On Fri, 9 May 2003 08:14:39 +0100, "Ophelia"
wrote:

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~"Anthony E Anson" wrote in message
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~ The message
~ from (Nick Maclaren) contains these words:
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~ But they don't migrate. Dig up the parent bulb and you get the bulbules
~ with it.
~
~ Only if you remove a large lump of topsoil, too. If you have ever
~ tried to get rid of bluebells, you will know how hard it is to do.
~
~ I transplanted all the bulbs from a bed last winter (Including some
~ bluebells) and the only ones which escaped my notice were a few
~ kinadoxae and some juvenile grape hyacinth. And it's not as if the soil
~ in my new plot is exactly friable - yet.
~
~Ahaaaaaaaaa I will swap you montbretia for bluebells
~
~O
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~
SO WILL I!!!!!!
(as long as they are non-scripta!)


--
jane

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone,
you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
Mark Twain

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