Resisting the Spanish imposition
I read with interest the letter about getting rid of Spanish bluebells (Have your say, February issue).
My garden has hundreds of Spanish bluebells and I have been trying to kill them off since I moved here 12 years ago. I’ve cut them off, dug them up, attacked them with a weed burner and even tried weedkiller. Not only do they come back, but they continue to multiply! Does anyone have a fool-proof way of eradicating them?
I have just read your reader’s plea (, February issue) for more gardeners to get rid of their Spanish bluebells, which are cross-pollinating with our own, muchthe Spanish thugs was not an easy task. We lived in our previous house for 33 years and dug up bluebells every year for at least 30 of those years. The little blighters were still determinedly growing when we left.
