It’s almost bluebell season, when we walk through woodlands cloaked in carpets of the trademark late spring flowers. But do the bluebell woods we visit harbour English bluebells or Spanish varieties, ...

Every spring, nature performs a makeover on dark, forgotten woodland, rolling out delicate carpets of blue. Bluebells remind us that undisturbed land can possess a fleeting beauty. Drifts of the ...

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Sir – Since the English bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta) is under threat from hybridisation with the ubiquitous Spanish bluebell (Hyacinthoides hispanica), many advocate digging up and burning the ...

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England's favourite wildflower is the bluebell according to a poll of nature lovers. But the British variety is on the wane as a tougher Spanish invader is increasingly taking over, a conservation ...

The native English bluebell is coming into flower. Happiest in the partially moist shade of a tree, it forms a magnificent display in May, carpeting miles of British woodlands in a deep shimmering ...

Gardeners are being warned not to be taken in by the beauty of non-native Spanish bluebells, which could crossbreed the superior English variety out of existence. Rosalind Taylor, from Kendal, Cumbria ...