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White bluebells

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  • FirecrackerFirecracker Posts: 256
    I'd like to replace ours with English bluebells! But we have too many to dig out, I don't think I could manage it.
  • Our local suburban nature reserve has a pretty mix of blue  & white


    So the ones in my garden are definitely staying

  • DampGardenManDampGardenMan Posts: 1,054
    I'd like to replace ours with English bluebells! But we have too many to dig out, I don't think I could manage it.
    Just pull the leaves and, especially, the flowers off. They'll give up eventually!
  • InglezinhoInglezinho Posts: 568
    Albinism, which is the technical name for this, is uncommon in the plant world, as it is in humans, who generally have white hair and red eyes, though much less so. It is a harmless genetic abnormality, which does not damage the genetic stock and any albino plants which cross-breed with "normal" plants will be perfectly healthy and probably revert to their original coloring. It has nothing to do with "English" or "Spanish" bluebells. This is a red herring. Please forgive the pun.
    Everyone likes butterflies. Nobody likes caterpillars.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    @Inglezinho ... I think that what you are saying is that there are white English bluebells and white Spanish ones. 
    The point that the OP needs to establish is whether his bluebells are English or Spanish?

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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