Ornithogalum - weedy?
Jane McGary (Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:49:08 PST)
A note on weedy bulbs prompted by Diane's remark,
"I assume people in your area behave similarly to those here. Those
bulbs didn't leap out of the garden on their own and colonize waste
ground. Instead, people weeded their garden and trundled the weeds
to the nearest public space where they dumped the wheelbarrow full of
whatever they didn't want. That gave the weedy bulbs their start."
We think this must be the only way that a colony of Kniphofia got way out
in the Mt. Hood National Forest at about 4000 feet elevation: somebody
dumping garden debris. As far as I know, it is not spreading.
Jane McGary