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Hybrid or Native Blue Bell ?

judyshannonrtce31bGjudyshannonrtce31bG Posts: 3
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Hybrid or Native Bluebell?

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  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    Natives have the flowers growing on one side of the stem and curve down at the top. Is there any scent? Natives are scented. I've only seen blue natives but I don't know if they can be white.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Thats a Spanish one,  the leaves are much thicker and the flowers stand up,  English don’t. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • judyshannonrtce31bGjudyshannonrtce31bG Posts: 3
    thanks. So common to have 1 white one in among the blue ?
  • parkgatemanparkgateman Posts: 50
    I cannot get rid of my Spanish bluebells  !!  we noticed we had some white ones among them so left them , we also have pink which we leave alone . Every year as soon as I  notice the blue flowers the spade is out . I think the more I dig the more it spreads .
  • a1154a1154 Posts: 1,108
    They are a total pain. Why do you leave the white and pink? Hoik them all out. 
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    I get white sports in my English wild bluebells.  I once moved  all whites together, but they didn't like the move.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • RedwingRedwing Posts: 1,511
    I've occasionally seen white native bluebells in ancient woods but they are pretty rare.
    Based in Sussex, I garden to encourage as many birds to my garden as possible.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I've seen the odd white sport of natives too - often on lowers slopes of hills, where fortunately the invaders haven't got a hold...or not yet anyway.
    They're fairly common round here as well, although there's also a lot of the Spanish crossed variants too. The native ones are getting pushed out in a lot of sites, which is a great pity. 

    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited May 2023
    When I say I get white sports, only one in a few hundred thousand.

     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • Balgay.HillBalgay.Hill Posts: 1,089
    bédé said:
    When I say I get white sports, only one in a few hundred thousand.

    So you have hundreds of thousands in your garden?
    Sunny Dundee
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