Bluebells grrrrrr! ID Photo please?!

dbrookf

Any tips for getting rid of these nuisances – they are popping up everywhere despite us trying to get rid of them last year – those roots go so deep!!

greenbee

Native or spanish?

dbrookf

greenbee wrote: »

Native or spanish?

No idea but I suspect not native 🙄

greenbee

https://www.bbowt.org.uk/blog/kate-titford/how-tell-native-bluebell-rest

If native, then learn to love them. I can't get them to grow, so you're very lucky.

If spanish, I've tried everything. I just keep digging them up every year and gradually there are fewer of them.

Davesnave

What exactly is the problem with them? Round my way the woods are full of bluebells and people pay to visit some of the more picturesque, extensive ones.

Now if you were talking bindweed, or even cleavers......

dbrookf

Davesnave wrote: »

What exactly is the problem with them? Round my way the woods are full of bluebells and people pay to visit some of the more picturesque, extensive ones.

Now if you were talking bindweed, or even cleavers......

Beautiful in woods yes - not in my borders where they pop up through other plants and spread like wildfire 🤬🤬

-taff

Deep roots? I thought they grew from bulbs....Dig up the bulbs, keep digging the bulbs, don't allow them to set seed, job done?
Or am I missing something?

dbrookf

Their roots go really deep and snap off 🙄
Here is a photo - can someone confirm that they are actually bluebells?!

https://postimg.cc/CZRMMLLt

Farway

dbrookf wrote: »

Their roots go really deep and snap off 🙄
Here is a photo - can someone confirm that they are actually bluebells?!

https://postimg.cc/CZRMMLLt

Yep, bluebells

couriervanman

Corner of my back garden by tree has loads of the little sods.......keep clearing them every year but no difference

Sky_

dbrookf wrote: »

Their roots go really deep and snap off 🙄
Here is a photo - can someone confirm that they are actually bluebells?!

https://postimg.cc/CZRMMLLt

They do grow from bulbs, but bulbs do indeed have roots.


Bluebells won't grow from the roots alone, so if you remove all the white bulbs (they will range from tiny to around walnut sized), then the bluebells won't return.