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Public urged to grow unusual plants to safeguard diversity of UK blooms (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

This is an opportunity for a hilarious public awareness campaign.

"Be liminal, hang out in bogs, grow weird plants, find odd things and water them."

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 point 10 months ago

Are there any interesting and unusual edible plants that I could grow?

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[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 1 point 10 months ago

Gov should just mail everyone random seeds it wants planted.