eliminating Spanish bluebells

Randall P. Linke via pbs pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net
Sun, 19 Apr 2020 18:36:57 PDT
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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