and yes my inner ecologist is good to have =) and not always such a spoilsport!! i do a lot of foraging and wildcrafting, and i am not shy about getting what i can when i can =) but as i said these guys only have small populations in the few spots i have found them. i like when i run into large healthy patches, so i can take divisions/seeds/fruit/etc guilt trip free =) though its pretty rare that i dig things up, except for a few rare exceptions, or if theres so much my dividing is actually beneficial. some plants tend to crowd themselves out and a bit of dividing is good, gives them more room to spread out. i am not into...some kind of total preservation, hands off, no humans allowed to use the forest...kind of ideaology...anyway, but i do believe that humans can and should have healthy interactions with nature, using what they find, harvesting respectfully.

There are a few threads on here about pipevine and wild ginger, but no one here has ever posted confirmation that wild ginger works. I keep wanting to try but the deer make short work of my wild ginger. KC

Pink Lady Slippers Squirrel Corn, dicentra camadensis Dutchmans breeches Umbrella leaf, diphyllea chymosa Panax Quinquifolia, ginseng trillium (not cunneatum) I have blooming trillium cuneatum and see my trade list. Or, let me know what natives you have available. plantbug

What do you have to trade? Your GardenWeb trade list isn't filled out. Indyrose