can anyone identify these plants

[GrowAndRun]

See photo. They appeared in the back of our garden, looking a but like tulip bulbs sprouting. Now bluish flowers are appearing.

They look like bluebells/harebells.

Bluebells - I think I can see a flower head against the fence. They are a menace in my garden, but they die away quite quickly after flowering

They will spread and spread, but do look very pretty if you have a corner where it doesn't matter. Here are mine this year ...

Bluebells. Mine are just coming up too.

Bluebells, probably the spanish ones rather than our nice native ones which are smaller with thinner leaves. They spread wildly.

Please don't dig them up and chuck them in the nearest woodland to 'set them free' like many people do when they get pissed off with them spreading round the garden. They hybridise with our native species.

Sounds like you all agree on bluebells then! Thought they might be, but the flowers seem a but close tight together - I'm guessing they open out more.would like to leave them and see what happens, but we ate about to dig up that bit to make a bed. Expect they will be back next year though!

Do not throw the dug up ones in the compost bin!!! And no , you will never be rid of them

Dig deeply with a strong fork, and make sure you go deep enough to get UNDER the bulbs and get all traces of bulbs (and maybe 'baby' bulbs) out.

I would leave them in your new bed, but I WUVS them and not everyone else feels the same! (One of my favourite things to do is to walk in a bluebell woodland in full flower - I even have a picture of one on the wall by my desk).

Someone told me that one of the ways they propagate is by rabbits and other critters disturbing the soil and spreading bulblets around. So that's why digging them up can appear to make them spread!! No idea whether this is true, but it seems plausible!