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Bluebells - not spreading
BenDover
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I planted some bluebells around 4/5 years ago, and although the ones I planted come up every year, they have not spread at all. I was warned when I planted them that they would take over the garden in a few years, but they've not done anything like that. I'd have liked them to spread around a little bit. I have them in a shaded area of the garden (which I thought would be ideal being a woodland plant). The soil is light loam. The ground does not get too dry nor too wet. Any ideas?
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Have you let them seed and not hoed off the seedlings? They're tiny and grass-like when they start
In the sticks near Peterborough
I don't recall seeing the seedlings in the spring. I don't cut the flower heads off when they go over in the hope that they will self seed. I take it that they don't spread by bulb division like Crocosmia, say?
Yes, they do that as well but the new bits take a year or so to start flowering
In the sticks near Peterborough
Personally I would consider myself lucky.