Classic Gardening Magazine
Gardening as it ought to be
Up to 49 per cent of the world’s bluebells are to be found in the 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
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
Horsebridge Wood at Kew's 180 acre country garden in
One of the most spectacular bluebell woods in
Carpets of bluebells and specially created, timed bluebell-path walks
4 Willesley Wood, Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire
This woodland, and its blubells, have been here for 200 years and are under the care of the Woodland Trust
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150 acres of ancient woodland smothered in bluebells
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A spectacular woodland walk through a haze of violet
At 400 acres, this is one of the largest ancient woodlands in the Chilterns. The
bluebell population has been given a new lease of life this spring
after extensive clearance of dense conifers that has allowed light to
reach the wood floor for the first time in 20 years.
8 Lanhydrock, Bodmin,
9 Mount Stewart, Co. Down,
The bluebells are magnificent alongside the sweeping main drive and the
A baroque mansion with an eccentric history, a wonderful productive garden and, of course, a bluebell walk
