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These are growing outside the allotment gates in done, are they English, Spanish or Hybrid Bluebells?
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They have any scent? How wide are the leaves?sigpic
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1574 gin and tonics please Monica, large ones.Comment
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Yes!Originally posted by Jay-ell View Post
Seriously, they look English but you need to check the pollen colour for confirmation. Creamy white is native, blue/green is not.
Bluebells ~ Hyacinthoides – Cumbria BotanyComment
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Hey learnt something at 21.50 - didn't know that pollen colour was the confirmation - I've got some customers in the front garden that will need checking..sigpic
1574 gin and tonics please Monica, large ones.Comment
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Its not as easy as it sounds! I have a garden full, mostly native but there are foreigners amongst them. They look chunkier, like puny hyacinths I think!Comment
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For some reason I didn't noticeOriginally posted by Baldy View Post
May have to dig up the bluebells on the plot (not these ones) as it looks like they are Spanish and too close to these (20 yards) just in caseOriginally posted by veggiechicken View Post
New all singing all dancing blog - Jasons Jungle
�I have not failed 1,000 times. I have successfully discovered 1,000 ways to NOT make a light bulb."
― Thomas A. Edison
�Negative results are just what I want. They�re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don�t.�
― Thomas A. Edison
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have to agree with VC - they look English but further investigation required - good links supplied.
I have a garden full of pure Spanish ones - no confusion at all! I've noticed the bulbs of Spanish ones are larger, but that may just be anecdotal to me.Another happy Nutter...
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They look to me more like English ones too - a bit droopy with the bells hanging on one side of the stem. I think Spanish ones are more upright with bells all around the stem.Last edited by Zelenina; 03-05-2017, 10:24 PM.Comment
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I have been wondering what mine are for some time
Looks Like I shall need a closer look
I had taken these to post and ask the question about how to tell the difference, but had not got around to it, so this thread is very useful.Comment
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That's true here as well.Originally posted by happyhumph View Post
Years ago I planted English ones at one end of the garden, but there is a now clump of (unplanted) Spanish ones at the other end. These also flower earlier than the English ones, despite being in a shadier spot.
Nowadays, as I'm digging if I find 'big bulbs' in the wrong place I move them to be with their mates - I haven't the heart to throw them away, I just try to keep them apart.Comment
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OH well they were in the garden when I moved in 25 years ago, but I laid paving where they were and transplanted them around the stepping stones that lead to the storage sheds on the left of the left shed. The grass always dies there so I have crocus, short daffs, snow drops and then finally bluebells come up. Once that lot have gone I re sow the grass along that strip each year.Originally posted by Zelenina View Post
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These will be Spanish then
My mum has offered to adopt them in her garden.
New all singing all dancing blog - Jasons Jungle
�I have not failed 1,000 times. I have successfully discovered 1,000 ways to NOT make a light bulb."
― Thomas A. Edison
�Negative results are just what I want. They�re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don�t.�
― Thomas A. Edison
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Funnily enough I had the same conversation with my OH this afternoon. I've been digging up spanish bluebells for days - but today I found some that look rather like yours Jay, I also thought they might be hybrids - they're not spanish but not quite fully english either!Comment
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