Bluebell woods

joanlawson
joanlawson Member Posts: 8,681
edited 27. Apr 2011, 03:04 in Community Chit-chat archive
Yesterday I went for a walk to see some bluebell woods near where I live. They were really beautiful and the best I've ever seen them. Bluebells grow in other countries, but only in Britain do they form such large carpets of blue on the woodland floor in springtime. I took the photograph below, but it was impossible to capture the full beauty of the scene.

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Sadly, this icon is threatened by the destruction of ancient woodlands, climate change, and by the introduced Spanish bluebell. The trouble is, the Spanish species has ‘escaped’ into our woodlands and is the worst enemy of the native bluebell because it will hybridise with it. When it does, because its genes are dominant, the traits of the British bluebell disappear within a very few generations. The British Native bluebell is more delicate than its Spanish relative, with the intensely blue flowers on one side of the slightly drooping stem. It would be very sad if it disappeared from our woods in the future.

Joan
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  • joanlawson
    joanlawson Member Posts: 8,681
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
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    The bluebells looked very beautiful in the sunshine.
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  • joanlawson
    joanlawson Member Posts: 8,681
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I took this photo of a butterfly too. I think it's a peacock butterfly.

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  • tkachev
    tkachev Member Posts: 8,332
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    These are my favourite flowers Joan. I have such happy memories of days gone by walking through the bluebell woods in Sussex and have told my 2 oldest girls I want my ashes spread in the Arlington bluebell woods when I have gone!

    Elizabeth
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  • caterina57
    caterina57 Member Posts: 1,424
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    What a lovely photo, I remember going walking in bluebell woods years ago must go back andcheck they are still there!
    Cath
  • julie47
    julie47 Member Posts: 6,041
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    The woods look so pretty joan

    Thanks for sharing the photos

    Juliepf x
  • julie47
    julie47 Member Posts: 6,041
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    rehab44 wrote:
    Does anyone visualise running naked through a bluebell wood or is it just me?

    Can do the naked......just cant run :lol:

    juliepf x
  • joanlawson
    joanlawson Member Posts: 8,681
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    rehab44 wrote:
    Does anyone visualise running naked through a bluebell wood or is it just me?

    So it was you, was it :?: :?:

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  • tkachev
    tkachev Member Posts: 8,332
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    rehab44 wrote:
    Does anyone visualise running naked through a bluebell wood or is it just me?


    funny you should say that......

    Elizabeth
    Never be bullied into silence.
    Never allow yourself to be made a victim.
    Accept no ones definition of your life

    Define yourself........

    Harvey Fierstein

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