Forbidden Plants

Before I start to say anything wrong.
I do not grow anything i shouldn`t have grown , but recently I was reading
and articles on more legal high moved to the section of illigal drugs B ,
many of this considered legal high are made out commun plants , that many time we are growing in the garden as tropical or ornamental .
where can I find an updated list of forbidden plants including the invasive plants.

 

Carpobrotus edulis - Hottentot fig
From South Africa, has large magenta or yellow flowers and spreads along cliffs.
Allium paradoxum - Few-flowered leek
Aromatic plant which has some culinary uses.
Rhododendon ponticum
Has colonised woodlands and is vulnerable to sudden oak death.
Fallopia japonica - Japanese knotweed
First introduced by Victorian collectors as desirable for its exotic appearance.
Impatiens glandulifera - Himalayan balsam
A relative of the busy Lizzie, introduced to the UK in 1839.
Eichornia crassipes - Water hyacinth
This popular plant is said not to be able to survive our climate.
Azolla filiculoides - Water fern
Native of the Americas. Introduced as a decorative ornamental plant in 1840.
Myriophyllum aquaticum - Parrot's feather
Widely grown in small garden ponds. First found in UK in 1960. Native to South America.
Hydrocotyle ranunculoides - Floating pennywort
Brought from New Zealand to stock aquariums and garden ponds.
Gaultheria shallon - Shallon
An attractive thicket-forming evergreen shrub from west coast of North America.
Crassula helmsii - Australian swamp stonecrop
Introduced to Britain in 1911 from Tasmania as an oxygenating plant.
Ludwigia peploides - Water primrose
Has caused major problems on the continent as well as areas of the UK.
Elodea canadensis - Canadian waterweed
Has become so naturalised that local species have adapted to feed on it.
Elodea nuttallii - Nuttalls waterweed
Popular and sold as an oxygenator.
Lagarosiphon major - Curly waterweed
Sold as an oxygenator for ponds.

 

I could add a few that I think should be on that list!

Here is a link to a list of invasive species that are covered by legislation in the UK.

 

Just scanned down the pages a little ,when can I expect the cops

 

However Allium paradoxum var. normale is a lovely plant which has flowers not the small bulbs which the usual one has, which is why it is considered a pest.

 

Quite. Contoneaster horizontalis is covered by English Legislation? I wonder what for ...

I'd add Equisetum hyemale to the list (and probably other Equisetum too)

 

We'd better ban the countryside from existing I think.

I believe common Broom contains a narcotic, and there are loads and loads and loads of plants that produce seeds containing psychotropic (is that the right word?) chemicals, and not to mention all the the mushrooms.

 

and not to mention Brugmansia ...

Ziggy probably has a list of things that have upset him!

 

It isn't actually illegal to grow the plants on sal73's list, but they can't be introduced or allowed to escape into the wild. These (and other invasive species) should be banned from sale at the very least, but as with the ash dieback disease the government isn't very active when it comes to preventing the spread of problematic alien species. Unfortunately, the reality is that plants in gardens will inevitably escape if the conditions are right.

Cotoneaster horizontalis is troublesome in rocky limestone habitats where it swamps out low-growing native plants and invertebrates. Buddleja davidii causes similar problems. Equisetum hyemale is native - I'm not aware of that causing any problems.

 

Only problem I know of is that it runs amok, but maybe it does no "harm" per se - any more than horsetail does - just being an annoyance to gardeners.

 

It isn't actually illegal to grow the plants on sal73's list, but they can't be introduced or allowed to escape into the wild. These (and other invasive species) should be banned


Oh dear I planted my excess monbretia (crocosmia) on the waste grass area outside my fence

 

Thank you guys , I started this thread as I was listen to radio and they annunced that few more legal high have been moved to class b , with a maximum of 5 years prison for who is in possession or culivate the drugs.

A sample .....to let you understand , because sometime I can`t explain myself so good

Black Mamba grass is made out of Damiana plant.
wich is this lovely plant.

damiana plant



this means that who ever own one of this plants is actually growing an illigal plant.

 

never seen that before Sal. Looks cannabis related ?

 

I think in most cases, the plants that illegal substances are made from are fine, its just when you process them in certain ways or sell them as anything other than ornamentals, that's when the bother usually arises.

 

What I was really looking for is an updated list of forbidden/illegal plants....
Don`t want to create any misunderstanding , but tecnically there must be write somewhere that it`s illigal to cultivate cannabis in the back garden !!!!
there must be written somewhere about anything else!!!!

On the forum we have been talking about poisonus plants before and now I know many of them are in my garden .