blank">kr@pollinator.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.nytimes.com_2017_05_15_health_pesticides-2Depa-2Dchlorpyrifos-2Dscott-2Dpruitt.html&d=DwMFaQ&c=Pk_HpaIpE_jAoEC9PLIWoQ&r=vELpXRm7sCfTzV7V_rIlRA&m=5wWeRRc1_pZumfBGyaIXK-4_EgBdxTz2XeoBDa1cW5E&s=_vG_Wet0U97VhKy-0-fs8wigALyjgW3XyK033t6gOnk&e=" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0<wbr>5/15/health/pesticides-epa-chl<wbr>orpyrifos-scott-pruitt.html</a><div><br></div><div><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.nytimes.com_2017_05_15_science_honeybees-2Dgrooming-2Dvideo.html-3F-5Fr-3D0&d=DwMFaQ&c=Pk_HpaIpE_jAoEC9PLIWoQ&r=vELpXRm7sCfTzV7V_rIlRA&m=5wWeRRc1_pZumfBGyaIXK-4_EgBdxTz2XeoBDa1cW5E&s=3B1I1sPECcbYsoyRxpP7s2swvML7IeLzIB5TymwA0NA&e=" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0<wbr>5/15/science/honeybees-groomin<wbr>g-video.html?_r=0</a><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="m_-5253468254829621749m_-6342104573526291101gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin-left:4.5pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black">Kelly
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