Topic: A bit of reading for you all

[ACE]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/3293948/Country-notebook-bulb-imposters.html

As we has some new ones amongst us and also a few seed scatterers. Here is a article that is a few years old but still counts today. We will all be planting bulbs about now, so be a bit careful what you plant.

[Robert_Brenchley]

The article's actually incorrect saying that native bluebells 'never' grow in pasture. They're extremely persistent, and can sometimes be found long after the woodland they originally grew in has disappeared. But it's perfectly right to say that anyone tempted to plant bluebells should be extremely careful.

[rosebud]

We have Bluebells, by the hundred in our garden very soon to go in the greenbag, we are rotavating the ground anyone live in Suffolk that wants to collect any? you are welcome self dig i am afraid.

[valmarg]

Like you Rosebud, we have hundreds of (English) bluebell bulbs.  The rear boundary of our property was an old hedgerow, beech, damson holly, hawthorn, etc, and bluebells.

The problem with them is that they are a bit of a thug, hence the bluebell meadows.

The ones we have have been seeding down, and are going to have to be drastically culled.

On a warm Spring morning the scent of them as you step out into the garden is wonderful, but you can have too much of a good thing.

So if anyone in the Staffordshire Moorlands area would like some bluebell bulbs you are more than welcome.

valmarg