Sloppy foliage of Spanish Bluebells
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Comments (13)marquest - it depends on your climate and how much space you have. I am also a gardener and have been since I was a kid. I certainly don't mind doing all the jobs needed to look after a garden and I am definitely not looking for a low maintenance garden. However, Spanish bluebells, although pretty, are a plant which needs due consideration in my climate. They produce dense clumps of thick foliage which overlays other plants and stifles less robust things. They are much coarser leaved and much faster spreading than daffodils. If you have a tiny garden they are space hogs. We have an additional problem here in that they are interbreeding with our native bluebells and the hybrids are beginning to oust the natives in some habitats. The OP asked about English bluebells. In my garden this kind of sight would have vanished if I had not got rid of the Spanish bluebells....See MoreEnglish Bluebells (Hyacinthoides non-scripta)
Comments (21)I am getting into English Bluebells. My first planting have now come back for the third time, so it looks like they will make it. About 50 bulbs. Planted way too late in December. In the North edge of my woods, where the wild ferns flourish. Slope, never soggy. Second planting about 100 bulbs doing fine too. Third planting, bulbs from Holland via Brecks, looking healthy but no flowers yet, and this is high season. My guess is they are from seeds and are just not ready to flower yet. Anyway, the suppliers are sending me a free replacement pack since they promised blooms. I have also ordered another 200. Costing about $50 a hundred incuding shipping. Catch the special offers. I used their 5,10,5 fertiser. Will buy more in bulk locally. I really want thousands of Bluebells, so this year I am messing with seeds. Too early to say anything. I saw English Bluebells at Kew Gardens in London. Wow. That is what I want in my woods, like they have them under trees. I am doing 5x5 patches of 25, about 4 inches between bulbs Hugh...See MoreIdeas on what to plant with Spanish bluebells?
Comments (4)We moved into my parent's-in-laws house 26 years ago when we bought their farm. I have much more extensive gardens than my mother-in-law had but there are a few things here that she grew that I haven't been able to get rid of-a few peonies, jerusalem artichoke and spanish blue bells. The bluebells or wood hyacynths she called them- are only in one small garden alongside my house that never gets enough moisture and even though I try every year to pull them out after they bloom they still keep multiplying. I have dug out hundreds when we fixed the house foundation and that only inspired them to do better. When the blooms are done the foliage falls flat on everything else and then gets slimy. They can't be like other bulbs because I never give the foliage time to die off but they still grow. They whole works gets yanked as soon as the blooms are done. I would never plant them in a flower bed-maybe in the woods or a wide open space that they can multiply in. Very pretty but too invasive for me....See MoreNonblooming English bluebells?
Comments (1)For some reason they aren't budding. Still too young? English bluebells are supposed to be comparatively hard to grow, not like the weedy "Spanish" ones (most vigorous are actually hybrids between the two, perhaps this includes most grown in gardens). Virginia bluebells, of course, are not related to English bluebells....See More
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