I plan on washing off the roots and soaking said plants in water before placing them in commercial potting soil... but I still wonder if "things" could be introduced... then again I think of the fact I live out in the country, I have moles,shrews,snakes,deer,turkeys,black bear,fisher,frogs etc passing through the yard... and on nice warm days I've taken three of my snakes out for "walks" into that same yard just so they have a change of pace... so what's the difference between my bringing them out to that environment and my bringing that environment to them? One of the plants I'm thinking of is polygala, plants in that family are commonly called milkwort or snakeroot... rather fitting for my polyzona milk snakes don't you think? We'll see, still another couple months before they or the second plant (Trailing Arbutus) I'm considering start flowering and really tempting me to give it a try!

Gerry

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