Topic: BLUEbells?

[tim]

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[Fork]

Mine are exactly the same  ???

[saddad]

I have specifically planted some white ones on the top allotment... by the fence posts...  :)

[Paulines7]

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They look like the Spanish ones to me.  Is that why you had the question mark Tim or was it because of the white ones?  The white ones do not look like the white variety of our English bluebell.

[Robert_Brenchley]

They're very like mine; I have a mixture of blue, white and pink. The bluebells on my site are essentially Spanish, though I think some are probably hybrids.

[tim]

My point, really, was what are white bluebells?

[saddad]

Whitebells what else...  ;D

[Robert_Brenchley]

Bluebells without pigment. The natural colour is slightly purple, so if you remove just the blue, what remains is going to be pink, explaining the three colours I have.

[Paulines7]

There is more information here:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/countryside/5171581/Rare-white-bluebells-found-in-park.html

[tim]

Right - so how do you differentiate between theirs & ours?

[GRACELAND]

Tim The Diff is

English ones Talk English   :o ;D

Pulling your leg


There is a way i just can,t remember now  :-\

[ACE]

English hang over in a gentle bend. Spanish are more like hyacinths. yours are English, mention bluebells and someone will always mention their spanish cousins.

[GRACELAND]

One why to help identify an English Bluebell is to see if all the flowers are in the same side of the stalk. As all the flowers on an English Bluebell are on the same side of the stalk, the effect of gravity pulls the stalk over into a beautiful curve. The stalk of Spanish Bluebells is straight. One why to help identify an Spanish Bluebell is to see if the flowers are all around the stalk. As all the flowers on an Spanish Bluebell are on the same side of the stalk and the stalk is thicker than the English Bluebell, the effect of gravity does not operate in the same way on the Spanish Bluebell so that it keeps its characteristic straight stalk.

[Robert_Brenchley]

It's not clearcut though since they hybridise, and the crosses are in between the two!

[thifasmom]

my bluebells were inherited with the house, i would say there is a predominance of Spanish, a few English, a lot of hybridised ones, the odd white and even one or two pink ones.

[Paulines7]

......yours are English, mention bluebells and someone will always mention their spanish cousins.

Sorry to disagree ACE but I think Tim's are Spanish.  They look very different in Tim's photo to the picture I took of English bluebells in Garston Woods.  Besides which, when I visited Tim's house a couple of years ago, they were all doing a flamenco dance!!    ;D ;D