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Up to 49 per cent of the world’s bluebells are to be found in the UK, according to the Woodland Trust, and May is the month to get out and enjoy them.
Even with flowering moving earlier into April as things warm up, I still reckon it’s best to wait – in May you have a better chance of finding them bathed in sunlight. The Woodland Trust has
a guide to all the bluebell woods it cares for.
The Ramblers Association has a series of
over 100 bluebell walks designed to help you get out and enjoy bluebells – but also to help save them.
The delicate British bluebell is under threat from interbreeding with bigger, more buxom Spanish invaders. So the Ramblers want you to get out to one of 100 locations and spot the natives and the hybrids. Once home, you can enter your findings to a a Natural History Museum online survey
Here is my own bluebell top 10
You can read about my own battle with the bluebells here
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05-02-2008, 06:54 PM
Up to 49 per cent of the world’s bluebells are to be found in the UK, according to the Woodland Trust, and May is the month to get out and enjoy them.
