Ornithogalum nutans - weedy?
Diane Whitehead (Sun, 28 Jan 2007 12:22:05 PST)

Many years ago I bought a dozen ornithogalum - maybe umbellatum?
and planted them in an area that I did not disturb. After about 20
years I decided to dig them out and give them to my brother who had
just bought 40 acres. Those bulbs had not moved sideways at all, but
still formed a dozen distinct clumps. The bulbs went down and down
and down, all piled on top of each other. I dug out enough to fill a
5 gallon bucket, and that wasn't all of them.

I have been wary ever since. Ten years ago someone gave me a few
little bulbs of O. nutans and I put them in a pot. I have just
removed them from the pot, to plant in the garden and there are a LOT
more bulbs than I started with. Now I am concerned that nutans may
prove to be as unacceptably prolific as umbellatum.

Advice?

Diane Whitehead