{"id":3178,"date":"2019-09-11T00:11:46","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T07:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/pal\/pal-question-810\/"},"modified":"2023-08-09T09:51:54","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T16:51:54","slug":"invasiveness-status-of-alstroemeria-in-the-pnw","status":"publish","type":"pal","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/pal\/invasiveness-status-of-alstroemeria-in-the-pnw\/","title":{"rendered":"invasiveness status of Alstroemeria in the PNW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I&#8217;ve just been given two pots of <em>Alstroemeria psittacina<\/em> &#8216;Variegata,&#8217; a lovely red variety. Is this particular variety invasive here in the Pacific Northwest? I&#8217;ve grown the orange ones and then they took over&#8211;very hard to eradicate from beds. Does anyone know if the red ones are as invasive?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacificbulbsociety.org\/pbswiki\/index.php\/Alstroemeria\">Pacific Bulb Society<\/a> lists this species under its previous name, Alstroemeria pulchella, and says it is weedy in some gardens and barely survives in others. <em>Alstroemeria psittacina<\/em> may be officially listed as invasive in some areas (in Australia, for example), but even if not officially designated as such, it may grow aggressively. This listing on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.floridata.com\/ref\/A\/alst_psi.cfm\">Floridata<\/a> website, describes it as follows:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a seductive plant. It is colorful, unusual, and exotic looking and effortless to grow once you get it going. Every gardener I know who has seen it has wanted it, begged a start, then nurtured it and delighted in it &#8211; for a few years. Then every one of them has come to curse the way it spreads and taken to ripping it out with a vengeance. Perhaps its best use is as breeding stock for developing more spectacular and less troublesome varieties of Alstroemeria.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What you could do is grow your plants in a container, to avoid potential problems with weediness. I think aggressive spreading should be assumed with this genus unless otherwise specified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just been given two pots of Alstroemeria psittacina &#8216;Variegata,&#8217; a lovely red variety. Is this particular variety invasive here in the Pacific Northwest? I&#8217;ve grown the orange ones and then they took over&#8211;very hard to eradicate from beds. Does anyone know if the red ones are as invasive? &nbsp; The Pacific Bulb Society lists this species under its previous name, Alstroemeria pulchella, and says it is weedy in some gardens and barely survives in others. Alstroemeria psittacina may be&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/pal\/invasiveness-status-of-alstroemeria-in-the-pnw\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">invasiveness status of Alstroemeria in the PNW<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","keyword":[519,44],"class_list":["post-3178","pal","type-pal","status-publish","hentry","keyword-alstroemeria","keyword-invasive-plants"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pal\/3178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pal"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/pal"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=3178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}