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Bluebell season
For about three weeks, old woods in Britain and Belgium turn blue from end to end.
What happens
The common bluebell is a wild flower of the Atlantic edge of Europe, and Britain holds a large share of the world's plants. It flowers in old woodland from mid April to mid May, in the short gap after the soil warms and before the trees close their leaves overhead. A wood in full bloom is blue as far as you can see, with a light sweet scent. In Belgium the Hallerbos, south of Brussels, is visited for the same reason. Keep to the paths: trampled plants take years to recover.
The flowers
Also part of it, and being written: Hyacinthoides non-scripta (The common bluebell, with drooping flowers on one side of the stem.).
Original text by the Phool desk, written with AI assistance. Background: "Hyacinthoides non-scripta" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from family to family and place to place. If we have something wrong, tell us.
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Wild Garlic: Agnes Monkelbaan, CC BY-SA 4.0, source