Spanish bluebells?

jonathan.cole

Are these Spanish bluebells?

Pollen is cream and stems are pretty upright.

plant pauper

You may have to wait till the flowers are a little more advanced. 

jonathan.cole

Yes. We planted native bulbs just recently.

Obelixx

There are "English" bluebells growing wild in Belgium - Bois de Halle if you're ever there is famous - certain parts of northern France all the way across to Brittany and down as far as here.   I found a few in a hedgerow bank near the house last year and bought some at a plant fair.    They're just about to flower so I spent today digging up Spanish bluebells from a bed round the well in the front garden so they can't hybridise.

Just a few left to shift from being entangled in a trumpet vine root.  What I can't get at will have all leaves and flowers pulled so the bulbs don't get fed and so it will go on each spring until they give up.

jonathan.cole

So my first pictures weren't great. Here is a close up of a flower.

Dovefromabove

To me the flowers in your photos look too 'wide' to be English  native bluebells 

https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/visiting-woods/trees-woods-and-wildlife/plants-and-fungi/woodland-wildflowers/identify-native-bluebell/

jonathan.cole

Yeah. That was my feeling.

I think I better pull them up.

Thanks guys

DampGardenMan

Dovefromabove said:

To me the flowers in your photos look too 'wide' to be English  native bluebells 

Ditto the leaves.

Jellyfire

Easiest way to ID is on an English all the flowers are on one side of the flowering stalk (so flowers generally lean down in one direction) on Spanish they go right round facing outwards