Show me yours. But I think this will be a short season 🙁
My first one:
Bluebells 2013
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/58162507@N07/8654898857/ ]Bluebells 2013[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/58162507@N07/ ]SGMTB[/url], on Flickr
and another later in the ride..
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Cracking stuff, bluebell woods are fab.
You carry two watches though because......?
Gonna be out looking over the weekend. Nice close-up, redthunder.
Oh yeah???!!! Nah don't believe you!
Git, git, git.. I've been searching over the last 3 weeks or so for them, git 😆
Hey ho, well done. I shall be back with Hampshires finest soon enough..
None out in Hampshire as far as I can tell. Are those native or imported ornamental ones?
Second watch was the other riders... proof you see 🙂
redthunder - seriously nice pic and well done! Was this Gloucs?
I need to go a-looking to my secret wood. Actually there's a few woods. 8)
@Cg
South Glos
none out in my bit of somerset yet, the wild garlic didn't last long either .....
the daffodils aint even out yet here - green shoots about 2 cm max thats all
havent seen any snowdrops either or crocuses
Not Bluebells but also another fav...
Wood Anemone
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/58162507@N07/8656053024/ ]Wood Anemone[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/58162507@N07/ ]SGMTB[/url], on Flickr
and a Daff for those missing Daff's...
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/58162507@N07/8654949225/ ]Yellow Daff[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/58162507@N07/ ]SGMTB[/url], on Flickr
What! Our snowdrops are still out.
Our first batch of Daffs are dying off now. Later flowering ones are still going. Snowdrops dies off a few weeks back. Tulips are budding up nicely...
Saw my first woodland bluebells this morning. Happy days.
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It's a bit out of focus, but I took it with my phone, and the wind was blowing it around a fair bit, but this is the only one I saw actually open during a couple of hours wandering around West Woods, near Marlborough. Lots and lots of glossy green leaves among the trees, so there could be a pretty spectacular display, if we get some suitable weather.
Even the beech trees there are yet to show leaves.
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Here's a better pic of the only open bluebell in about a 200acre wood:
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But at least the primroses and wood anemones are out:
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Ain't spring great?!
Saw a few early arrivals on the edge of Sulham woods today.
Today 🙂 Next week they should be Epic!. then gone 🙁
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Wow! West Woods, where I was Sunday, is a carpet of glossy green, but there's nary a flower spike to be seen, other than the one I photographed, one just in front that was still buds, and one other several feet away that was showing hints of blue. I reckon it'll be at least a week until there's any significant blooms showing over there.
Rode through bluebell wood today in Surrey. Not one had emerged yet.
A sketch rather than a photo...
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During riding snack break about 5min.
Oooh, playing catch-up. 🙂
Fantastic pics there redthunder. 😀 Assuming that it's Gloucs again?
Today I was riding on the Wiltshire/Hampshire border and not a bluebell to be seen. 🙁 Plenty of primroses, in fact I would say more than usual.
Edit: interesting weather today, bloomin' cold and windy and there were virtually hailstones at the end of the ride.
@cg
South Glos as always.
Your righr about Primroses...they are everywhere. As for Wood Anemones, like snow!
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/58162507@N07/8686960738/ ]Wood Anenome[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/58162507@N07/ ]SGMTB[/url], on Flickr
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/58162507@N07/8686963560/ ]Primroses 2013[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/58162507@N07/ ]SGMTB[/url], on Flickr
This has sprung up in my back garden! Totally wild, it's just appeared at the edge of the lawn by some paving slabs that make a short path to the bottom of what now passes for a garden.
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That's a cowslip, much liked by herbalists 8)
Off out looking for bluebells in FoD today, some of the best places have been well 'rotovated' by the boar so should be interesting to see how the bluebells fare...
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexleigh/8688745342/ ]Oh an actual bluebell :)[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/alexleigh/ ]Alex Leigh[/url], on Flickr
Rubbish picture but an ACTUAL bluebell in our local woods (Herefordshire). Normally this whole wood is carpeted in bluebells by now. Still nice to see one.
Well blow me down with a slight breeze, Hampshires Bluebells have finally arrived..
Here's a few from my favourite trail that runs from the sea front upto the Downs, along the river...
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Today...
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and a White one...
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Oh joy.
I saw one on Tues. Just one mind and not ready to open.
and a couple more...
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If only we had smell 'o vision?
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If only we had smell 'o vision?
You're not wrong there, nothing quite like walking through a large wood carpeted in blue. Hopefully West Woods will be out in full very soon.
Wooley Wood bit of Trans Pennine Trail, Sheffield. First few flowers coming through this morning, none on Friday. Wild garlic just flowering too. Pics to follow when it is blue all over.
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Wylye Valley, Southern Wiltshire:
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@CG
Coming along nicely 🙂
Just taken these..
Night Bluebells, Hampshire
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& a white Bluebell????
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a photo from Tuesday night, didn't get any on tonight's ride as it was pissing it down
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A few good smatterings on the lesser used woodlands of the Quantocks.
But here's a little cluster that's popped up in the corner of my Orchard.
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Another week and the canopy will be awash with Apple tree Blossom. It's gonna look rather wonderful.
Last weekend out with the hound.
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We don't have bluebells in the US. The local nature geeks go crazy over this stuff called trillium, though.
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