I inherited the dreaded Spanish bluebell (Hyacinthoides campanulata) with my present home and have no more luck than Diane getting rid of it. I pull off the whole tops while weeding in the spring, which doesn't kill them but I hope annoys them. I can't spot-spray them because of good plants close by. I don't think herbicides affect it, anyway. I may be fighting it as long as I'm on my feet. The laurel bushes were here too -- some hope on those -- and I did get rid of the Pfitzer junipers and arborvitae hedge, and the nasty little row of boxwood balls. This garden was a compendium of "what everybody plants and nobody should." Okay, I know some of you like boxwood, but I can't stand the smell of it. Jane McGary, Portland, Oregon, USA On 4/19/2020 11:25 AM, Diane Whitehead via pbs wrote: > Fifty years ago a generous neighbour gave my small daughter a bunch of bluebells she had just dug up. I had happy memories of picking them in the woods across from my childhood home, so we planted them. > > Now I have a half acre of them, despite years of snapping off the flowers before they set seed and digging them out - every year a bucketful of bulbs would go in the trash but this year there will be a lot more. I am determined to get rid of them. > > I have a bit of help - deer like to eat them, but just the leaves - the bulbs are still down there multiplying. > > I fork them out from most of the yard, but they are growing solidly around some of my rhododendrons, and digging out the bluebells will kill those rhodos. > > Any suggestions? > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…