Todd J. wrote:
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 19:07:37 -0500, spampot wrote:


Todd J. wrote:

Has anyone tried Spanish Bluebells in their garden??? They look like
a good filler for shade/woodland gardens. It looks like they tend to
spread quick maybe even invasive.

I'm in zone 6B.

Thanks


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I haven't tried it, but I moved into an old house with a very neglected
garden (I too am in zone 6B, in Maryland; where are you?), and there
were a lot of Spanish bluebells there. But they hadn't spread anywhere
near the amount that the grape hyacinth and daffodils had. My mother in
Alexandria has had them for years, too, and since she asked me for some
of mine, I assume they're not at all invasive. Want some of mine?



I live in Southeast Tennessee on a mountain. Hence the zone 6b. Are
they a pretty flower???? Do they bloom and go away quickly???? Like
tulips???

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I think they're pretty, very scilla-like. Look up Hyacinthoides
hispanica (I am not sure of the word endings), wood hyacinth, or spanish
bluebell on the web. They bloom and hang around nicely for a while, the
way "regular" hyacinth does -- not like tulips. I don't care for "real"
hyacinth myself, too stiff and colors too Easter-eggy; they remind me of
plastic flowers in graveyards. Like a lot of other bulbs, they
multiply, so if you dig them up and spread them out every several years,
you'll have a nice display. You see them mostly in a soft
lavendar-blue, although I have a white and a pale pink clump (Mom keeps
hinting about those, but they're mine, mine mine! at least until they
get crowded enough to divide.