I don't get any bluebells in my garden but this year there are loads
of them. They look to be real Hyacinthoides non-scripta rather then
the hybrid. It's the first year they have grown. I didn't plant them
but I'm not complaining.

Steve

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On 09/05/2014 15:02, Stephen Wolstenholme wrote:
I don't get any bluebells in my garden but this year there are loads
of them. They look to be real Hyacinthoides non-scripta rather then
the hybrid. It's the first year they have grown. I didn't plant them
but I'm not complaining.

Steve

It's not difficult to tell the difference, unless the hybrid leans much
more towards the native bluebell than the Spanish one.

I'm trying to eradicate hundreds of the things in the garden where we
moved in 2012. I keep spraying them with glyphosate, and dig them out
where possible. The bulbs go down really deep, though - perhaps 25 cm.
The only thing in their favour is that they make surprisingly long-lived
cut flowers, with long stems if you carefully pull them out. They last
at least 14 days (although the colour fades with time), and can be up to
80 cm long.

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Jeff

In article , lid
says...

It's not difficult to tell the difference, unless the hybrid leans much
more towards the native bluebell than the Spanish one.

I'm trying to eradicate hundreds of the things in the garden where we
moved in 2012.

I don't want to dishearten you but I've been trying to eradicate the
Spanish one for 12 years and here they are again, as thick and healthy
and covered in flowers as ever :-) In all that time they have never been
allowed to set seed. I want to get rid of them because they are
competing (and still spreading) in a snowdrop/hellebore/primrose/fern
bed.
As soon as the flowers begin to go over (before they set seed) I pull
out every flower and leaf above ground.. you'd think those bulbs would
have starved to death by now :-(

Janet