Re: allium
- Subject: Re: allium
- From: T* a* M* R*
- Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 08:27:19 +1300
Christine Caliandro wrote:
>
> Is there another name for Allium triquetrum? I tried to mark it in my
> Sunset Western Garden Book but could not find a listing.
> Christine Caliandro
> Santa Rosa, CA
Hi Christine
The only thing anybody here bothers to call it is Onion Weed. it is
indeed a pestilential weed, spreading inexorably through shrubberies and
flowerbeds with its close set clumps and even trying to colonise lawns
(though reasonably easy to defeat there by regular close mowing.) I know
all about getting rid of it, having come across it in numerous
properties when I had my garden maintenance business. Should you ever
have the need, I can give you a very effective plan of eradication I
worked out myself, which will actually get rid of it in a couple of
years, though not always prevent reinfestation from the neighbours!
It just happens not to have got much of a hold in my suburb and has
never appeared in my street as far as I know, and I for one intend to
keep it so.
Incidently, many other ornamental and useful Alliums, while not
uncontrollable, can do with watching, as they can also become a
nuisence. Most often the spread seems to be largely by seed, so
deadheading is advisable. Two which I prefer to deadhead for this
reaason are A. neapolitanum and Chinese (onion) chives.
Moira
--
Tony & Moira Ryan
Wainuiomata NZ,
where it's Summer in January and Winter in July.
