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 ...

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 ...

If only you could freeze-frame the moment when the first wild bluebells appear and display their arching sprays of cobalt blue flowers. They appear just as the bright green leafy canopy opens above ...

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 ...

Some examples of the herbarium specimens of bluebells held by the Cambridge University Herbarium: (Left) Herbarium specimen (CGE00075946) showing the fruit of the British bluebell (Hyacinthoides ...