Will bluebells like my garden ?

[StiffyByngsDogBartholomew]

We are on what used to be woodland years ago. There are big woods opposite our house.
camellia, wind anemones, peonies, euphorbia, cranesbill geraniums, poppies and lily of the valley all grow like thugs. I want to grow some bluebells under one of the apple trees in what is a sort of shady area with some species of evergreen hedge, a manky overgrown border and the lily of the valley. It's also full of unloved raspberry canes to one side of the tree. Am I wasting my time ?

please excuse photo of offspring, was the only piccy with offending part of garden

They like it fairly damp. I am overrun with the blasted things, but they are spindlier and less common in the dryer sunnier parts of the garden.

I think so

They should be fine, but make sure you plant native bluebells, not the invasive Spanish ones.

If too damp, they can be overrun by wild garlic. In the wooded stream valley opposite me, the lower slopes have been taken over by wild garlic and it’s only the upper slopes where the bluebells are persisting.

Native bluebells should be available “in the green” now