The last of the Bluebells are losing their flowers; is it just me or have there been fewer Bluebells about this year? It certainly feels that way to me. The woods near Cranborne, usually a dense sea of blue, appeared lessened; Resource Woods, although lovely, didn't enjoy the show it normally had and in other woodland too the Bluebells, one of the defining features of the British spring, were scarcer. I wonder if it's part of a natural cycle, although of course in these times, Climate Change comes fast to mind as a potential culprit; Bluebells have been identified as vulnerable to climate change and warmer springs, they depend on cold winter/springs to thrive and to allow them an advantage over other species, which if appearing earlier due to warming would compete with the Bluebell. We're living through a time of sad changes.
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