Comment on Bluebells
There is nothing more English than carpets of beautiful bluebells in late spring. They fill our senses with the promise of summer to come!
Comment on Bluebells posted 2007-07-17 by Ann Hargrave from Kent UK
Comment on Bluebells
Every year, I have to have my 'fix' of bluebells. I once did a short ecological project on them, and found that where there is more moisture, you get more bells on each stalk.. We counted 7-9 bells on each stalk at the top of the hill (near Bettws-y-Coed), and 11-13 further down. On the way back to collate our results, we counted 21 bells on a stalk at the bottom of the hill.
Comment on Bluebells posted 2006-08-15 by Ruth Hunt from Birmingham UK
Comment on Bluebells
Although I beleive Spanish in origin they are a much loved and photographed ICON of the english countryside
Comment on Bluebells posted 2006-03-27 by dennis harrison from birmingham
Comment on Bluebells
Quintessentially English. Not found in quantity anywhere else. There are of course two bluebells in the British Isles, the other being Campanula rotundifolia - also known as the Harebell or Scottish Bluebell, but Hyc. non-scripta is the true English bluebell, and breathtaking when seen in a wood in spring.
Comment on Bluebells posted 2006-02-21 by Vee Smith from Oxford
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There you are. I would have nominated this for a Scottish Icon.
Comment on Bluebells posted 2006-02-16 by Derek Sinclair from Dundee
Comment on Bluebells
Where in the world is there anything so relaxing as walking through bluebell woods on a lovely spring day.
Comment on Bluebells posted 2006-02-16 by Pauline Forward from North East
Comment on Bluebells
To walk through a wood in bluebell season is both very British and good for the soul at the same time.
Comment on Bluebells posted 2006-01-30 by Abby Taylor from Sandwich, UK
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With a bit of effort, you can hunt out a good cuppa, and read the Guardian, practically anywhere in the world. You can take a jar of Marmite and a tin of baked beans in your luggage. But you can't take the English Springtime, when the woods are an endless sea of bluebells. It's the sight I miss more than anything, living here in NZ. There are more bluebells in England than anywhere else in the world. They are our iconic plant. And if global warming kicks in, they will be lost. So this is a symbol we must treasure for the world to enjoy. PS - clotted cream is a close second, and I have never found that anywhere else either.
Comment on Bluebells posted 2006-01-27 by Alan Dicks from Wellington, NZ
Comment on Bluebells
A blue scented sheet hovering under spring green woodland:our bluebell population is of world importance. (That's the British native bluebell of course).
Comment on Bluebells posted 2006-01-26 by Jan Tilsley from Nottingham
Comment on Bluebells
Bluebells are the most beautiful spring flower in the world. I live in Oz and have done for 30 years. The memory of a spring day in the bluebell woods never leaves me. I have seen some in Christchurch N.Z. in their springtime, they were so lovely but not as abundant. I long to return to my homeland in spring one more time.
Comment on Bluebells posted 2008-03-06 by Joyce Pascoe from Brisbane,Qld