Beautiful place, although winter is like the arctic 🙂

An English Bluebell with multiple ‘bells’

Ladies and Gentlemen, without further ado, we present to you the Queen of English Bluebells

An English Bluebell

An English Bluebell

An English Bluebell

An English Bluebell

British mythology looks after our native bluebells

Trampling or picking them will result in a fairy putting a spell on you, resulting in you wandering around the woodland in a trance forever. And if you hear a bluebell ring, the same fairies will ensure you don’t last the day

My father and family are from Moelfre 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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Spanish Hybrids are not protected as there are a plague threatening our native bluebells. The lady doesn’t need to know that, just tell her it’s illegal 🙂

Yes 🙂

An English Bluebell with multiple ‘bells’

Ladies and Gentlemen, without further ado, we present to you the Queen of English Bluebells

Was dead a few hours later

An English Bluebell

An English Bluebell

An English Bluebell

An English Bluebell

The law of the land also has their back. Uprooting or destroying bluebells is illegal. Penalties can be expensive. Not as bad as the ancient myths of course. Unless it is in our woodland

There is also the fact that every part of them is toxic

An English Bluebell

An English Bluebell

An English Bluebell

An English Bluebell

British mythology looks after our native bluebells

Trampling or picking them will result in a fairy putting a spell on you, resulting in you wandering around the woodland in a trance forever. And if you hear a bluebell ring, the same fairies will ensure you don’t last the day

An English Bluebell

One of approximately half a million English Bluebells in our woodland

Each one is different. Each is special

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I think we have filled all the gaps ☺️

🙂

Ferns unfurling

Urban ferns have coffee mornings

Clearing brambles makes a massive difference to the bluebells 🙂

A Wood Fern unfurling

Wood Ferns in our woodland

They grow on and in deadwood, so we have a lot of them, as trees remain after they fall asleep

Ferns are living fossils dating back over 360 million years, & are remarkably similar to their prehistoric ancestors that thrived before dinosaurs

They are animal tracks through the bluebells. We have just laid logs down to mark them. Rabbits, badgers and deer still use them, as well as four humans

🙂🐦‍⬛

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A path through a sea of bluebells

Walk with me in our English Bluebell Woodland

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The shadow of an oak in a sea of bluebells

I’m sure there was a 300 year old oak tree around here?

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That’s a veteran 🙂

A sea of English Bluebells

English Bluebell colonies are an indication of Ancient English Woodland like ours, and which may have had trees on the land since the end of the last Ice Age

An English Bluebell with multiple flowers

The number of ‘bells’ an English Bluebell has reflects its age

It is dependent on the increasing size of the bulb, root system & leaves capable of managing the weight, nutrients & water

Individuals plants can live over 15 years. Established colonies can be a thousand years old

An albino English Bluebell

1 in 10,000

A baby Horse Chestnut

A baby Horse Chestnut