Spanish bluebells: have you tried trampling the leaves? Photograph: D H Wright/Flickr/Some rights reserved
Last month I answered a question on how to get rid of Spanish bluebells, counselling that digging them up when they are in leaf.
Marion Bolton has sent in this handy little tip:
The way to get rid of Spanish bluebells is to trample the leaves. I remember a 'Children's Hour' broadcast in which I first heard of the scientific method. The question was, does pulling up bluebell flowers with the white end of stalk intact, harm the plant? Four bluebell patches were marked out. From one, the flowers were picked without the white end of stalk, in another the white end was pulled out, a third was trampled all over, the fourth was the control. Result - all fine except the trampled patch. I have since used this method to remove Spanish bluebells in undesirable places in my garden.
I can't believe this will work, but am definitely going to give it a go.
