Re: Psoralea pinnata

Hi all,
This plant does beautifully in San Francisco without a
whole lot of extra water, does not reseed as far as
I've seen, and the sapphire flowers can have a
wonderful fragrance. 
Jason Dewees

--- Tony and Moira Ryan <tomory@xtra.co.nz> wrote:
> Irene Kuffel wrote:
>  > Hello all,
>  >
>  > I made an impulse buy of a psoralea pinnata this
> weekend, and now, in
>  > researching its care on the web, I see that it
> shows up in a few weed
>  > compendiums, though without any information as to
> exactly how it is
>  > invasive. (Wouldn't it be nice if nurseries and
> plant sales provided
>  > online access, so one could google _before_
> buying. :-)))
>  >
>  > It's native to S. Africa, and does seem to be
> cultivated in Australia
>  > and NZ, so perhaps some of you in the So.
> hemisphere can advise? Is
>  > it only invasive in wet lands? I'm nowhere close
> to streams, and plan
>  > on putting it in a fairly dry area - will it
> flourish on low water?
> 
>   Irene
> Regarding NZ experience with Psoralea, Though I
> haven't grown it myself
> because the suburb I live in is slightly too frosty
> for its liking, my
> son in Wellington has had one for some time. You may
> he interested to 
> konw it was a seedling from his Mother-in-Law's
> garden not far way. She 
> had a heavy natural seeding in her garden one year
> and gave many away.
> 
> Judging by what your other correspondents have said
> it does appear to be 
> be happiest in moist soil, but in Nicks garden has
> grown vigorously 
> though his soil is only a little better than beach
> sand and subject to a 
> good deal of drying wind. He has noticed though that
> it appears to be 
> very greedy of water and sucks so much out of the
> soil nothing else will 
> grow in its root zone. The garden it came from is
> certainly more 
> sheltered and has I think heavier soil as it is
> further back from the 
> sea, but it certainly would not be really moist as
> it is well up on the 
> side of a hill. What triggered the germination I
> don't know, but it was 
> in an inner city garden and was certainly not caused
> by either fire or 
> ingestion by any animal, unless possibly some sort
> of bird (but that 
> surely would have been more likely to get rid of it
> elsewhere after time 
> for digestion!).
> 
> Nick's plant has grown leggy as Glen mentions, but
> forms quite a neat 
> parasol-like canopy at its chosen height. It
> certainly is beautiful when 
> in flower.
> 
> Moira
> -- 
> Tony & Moira Ryan,
> Wainuiomata, North Island, NZ.     Pictures of our
> garden at:-
>
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/cherie1/Garden/TonyandMoira/index.htm
> NEW PICTURES ADDED 4/Feb/2004
>
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