Walking through Bluebell Woods
Record sighting on http://www.naturescalendar.org.uk
and http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/british-natural-history/survey-bluebells/
Wordless Wednesday – Walking through Bluebell Woods
Gardening Jules
Birds, Bees, Flowers, Trees – Organic & Wildlife Friendly Gardening
Gardening Jules 
Heaven! Something I miss terribly as they don’t grow ike this in southern Germnay! Thanks for sharing Julie! 🙂
The aroma walking through the woods was wonderful too, really uplifting. 🙂
beautiful expanse of blue , it’s really beautiful 🙂 !
The Bluebells in Spring here are one of the most wonderful sights and the fragrance when they are en masse is really lovely too. 🙂
I miss them too, maybe more than almost anything else. In Suffolk last week, they were either not quite out or were over. Whichever it won’t be a good show this year because all the other plants were growing up so fast around them. Last year at roughly the same time they were wonderful. You can show as many photos of them as you like!
We drove to Pryor’s Wood in Hertfordshire to see these bluebells, our local neglected wood has a patchy display this year and the brambles in parts are growing faster. Hoping to see more this bank holiday weekend, if the forecast of 3 days rain changes!
Blue Bell woods, one of the wonders of the English countryside. We should do everything we can to preserve them.
We keep a look out for any Spanish bluebells and potential hybrids but so far the woods we have visited all have native Bluebells in. It really would be sad if our natives were lost.
One of the great joys of April. We are very lucky in Suffolk with many beautiful bluebell woods.
My cousin has been telling me about Captain’s wood near Ipswich, I hear the bluebells are pretty spectacular this year.
Julie, the photo is absolutely thrilling. So beautiful. I’ve always dreamed of seeing a field of bluebells.
John, I really hope you do get to see this, its one of the most beautiful Spring sights over here.
I am speechless!
Nature is rather wonderful. 🙂
Yes indeed.
The woods is the best place for bluebells. They look stunning.
Yes I agree, I like wildflowers best in their natural surroundings and on a woodland floor is about perfect.
Awesome sight!
They have a wonderful fragrance too Susie, it’s very invigorating to walk through them.
So stunning! It’s something I miss about the UK as well. Here in Australia with only evergreen forests, scenes like this have to be planted, and it’s not quite the same 😉
No broadleaf trees? That’s something I had not considered before. Is that just in your forests? We hope to visit more woodlands this weekend but typical UK bank holiday weekend forecast lots of rain!
We have almost exclusively broadleaf forests, but they are dominated by Eucalyptus and other evergreens, so not too good for spring bulbs….
The bluebells were out here this time last year but they aren’t quite ready yet this year. Your photo is glorious!
It must be a little cooler where you are Clare, lots to look forward to, the forecast isn’t good but hope you have a good weekend. 🙂
Thank-you Julie. I think it must be cooler here; my bergenias are only just coming into flower! I hope your weekend is good too 🙂
Paradise in the shade!
It’s really invigorating and very uplifting to walk through woods like this, paradise is a good description!
Perfect picture, picture perfect. I can almost smell them ….
And they did smell wonderful too. The forecast is looking better for us up here over the bh weekend, hope it’s good for you too. 😃
You did well to get a photo without any people in it…Ashridge woods are always heaving at this time of year.
This was taken in Pryor’s Wood near Stevenage, I am hoping to take my mum to see the Bluebells at Ashridge over the weekend, it’s always busy there, we are bracing ourselves!
That looks magical. I’ve never had the pleasure of smelling bluebells or seeing them en masse. And hurrah for citizen science projects. =)
Some Spanish bluebells planted in gardens, have spread to the wild and are hybridising with the native bluebells. The projects are to monitor how bad the hybridised spread is.
Stunning! You can’t beat a bluebell wood in spring. Pity there aren’t that many around here…but then I have our poet’s daffodils wood and the scent is very comforting 🙂
A Daffodil wood sounds heavenly Annette. We have a chilly weekend ahead of us, hope your weather is good where you are. 🙂
It’s heavenly indeed, Julie, very humid and warm here, like the tropics!
magical–nature does it best!
Absolutely Robbie! 🙂