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RE: Thysanotus pattersonii

Thysanotus patersonii:
I checked in Encyclopedia Botanica (an Australian Natives general
reference)

"prefers light to medium well drained soils in an open sunny position
and is drought and frost resistant.
Perrenial species to 0.8 M and 0.5 M wide, stem is weak twining and
spiraling, propagation is by seed."

This is about the same for all the Thysanotus species in the book, they
are quite something in the bush and while you can get the seed here I've
never bothered trying to grow them as they are quite fragile and would
need more protection than my dog would allow!  They would pobably not
like the soil around the base to be disturbed so a mulch to keep weeds
down would be best, many of these natives do not compete well against
weeds and rapdily disappear from bush as the weeds move in.
I would also suspect that you should not apply excess fertiliser to this
species.
Most Western Australian natives grow in extremely poor soils and too
much fertiliser can actually kill some species (Phosphorus and Banksias
for example) or they may grow like mad then suddenly die (Excess
Nitrogen and Eucalypts) it's a balancing act that you don't really need
to push, apply less than a species can use and there should be no
problems, if in doubt, don't!
I use 3 month slow release fertilisers once a year over the whole
garden.
Never had a plant die on me yet once it was established, and I don't
water over summer, it's all rainfed.
Rod Randall
Weed Risk Assessment
Weed Science Group
Agriculture Western Australia

>----------
>From: 	Phil Stevens
>Sent: 	Tuesday, 28 January 1997 11:56 PM
>To: 	Indoor Gardening; Medit-Plants; Seeds
>Subject: 	Thysanotus pattersonii
>
>Anyone know anything about this plant (aka twining fringe lily)?  Propagation
>information,in particular, would be great.  It's Western Australian, weird,
>and gorgeous.  I've seen one picture (on Ben Richardson's web
>site--http://www.iinet.net.au/~naib/natives/native.html), and a search of the
>B&T World Seeds list turns it up, but I'd love to find a source of plants or,
>failing that, a US source for seed.
>
>Any information at all would be most appreciated.
>
>TIA,
>
>Phil
>
>
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