Blue carpet (Chesham, Buckinghamshire, United Kigdom)
United Kingdom, Buckinghamshire, Chesham, Spring 2024
Every year in springtime, bluebells transform woodland floors across the country into a delicate sea of blue. The bluebell has held a treasured place in the hearts of British people for centuries. It's been an inspiration to poets and writers such as Oscar Wilde, Emily and Anne Brontë, and Percy Bysshe Shelley. This delicate wild flower has played an influential role in folk culture too, and some of the names it's been given offer an insight. For instance, the earliest British botanists called them crowtoes, but they’ve also been called cuckoo’s boots, wood hyacinth, lady’s nightcap and witches’ thimbles. Many myths surround the bluebell, although for such a heart-lifting flower the folklore is rather gloomy. There was a belief that bluebells were used in witches’ potions. Others believed that anyone who wanders into a ring of bluebells will fall under fairy enchantment, or that anyone who hears the ringing of the flower’s bell will be visited by a malicious fairy and die soon after.
Blue carpet (Chesham, Buckinghamshire, United Kigdom)
United Kingdom, Buckinghamshire, Chesham, Spring 2024
Every year in springtime, bluebells transform woodland floors across the country into a delicate sea of blue. The bluebell has held a treasured place in the hearts of British people for centuries. It's been an inspiration to poets and writers such as Oscar Wilde, Emily and Anne Brontë, and Percy Bysshe Shelley. This delicate wild flower has played an influential role in folk culture too, and some of the names it's been given offer an insight. For instance, the earliest British botanists called them crowtoes, but they’ve also been called cuckoo’s boots, wood hyacinth, lady’s nightcap and witches’ thimbles. Many myths surround the bluebell, although for such a heart-lifting flower the folklore is rather gloomy. There was a belief that bluebells were used in witches’ potions. Others believed that anyone who wanders into a ring of bluebells will fall under fairy enchantment, or that anyone who hears the ringing of the flower’s bell will be visited by a malicious fairy and die soon after.