Make the most of the bluebells

We went for a walk round Crab Wood, lovely to see with all the bluebells and wood anemones. According to the Guardian newspaper:

The blanket of intense blue flowers, with their distinctive perfume, has for centuries been a source of captivation for springtime wanderers in the countryside, but is under threat from pollution, the encroachment of urbanisation - and above all the invasion by non-native Spanish bluebell varieties, which are less colourful, less prolific in their flowering and lack the heady scent of native flowers.
Bluebell woods will already be more difficult to find this year, owing to the late spring which has held back flowering, and visitors are being advised by the National Trust to wait until late May in order to see the flowers - about two weeks later than usual, after the unusually chilly conditions so far this year.

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