Non-native plants to be banned from sale

A RAFT of plants are to be banned from sale in garden centres later this year as the Department of the Environment moves to curb the damage inflicted on Irish wildlife by the importation of non-native species.

It is understood it will be an offence to possess the listed species for “the purpose of sale or dispersal or to transfer the species from one place to another within the country”.

Householders who have such species will be advised how to dispose of them.