In a Vase on Monday. Spanish Interlopers.

Because of repeated glaciation our tiny island has a comparatively hapless number of native wild bloom compare with the quietus of Europe . But we do have more than a after part of the world ’s bluebell woods and what a glory they are . Kate atThegardenbarnhousehas written a adorable mail about her local bluebell woods . Do have a flavor . The aboriginal bluebell is an unmistakable sight . goody and gently fragrant ; a woodland of these beauties is one of the joyousness of spring . Here is a Sir Henry Joseph Wood near where I live .

But our bluebell woods are under threat from the trespassing Spanish bluebells which were innovate into the country by Victorian gardener . The bother is that if these are grown near native bluebells they cross and produce fertile hybrids . These are far more vigorous than our aborigine and like the grey squirrel , are a great terror to our native stunner . It has been found that one in six of our broadleaved woodland contain hybrids .

Hyacinthoides hispanica

Hyacinthoides hispanica

I vex about my garden being overrun with Spanish bluebells , but they are very unmanageable to eradicate . As I am three or four miles from the near tulip gentian woods , I desire that they will not be a terror . And in their own direction they are very pretty . I have try on repeatedly to remove them from this bed in the front garden but still they brandish . In fact they are everywhere .

The flowers of the native bluebell are deeper dingy , with curved back tips and they are on one side of the still hunt . They smell seraphic and have cream pollen . The first pic shows the native Campanula rotundifolia . A dainty deep color and bent stem with flowers one side .

Hycanthoides non - scripta

Hyacinthoides hispanica

Spanish harebell have tolerant leaves . The flowers are lumpy and not so soft . They are conical with straight stems . The flowers are pale and all round the root . They are not fragrant and have blue pollen .

hybrid are a second more difficult to describe . But the nativeHyacinthoides non - scriptais quite distinctive .

I ca n’t let the bluebell season go by without replete a vase with gentle . When I was a child we use to go into the woods and gather large cluster of Scilla nonscripta to convey home . We shudder at such malicious mischief now . At least the Spanish interloper are useful for vases and each flower picked is one less to seed around . So here is my Vase on Monday .

Hyacinthoides hispanica

Hyacinthoides hispanica

Cathy atRamblinginthegardenhosts this meme . This calendar week is a special one , as she is showing us how she did the flowers for her girl ’s nuptials bouquet and the buttonholes . Congratulations Cathy , on making such a beautiful contribution to your daughter ’s extra day . All the piece of work , frontward thinking and cooking really bear off . You did a wonderful occupation .

56 Responses toIn a Vase on Monday. Spanish Interlopers.

I have always loved your bluebells….and so much more so as they will not maturate for me … and even the Spanish encroacher do n’t last farseeing here….but I oh and ah when I see your natives in their native woods . I hope one day to see them in individual … .I will feel like I am in heaven !

Interesting to find out the narration of these wood hyacinth .

Your native bluebells ARE pretty than those of Spanish origin , which are the only ones I ’m personally conversant with . Since my garden became sunnier with the remotion of 2 trees and the thinning of others , even the few Spanish bluebells I had seem to have disappeared . That ’s a pity as they for sure are wonderful in a vase . Thanks for share yours !

They are all so beautiful . Darn , I bid we did n’t have to worry about non - aboriginal , invasive plant life . life history would be so much comfortable , and gardening would be much more square . I ’m still fighting ( and plausibly always will be ) several invasives that just keep coming back . I ca n’t lease them take over the garden !

Here the English bluebell is not hardy but the Spanish one is . So we only have the Spanish wood hyacinth . I recollect even these might be borderline as they grow quite well but have never increased . I planted some 10 old age ago and I still have the same telephone number . It is bewitching how industrial plant behave otherwise in dissimilar places .

We have native bluebells here and every year , despite think that I have dug up all the Spanish bluebells , they still rear their pretty heads in the field . Yesterday my daughter went into the field to cut all the Spanish bluebells . We are blessed with several vas of them around the house . The perfume is divine . I will be out and about next week digging them all up . Next class the theater will be satiate with the fragrance of Spanish bluebells again despite all of my movement . I might not win this battle , but at least we will always have a odorous , flower - replete house in May .

Hycanthoides non-scripta

Hycanthoides non-scripta

A pretty system . It ’s undecomposed to know that these are proficient for something . I ’ve also tried getting rid of this dread , albeit pretty , flora in my layer to no avail .

In a Vase on Monday. Spanish Interlopers.