Feeling blue

[oldclaypaws]

[oldclaypaws]

[davetb]

Looks great. Nice to see the dog in the wood. Weather set fair for the weekend, hopefully we can go and view / photograph ours. FERA do a study, every year, to check for wild boar, in our wood - none yet. They don't know where the males from the Forest of Dean go every year. They have said that bluebells are one of the first to suffer from wild boar damage. Cheers, Oldclaypaws.

[oldclaypaws]

If one wishes to make a complaint to FERA, is that a FERA-moan?

[smudge]

Fantastic everythings buzzing now looking forward to take pictures of my woods this weekend

[davetb]

Finally, here's a photo of our North facing slope. The bluebells come out a few weeks after the rest of the wood. This area is specifically managed for the bluebells. It was strimmed and hand mown in the winter to get rid of brambles, elder and bracken. The stumps are all birch and were felled about 4 years ago to let more light in. Very peaceful area.

[Lincswood]

I'm feeling increasingly blue, as I had no more than a handful of bluebells in my wood. Advice please?

[Dexter's Shed]

I'm feeling increasingly blue, as I had no more than a handful of bluebells in my wood. Advice please?

when we visited our woods for the first time, we only had one large area of bluebells, now we have cleared a lot of pathways and a camping area of brambles, we now have more popping up along with orchids, well we never put them there

[oldclaypaws]

Three possible routes;

1) Wait a very very long time for them to naturally establish, they are an ancient woodland plant and chances are your wood is perhaps more recent. (Guess you don't want to go for that one).

2) Find some friendly folk to gather and send you some seeds for free from an established wood- its illegal for most folk to sell them to you. An appeal on the forum might succeed.

3) Buy from an authorised seller; roughly 1p per seed, £50 worth might have quite an impact?

http://www.verabluebell.co.uk/