In a Vase on Monday. Fairy Flowers and some Ancient Woodlands.

Where I come from in Yorkshire the old name for Bluebells was Fairy Flowers . There was a fable that fairies would use bluebells to ensnare small children who attempt to piece them . It was think spoilt luck to bring them into the house . We are lucky in the UK to have some tremendous bluebell woods and when I was a nestling despite this superstition , everyone used to contribute huge armfuls home from the woods to put in a vase . The very thought of this is appalling today , when we are all so interested to preserve our treasured flora .

We have a inheritance of such wonderful bluebell woods . Where there are rug of bluebell and a great diversity of other angry peak , it is usually a sign of ancient forest .

Hyacinthoides non - scripta

Hyacinthoides non-scripta

There are several , beautiful old Wood in Suffolk which are remnant of ancient forest . Sometimes , as in the wood in the Stour Valley Nature Reserve there are carpets of Wood Anemones , Anemone nemorosaas far as the eye can see .

Anemone nemorosa

There are clumps of flowers that are delicately tinged with pink . There are other woodland beauty in April .

Hyacinthoides non-scripta

As you take on through the wood , settle trees and etymon make grand patterns .

You are pursued by the incessant repetitive call of the chiffchaff . If you are there as even comes on , you may here the nightingale ’s beautiful Song dynasty . Suddenly the view give up and the Stour estuary with all its marsh birds fare into view . We were lucky enough to hear the ghost call of the curlew , but I was not quick enough to shoot him .

In another wood nigher to habitation there are carpet of Wild Garlic , Allium ursinumor Ransoms as they are known . The smell is quite acrid .

Hyacinthoides non-scripta

Hyacinthoides non-scripta

Allium ursinum

Last year I did a position on a special smasher which arise in a Grant Wood near here , the Early Purple Orchid , Orchis masculaor ‘ tenacious Purples ’ as Shakespeare called them . Each year I front forward to these wonderful blooms .

All these lovely bloom make the wood a delight in April but I think we all have a exceptional place in out hearts for the adorable native harebell . So my vase this week has to be bluebells . My garden has masses of them and each year I dig them up in a vain effort to get rid of them . They are Spanish bluebells , Hyacinthoides hispanicawhich are pretty in their way , but they do n’t have the dainty elegance of our aboriginal bluebells . Worse still , they are putting our native bluebells at jeopardy , by the readiness with which they crossbreed . Britain holds one third of the world ’s harebell Sir Henry Wood and these Spanish hoodlum are threatening them .

Anemone nemorosa

Anemone nemorosa

I think they see good in a dim-witted countrified quite a little , with a chip of greenTellima grandiflora . I also quite like them in this pretty vase . To be fair , I think I should be quite good-for-naught if they all melt from my garden , they are such a cheery good deal . Do join in with the meme at theRamblinggarden‘In a Vase on Monday ’ . Cathy was last pick up of somewhere in the Outer Hebrides , clutch some dandelion , but her loyal followers are still joining in and demonstrate us some lovely vases .

45 Responses toIn a Vase on Monday. Fairy Flowers and some Ancient Woodlands.

What can be more beautiful than fairy flower and photos of UK wood ? Thanks , Chloris for making my eve ! Great vase , too , as common !

Oh what a beautiful sight to see a mass of these bluebells in a jug … .I love them and can you believe most of mine are gone . I really adore your Campanula rotundifolia woods….so perfectly stunning like a fairy wonderland .

Spanish or native they are both attractive flowers Chloris and yours look most attractive in their various vases . That carpet of anemones is quite wizard 🙂

Your timberland views are howling , as is your pretty vase . I ’ve get wind that Spanish Scilla nonscripta can be invasive but that definitely is n’t the case here . I plant a few dozen in an area that get partial nicety when we moved in but now receive almost full sunshine – few of the bluebells planted there have turn back and those that have wrench to toast almost right away . I should adjudicate to moil them up when I distinguish their cadaver as move them may make a difference but it ’s too late for that this year as grounds of their whereabouts is no longer apparent .