@ClimateJenny The only plants I ever dug were from a woodland where the bulldozers were parked waiting to obliterate it the next day.

@ClimateJenny I've watched so many species disappear around me and many more will but it's invisible to almost everyone as Leopold says in his famous quotation. Although it doesn't make up for it I'm up to over 40 native species in my little gardens, leaving leaves on the ground and most plants standing until spring in hopes the insects they need will be able to live too.

I've seen too many woodland plants in parks especially wild orchids disappear leaving holes behind where they were dug.

@ClimateJenny Yes, we actually don't even know what microorganisms and small and large critters are needed to keep certain native plant communities in balance. It's all more complicated and more of a net than is fully understood. Some elements may be gone in some places. We know for example that once garlic mustard moves into a woodland and wipes out certain plants, they can't thrive there if replanted because it kills certain soil organisms just by growing there.

@johncarlosbaez @ClimateJenny @arisummerland If you've spent your life loving and looking at the native plants of your area it's still heartbreaking to see them go though. Small wonder people fight to keep them even when it's a fool's errand.

@whakkee The memory of seeing those in the woods when I was a child is probably why I grow exotic slipper orchids now

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