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English vs Spanish bluebells

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  • xNxN Posts: 9

    I have a load of Spanish Bluebells that have grown somehow in full sun in just gravel... they're out there right now. They've been in full bloom for ages now image

  • Kitty 2Kitty 2 Posts: 5,150

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    This is one of the ones I referred to earlier in the thread. I'd dug them up and stuck them in a pot thinking I had Spanish, maybe I was wrong.

    Thin leaves, dark blue flower, droopy stem, yellow anthers.

    What do you think?

    (Hope the photo works it's my first since the change, had to take it inside as the breeze was blowing them around and making them fuzzy on screen)

  • Kitty 2Kitty 2 Posts: 5,150
    treehugger80 says:

     

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     this is English blue bell, see the darker blue almost purple colour, the anthers inside the more tubular flower are yellow

    and the drooping tip of the flower stem, 

    See original pos

     

  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,904

    I read somewhere about the poistion of the bells on the stem but I'm old and it was last year so I forget. Give it a Google.

  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,904
    aym280

    14 Apr 2016 08:55

    Thank you, Hollie. I hope so. I love anything that is rough, big and visually stunning.

    Me too aym but what kind of plants do you have? image

  • Ladybird4Ladybird4 Posts: 37,900

    I have been  trying to get rid of Spanish bluebells for 20+ years (as well as the wild type crocosmia) but thats another thread, and I've gracefully admitted defeat. It does mean that I do not feel too guilty when I remove some to plant other perennials in their place

    Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
  • iceice Posts: 332
    Kitty 2 says:
    image

    This is one of the ones I referred to earlier in the thread. I'd dug them up and stuck them in a pot thinking I had Spanish, maybe I was wrong.

    Thin leaves, dark blue flower, droopy stem, yellow anthers.

    What do you think?

    (Hope the photo works it's my first since the change, had to take it inside as the breeze was blowing them around and making them fuzzy on screen)

    See original post

     Kitty I think you have a hybrid? Apparently British one only appear one side of the stem. Yours look all way round

  • Kitty 2Kitty 2 Posts: 5,150

    Thanks ice.

    Hybrid eh, image

    I was getting hopeful when it matched treehuggers description.

    Shame, I was hoping to keep a few in pots to keep them under control.

  • iceice Posts: 332

    I've the same problem. After reading this think green bin may be in use

    http://www.plantlife.org.uk/about_us/faq/bluebells

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