Guest 711- Registered: 1 Mar 2011
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I see from the paper today that they are blooming 2-3 weeks earlier than usual this year because of the recent good weather.
Can anyone please tell me where is the best place reasonably locally to see them in all their glory?
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
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Tilmanstone woods, a lovely walk at any time of the year.
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Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Sage advice via The Guardian...
"Wild flowers According to Dominic Price of wild plant protection charity Plantlife, "it is not normally an offence to pick the 'Four Fs' - fruit, foliage, fungi or flowers - if the plants are growing wild and it is for your personal use and not for sale." Dozens of rare or endangered plants - from the lady's slipper orchid and adder's tongue, to threadmoss and sandwort - are, however, protected under the 1981 Wildlife and Countryside Act, so pick those and you could face arrest (though you're unlikely to stumble across too many of them). Whatever you do, don't drag up the whole plant to resettle it in your own garden - the law firmly forbids the uprooting of any wild plant."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2011/mar/16/rules-picking-wild-flowersIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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We will check the woodland to see if the bluebells are fully out yet - I will let you know, well worth a visit. Within 5 minutes walk of our house.
Here is another year's photo:
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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bluebells are the bane of my life, they take over my small back garden every spring.
the more i rip them up and put them in bags, the more come up the folowing year.
they just choke the life out of the other plants.
great in woods not in gardens though.
Guest 711- Registered: 1 Mar 2011
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Many thanks Jan and Kath.
Are yours out yet Howard?!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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some are sue, but others can not get enough sun because of the leaves of the other plants blocking it all out.
Ross Miller
- Location: London Road, Dover
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bluebells, woodlands, sun
lambs frolic in fields of green;
has spring sprung?
"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." - James Dean
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength,
While loving someone deeply gives you courage" - Laozi
Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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Howard - I think the ones in domestic gardens are the Spanish bluebells, which sometimes get crossed with the wild ones, they look very similar.
They are impossible to get rid of, you cannot dig them all up, but try feeding them out by enriching the soil, if you haven't done so. They may not like that, and it might work to some degree.
Or perhaps cover with black polythene sheeting for some months ! That might kill a few off by cutting out the light.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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thanks for info kath, will try what you say.
spent an hour this morning digging some up so that other plants can grow, complete waste of time.
Guest 707- Registered: 1 Dec 2010
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You can normally see a good covering of blue bells in the woods at the back of the abbey. Also dragon woods in Temple Ewell behind the old george and dragon pub.
Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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The bluebells in Tilmanstone woodland will not be fully out, and at their best, for perhaps 10 days.
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Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Just for you Kath. Bluebells at dawn by Marie Line-Vassuer
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Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Marek magic.
This picture could also fit in with the pagan Easter thread. I can imagine dryads and the like frolicking around kicking-up the dew.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
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Tom
There's nothing I like better than a kick in the druids by frolocking dews!! O-er no missus..titter ye not.
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Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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Marek - what a WONDERFUL painting - I do trees, they give such an atmosphere. Is the lady a 'local' artist in Jersey?
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Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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I heard someone say recently that a bluebell woodland COULD be 7,000 years old. It is a sign of an ancient woodland.
And so many have disappeared now.
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Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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"BLUEBELLS have a mysterious aura.
It is said, if a child picks them alone in a wood the child may disappear.
"In and out the dusky bluebells " is really a sinister magical song.
The sap was used by the Elizabethans to
stiffen ruffs, to fasten feathers to arrow shafts, and as a paper paste."
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Kath
She is a living artist from Canada. We were always warned by my Mum not to pick Bluebells..could never understand why until your posting above. Thanks
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Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Found this photo in todays press by Anthony Spencer taken over Easter
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