I've been watching the variuos bluebell posts and convinced myself the ones in my garden must be Spanish, however I've cut some to bring inside to cheer myself up.
The ones I've brought in smell lovely. Thought Spanish didn't smell?
The natives have a slightly reflexed end to the petals - ie they curve back on themselves at the tips, and are along one side of the stem, drooping at the top. The Spanish ones have more open ended flowers, and the plants themselves have a more upright habit.
Bob
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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Oh they do, they make me quite wheezy and asthmatic.
Many bluebells are hybrids now, so you may have "dual heritage"bluebells, if that makes you feel any better.
Ask them to pronounce 'perro'!
The natives have a slightly reflexed end to the petals - ie they curve back on themselves at the tips, and are along one side of the stem, drooping at the top. The Spanish ones have more open ended flowers, and the plants themselves have a more upright habit.
Bob
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Leaf width is also slightly different and stems of the Spanish ones are thicker than our native bluebell.....
So much for Theresa May's view that we do have control of our borders
Or am I thinking of the wrong sort of borders?
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Pete8 - thanks for that! My laugh-out-loud moment for today.
Snowing outside so the ones I picked yresterday