Bluebells

[Orang Utan]

Purplebells, more like

 

[Callie]

They're out but on the way out a bit I think so go soon.

How far are you willing to travel bimble? You'll find patches here and there but if you want to see drifts of blue you might want to head out and find a wooded area.

I want to go for a wander to look for different buttercups as part of the wildflower hour challenge:
May spotter sheets
It's a useful website although the layout is shite, they also have Facebook n Twitter so useful for learning to id wildflowers

 

[bimble]

Am willing to make a day out of it ..will research reachable woods.

ah nice there's a hashtag on twitter called BluebellWatch.

 

[Idaho]

Lydford gorge last Saturday:

 

[Indeliblelink]

Found a lovely walk near Tilgate Forest the other day. Bluebells for miles following the stream

 

[Chilli.s]

Don't English bluebells have the flowers hanging on one side but the Spanish invasive species have the flowers hanging all round the stem?

 

[bimble]

Accoring to this , your foreign bluebells smell of onions.

 

[danny la rouge]

Accoring to this , your foreign bluebells smell of onions.

And your father is a hamster.

 

[Callie]

Accoring to this , your foreign bluebells smell of onions.

I've not worked out how to tell the difference *goes back to that website*

 

[Callie]

UK bluebells:

• Distinctive 'droop' like the top of a shepherd's crook
• Sweet, cool perfume
• Narrow bell-shaped flowers with rolled back tips
• Creamy white pollen

 

[Crispy]

Here's my 3rd hand bluebells fact:

After the last ice age, as the forests spread back across Europe, bluebells managed to get to GB but very few other forest-floor flowers did before the channel re-flooded and cut the island off from the mainland. As a result, continental forest floors are much more diverse, while GB has a monoculture.

True or False? I don't know.

 

[bimble]

i have absolutely no idea Crispy but by the wonders of wikipedia, trying to find out led me to learn this quite interesting little nugget: Hedgehog's dilemma - Wikipedia

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

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

Shed-loads of 'em round here. Now you're a petrolhead, A3 all the way...

 

[bimble]

Thinking winkworth arboretum tomorrow

 

[danny la rouge]

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Thinking winkworth arboretum tomorrow

Can almost see it from my bedroom. Almost...

 

[danny la rouge]

 

[bimble]

 

[Supine]

My garden last weekend

 

[mx wcfc]

The bluebells were a little past their best (but only a little bit) round here (mid-hants) last weekend. Get out there now, I think, or wait till next year.

 

[iona]

Bluebell walk near my mum's (East Sussex) on Saturday -

Saw a few wood anemones still out too, and a couple of orchids.

 

[bimble]

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

View attachment 135068

Winkworth’s lush, did you make it down to the boat house?

 

[bimble]

Winkworth’s lush, did you make it down to the boat house?

Yep, down the Azelia path. Was ridiculously pretty.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Yep, down the Azelia path. Was ridiculously pretty.

Oh god yeah, that staircase is something else!

It’s lovely all year round, but early May is the very best time of year. Good call on your part!

 

[Dan U]

Was thinking about this thread the a few weeks back, apols for not bumping!

Ones in our garden are pretty much dead but was a good show this year imo

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Was thinking about this thread the a few weeks back, apols for not bumping!

Ones in our garden are pretty much dead but was a good show this year imo

Still going strong in the woods bordering the ballroom under the lake, which I walked past for the first time in a month or so this morning

 

[bimble]

It is going to be ridiculous here very soon. The first few are out already .

 

[Artaxerxes]

Yeah ones outside my back door are already half out

 

[mx wcfc]

Mid Hampshire 2 days ago. Very early for round here.