[pbs] Kniphofia on Mt. Hood?
Ellen Hornig
hornig at usadatanet.net
Mon Jan 29 07:12:28 EST 2007
Jane - do tell more about this Kniphofia colony on Mt. Hood - species or
hybrid? And do people commonly truck their garden waste up to Mt. Hood?
Sounds like a deliberate introduction to me..
Ellen
Ellen Hornig
Seneca Hill Perennials
3712 County Route 57
Oswego NY 13126 USA
www.senecahillperennials.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jane McGary" <janemcgary at earthlink.net>
To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 6:49 PM
Subject: Re: [pbs] Ornithogalum - weedy?
>A note on weedy bulbs prompted by Diane's remark,
> "I assume people in your area behave similarly to those here. Those
>>bulbs didn't leap out of the garden on their own and colonize waste
>>ground. Instead, people weeded their garden and trundled the weeds
>>to the nearest public space where they dumped the wheelbarrow full of
>>whatever they didn't want. That gave the weedy bulbs their start."
>
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> We think this must be the only way that a colony of Kniphofia got way out
> in the Mt. Hood National Forest at about 4000 feet elevation: somebody
> dumping garden debris. As far as I know, it is not spreading.
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> Jane McGary
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