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More bluebells than normal?

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Porridgeislife · 26/04/2024 07:38

I live in the greenbelt and I’ve never seen so many bluebells as we have this year. Even the verges have big thick mounds of them.

I didn’t think my garden had many bluebells but they’ve popped up absolutely everywhere this year. Is it just my area? Or has anyone else got amazing displays of bluebells this year?

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MereDintofPandiculation · 26/04/2024 10:39

EventuallyDecluttered · 26/04/2024 08:47

Apparently the threat from Spanish bluebells to English ones is not thought to be as big a threat as it once was, a family member has been studying it.

And also, what we call “spanish bluebell” almost certainly isn’t, it’s the hybrid between spanish and native..

MereDintofPandiculation · 26/04/2024 10:40

Went down to our local bluebell wood yesterday, seemed not as spectacular as last year (Yorkshire)

MereDintofPandiculation · 26/04/2024 10:43

Lightfrost · 26/04/2024 08:55

Maybe it's the very wet winter? Where we live, we've got wild orchids in the garden. Most years we have a few, but this year they're everywhere. I read up about them and discovered they rely on a fungus in their roots to grow and expand; the wet weather must have helped with that I guess. Just looked up bluebells and they also rely on a similar fungus. So all that rain could have helped?

When I started gardening, the association between orchids and fungi was thought to be very strange and special. Now we know that it’s the norm - over 95% of plant families have a symbiotic relationship with fungi.

Willmafrockfit · 26/04/2024 10:59

so many orchids on the verges i have noticed
hopefully they will hold off mowing them down

fromaytobe · 26/04/2024 14:21

Funnily enough, the bluebells in our local (very small) wood have been very poor this year. Hardly any wild garlic either, just one tiny patch, and usually there's a lot of it.

EventuallyDecluttered · 26/04/2024 14:23

I have just driven for three hours on mainly A roads and country lanes in southern England and little clumps of them are everywhere. I have not noticed anything like as many cowslips as usual this year though, still some around but the verges are normally full of them.

BirthdayRainbow · 26/04/2024 14:24

My local woods are full of bluebells and I have three sets in the garden. Two are native, one not.

eurochick · 26/04/2024 15:56

Cowslips are rampant here this year. The field next door to us is practically yellow. And we have more than usual in our lawn. We are in the SE.

However the daffodils were over unusually quickly this year and not as many flowered as usual.

DolceGustoooohCoffee · 26/04/2024 15:58

They're absolutely everywhere in my area, even had some pop up in a corner of the front garden where I thought nothing grew but weeds

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