bluebells

The real threat to our bluebells is the use we make of the woodlands – people running through them, taking photos of each other standing on trampled bluebells.

Love bluebells, give up the dogs – Germaine Greer tells Britons 2011

Taking a walk through the bluebells is a very special experience that brings people back year after year to see the never ending haze of blue and smell the wonderful fragrance that fills the air.

Bluebell And Spring Spectacular At Hole Park Gardens Thatsnews 2009

Taking a walk through the bluebells is a very special experience that brings people back year after year to see the never ending haze of blue and smell the wonderful fragrance that fills the air.

Archive 2009-03-01 Thatsnews 2009

At last the wanderers came upon a whole company of bluebells -- not what Hugh would have called bluebells, for the bluebells of Scotland are the single-poised harebells -- but wild hyacinths, growing in a damp and shady spot, in wonderful luxuriance.

David Elginbrod George MacDonald 1864

The sun shone on in silence, and the blue butterflies which haunted the little bush of bluebells, that is harebells, beside her, made no noise; only a stray bee, happy in the pale heat, made a little music to please itself -- and perhaps the butterflies.

Heather and Snow George MacDonald 1864

I don't know that you did this on purpose or not, more likely did than not, but the bluebells are a drooping and hang flower, so you easily personify the flower in orientation (on top of color and texture).

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The cold winter and cool spring have already set back wild flowers such as bluebells and, in a rare reversal of recent times, ash trees have come into leaf before oak trees.

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Choose your spring walk based on the best places to see snowdrops, which should be out until mid-March, or bluebells, which come out in April and May.

Pastures new: UK spring break ideas 2011

In our woods and forests, spring begins more quietly – the blades of snowdrops pushing through frozen ground in late January, followed by the star-shaped wood anemones, the dog violets, celandines and primroses, before the bluebells arrive in April, a haze of sky-coloured petals, yellow anthers and clear honey scent.

The power of spring flowers 2011

I hear again blackbirds and thrushes in the hedges, and see again bluebells spilling out from the oak woods and over the velvet turf like a creaming of blue water.

Chapter 15 2010