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Produce => Non Edible Plants => Topic started by: ACE on November 13, 2008, 16:51:34

Title: A bit of reading for you all
Post by: ACE on November 13, 2008, 16:51:34
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/3293948/Country-notebook-bulb-imposters.html (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.
Title: Re: A bit of reading for you all
Post by: Robert_Brenchley on November 13, 2008, 19:40:02
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.
Title: Re: A bit of reading for you all
Post by: rosebud on November 13, 2008, 21:08:52
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.
Title: Re: A bit of reading for you all
Post by: valmarg on November 14, 2008, 19:16:38
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


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