eliminating Spanish bluebells

Laura Grant via pbs pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net
Tue, 21 Apr 2020 06:57:17 PDT
Thank you Randal,
Where are you located? I do not have your email address.
Laura at lauragrant1947@gmail.com

On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 9:37 PM Randall P. Linke via pbs <
pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote:

> I have an abundance of  Hycinthoides non-scripta in my garden.  Contact me
> privately and I can send you a quantity once they go dormant.
>
> On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 1:57 PM Laura Grant via pbs <
> pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote:
>
> > Diane,
> > If those were English bluebells (Hycinthoides non-scripta), I would beg
> for
> > a bucket full ( I would pay for postage). I spent a lot of money buying
> all
> > that was available at the Parksville rhododendron conference last fall.
> > They are not so easy to come by in large quantities. I am planting them
> in
> > my orchard of rare fruit trees. Robert has deciduous azaleas in between
> my
> > fruit trees, so he calls my "orchard" an azalea garden.
> > Laura
> > Niagara on the Lake
> >
> > On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 2:25 PM Diane Whitehead via pbs <
> > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> 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?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Diane Whitehead        Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
> > > cool mediterranean climate  warm dry summers, mild wet winters  70 cm
> > > rain,   sandy soil
> > >
> > >
> > >
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