flowers/Fleurs

[simi90]

Est-ce qu'il est interdit de ceuiilir les primevères de la nature à côté d'une route?

thanks for your answer

Merci pour votre reponse!

[Cendrillon]

I have seen people do that and then they sell them in the markets! I have a feeling it is not legal.

[simi90]

but I don't want to sell them!Just 3 for my garden:(

[Cendrillon]

Suggest you go out after dark with a torch and a trowel then.[;-)]

[Cendrillon]

I see there are two different posts on this subject.[blink]

BTW if everybody took just "3 for their garden" the wild ones would soon become scarce.

[andyh4]

As indeed the true bluebell is becoming in the UK due to people "just taking a couple".

[Grumpy]

Lets get this in perspective.  The reason wildflowers are scarce in the UK is down to habitat loss.  Our grandperents generation could pick as many as they likes without threatening the overall population.  Agriculture, horticulture, roads, urbanisation and over maintenance of verges does far more damage than picking.

Here in Lower Normandy the verges aren't mown untill the primroses and early purplr orchids have seeded and we have oodles of plants every year.

If plants are lifted and planted in a garden the seed still has the opportunity to set adnd be distributed!  Even picking the flowers doesn't prevent the plant from growing and you only need to let a couple of flowers mature to increase the population!

Occasionally you will find verges with a sign "deffence de cueiller"

Grumpy