I have Spanish ones, and I have developed a new technique to dealing with them having discovered that they are very deep in the ground and digging them up was proving to be v difficult I am pulling off/cutting off the leaves before they flower with the thought that without the leaves they can't gather the goodness for next year I started last year, and there were definitely less of them this year
I agree with 4thpanda. I had an entire row in my lawn last year and didn't want to dig out my lawn. So from the start of spring I just kept mowing over them. No sign of them this year (not in that area anyway).
I've started the hacking at the leaves technique this year as well. I have managed to dig a fair few of them out over the past couple of years but some of them are so deep!
I actually like the Spanish bluebells, they are reliable and have pretty flowers, both valuable qualities in my garden, and blue is always precious.
However I am rather sadly trying to eradicate them, since I found out about the hybridisation problem, as there is a bluebell wood within bee-flight and I would hate to be the one to destroy it. It would be my fault because I don't think anyone else round here has a garden, (though even non-gardens often have Spanish bluebells!).
I also have plans to establish English bluebells under some ash trees as a new woodland part of my garden. I already have some doing well on a damp grassy bank in my 'dell'. I already had red campion and the wild garlic arrived all on its own as a single seedling, I know not from where, as there is none that I know of growing anywhere in the immediate neighbourhood, though it is plentiful in the Derbyshire Dales. The three together are beautiful and all are thug enough to tough it out without one of them being easily overwhelmed
Funny this post should pop up today. I spent nearly all of yesterday digging the blasted spaniards out of everything!!!
The last person who lived here planted a load of them around the holly tree and while they are pretty they self seed in the other beds, the grass, I've even found them in pots.
I was digging and cursing yesterday. They are easy to dig up but they are all over the garden.
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I have Spanish ones, and I have developed a new technique to dealing with them having discovered that they are very deep in the ground and digging them up was proving to be v difficult
I am pulling off/cutting off the leaves before they flower with the thought that without the leaves they can't gather the goodness for next year 
I started last year, and there were definitely less of them this year 
I've started the hacking at the leaves technique this year as well. I have managed to dig a fair few of them out over the past couple of years but some of them are so deep!
They're that deep you could probably put a pond in their place aym
I actually like the Spanish bluebells, they are reliable and have pretty flowers, both valuable qualities in my garden, and blue is always precious.
However I am rather sadly trying to eradicate them, since I found out about the hybridisation problem, as there is a bluebell wood within bee-flight and I would hate to be the one to destroy it. It would be my fault because I don't think anyone else round here has a garden, (though even non-gardens often have Spanish bluebells!).
I also have plans to establish English bluebells under some ash trees as a new woodland part of my garden. I already have some doing well on a damp grassy bank in my 'dell'. I already had red campion and the wild garlic arrived all on its own as a single seedling, I know not from where, as there is none that I know of growing anywhere in the immediate neighbourhood, though it is plentiful in the Derbyshire Dales. The three together are beautiful and all are thug enough to tough it out without one of them being easily overwhelmed
Aym: Peter Nyssen - English bluebells (Scilla Nutans) available from end of August for autumn planting
Funny this post should pop up today. I spent nearly all of yesterday digging the blasted spaniards out of everything!!!
The last person who lived here planted a load of them around the holly tree and while they are pretty they self seed in the other beds, the grass, I've even found them in pots.
I was digging and cursing yesterday. They are easy to dig up but they are all over the garden.