Claytonia sibirica, was Spring Bloom
- To: m*@ucdavis.edu
- Subject: Claytonia sibirica, was Spring Bloom
- From: T* L*
- Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 21:52:22 +0100
Beware, beware! When David wrote something to the effect of, 'May not
be so well behaved in cooler climates,' he didn't say the half - or
indeed the hundredth - of it. In a mild but cool moist climate like
that of most of the western coastline of the UK, Claytonia is a
pernicious weed. OK, a pretty enough one, I confess. But it leaps and
gallops about any shady corner with such irrepressible vigour - a sort
of Chlorophyll Gene Kelly - that it would be a brave or foolish
gardener or one with many acres to spare who'd ever invite it in. Even
in my wee patch, when I *was* brave or foolish enough to do so, it
took me years to expel it, once I'd realised there was no way I could
control it or confine it what I (but not it) thought were its
quarters.
Tim Longville
