Bluebells - friend or faux? | Bristol Nature Channel
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- Опубліковано 20 вер 2024
- One of natures most glorious displays in springtime are the carpets of bluebells in our British woodland. They grow before any other plant can take over the woodland floor. Join Heather in Leigh Woods as she investigates how their existence here in Britain is threatened by a Spanish bluebell invader.
Producer and presenter by Heather Lampard
Filmed, directed and edited by Jim Lampard, www.jimlampard.co.uk
Music by Bensound, www.bensound.com
Our British bluebells are also native in mainland Europe but Britain has the largest population of this one species (Hyacinthoides non-scripta). They've been the only bluebell in Britain since the last ice age, however since humans have enjoyed a spot of gardening they are now under threat. In 1683, a Spanish bluebell was introduced to Britain. It escaped peoples gardens and has started turning up in the wild. It's genetic similarity means that it can cross-pollinate with our British bluebells producing fertile hybrids. The hybrids are out competing our British bluebells, threatening their very existence in what has been their home for thousands of years. This has become a conservation concern on a global level.
Bluebells always remind us of our childhood and playing in the woods, another beautiful video Samantha, hope you are having a lovely new week. 😀🌞🌱🌻💐🌹💮🌼🌺💕
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@@BristolNatureChannel very interesting, thanks for all the information about the lovely bluebell.
I dug up some English bluebells from a local wood over forty years ago and planted them in my parents garden. They went bonkers, growing out of control. Through all my parents attempts to get rid of them, they came back every time. 35 years on, I transplanted some of the said bluebell blubs in my own garden and you guessed it, they went bonkers. Narrow leaved, all bells hanging on one curved side, lovely scented - the classic blue bell. I don't understand the comment about how they were hard to propagate. To stop hybrids, I cut the flowers off after they've "gone over" and compost them. I've now started to thin the little darlings out and transplant them to the field archery section at my local archery club. They are doing really well. I absolutely love these plants and If any one can give me any advice about protecting our native blue bells, it would be much welcomed.
What a lovely story, keeping the bluebells going all over the place! We read in the news yesterday about English bluebells not hybridising as much as first feared! Have a read if you hadn't seen it, it's quite interesting and maybe we don't have to be as cautious as we first thought!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-48137471
I consider these and even our one as weeds in my garden, they spread like mad and i dislike them, they not only swallow up other plants they create such a mess to clean up after they are done flowering. i am slowly removing them from my garden, every year i look out for the ones i didn't manage to catch the year before. the first years i must have removed about 1000 bulbs from the garden, it was hell of a task.
Consider giving the bulbs away in future or taking them to nearby woodland and scattering them.
😮 geez i can't imagine not wanting some of them at least
Friend or foe?
Never plant even one Spanish bluebell! I moved into my house around 15 years ago, I’ve done everything that you can do to try and get rid of the Spanish bluebells the previous owners planted. It’s a loosing battle because they will grow from a tiny bit of white, nothing can stop them and you can dig for years but they will win, unless you use chemicals and I’m not prepared to do that.
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I love this! Your videos keep getting better and better :)
+David Judge glad you like it! Our next video is a little more... feathery.
I have the Spanish bluebell here in Seattle. It was here when I bought this house. I hate it. No way to kill it. It is all over Seattle
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Omg, the fear mongering is alot 😳
Right ? :) There's no such thing as British Bluebell ! Plants don't have nationality !The same bluebells grow in Eastern Europe.. Why hating on a Spanish plant ! So stupid. Very sad to see such videos!
Interesting footage we are working on a project to create an acre of woodland into a blue bell area looking for to it
The other majority of bluebells are in France , mostly northern and western parts ... so they must be in an even worse state ?
Great stuff dude!
Thanks! ☺
Evil, evil, evil weeds.
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Louth Sights thanks! if you liked this one you should check out our other videos...
You lost me at “climate change”
There's no such thing as British Bluebell ! Plants don't have nationality !The same bluebells grow in Eastern Europe.. Why hating on a Spanish plant ! So stupid. Very sad to see such videos!
Like 50-80 percent of the world wide blue bells are from Britain
The Spanish one makes fertile hybrids with the the native one which could long term lead to blue Joelle being endangered