Hyacinthoides hispanica subsp. algeriensis

Lee Poulsen wpoulsen@pacbell.net
Tue, 10 Jul 2018 15:04:11 PDT
Are they invasive in every climate? PBS members live in an incredibly wide range of climates. I’m not sure I know of any species that is devilishly invasive in such a wide range of climates. For example, for me the ineliminatable invasive I fear the most is Nothoscordum inodorum in my climate. Literally the only way I can get a halfway decent chance of eliminating it from the ground is by digging up nearly a cubic foot of soil all around it and throwing all of it away in the trash, and never letting any flower head set seed until I do. In pots it survives whether it’s a winter-growing summer-dry pot or a summer-growing winter-dry pot. In pots I have to dump out the pot in a basin, separate out the plant roots or bulb from every bit of the potting soil, and then dump the entire pot of soil mix in the trash. But it does have a nice scent and I hear that it’s not a problem in climates where that have freezing temperatures every winter.

—Lee 

> 
> There are invasive plants that can be eliminated.  Spanish bluebells can’t. I vote “No"
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>> On Jul 8, 2018, at 12:14 PM, Jane McGary <janemcgary@earthlink.net> wrote:
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>> Is "botanical interest" worth taking the chance of distributing an invasive plant?
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