Bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta), Monmouthshire
These blooms are beginning to turn forest floors here a radiant blue as I write, although the maximum effect has not yet been reached. Bluebells seem to like the -- hitherto! -- temperate, cloudy climate of Atlantic Europe; they grow naturally in Ireland, Britain and France, but not in the more continental climate of Germany or points further east. The species is threatened by hybridisation with the more pallid Spanish bluebell (H. hispanica) which people foolishly grow in gardens in the UK. Lockdown image.
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Bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta), Monmouthshire
These blooms are beginning to turn forest floors here a radiant blue as I write, although the maximum effect has not yet been reached. Bluebells seem to like the -- hitherto! -- temperate, cloudy climate of Atlantic Europe; they grow naturally in Ireland, Britain and France, but not in the more continental climate of Germany or points further east. The species is threatened by hybridisation with the more pallid Spanish bluebell (H. hispanica) which people foolishly grow in gardens in the UK. Lockdown image.
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