{"id":3796,"date":"2013-08-04T11:21:43","date_gmt":"2013-08-04T10:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=3796"},"modified":"2013-08-04T11:21:43","modified_gmt":"2013-08-04T10:21:43","slug":"new-campaign-from-plantsout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2013\/08\/04\/new-campaign-from-plantsout\/","title":{"rendered":"New campaign from PlantsOut!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PlantsOut!<\/strong> is a pressure group formed to resist the steady rise in non-English plants found in the countryside, gardens, planters, window boxes and vases generally.<\/p>\n<p>Today, their <a href=\"www.plantsout.org.uk\">website<\/a> announces a new partnership with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ukip.org\">UKIP<\/a> to resist the flood of Bulgarian, Rumanian and Croatian plant varieties that will arrive as EU immigration rules are relaxed because of widening membership. \u00a0<em>PlantsOut!<\/em> spokesperson for diversity and purity, Dr Jonathan Oldbuck, said that this policy development should not be seen in a crude nationalistic sense.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\"We are not advocating English plants just for the English. \u00a0Far from it, the glory of England's native flora should be open to all who want to pay to see it, and Plantsout welcomes foreign visitors \u2013 providing [i] they don't bring their plants with them, and [ii] don't forget to go home again!\"<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dr Oldbuck said that <em>PlantsOut!<\/em> planned to partner with other wildlife charities in a remorseless drive against invasive species such as:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Japanese Knotweed, \u00a0 \u00a0Himalayan Balsam, \u00a0 \u00a0Parrot's Feather, \u00a0 \u00a0Floating Pennywort, \u00a0 \u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Himalayan Knotweed, <\/span>False Acacia, \u00a0 \u00a0Curly Waterweed, \u00a0 \u00a0Shallon, \u00a0 \u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Water Primroses, <\/span>Pirri-pirri-bur, \u00a0 \u00a0Large Flowered Waterweed, \u00a0 \u00a0Spanish bluebells, \u00a0, ...<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>... and annoying Dutch flowers of all kinds, especially gaudy daffodils.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PlantsOut! is a pressure group formed to resist the steady rise in non-English plants found in the countryside, gardens, planters, window boxes and vases generally. Today, their website announces a new partnership with UKIP to resist the flood of Bulgarian,...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}