The residents of Clent in Worcestershire have discovered that their parish council which spent £1,000 on a bluebell recovery project, planted 7,000 of the wrong bluebells. The parish council says, and ...

THIS is bulb-planting time. Among the bulbs you will see offered by nurserymen are those of something the blackguards dare to call British bluebells. The Unwins seed catalogue that dropped on my ...

The above extract is from The Bluebell by Anne Brontë, younger sister of Charlotte and Emily. There’s no shortage of poetry about bluebells, reflecting the spring-flowering plant’s stature in terms of ...

Oh, man, I hate to be wrong, especially about plants. How humiliating. But I was, and I heard about it. I wrote about the 10 weeds I hate most at the moment. Notice I said moment. Everyone has their ...

The appearance of vivid bluebell carpets in British woodlands is a sure and spectacular sign of spring. Bluebells – Hyacinthoides non-scripta (L.) Chouard ex Rothm – are Britain’s favourite wildflower ...

What is it? What could be more evocative of spring than the English bluebell, Hyacinthoides non-scripta? These bulbs will arrive in the green (ready-grown with foliage and roots); the plants reach a ...

Bluebell season has arrived, and Beckenham Place Park is among the south-east London spots where you can see them.