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What have I unearthed?
Hi all,
I have been tidying up under the bees berry bush and unearthed a whole bunch of bulbs and white roots I wasn't expecting to find.
They look like they're sprouting already to could they be onions rather than flowers?
Bury six inches down or have the plant bits poking above ground?
I also unearthed a cherry tree that has been dormant for a few years hidden behind the bush, but had to sever teo main roots - is it still viable?
Im hoping to pot it.
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Also pulled out six cherry laurels, could I just rehome them in the front garden?
Don't know what the bulbs are (pretty sure they're not onions though), but the smaller plants seem to have fibrous roots and the bigger one is always worth a try. I'm a great believer in giving it a go - possible free plants!
You could always pot up the little ones if you prefer & keep an eye on them then if/ when roots appear out of the bottom of the pots, plant them out in Spring .
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The bulbs resemble the Spanish Bluebell (Hyacinthoides hispanicus) ; very invasive and hybridises with our native Bluebell . Best to get rid !
oh the saga of dug up bulbs! it happens to us all when we are messing about in the garden. Some bulbs are pretty obvious - crocus - daffodills and so on, but there are many that are easily confusible. My solution is to pot them up and top the pot with a little gravel so that rain does not disturb the soil. I then sink the pots in a bit of unused garden and wait and see what comes up. You can then site the pots exactly where you think they ought to be and plant the contents out.
Personally I would bin the cherry - you have no idea what variety it is and it will take years to grow into anything worthwhile.
If you want cherry laurel, those bits should grow away and give you a hedge.
The cherry looks fine. Replant it and keep it well watered next spring and summer. It’s probably a seedling though so will possibly get large eventually.
I have to put discs or chicken wire over the the pots with the spring bulbs in. The B squirrels find it a good place to bury their peanuts and in the process the bulbs get thrown out of the pots.
Stick the "found" bulbs in a spare pot to see what comes up. dump them if they are very invasive.
As for the cherry laurel I would not touch it with a barge pole particularly as I have small grandchildren.
"Ingesting any part of the poisonous plant, especially the leaves or seeds, can cause potentially fatal respiratory problems."
I have filled a lot of raised beds this year and quite where my daffodils will be next year I do not know. A surprise in store.
'You must have some bread with it me duck!'
Yes, I've got a huge cherry laurel - these are doubtless it's offspring. I've posted other threads with the huge amount of work still ongoing to tidy it all up. However the front garden needs some bushes so they'll do if they can survive. It's a harsh bed with rubble about six inches down, so they've got their work cut out
The cherry tree I've put in a bucket for now, I don't know how big a pot I will need.
The bulbs have gone in to my wall bed, with chicken wire over. Tips sticking out. I doubt their bluebells, I'm sure I'd have noticed them before. I put my fork in and out popped a mass of bulbs, 23 by my count.
the joys of gardening