tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post4743648597246973889..comments2023-10-30T09:26:32.732+00:00Comments on Now's the time: forgotten, slope, bluebellsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06972049290586377462noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-35454436558357438642010-05-02T11:38:25.892+01:002010-05-02T11:38:25.892+01:00Crow: Bluebells and hyacinths are the same family ...Crow: Bluebells and hyacinths are the same family aren't they?. We have cultivated ones which don't look much like the wood variety. In England, they are very special in May, carpeting the floor of woods with a hazy blue and filling the air with a powerful scent. There is a song called The Blue Bells of Scotland but I have never been in Scotland in bluebell time. I have always been puzzled by Edgar Allan Poe's poem To Helen where he writes of "thy hyancinth hair, thy classic face". It makes you think of that new film called Avatar where there is a planet inhabited by beautiful blue people.<br /><br />Lucy: Those Breton bluebells sound interesting and delicate. Do you think that they are small because they do not like the warmer climate. Bluebells seem to favour the cooler end of the temperate spectrum<br /><br />I can't remember in the corner of which garden I spotted the nymphs but it did strike me that had you been there you would proabably have taken the same photograph only better.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06972049290586377462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-89972133081030954822010-05-01T17:33:52.884+01:002010-05-01T17:33:52.884+01:00In Finistere there were little bluebells, much sma...In Finistere there were little bluebells, much smaller than the woodland ones, just a few bells on each, growing in the fields among the grass. They tended to be towards the field edges I suppose, but were quite in the open.<br /><br />I like those nymphs very much, they are such jolies-laides!Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-52513553948319931712010-05-01T16:54:57.106+01:002010-05-01T16:54:57.106+01:00I have some bluebells in my yard, though over here...I have some bluebells in my yard, though over here they are called English woods hyacinths.<br /><br />They are beautiful and give off a most delightful fragrance.<br /><br />I like the idea of "planting" wood nymphs in one's garden. I'll have to visit garden centers to see if we have any. We have too many gnomes and cherubs, but I've not seen nymphs before.The Crowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04846997590157958766noreply@blogger.com