Jane - do tell more about this Kniphofia colony on Mt. Hood - species or hybrid? And do people commonly truck their garden waste up to Mt. Hood? Sounds like a deliberate introduction to me.. Ellen Ellen Hornig Seneca Hill Perennials 3712 County Route 57 Oswego NY 13126 USA http://www.senecahillperennials.com/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jane McGary" <janemcgary@earthlink.net> To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 6:49 PM Subject: Re: [pbs] Ornithogalum - weedy? >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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > >