Ornithogalum nutans - weedy?

Jane McGary janemcgary@earthlink.net
Sun, 28 Jan 2007 16:30:36 PST
Diane Whitehead asked,
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.

I've heard that O. nutans is invasive in some European gardens, but I've 
been growing it here in Oregon for about 15 years (received from a seed 
exchange under the misnomer O. arcuatum) and it has not spread at all. It 
may be better-behaved in a summer-dry climate. On the other hand, I also 
grow O. umbellatum, naturalized in rough grass and not watered in summer, 
and it has never appeared anywhere else either.

Jane McGary
Northwestern Oregon, USA



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