Old bulbs from under newly laid turf...

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  15 March

  Just keep mowing them when yiu mow the lawn. They’ll die off after a while because they need green leaves to photosynthesise in order to grow. 
  

  
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• Rubytoo Posts: 1,630

  16 March

  What Dove said, and don't let them flower (although it sounds like you would not want them to anyway), as they might seed themselves.
  
  

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• mmunro2303 Posts: 15

  17 March

  Thanks for the reply both... I think we will the keep lawn cut and reduce the photosynthesise to the plant leaves. We will try and dig up or treat the bulbs in the soil borders with a Glyphosate solution. Incidentally the broad leaved bulb plant in the lawn is lords-and-ladies (Arum maculatum) also commonly known as cuckoo pint?

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  17 March

  Regular repeated mowing will deal with Cuckoo Pint. The plants appear in early spring and the leaves die down before summer arrives anyway. 

  
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• mmunro2303 Posts: 15

  18 March

  Ok, thanks once again. Will mow again as soon as dry enough!

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