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Hi Graham,
i had the same problem you had last year (however the customer laid the membrane and gravel himself before asking us to maintain his garden. We had the bulbs actually splitting the membrane and coming through, all i did was weed kill the area once they started cropping up. 2 years later and its just a case of spraying the odd one that comes up, i think it would be either a case of doing that or re doing the work :(
Well I'm going to mow the lawn tomorrow and take a look. Fingers crossed it's not too bad.
I'd go along with the above. Could be worse, a few years ago, we had some guys pull up in a rather large lorry, next door to where we were working. In one day of mahem, they had dug off the lawn and beds, hardcored and laid to tarmac. Three weeks later, bluebells, daffodils and thistles started to pop up through!
if its bluebells you will not dig them all out. maybe try something like path clear as you will have a large volume of liquid that will go through the membrane and hopefully kill them off
Well it did turn out to be bluebells, which the client cant ever remember seeing in her garden for 30 years they lived there.... There are a lot of them, but thankfully mostly near the edges of the membrane, so I guess I will be able to pop the edges up and spray them. Oh well, hopefully I can get them all first time :)
I love that "...which the client cant ever remember seeing in her garden for 30 years they lived there..." must think you are stupid!
We always checked the inspection chambers prior to any breaking out and would often find a blocked or broken drain and point it out to the customer before dealing with it. The comment would usually be "...well it WAS alright!"