RHAPSODY IN BLUE

BLUEBELLS IN BLOOM

PRODUCING ONE OF THE GREATEST wildflower shows on Earth, the bluebell has many fans. Indeed, it came as no surprise when the bluebell () was named Britain’s favourite flower in a 2002 poll that was part of Plantlife’s County Flowers project. The plant’s stupendously synchronous showing has been celebrated for a lot longer than a couple of decades, though – its blooms figure prominently in the poems of John