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Plant Identification please
I'm clearing a number of beds and have found hundreds of these bulbs have taken up residence.
Each year I clear the grape hyacinth the best I can but the top growth of these doesn't quite look the same - the leaves seem sturdier - so I dont want to just reject them in car they are something more desirable but I have already filled one wheelbarrow with them and there's three times as many waiting to be dug out of other beds. Any ideas, comments, recommendations please.
And heres a different 'intruder' that appeared at the end of last season and I thought I'd leave to see what happened. Again, any ideas what it is please?
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Hi Birdy
I'd say Spanish bluebells for the bulbs
Possibly Linaria purpurea for the other but less confident on that
In the sticks near Peterborough
i have Linaria purpurea in my garden and it looks just like that when just emerging after winter. It grows quite tall and is very pretty.
Thankyou Nut - I knew I had bluebells in previous years but didnt realise they would proliferate so much.
Am I right our native bluebells are not quite so rampant?
Am I also best advised to scop them out to avoid future problems?
I agree with daydaisy. I have quite a bit of it in the borders and it looks just like yours. It looks very pretty growing though other things, isn't a thug and is easy to pull up if you don't like it.
Sorry daydaisy, our posts crossed.
Do you mean the single plant in my 2nd photo?
They do get about bit Birdy
In the sticks near Peterborough
I have native and Spanish bluebells and have been digging up the invaders for years. I am not winning. At all. I also have Lunaria like yours, which is lovely.
Yes Birdy I did mean the plant in the 2nd photo. The other photo certainly looks like a bluebell but there's only one way to be sure!
The first photo looks like bluebells to me too. I've got them rampaging round my garden despite my best efforts in digging them up!
So far I've managed to keep the spanish ones at bay. There were a few in the garden when I moved in but I dug them up and planted some English ones. So far so good.