Debate continues over whether to use non-native plants to help boost wildlife

摘要

The question of what to grow to benefit wildlife is being answered. But whether that includes non-native plants remains open to debate, with parts of the international plant trade under threat from EU legislation.Growers and garden retailers have been under pressure from environmentalists and the EU to produce and sell plants that are friendlier to invertebrates. The importance of bugs is that "the world's ecosystems would collapse" without them, according to naturalist Sir David Attenborough. Latest evidence shows gardeners can help to save bugs, but there are mixed messages as to how they can do it.