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I haven’t seen anyone else start one yet, so I thought I’d get it going. None of my native bluebells are showing flower stems yet, but I was surprised to see a few coming out while out for a walk away from town today.
There’s some by the River Crane in Twickenham. Saw them on our government mandated exercise today...
There's a big wood near us that is carpeted with bluebells but they are three to five weeks away.
Bluebells? Still on daffodils here!
First ones out at work this week, looks like it’ll be a good year thanks to the ground clearance I’ve been doing,
Not seen the bluebells yet but wild garlic is everywhere, I must pop my cherry this spring and try it
In Dorset there are a few Bluebells out in sunny roadside verges/hedgerows, but not much. The big woodland displays are three weeks off.
wild garlic is everywhere, I must pop my cherry this spring and try it
Actually, that’s what I was after! I popped into the local farm shop to get a selection of beers, then drove on over to Biddestone, there’s a little route I often walk along Weavern Lane which is usually pretty quiet at the best of times, today I saw six people during a walk of about two hours. Which included looking for some wild garlic, which I found pretty much where I expected to. I’m going to plant it in a large pot, otherwise, given half a chance the stuff will stage a unilateral takeover of the garden!
It’s milder than the garlic you buy in the shops, you can use the leaves chopped finely and the flowers on a salad.
I spotted the bluebells on the bank further along the lane, it catches the sun and is very sheltered.
I’ve got a woodland full of them all to myself. This week coming they’re going to be at their best
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The local woods here in Cornwall have been coming out for a couple of weeks now, but not quite at the blanket covering that Houns has!
I’ve got more trees to clear out to open up the canopy, and brambles to get rid of, next years will be even better
Been out for almost 2 weeks here, currently got both garlic & bluebells in flower.
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Not in full carpet mode yet.
Birch Coppice, Dorset
Been creeping out for a week or so here, but the autofocus on my compact really struggles to see them in macro mode for some reason (their colour?).
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Might have to drag the 'big' camera out...
The local woods are working their way towards full carpet mode.
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Beautiful.
Thanks all.
Warwickshire
Beautiful shot Kayak.
These have come up in the garden, and colournoise reminded me that I had some unused macro filters.
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And then relented, and did the cliched thing too...
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They've been sprouting in North Somerset in the sheltered woods for a couple of weeks, but it won't be until the 1st or 2nd week of May until to whole Northern flank of Blackdown on the Mendips is awash with colour. This was 2018.
Not sure if the photo works but I took this one yesterday up on the South Downs, nice carpet of bluebells and wild garlic.
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And just to finish the one of each bike theme, but this is last year
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From today in the North Downs badlands near Rochester.
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Balls to the bluebells, the wild garlic has hit Northants...
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I've never noticed if that grows on the north downs?
Genuine question, can you smell the stuff if nearby?
My wife tells me yes (I'm anosmic - permanently, nowt to do with C19 symptoms).
Chesterton Woods. Right by Warwick services on the M40.
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Wild garlic and bluebells double whammy, Wilts.
Apologies for all that road in the pic, but I was knackered by this point and couldn't focus 🙂
I found some new trails on my gravel bike yesterday. Somewhere in south Gloucestershire.
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Near the Ridgeway in Oxfordshire
Up in West Yorks
Stirling. It started raining 25 minutes before I finished work but still had to get out.
Genuine question, can you smell the stuff if nearby?
Ha! If you happen to be riding the lanes around Castle Combe, Ford, Slaughterford in the dark, you’d know straight away that wild garlic was around even if you couldn’t see the stuff, the air is thick with the smell!
@roger_melly, where abouts in Wiltshire did you take that photo? It looks like a couple of roads above Lacock.
I’ve just realised I started this thread and I haven’t posted any photos from my trip over to West Woods a week or so ago! It was a perfect day, very quiet and hardly anyone around, just the way I like it. The flowers aren’t at their best yet, maybe another couple of weeks.
I particularly like this spot, it’s some way from the car park and picnic area, so doesn’t get as many people walk there, and the Sarcen stones are just right for sitting on. 😁