Skipping over to the content of my Coronation Wood photoblog (see top right of the page) tonight I'm swotting up the difference between our native bluebell here in UK - hyacinthoides non scripta - and the Spanish bluebell hyacinthoides hispanica, which is an introduction that has escaped from gardens and is hybridising with our native flowers.
The reason I am swotting it up is that I am being interviewed about our Coronation Wood project for Radio Scotland tomorrow...
So, in case I am asked....if the pollen is cream coloured, the flowers have a strong sweet perfume, the petals are strongly recurved and the flower stem has a nodding tip - it's native!
See a short Natural History Museum video about bluebells here, and some photographs of a gorgeous bluebell wood here, and don't miss the excellent Springwatch programmes on BBC over the next few weeks if you can get them..
See a short Natural History Museum video about bluebells here, and some photographs of a gorgeous bluebell wood here, and don't miss the excellent Springwatch programmes on BBC over the next few weeks if you can get them..
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