Best time to see: mid Apr to mid Jun
Key facts
The familiar drooping azure-blue spikes, carpeting woods in early spring
Although bluebell woods are a familiar sight in Britain, they occur almost nowhere else
Bluebells are threatened by hybridisation with garden species from Holland and by theft from the wild for sale
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© Tony Gunton
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© Owen Keen