Bluebell Woods

[puddleshark]

In Bere Woods, the bluebells are in full flower. The distances are a sea of blue below, a mist of green above. And in the air, the faint sweet scent of wild hyacinths, so subtle it's hardly there at all, until it creeps up on you by stealth and intoxicates you.







Wren song and blackbird song. And now and then a bumblebee humming among the bells.








The sun trying to come out...





Bluebells and stitchwort...


... and acid-green wood spurge.

Comments

[summersgate]

Love your pictures! The one called Bluebell Woods 3 is fabulous.

[puddleshark]

Thank you!

It is such a spectacular year for bluebells. They must have enjoyed all that endless rain we had in February and March...

[heleninwales]

I love those photos. We lack any spectacular bluebell woods, though there are some woods that have bluebells if you go at the right time of year. Which may be now, so I should perhaps try a walk that way this weekend.

[puddleshark]

Thanks!

We're quite blessed with bluebell woods, but I think the woods I visited yesterday is the most spectacular.

[kaishin108]

And there they are. What a lovely forest of bluebells.

[puddleshark]

It is such a spectacular year for bluebells. They obviously enjoyed the mild wet winter...

[pigshitpoet]

there must be fairies here
what else could create such a menagerie of foliage?

[puddleshark]

There is something magical about bluebell woods. Maybe it's the strange blue light. Or the scent. But it's not hard to believe in fairies, in ancient woods at bluebell time.