Bluebells

[Green oak]

A few woods around me have them. I have a bridal way/footpath though ours on the farm. Be nice too have them too. I believe you cannot dig them up? So how do you start.

 

[Lincs Lass]

Moonlight bluebell digging

 

[Green oak]

Moonlight bluebell digging

Job done then

 

[Lincs Lass]

The legal method
https://www.thompson-morgan.com/p/english-bluebells/p7146TM

 

[Green oak]

The legal method
https://www.thompson-morgan.com/p/english-bluebells/p7146TM

Brilliant thank you.

 

[yellow belly]

If it was a bluebell wood they will come back if the habitat is right height of trees ect

 

[Green oak]

If it was a bluebell wood they will come back if the habitat is right height of trees ect

Our plantation is only 30 years old. But would like to introduce them. A lot of people walk it. Just thought it would be nice.

 

[Av Gorritt]

It certainly would be nice , and relatively easy , given that the condition are right . I established a small wood in what was the "back field" 30 years or so ago . This has grown to a reasonably mature wood now . I've panted a lot of snowdrops , by division from other places , and a lot of daffodils . We have some land where there were a few rabbits burrowing , and very often there would be a lot of bluebell bulbs on the dug out spoil . I gathered , and planted them , and they've established themselves quite well , and are spreading , both by bulb division and presumably bird spread seed . These BTW are traditional British bluebells - not the invading Spanish type . You could of course buy them from a reputable bulb supplier , but I don't think they will be cheap .

 

[primmiemoo]

Thompson & Morgan have British bluebells on special offer atm. Snowdrops in the green, too.
Might be worth a communication, maybe?

 

[renewablejohn]

Prefer snowdrops and transplant some every year into our woods in the green.

 

[Farfrae]

Plenty in my wood every year; now spreading nicely into the newly planted woodland that joins it.

 

[Gulli]

We used to get bluebells in our woods and still get a few now but the majority of the woodland has been swamped by wild garlic, nice as it is when it flowers I'd like to see more bluebells, is there anything that can be done without great expense?

 

[foobar]

We used to get bluebells in our woods and still get a few now but the majority of the woodland has been swamped by wild garlic, nice as it is when it flowers I'd like to see more bluebells, is there anything that can be done without great expense?

Run some sheep through every year to eat the garlic down?

 

[Hfd Cattle]

A few woods around me have them. I have a bridal way/footpath though ours on the farm. Be nice too have them too. I believe you cannot dig them up? So how do you start.

Start with a spade, an old feed bag and a small torch......

 

[muppet]

Parkers bulbs have English bluebells too. Worth looking around as expect most bulb merchants to sell them

 

[devonboy]

bluebells can be cultivated via the seeds , after they have flowered and partly died back go and pull the seed heads off and sow , it will take about 3 years before you get anything though ,but it it does work.

 

[primmiemoo]

Just out of interest: is it ok to dig up or spray off a patch of Spanish bluebells that are planted in the bank of a hedge not that far (by contractor operated bush whacker) from a hedge full of native bluebells?

It would be such a shame to have hybridization because a householder didn't know the difference and just bought and planted the biggest flowering sort in somebody else's hedge opposite their entrance. Now the people are moving away, there'd be a chance to get rid of the cultivated plants to safeguard the natives.

 

[case 5140]

Easy buy some seed from costswoldseeds.com its only £324kg!, get some cowsilps too their £895kg !! we need to start growing crops like this!