Pesky bluebells

Thanks. I got rid of some today and will keep working at it. I was hoping there was a spray of some sort to kill them!

If you don’t want them to spread further pull the stems and seed pods out before they ripen and spread more seeds no

I love my garden full of bluebells they don’t flower that long and then the lily of the valley take over the garden I love my garden doing just what it likes, this year I ve got loads of Valarian that I ve never planted!!

I think all you can do is get a long ‘dibber’ type tool and dig down with it until you reach the bulb, and get the bulb out. Just tackle a few at a time from the outer edges of where they’ve spread to and gradually work backwards/inwards. We’ve got the same problem !

The rampant rogues in my garden are English bluebells. The original patch is now almost non existent but other areas in the garden have large patches. I thought birds must have picked up a couple of bulbs and dropped them but not now, given the extent of spread and the size of the patches. I do live beside a woodland with bluebells but the spread is ridiculous

They are quite big and some are white. They are Spanish. English bluebells are never white.

If they are Spanish bluebells they have flowers on both sides of the stem, English ones only on one side. Spanish ones are hard to eliminate, but you can definitely reduce them if you dig out the clumps, then keep chopping back the foliage every time you see it appear. Don’t let them seed either, or new ones will pop up in different parts of your garden - I speak from experience.

I’m not sure what kind they are. They are quite big and some are white.

I’m assuming these are Spanish or hybrid bluebells - I would never want to remove native English bluebells. I read that you can weaken them by removing the leaves as soon as they appear. If you dig the bulbs up squash them flat and don’t put them in the compost.

Beastly Spanish ones are such thugs!

If they English Bluebells you can get them out quite easily but if they are Spanish Bluebells they are bigger and tougher. I dislike the Spanish ones but love the delicate English ones. Unfortunately both are almost impossible to remove completely you just have to keep digging them out.