Bluebells

[_pH_]

what aboout Cardamine pratensis? looks nuffin like a cuckoo

 

[danny la rouge]

Because they look like cuckoo foreskins. So my old mum told me, anyhow.

Cuckoo contraceptives? In the 50s a lot of cuckoos had to give up their chicks conceived out of wedlock for adoption. This development can only be a good thing.

 

[_pH_]

Because they look like cuckoo foreskins. So my old mum told me, anyhow.

your mum may have been lying to you quimmy

 

[quimcunx]

your mum may have been lying to you quimmy

I dunno. What she said about using poppers when taking it up the arse was spot on.

 

[_pH_]

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

I dunno. What she said about using poppers when taking it up the arse was spot on.

blimey! she said that!!!!

 

[smmudge]

i went to Reigate Hill yesterday evening and they were almost out in the woods nearby

couple of weeks i reckon

The woods in Priory Park get lots of bluebells.

In fact isn't part of it called Bluebell Wood?

 

[Divisive Cotton]

These are shots I took in my local park last year (which aren't very good):

Somebody with more photographic talent than me took these shots in June at daybreak:

 

[Dan U]

just thought i would report they are out and about on the North Downs and surrounds, early this year

 

[wayward bob]

out early in s wales too. i have a week's camping in bluebell woods in devon week after next

 

[kabbes]

I was saying that just this past weekend, Dan

 

[Dooby]

I've just checked a map to see where the north downs are.
Searching for instant bluebell gratification - no car, want simple train ride, minimal walking and bang, bluebells. I utterly failed to find that last year and was most miffed.

 

[zenie]

out in my front garden

 

[Hocus Eye.]

Two days ago in a park, all on their own. Not so much a carpet as a slip mat.

 

[Dan U]

I've just checked a map to see where the north downs are.
Searching for instant bluebell gratification - no car, want simple train ride, minimal walking and bang, bluebells. I utterly failed to find that last year and was most miffed.

I know they are out up on the woods on the North Downs Way around Reigate
eta (its walkable from Reigate Station, albeit up a big hill)

National Trust are doing this map thing this year as well

http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-chl/w-countryside_environment/w-nature/w-nature-bluebell.htm

Zenie - mine too

I was saying that just this past weekend, Dan

We went looking about 10 days ago, and found none, now they are coming right out, lovely time of year.

seems (to me anyway) there are a lot of wild flowers around this year in the hedgerows etc as well.

 

[zenie]

I might dig some up to take with me..... You're allowed to if it's in your own garden aren't you?

 

[Dan U]

I might dig some up to take with me..... You're allowed to if it's in your own garden aren't you?

good question. probably not but who will know!

 

[Bungle73]

I've just checked a map to see where the north downs are.
Searching for instant bluebell gratification - no car, want simple train ride, minimal walking and bang, bluebells. I utterly failed to find that last year and was most miffed.

You really should consider doing a longer walk. The North Downs offer tons of magnificent walking, as do the Chilterns, another place to find bluebells close to London.

 

[RoyReed]

Them's bluebells

 

[davesgcr]

Really nice bluebell wood in Sandridge , St Albans area - (buses OK from centre of town , 20 mins on FCC from St Pancras ) - ancient oakwood which is being massivly extended by new planting as part of the Heartland oak forest campaign.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

The garden's full of 'em, snowdrops too. As are the local woods.

Horsell Common has a glade that looks like blue smoke

 

[kabbes]

Yeah, the woods are utterly carpeted in them round here. It's soooooo beautiful, like a hazy blue mist.

 

[ericjarvis]

Bluebells are out in the southern bit of Max Roach Park.

 

[RoyReed]

Beautiful bluebells in Banstead Woods



Some panoramas here

 

[gaijingirl]

Bluebells on the Purbeck Way over Easter weekend...

 

[clicker]

That's a lovely scene...

 

[gaijingirl]

It was so beautiful. My husband took that photo on his phone - quite amazed at the results!

 

[Dan U]

thought i would give this my annual bump!

went for a walk along the North Downs Way yesterday between Reigate and Dorking and the Bluebells are waking up and a few are beginning to show. Early again this year, I suppose due to the warm weather.

They aren't in full show yet though.

 

[Bungle73]

thought i would give this my annual bump!

went for a walk along the North Downs Way yesterday between Reigate and Dorking and the Bluebells are waking up and a few are beginning to show. Early again this year, I suppose due to the warm weather.

They aren't in full show yet though.

They're in for a shock on Wednesday!

 

[bimble]

Bluebells.. am i too late? Any recommendations of where to find them near south london?