Or glad that potentially harmful plants for our environment are not easily imported and sold.

As long nobody gives a fuck which flowers they buy this year to further kill the local ecosystem I am all for limitations.

Source: I live rather remote in the Alps and nature here is nothing like it was 100 years ago. Which is not necessarily bad, except most 'pests' seem to be popular garden plants.

I don't care too much for what's native and what's not (perhaps partly because being an immigrant myself hehe) but the real disturbing plants are the ones who out-compete multiple species and add rather large points of failure by ridding diversity.

While imagining glowing forests is cool, in the fight against sweeping diseases, diversity is king.

Non-native plants are the ones that out-compete the local species.

It's daft to apply human politics to plants.

> Non-native plants are the ones that out-compete the local species.

Not automatically. Only the ones who survive in the wild and spread (by definition).

> It's daft to apply human politics to plants.

It was just a joke.

> Non-native plants are the ones that out-compete the local species.

Usually, but not always. Some non-native species may increase diversity and some native species can turn invasive when the environment changes (usually due to the global warming).

That's actually changing now. But probably only for agriculture and medicine for now. Which is honestly reasonable.