Legacy bulbs-desirable plants or weeds
Crawford Neil (Thu, 18 Mar 2010 05:27:48 PDT)
From: "Boyce Tankersley" <btankers@chicagobotanic.org>
Hi Kathleen:
Our experience at CBG strongly suggests that invasiveness is very much a
regional characteristic. For instance in the Chicago area Buckthorn is
invasive but in other regions experiencing a zone 5 climate it is not
Invasiveness is so strange. I had to look up European Buckthorn it's Rhamnus cathartica,
and a plant that we are always pleased to see here in Sweden, it's not rare but the
sort of plant thats worth a special mention. It was first reported during the 1600's,
which means it counts as native. Well well!
/Neil
PS. Still no chance of any plants in our garden, as it's still covered in a decimeter
of snow.