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 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 ...

The native English bluebell, Hyacinthoides non-scripta, is increasingly under threat from its Spanish cousin (H. hispanica), which is widely grown in British gardens because it is considered more ...

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 ...

It’s been a lovely bluebell season, but I’m hearing some of the blossoms might be unwanted intruders. How can that be true? There is more than one kind of bluebell and concerns are growing that the ...

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 ...