I have an abundance of Hycinthoides non-scripta in my garden. Contact me privately and I can send you a quantity once they go dormant. On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 1:57 PM Laura Grant via pbs < pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > Diane, > If those were English bluebells (Hycinthoides non-scripta), I would beg for > a bucket full ( I would pay for postage). I spent a lot of money buying all > that was available at the Parksville rhododendron conference last fall. > They are not so easy to come by in large quantities. I am planting them in > my orchard of rare fruit trees. Robert has deciduous azaleas in between my > fruit trees, so he calls my "orchard" an azalea garden. > Laura > Niagara on the Lake > > On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 2:25 PM Diane Whitehead via pbs < > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > > > Fifty years ago a generous neighbour gave my small daughter a bunch of > > bluebells she had just dug up. I had happy memories of picking them in > the > > woods across from my childhood home, so we planted them. > > > > Now I have a half acre of them, despite years of snapping off the flowers > > before they set seed and digging them out - every year a bucketful of > bulbs > > would go in the trash but this year there will be a lot more. I am > > determined to get rid of them. > > > > I have a bit of help - deer like to eat them, but just the leaves - the > > bulbs are still down there multiplying. > > > > I fork them out from most of the yard, but they are growing solidly > around > > some of my rhododendrons, and digging out the bluebells will kill those > > rhodos. > > > > Any suggestions? > > > > > > > > > > Diane Whitehead Victoria, British Columbia, Canada > > cool mediterranean climate warm dry summers, mild wet winters 70 cm > > rain, sandy soil > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > pbs mailing list > > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > -- _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…