Question

I'm sorry I'm know nothing about flowers ect trying to learn. Plant or weed? They keep popping up in my flower bed

Answer 1

They are protected in the wild, beautiful bluebells

Answer 2

They’re bluebells and they’re protected x

Answer 3

Bluebells will spread each year vey pretty flowers

Answer 4

Not grape hyacinth actually, they are bluebells. very nice they are too.  

Answer 5

Grape hyacinths lovely spring bulbs

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@magdau8984 dont worry I brought those in my mums memory just realised they arnt bluebells as in my pic similar colour I guess x

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My mistake

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I thought bluebells were smaller

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Lucky u. bluebells

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When I first started i I just decided that if I liked it it could stay, if i I didnt I pulled it up, which worked okay! Still dont know the names of everything, but learn a bit more each year

Answer 10

Bluebells are protected

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Spanish bluebells are ~NOT protected, they kill native species

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@westmoreland29 i didnt say spanish

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The ones in the picture are Spanish and should be dug up to protect native species

Answer 11

They're Spanish bluebells. Not native!  

Answer 12

Those are not grape hyacinth. they are blue bells

Answer 13

These are grape hyacinth

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@diazotize Yes, they are  aka MUSCARI

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@zingaro hyacinth flowers do not open like that

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@diazotize yes you are right but the flower above is a grape hyacinth. Google and you will see. x

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@dismal @magdau8984 Bristow I posted the pic above. The pic on original post is not.  

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@diazotize yea looks like the ones dread like wildfire in my garden

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@filiform yes they will.  

Answer 14

Bluebells darling.  

Answer 15

Blue bells x

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Lovely bluebells

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Sure is pretty.  

Answer 18

Blue bells

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Yes bluebells but they multiply at a rate of knots

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Bluebells. Enjoy them!  

Answer 21

Blue bells I have garden full them all rd my house borders grow back every yr. x

Answer 22

Bluebells which are a protected flower under the wildlife act of 1985(? ) x

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Only the native ones. the ones shown here are Spanish bluebells which kill native species and should be dug up

Answer 23

If the bells are on one side of the stalk? They are Spanish bluebells to the detriment of our national bells. British bluebells flower all round the stem

Answer 24

There My fav flower  

Answer 25

When they stop flowering dig em up and split the bulbs . Hundreds of free bells

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I have some rare white ones

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I have blue and white

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Beautiful blue bells

Answer 29

Blue bell. They are protected and anyone found picking or digging up in woods etc could find themselves in court.  

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@barong539 not these ones hun. X

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@amboceptor private gardens are exempt.  

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@barong539 hun these are Spanish bluebells not English.  

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@amboceptor didn’t know there were any other type. Great looking flower.  

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@barong539 yes, there are hun. Unfortunately the Spanish took over our British bluebells and now most are hybrid and not 100% bristish x The bristish blue bell is protected hun Spanish isn't xxx

Answer 30

Wish I had bluebells

Answer 31

Bluebells, spread like wildfire but very pretty, look up bluebell woods  

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Mine are lovely this year

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Bluebells lovely  

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Beautiful bluebells

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I've had them come up for the last 3 years, ive been here for 12 yrs and never planted them but the are all around the boarders of my front garden x

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Bluebells. you are so lucky. It's taken me 3 years to get them established in my garden.  

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They will spread, , ,  

Answer 38

Blue Bell it's a plant

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Blue bells, our woodland area of the garden has hundreds and they look amazing.  

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What you see in the woodland is native bluebells, which Are lovely. What the OP showed was Spanish bluebells which kill our native species, and should be dug up

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@westmoreland29 I read a reseach paper that actually shows our native species is more fertile than the Spanish and is considered no threat. I can link you to the article if you wish.  

Answer 40

Lovely flower dont last long though

Answer 41

I’ve just had these pop up in my garden to! Can I dig it up and move it?  

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Not yet, let the flowers die off, they dont last long, and then you can dig up the leaves, they are tiny bulbs. Just trim the leaves off and throw the bulbs wherever you want them to grow.  

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@oxley Dunn thanks. I shall do that!  

Answer 42

Poisonous wash hands after but nice to look at

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Spanish bluebells.  

Answer 44

You can get an app called Picture this, it’s great for snapping flowers and finding out there name.  

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Bluebells they come up each year

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Bluebells, can be both x

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Beautiful bluebells.  

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Blue bells

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Bluebells hunny not weeds x

Answer 50

English bluebells

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Keep them your lucky

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A weed is a plant u don't want so make your own mind up

Answer 53

Blue bells and their protected

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@cheboksary682 yep your right. So many people keep picking them where I live. I share photos and they ask were this is and then come up picking all the blue bells or squashing erm down by walking all over them. so annoying x

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Only wild bluebells, and probably only from digging up.  

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Birds do drop the seeds from bluebells xx

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@pooler388 just say you seen them on your travels

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@cheboksary682 Spanish ones aren’t protected , they are actually taking over only the native ones are protected

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@diapause50911 Oh are they I'm in uk

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@cheboksary682 me too and my garden is overrun with french bluebells everywhere there is a difference between the two and only the native English ones are protected x

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Are they really? How do you know which type at protected? Iv loads in my garden frowning in a weed patch IV just turned  

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@cheboksary682 the English ones don’t have the bells going up on the main stem like the french do google a few images you will see the English are also slightly more petit and lighter in colour x

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@diapause50911 oh I will have a nose xx

Answer 54

They are bluebells. most people love them. they don't look like Spanish bluebells. i have loads of the Spanish ones as well as the native ones. the Spanish are far much bigger and the flowers and stalks fatter the ones in ypu picture look delicate like the native. i would nt kill them but it's each to his own

Answer 55

Beautiful so lucky to have them!  

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Protected in Scotland ❤️

Answer 57

I seen a post ages ago that said a weed is a plant in the wrong place. If you don’t want it there. Then it’s a weed

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How lovely, bluebells x

Answer 59

Looks like it’s freshly planted x

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If it’s Spanish Bluebells then dig them up. They take over the garden. Very invasive.  

Answer 61

Beautiful xx

Answer 62

Bluebells I have them in my garden they will spread year after but I love the colour at this time of year they don’t last long

Answer 63

Blue bells beautiful ❤

Answer 64

Spanish bluebells are beautiful. Why get rid of such lovely flowers. I have them in front and back gardens, and they haven't invaded.  

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@oyster l agŕee

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Plant. Their lovely

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If you like them there they are a flower

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Bluebells protected if in the wild I love them

Answer 68

I love bluebells. I've been replanting them everywhere in the garden

Answer 69

Our woods are full of them. we had a bluebell dog walk today

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They have invaded my border, I keep trying to get rid of them but the bulbs are so deep, their leaves are covering other plants they are a real nuisance.  

Answer 71

Plant it's a bluebell

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Blue bell

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Which blue bell is it your legally not allowed to destroy ?  

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@equerry249 they are the Spanish variety, they just appeared one year and has multiplied every year, they are a pain!  

Answer 74

I think they are Spanish bluebells. If so they are spreading everywhere

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@hepta got them in my garden they drive me mad they are even in the lawn , god knows how they get there . They are bulbs and they make baby bulbs  I’d dig them up and put them in a pot

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@filiform exactly what I said, they just appeared one year and that was it!  

Answer 75

English are protected these are hybrids taking over everywhere . English have white pollen Spanish is blue

Answer 76

If you want to get rid you have to pull them out by the bulb

Answer 77

A very lovely plant.  

Answer 78

Blue bells a wild flower

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Beautiful. I have been transplanting mine from one area of the garden to another.  

Answer 80

Its a bluebell!  

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Beautiful bluebell

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Bluebells  

Answer 83

Bluebell I've got loads on my front garden come every year

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Look like Spanish Bluebells to me, I’m afraid.  

Answer 85

Beautiful bluebells, the flowers are so pretty. It's a weed only if you don't want it there

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Who cares if they're labelled Spanish or English, ridiculous

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These are Spanish bluebells and whilst lovely, will takeover any English bluebells. I would get rid, in favour of the English variety

Answer 87

I love bluebells, they smell and look beautiful.  

Answer 88

A way to tell thw differece between a native bluebell and a Spanish one is how the flower sit on thw stems. A Spanish one the blue flowers stand up more where as the native variety dangle like bells. If in wild your not allowed to touch the native ones. But on your own property you can. I would wait until its finished flowering and thenjoy move to an area you rather it grow. The bluebells in your pic are the Spanish variety.  

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@sentimentality19740 never knew there was a Spanish bluebell

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I never did until it came up in a family conversation a yr ago. My aunty has loads in her garden and she asked my dad whos a gardener.  

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Spanish ones are like grey squirrels of the plant world.  

Answer 89

Blue bells and if you want them a plant if not they are a weed

Answer 90

I have these in my garden love em each year seem get more must multiply each year x

Answer 91

Plant They are bluebells