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	Common Bluebell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Common Bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta, sometimes Endymion non-scriptus or Scilla non-scripta) is a spring-flowering bulbous perennial.
		It is native to the British Isles and western France, being replaced in Iberia by the similar Spanish bluebell (H.
		In spring, many British woods are covered by dense carpets of this flower; these are commonly referred to as "bluebell woods".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/English_Bluebell (223 words)

	The Scotsman - S2 Weekend - Bluebells’ growing problem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The English bluebell (hyacinthoides non-scripta) on the other hand, is lopsided, delicately scented and blooms on just one side of its stem.
		To confuse matters, the English bluebell is known as wild hyacinth in Scotland, and should not be mistaken for the Scottish bluebell, known as the harebell (campanula rotundifolia), which is not under threat.
		With the exception of Orkney and the Shetland Islands, the English bluebell (or wild hyacinth) is found across Scotland, particularly in the Highlands, carpeting oak, birch and ash woods, in hedgebanks, under bracken and on sea-cliffs.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /s2.cfm?id=622252002 (586 words)

	Athens News
		CARPETS of bluebells in ancient woodland are synonymous with and as much a part of the English countryside in spring and summer as warm beer and cricket greens.
		Flowering before the trees are in full leaf, the true English bluebell, Hyacinthoides non-scripta, forms vigorous clumps of lance-shaped glossy dark green leaves; in spring, woodland floors are a mid-blue scented haze of bell-shaped pendant flowers.
		The most obvious candidate is the near relative of the English bluebell, the Spanish bluebell, Hyacinthoides hispanica, native to the meadows, rocky scrub, and cultivated land of Portugal, Spain, and N Africa.
	www.athensnews.gr /athweb/nathens.prnt_article?e=C&f=13120&t=04&m=A23&aa=1 (1279 words)

	The Charm of English Bluebells (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		English bluebells are much shorter, and bloom earlier and they both have their own special features.
		English bluebell is a beloved flower in Britain, where it grows in gardens and in the wild.
		English and Spanish bluebells will cross, so be sure if one of them is a favorite to plant only that variety, or make sure they are a good distance apart.
	seedsofknowledge.com /bluebells.html (472 words)

	English bluebell -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		As a mark of his grief on the death of the prince, (Greek god of light; god of prophesy and poetry and music and healing; son of Zeus and Leto; twin brother of Artemis) Apollo inscribed the letters "AIAI".
		The English bluebell flowers in April and May. The stems are 10–30 cm long and bend over at the top.
		It is common to find (An organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species) hybrids with the closely related (additional info and facts about Spanish bluebell) Spanish bluebell Hyacinthoides hispanica (a popular cultivated garden plant in Britain).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/en/english_bluebell.htm (322 words)

	Paghat's Garden: Hyacinthoides non-scripta
		English Squill is shown at page-top in an April 2002 photo, & in the second photo another clump in April 2004.
		Bluebells were long regarded as the flower of grief, due to their association with devilish fairies, as well as the grief of Apollo over the death of Hyacinthos.
		The English Bluebell is believed to have lost its sweet scent when the larger Spanish species was imported to the same gardens & sturdy hybrids displaced genetically pure English Bluebells.
	www.paghat.com /springbulbs2.html (1487 words)

	English Bluebell Seeds from Alchemy Works - Seeds for Magick Herbs and Pagan Gardens
		In the UK bluebells are sometimes found growing in a huge mass in the woods.
		Bluebells are also known as Auld Man's Bells, Calverkeys, Culverkeys, English Bluebell, Jacinth, Ring-o'-Bells, Wilde Hyacint, Wood Bells, crowtoes, crawtees, deadmen's bells, and cuckoo bells.
		Bluebells like to grow in sunny woodlands/dappled shade and in acidic soil, but they do fine in clay and dry shade.
	www.alchemy-works.com /hyacinthoides.html (543 words)

	Welcome to the Langley Advance- Features
		In the wild, the English bluebell is smaller, not more than 30 centimetres (one foot) tall, and has fragrant, narrow purple-blue bells (which very rarely can be pink or white) drooping down one side of the stalk.
		All the bluebells are at their best in moist soil and semi-shade under deciduous trees and shrubs.
		For instance, English bluebells may be sold as Hyacinthoides non-scripta or Scilla non-scripta or Scilla nutans or Endymion non-scriptus.
	www.langleyadvance.com /issues03/095103/features.html (675 words)

	Perdita--Bluebell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Bluebell Flame charm is one of these charms, as it associates Hermione with Harry throughout book one, and it's significance becomes undeniably clear by the end of book five as a symbol that represents Hermione's constant devotion to Harry and his survival.
		The bluebell flower (image) belongs to the lily family and is a native of Europe, North America and Asia.
		In another Scottish folk song, “The Bluebells of Scotland,” the female voice sings of the bluebell flowering hills as the home of a highland lad, her beloved, who is away at war.
	www.symbolic-flight.org /essay_pp_bluebell.htm (2571 words)

	Telegraph \| Gardening \| Country notebook: Hyacinthoides non-scripta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		A Bluebell Biodiversity Action Project to assess the impact of the arrival in huge numbers of H. hispanica on the wild population is already under way, and has the merit of bringing a very real and present danger to the attention of the population at large.
		This season saw the importation of literally millions of Dutch-bred bluebell bulbs, which were marketed, by all kinds of reputable organisations including the National Trust and this newspaper, as English bluebells.
		These were "legitimate" bluebells; planting them would help to repair the depredations of the criminals who tore up bluebells out of the woods and sold them at car-boot sales.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /gardening/main.jhtml?xml=/gardening/2002/06/01/ogerm01.xml (779 words)

	Bluebell wood - TheBestLinks.com - Gerard Manley Hopkins, May 9, 1871, Spring (season), ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		A bluebell wood denotes woodland that typifies the beauty of an English spring.
		A bluebell wood is a wood that in spring-time has a carpet of bluebells underneath a newly forming leaf canopy.
		But in the clough through the light they come in falls of sky-colour washing the brows and slacks of the ground with vein-blue, thickening at the double, vertical themselves and the young grass and brake-fern combed vertical, but the brake struck the upright of all this with winged transomes.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Bluebell_wood.html (240 words)

	Top Middle and Bottom Notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Bluebell plants are members of the Liliceae having small nodding purple-blue cylindrical bell shaped flowers, with the tips of the petals curving back, and possessing a strong but delicate fragrance.
		The appearance of Bluebells in the woods is a quintessentially English occurrence, and something that in bygone days, young girls might look forward to, as armfulls of blooms were frequently gathered from the woods and placed in jars back at home, although they do not survive for long once cut.
		Being essentially wild hyacinths, as might be expected, bluebells have an intense green floral, and b -phenylethyl alcohol-like odour, perhaps coloured with a touch of phenylacetaldehyde, which fills the whole air.
	www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~nodice/new/magazine/bluebell/bluebell.htm (300 words)

	ENGLISH NATURE : News
		The sight and scent of an ancient bluebell wood in full flower is one of the wonders of the English countryside, but our native flora is being threatened by Spanish and Hybrid bluebells.
		English Nature is trying to minimise the threat posed by Spanish and Hybrid bluebells and wants gardeners to do their bit to help by:
		Both the Spanish bluebell (Hyacinthoides hispanica) and the Hybrid bluebell (Hyacinthoides x massartiana) are capable of crossing with our native plants and producing highly fertile seed, capable of invading quite dense populations of the native species.
	www.english-nature.org.uk /news/story.asp?ID=521 (262 words)

	Canadian Poisonous Plants Information System
		English bluebell (Endymion non-scriptus) is an ornamental bulb plant that is grown outdoors and forced indoors for its early spring flowers.
		A group of cows and calves in Britain grazed on English bluebells and a few days later became dull and lethargic, chewed intermittently, and produced hard, dry feces.
		A horse that ate several bulbs of English bluebell became ill within 6 h.
	www.cbif.gc.ca /pls/pp/ppack.info?p_psn=251&p_type=all&p_sci=comm&p_x=px (404 words)

	Flowers1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Bluebells are a highlight of the English spring woodland, but the native English bluebell is under threat from the Spanish bluebell, which hybridizes and displaces the native species.
		The native English bluebell (hyacinthoides non-scripta) is quite distinct and becoming rare.
		You may have heard a discussion of bluebells on a Radio 4 "Gardeners' Question Time" in March 03.
	ianhday.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /Flowers1.htm (176 words)

	The Scotsman - S2 Weekend - Toll of the bluebell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Bluebells for Britain survey being carried out by Plantlife aims to identify populations and also help people distinguish between the native bluebell, the Spanish interloper and their hybrids.
		Scotland’s bluebells aren’t suffering from hybridisation to the same extent as England’s but, says Long, who is based at the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh, "obviously that’s the kind of problem that will spread out from any urbanised areas where people are sticking the Spanish bluebells in their gardens".
		Bluebell woods are only found on Europe’s Atlantic fringes, so while we may take them for granted they are, adds Taylor, quite significant in a European context.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /s2.cfm?id=474522003 (1260 words)

	Bluebell Dell
		Bluebell, is the common name for many unrelated plants with blue, bell-shaped flowers.
		This web picture gallery features the English bluebell or the wild hyacinth (Scilla nonscripta) which can be found in abundance in the North Downs.
		According to some naturalists, the presence of bluebells is evidence of an ancient woodland.
	freespace.virgin.net /mr.mac/BluebellHome.htm (203 words)

	surefish.co.uk: news - Spring flowers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The English bluebell is a member of the Hyacinth family, native to the British Isles and western France.
		A woodland carpet of bluebells is one of the quintessential signs of spring.
		Bluebells are held to be a symbol of constancy and kindness.
	fish.co.uk /news/features/310305_spring_flowers.htm (901 words)

	English Bluebell Bulb - General Information - Bulbs Section
		The common English bluebell (Scilla nutans or hyacinthoides non scripta) has beautiful blue or occasionally white or pink flowers.
		The effect of a carpet of bluebells beneath trees is breathtaking.
		The bulbs should be planted in the autumn at a depth of six inches.
	www.greenchronicle.com /gardening/bluebell_bulbs.htm (165 words)

	Society \| Invading alexanders out to conquer English bluebells
		Kew, the world 's most famous botanical garden, has a plant invader it cannot control that is threatening to wipe out its collection of Britain's favourite flower, the English bluebell.
		The 1.5-metre (5ft) invaders perfoliate alexanders (Smyrnium perfoliatum) grow in the same 16-hectare (40-acre) plot as the bluebells and block out the light, effectively smothering the bluebell bulbs.
		Bluebells, which are repeatedly voted Britain's favourite flower, are already under threat from a larger Spanish species introduced into gardens, and from crossbreeding in the wild.
	society.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5171415-111982,00.html (371 words)

	Fuchsia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Fuchsia is a genus of flowering plants, mostly shrubs, which were identified by Charles Plumier in the late 17th century, and named after the Germany botanist Leonhart Fuchs (1501-1566).
		The English vernacular name Fuchsia is the same as the scientific name.
		Pronunciation of Fuchsia is difficult for many English language speakers, as the correct pronunciation from the German origin of the name is fook-sya /fksja/, readily confusable with the profanity known as the fuck.
	read-and-go.hopto.org /Flowers/Fuchsia.html (428 words)

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		Hyacinthoides non-scripta: the one and only true (English) bluebell: deep blue bells on graceful arching stems.
		The woods of England are full of these 'bluebells' in the spring.
		The delicately scented blue flowers are a great foil for many spring-flowering shrubs which have pink or white flowers; there is a white and a pink form but the blue is undoubtedly the most popular.
	www.tulipworld.com /product/productcard.asp?productid=939 (167 words)

	Bluebells - English Garden
		Flowering in April and May, it should not be confused with Hyacinthoides hispanica or Spanish bluebell which has broad leaves, paler blue flowers and the bells hang in all directions.
		in English folklore was said to call the fairies to their meetings.
		People also would not walk through a field of bluebells because they believed it to be enchanted and that the fairies would spirit them away — never to be seen by human eye again.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art20255.asp (345 words)

	Gardening Which? Sustainable harvesting news (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		It's wrong to plant those big, scentless Spanish bluebells in your garden, because they hybridize with English bluebells and destroy the native population.
		Unfortunately it can also be wrong to plant English bluebells in your garden - because the bulbs come from wild bluebell woods, and digging them up is also destructive.
		Homebase is currently selling English bluebell bulbs that were grown from licensed seed on a farm in Lincolnshire.
	www.which.net /gardeningwhich/campaigns/sustainability/02news.html (411 words)

	Bluebell - TheBestLinks.com - Bluebell wood, English Bluebell, Disambig, Bluebell (Watership Down), ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Bluebell - TheBestLinks.com - Bluebell wood, English Bluebell, Disambig, Bluebell (Watership Down),...
		Bluebell, Bluebell wood, English Bluebell, Disambig, Bluebell (Watership Down)...
		This is a disambiguation page, i.e., a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Bluebell.html (118 words)

	Ramblings: Blue Bells in Spring (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		It reminds me a little, in the way the flowers hang, of the English bluebell, although the petals are separate, not fused in a bell shape down to the curling edges like the bluebell's.
		In England, bluebells grow wild in great blue masses in damp woodland glades, and their scent is indescribably fresh and lovely.
		The English bluebell is called non-scripta because of its lack of any such marks.
	www.dignityonline.com /archives/2005/rb050405.php (1033 words)

	Burke's Backyard Archives 1997 - Bluebells
		The woodland bulb, the bluebell, is ideal for mass planting, particularly under trees.
		This bluebell is a cool climate plant that is not well suited to warmer areas.
		Also, the flowers are borne on only one side of the stem, unlike the Spanish bluebell which has flowers arranged around the flower stalk.
	www.burkesbackyard.com.au /1997/archives/27/in_the_garden/flowering_plants_and_shrubs/bluebells?mysource_site_extension=printer_friendly_pages (324 words)

	Yorkshire Post Magazine - Yorkshire Post Today: News, Sport, Jobs, Property, Cars, Entertainments & More (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The good, old English bluebell is under attack from an ancient enemy â“ the Spanish.
		English bluebells (Hyacinthoides) are flowers of the wild, of woodland where they flower before the canopy of leaves shuts out the light from the forest floor.
		And once you have planted bluebells (be they English or Spanish) you will have a devil of a job removing them.
	www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk /ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=1472&ArticleID=972013 (533 words)

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