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First Bluebell of the year at East Blean Woods |
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Sunday, 29 March 2009 |
First Bluebell of the year at East Blean Woods | - Click on the image above to view gallery
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 Three lesser celandine together In places I was pleasantly surprised to see the first of the new leaves on the Beech trees, already quite advanced in their lovely fresh green way. The biggest surprise though was when I found a bluebell in bud and almost ready to flower: this was an exception, though because it was in a very warm spot, but later in the walk we were really surprised to find a couple already flowering. Looking closely for any more signs of flower buds there were hardly any so I think it will be a few weeks yet before I’ll be seeing the haze of blue in those woods. Having had a quite cold winter this year I thought that the spring flowers might be later this year but when I compare today pictures from last year’s they really are about the same. I must say though, I don’t recall ever seeing a Bluebell in flower in late March.
At this time of year it’s like there is a springtime rush as the flowers quickly go through their life cycle before the new leaves on the trees above them take away all the natural sunlight. I’ll be sure to return in a couple of weeks when I would expect many more of the flowers to be showing.
 With soft focus filter  Without soft focus filter.
I was recently given a soft focus filter and I had a play taking pictures of the Wood Anemones I think I’ll need to have another go but I quite liked the effect for the first try.
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the essence of spring. Fancy seeing a bluebell in flower already. Enjoyed your Sissinghurst album too, now that's a garden I'd really love to visit sometime. How lovely to see the new born lambs too. Maggie