"kay" wrote in message
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Stewart Robert Hinsley;886817 Wrote:


I would expect that mowing would weaken and eventually eliminate them
from lawns.

Otherwise you can reduce the numbers by separating the bulbs from the
soil when digging (and selling them on Ebay?), and then control them by

weeding them out where they're not wanted when they appear in subsequent

years.

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Stewart Robert Hinsley

I'd be hesitant about selling them on ebay. There's been a lot of
trouble in recent years of unscrupulous people digging up large
quantities of bluebells from native bluebell woods for sale to outlets
who are not fussy about their sources. Making your own bluebells
available for free (eg Freegle) helps to reduce that market, selling
them has the opposite effect.

Taking off the leaves wherever you see them means that they are not
going to be able to build up their bulb, and each year that they produce
leaves only to have you whip them all off is going to weaken the bulb -
as Stewart says, eventually they should give up.

I suspect they are of the Spanish sort.
In which case dig them up and burn them.