Re: Claytonia sibirica, was Spring Bloom
- To: t*@eddy.u-net.com, m*@ucdavis.edu
- Subject: Re: Claytonia sibirica, was Spring Bloom
- From: d* f*
- Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 23:50:05 -0800 (PST)
Tim, I don't know why I suspected this as being weedy,
as it hasn't escaped in my own garden(yet), but the
ease of transplanting it in full bloom made me suspect
it might be a little too easy in wetter conditions.
I'll let you know if it starts acting thuggish in my
garden.
--- Tim Longville <tim@eddy.u-net.com> wrote:
> 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
>
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