Cheers Jack Straw, again!!
I delilberately planted them in semi shaded or shaded parts of the garden, along with Snowdrops and Snakes Head Frittilary, spaced properly and at the correct depths. Yes they were all dry bulbs. I'll make sure the soil from now on doesn't entirely dry out, and be...
Last autumn I planted (bought legitimately) Hyacinthoides non-scripta (native bluebell) bulbs in our borders.
They’ve struggled this first time around, I think because we have nutrient starved, thin chalky downland, bone dry soil. Rather than their favoured damp woodland setting. The foliage...
Beautiful.
Bluebells, and other blue/purple flowers, give an amazing light effect. Gardeners World covered this last year .... it’s unique to the colour.
Used to hide in those woods when nippers, pinching balls hit up the fairway on a hole about half way round, up a slope. Naughty delinquents.
Then reselling them to the club.