Gardeners digging up their borders for spring bulb planting are being urged to do their bit to help rescue the much-loved British bluebell. |
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Plants are greater stitchwort, bluebell, devils bit scabious, Himalayan balsam, ragged robin, marsh marigold, quaking grass and lady's smock. |
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Spanish bluebell is a good bet everywhere except the intermediate and low deserts. |
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This comes from the Spanish bluebell which can be purchased in some garden centres. |
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I followed the road towards Whalley and looked down to the left where flowers such as wood anemone, primrose, wild garlic and bluebell thrive. |
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The bluebell is widely regarded as an emblem of the British countryside, covering forest floors up and down the country. |
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The bluebell, which is native to moist deciduous woodlands, is perfect for naturalizing. |
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Although preferring the dainty white florets of garlic mustard, they occasionally sample a bluebell or two. |
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My mother used to take me and my middle brother to bluebell woods, somewhere in Kent, just for a treat. |
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Frequently, he pauses to alight and hang beneath the drooping stem of a bluebell to sip nectar, his pale sulphurous wings contrasting splendidly with the deep blue flowers. |
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A hundred hand-cut granite steps were laid to negotiate the steep gradient leading up from the riverbank, to a walk back through the top of the bluebell wood. |
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The children, as well as planting trees, also planted more than 150 bluebell bulbs and, had the weather been better, they could have planted snowdrops and daffodils too. |
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How beautiful is the blossom spilling from the tree, the hidden primrose and the bluebell ringing out the new. |
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Our bluebell groves and our chestnut copses and our hop fields are gradually giving way to the spread of concrete. |
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The English bluebell is leading a Plantlife poll to identify Britain's favourite wildflower. |
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Mr President, it is my privilege to represent the handsome villages, the rolling downs and the bluebell groves of the English Home Counties. |
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The chestnut groves are carpeted with drifts of western peony, pink, blue and yellow lupins, Spanish bluebell and Barbary nut iris, while rocky outcrops harbour man orchids. |
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Nip nasty niffs in the bud with Orla Kiely's bluebell and rosemary diffuser, PS25, from www. |
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They are a host species for the parasitic fungus Uromyces muscari, which causes bluebell rust. |
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While thousands of us enjoy the sight of the violet bloom of the bluebell at this time of year, how many of us realise that increasingly we are falling for a devilish foreign charmer? |
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The deletions included acorn, adder, ash, beech, bluebell, buttercup, catkin, conker, cowslip, cygnet, dandelion, fern, hazel, heather, heron, ivy, kingfisher, lark, mistletoe, nectar, newt, otter, pasture and willow. |
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Visitors can see a variety of borders and beds, a white garden, a bluebell wood and even a late twentieth century water garden built recently by the current owners. |
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Galtonia candicans may appear like a white bluebell but it flowers in late summer and being a bulbous plant is easily managed. |
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A stylised bluebell is used as the logo for the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland. |
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Large areas of the Chilterns are covered with beech woods, which are habitat to the common bluebell and other flora. |
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Some easy-to-grow spring ephemerals are bloodroot, woodland phlox, Virginia bluebell, shooting star, Solomon's seal, Jacob's ladder, fire pink, trillium, and foamflower. |
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It is known in English as the common bluebell or simply bluebell, a name which is used in Scotland to refer to the harebell, Campanula rotundifolia. |
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Triclopyr is highly selective, it only affects actively photosynthesising dicots, leaving grass, and flowering monocots such as narcissus and bluebell bulbs, undamaged. |
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There are tents and teepees and refreshment stalls around the main gates and the main camp in Bluebell Wood. |
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After being stunned by the spring flowers she saw in the park while she was pregnant, she decided to call her daughter Bluebell. |
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Founded in 1932, the Bluebell Girls are one of the last remaining companies to dance the traditional cancan, with its flying kicks and punishing splits. |
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However, exceptional well-formed, lustrous crystals to 10 cm are well known from the Bluebell mine on the shore of Kootenay Lake, British Columbia. |
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Sister ships Bluebell and Mayflower became garbage scows and the former's hull is now a break wall in Toronto Harbour. |
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Newsome's ward councillors took to the streets to tidy up the area around Barcroft Road and Bluebell Woods. |
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Near to this is its terminus, of the Bluebell Railway a heritage, steam railway line. |
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I would recommend the Scottish Bluebell, Ragged Robin, and the Common Primrose. |
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The second, and first to carry passengers was the Bluebell Railway. |
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On Saturday afternoons, for a nickel, he could go to a movie matinee at such theatres as the Bluebell, the Rialto, the Photodrome or the Victoria. |
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Bluebell flowers are rich in pollen and nectar, and are chiefly pollinated by bumblebees, although they are also visited by various other insects. |
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