Bluebell Evening
To get the Easter weekend going I could not resist stopping off at Park Wood to see how the bluebells were progressing. Easter is late this year and the bluebells have been even later...
Category: Bluebells
Pen Hill Bluebells
At the top of Pen Hill, above Wells in the Mendip Hills, is a public bridleway that leads back down hill passed one of the best bluebell woods in Somerset. The Gorse Plantation is...
Ivythorn Hill
Ivythorn Hill near Street, in Somerset, is mostly visited by those using the local Youth Hostel or going to Collard Hill to find Large Blue Butterflies. But it is a wonderful strip of calcareous...
Longwood Bluebells
The Longwood bluebells are rightfully famous. It getting more difficult to photograph the bluebells each year because more and more wood if left to decompose on the the ground. But this has been a...
Bluebell Field
Uphill’s Bluebell field is having one of its best years. Earlier was the display of Snowdrops which each year is gradually spreading out over the wood pasture from the neighbouring beech plantation. Early Morning Light...
Park Wood
Park Wood is an important part of the cultural landscape around Wells in Somerset. Wells has a long history and so does this wood. The wood was once much bigger. It was cut by...
Donkey Field
The Donkey Field in the village of Uphill is a favourite of mine. It is a small field on the edge of a wood and is managed by the Woodland Trust. The snowdrops have...
Spring Flowers
On my commute this morning I stopped at Park Wood to check on the progress of the Bluebells that were starting to bloom. On the way home I returned to a patch of Greater Stitchwort (Stellaria holostea) that...
Groovy Land
GB Gruffy is a Somerset Wildlife Trust in the Mendip Hills. It is very uneven withe mineshaft, cave entrances and hollows all over the reserve. This is a great place to photograph Bluebells outside...
Bluebells in Park Wood
After Celandines the best show of all as the floor of Park Wood in Somerset is covered in Bluebells. Classic British countryside at its best.
