Category: Bluebells

Fuller's Hay - Blagdon Combe, Somerset, UK. ID JB_0027

Fuller’s Hay

I do not normally travel this far north in Somerset, but I tumbled across a picture of Fuller’s Hay on the internet.  This is a wood with a strange name near the village of...

Spring in the Donkey Field - Uphill, North Somerset, UK. ID JB_0108

Spring in the Donkey Field

I often visit the Donkey Field in village of Uphill.  In late winter it is covered in snowdrops, then come the daffodils, and now bluebells, cowslips and buttercups. I think this year has been...

Bluebells - Park Wood, Wells, Somerst, UK. ID JB_6991

Park Wood

It was time to revisit Park Wood on the edge of Wells in Somerset. Celandines In the damper parts of the wood there was a carpet of yellow celandines. Bluebells But is it the...

Park Wood Morning - Wells, Somerset, UK. ID BR52284

First Light at Park Wood

First light is the best time of day, it is just a shame it comes so early at this time of year.  It is worth getting up early to catch the low morning light...

Bluebells at Steep Holm - Between Dulcote and Dinder, Somerset, UK. ID 810_7667

Mendip Bluebells

Around Wells in Somerset is a patchwork of little woods.  It is difficult to tell from the map where one ends and another begins.   In spring they are full of bluebells.  But if you...

GB Gruffy

I’m still catching up with May posts after a long break with a broken computer and trips away from home. GB Gruffy is a Somerset Wildlife Trust reserve with a very strange name. Gruffy, comes from...

Woodland Bluebells - Beacon Hill Woods, Somerset, UK. ID IMG_0681

Beacon Hill Wood

While sorting out some pictures for another website my friend pointed out that all my pictures of Beacon Hill Wood were taken during the autumn and winter.  There was a reason for this –...

Woodland Bridge - Biddle Combe, Somerset, UK. ID IMG_0887

Biddle Combe

After many weeks with no computer after pouring grapefruit juice all over it I have finally been able to create another post. Biddle Combe Biddle is a narrow tangled Combe that starts in the...

Bluebells in the Donkey Field - Uphill, North Somerset, UK. ID IMG_6243

Donkey Field

Donkey Field The village of Uphill is separated from its large neighbour, Weston-super-Mare, by a small green belt consisting of a Donkey Field and a tree plantation. The Donkey Field (aka Bluebell Field) is...

Bluebell Meadow - West Horrington, Somerset, UK. ID 822_0005

Spring Meadow

Today was the day I realised that spring was turning into summer. I started in beautiful Biddle Combe near Wells but was I was forced to leave the overgrown shade of the wood and explore the fields around...