Advice re evergreen Daphne please

Wondering if anybody has experience of either moving or fairly drastically pruning a Daphne Odora Aureomargineta. I have 1 which is about 25 years old. It isn't the best of shapes and is in a bed which I am battling with as it is riddled with my pet hate Spanish Bluebells.The only way to totally get rid of the bluebells is to dig up the whole bed and go through the soil with the proverbial fine toothed comb. I have a fair idea if I leave the Daphne in situ some b....y bluebells will be skulking near it and before you can take a breath the whole bed will be inundated again. Ideally I'd like to move the Daphne and prune it to improve it's shape and give it the best chance to move successfully. Anything I've ever read about Daphnes has said they don't like moving and don't respond well to pruning so am I wasting my time? It's flowering atm and the scent is lovely so would be sad to loose it.

 

Its a hard call Silu and the risk of losing a 25 year old friend would be too great for me.

 

Hmm Andy thought as much, damn it! Will have to decide if I really want to keep it as is or say goodbye to it.Of course it's doing it's best to be in my good books atm. flowering it's head off and sending wafts of delicious perfume in my direction as I battle to rid the bed on 1000 of Spanish Bluebells. Being really quite a hot day today the perfume was even more intense, certainly this Daphne is putting a good case forward for staying put!

 

Would it be possible to cover the Daphne and glyphosate the bluebells?

 

Thanks Noisette and Loofah. Certainly I can get most of the offending bulbs. The snag is that from bitter experience I know that there will be some bulbs lurking as back ups which aren't in leaf, so happily would avoid any weed killers. Many a time I've thought i've got the lot, only to be festooned with bulbs again the following season.

 

I've got the same problem with moroccan mint growing through my Daphne cneorum. I just yank it out as soon as it shows...it'll give up before I do!