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Spanish Bluebells
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 Change the .com to .net to email me |
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Spanish Bluebells
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 have had some for a few years. They are spreading, but in Zone 5 they are not invasive. But I gasped when someone in the bonsai group described the murderous behavior of wisteria in Virginia. Iris, Central NY, Zone 5a, Sunset Zone 40 "If we see light at the end of the tunnel, It's the light of the oncoming train." Robert Lowell (1917-1977) |
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Spanish Bluebells
murderous is an understatement. It runs neck and neck with the insidious
kudzu. Kudzu wins hands down, but wisteria will rip the shingles right offa the roof..............g madgardener "Iris Cohen" wrote in message ... 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 have had some for a few years. They are spreading, but in Zone 5 they are not invasive. But I gasped when someone in the bonsai group described the murderous behavior of wisteria in Virginia. Iris, Central NY, Zone 5a, Sunset Zone 40 "If we see light at the end of the tunnel, It's the light of the oncoming train." Robert Lowell (1917-1977) |
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Spanish Bluebells
But I gasped when someone in the bonsai group described the murderous
behavior of wisteria in Virginia. Iris, LOL...it must be the Cat's Claw (pretty yellow flowers, will strangle you in your sleep) of Va. Leslie in New Orleans zemedelec |
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Spanish Bluebells
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 Change the .com to .net to email me 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? |
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Spanish Bluebells
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 Change the .com to .net to email me 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??? Thanks Change the .com to .net to email me |
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Spanish Bluebells
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 Change the .com to .net to email me 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??? Thanks Change the .com to .net to email me 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. |
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