[Closed] Bluebells 2015 - Photo Thread and General Love In 🙂

Did you cheat and peel them open?

Busted 😉

They are always early where I live 🙂 and first to fade 🙁

Our Snowdrops have been out for about six weeks, the first of the Daffodils are blooming now. The Bluebells follow them but probably in late April or early May.

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I've noticed the clumps of leaves showing, but no sign of buds, yet.
I'll take a run over to West Woods in the next week or so, see what's showing over there.

Our snowdrops are still out and any day now the daffodils will appear. No bluebells for weeks and weeks.

😯 Amazed they're out already redthunder and thank you for starting the annual bluebell thread. 😆

My first Daffodil was out at work three weeks ago, the Snowdrops are about done and the Bluebells are shooting away but no flowers yet, all in West Fife.

In the front garden, before all the Daffs are out

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Lovely Hyacinths Houns.

Bah, missed the edit 😳

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[b]YESSSSSSSSSS[/b] They've arrived in Wiltshire:

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Sorry, pics aren't good but taken in Fonthill Estate, South West Wiltshire.

Still waiting in Dorset. Here's some from last year...

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There were some out in Sussex on the South Downs way on Saturday, the first i've seen. I'll try and post a pic.

From today's ride 🙂 It's happening Reg, its happening! 🙂

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Some more here 🙂
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Spent last Sunday over West Woods, near Marlborough, and this is all I found:
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There's been a lot of tree clearance, which would be fine, except the loggers trim all the small branches off then leave them lying in heaps right through the open clearings where the bluebells grow, which really spoils it when they finally bloom.
Why can't they drag the rubbish out and shred it, and sell it on to garden centres? Leaving the dead branches seems to encourage the growth of brambles, and the wood just gets full of those and ash saplings, which are like weeds.

their looking great on our local hill at the moment .

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The other day 🙂 Someone actually took a picture of me 🙂

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Starting to show up around here now, these are along the cycle path from Chippenham to Calne:
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Quite a few cowslips growing out on the open grassland at the moment, but they're pretty tiny, however,,a couple of years or so ago a tiny little cowslip appeared alongside a little path across the lawn out in my back garden.
It now looks like this:
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It'll have to be moved next year, I think...

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Definitely out in South Warwickshire

No pics, I'm afraid, but looking good Thursday night in the woods around Ipsden, Stoke Row and Nuffield loop. Should be peak blue haze next weekend.

Lancashire bluebells, with a bonus whippet...
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yesterday, angmering park, sussex

Sadly without my bike. I love summer!
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70 mile road ride this morning. Bluebells everywhere. It was stunning out there.

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Finally got over to West Woods today, almost impossible to park anywhere! Lots of bluebells out now, but sadly it clouded over not long after I got there, so most of my photos are a bit dull.
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Pic from a bikepacking trip from work (and back to work the next day)

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Lunchtime ride today:

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No bike but
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Gorgeous pics all, apart from CZ who needs to use the Preview function before posting the wrong way up! 😉

Today's bimble to the pub through the woods.

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Piglet on the Chilterns this morning

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Bere forest, Hampshire.

um, not sure which photo c_g is seeing wrong way up, they all look right way up on my screen, apart from one which is no longer linking, for some reason.
And Flickr doesn't seem to want to give me links that'll post here any more.
Bugger.

Some nice patches in Brockenurst in the New Forest
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Near Sudbourne, Suffolk, this morning.

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Lucky enough to enjoy these on my route to work.
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