Re: allium

I'm coming in late on this conversation (typical!) but the ID I'd come 
up with in my Sunset Western Garden book is Leucojum Aestivum, 
commom name Snowflake (definitely NOT to be confused with 
Snowdrop!). At least, the line drawing sure looks like this little pest. 
And, true to Sunset Western Garden book form, there is NO 
mention of its true nature. 

Chris - THGA, off to admire this Spring's crop of Oxalis . . .  :-P

> 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.
> 
> 
>
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