I suggest that gardeners plant both types of plants. Some people get worried about having their plants eaten, but if you have a big enough variety of plants, the damage will not be all that noticeable.

You find that you get addicted to the plants.

It's also called taiga. We've had people from Sweden here who recognized the plants, and naturalists from Russia ? their language was limited, but they could throw around the Latin names, so we had a common language.

We have enough dirty coal plants, and we do need to look for alternatives. No matter how you stack it up, power plants are still the major provider of particles in the air, which cause many health problems.

I am partial to plants that I can use. The herb garden affords a big palette to play with.

There are "indicator" plants and there are "indicator people". When you see Cedar, you know there's alkaline, limestone-based soil around. When you see Fly Fishers, you know there's fish around - well, not always.