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27-01-2006, 05:43 PM
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Hello All
I am writing from Ontario, Canada, and live in a century old farmhouse high on the Oak Ridges Morraine. I am an English born gal who left England in 1958. I have joined this site as I discovered it when I did a search on English wildflowers.
I am coming, with my hubby, back to visit this April after almost 48 years!
My interests include walking through the bluebell woods and seeing all of the lovely flowers that I remember under the hedgerows.
My question is, "when is the best time to visit to see the above?"
Any advice will be much appreciated.
Raye |
27-01-2006, 06:30 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Leicestershire
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Hi Raye - I'd have to say your timing was about right for the start of the Bluebell season, mid-May is best round here ( East Midlands).
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27-01-2006, 07:06 PM
|  | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: N.E.SOMERSET
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Hi newbie,the way the climate is changing it could be sooner no doubt there will be a post for the first daffodils,first bluebell etc. just watch this forum
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27-01-2006, 07:09 PM
|  | Administrator and Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: On the Malvern Hills
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Hi Raye, welcome to Wild About Britain.
April sounds like a good time to me and I can think of some great bluebell woods throughout the UK where you can literally walk amongst tens of thousands of them.
If you gives us a general idea of where you plan to visit north east, south west etc, we'll see if we can dig up some places that might be worth a quick visit on your travels
Cheers
Stuart |
27-01-2006, 07:13 PM
|  | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Crawley,Sussex
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Hello Raye.
Wow 48 years and coming back. 
Hope you enjoy your visit and get to see all that you want to.
Be interesting to hear your views on how you think things have changed........for better or worse. |
27-01-2006, 08:47 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Cambridgeshire
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Hi Raye and welcome the friendliest wildlife forum on the net.
I took a photo of Bluebells 28th. April 2005. Indeed my hairdresser said that he would take his mother to see them in late May, but I had to tell him that it would be too late then. They seem to be getting earlier and earlier each year. This is in the east of the East Midlands. Seems you should be timing your visit just right.
Regards
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27-01-2006, 08:58 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: NW England
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Hi Raye
Welcome to WAB
Here's a pic for you - taken here in the North West on May 15th last year... 
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27-01-2006, 11:06 PM
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Thankyou for the welcome and advice!
I have always told people visiting Britain to go in the spring and if coming to Ontario, then the fall is glorious!
I am planning to be in the Nottingham area (my birthplace is Beeston); Then Birmingham to visit a young couple that we met in Cuba a month ago. Family in East Anglia and Winchester areas. Also Folkestone and Maidstone, Kent which is where I grew up.
My list is endless but that is narrowing it down.
Glad to have found you and what a lovely photo. Thanks again.
Raye |
29-01-2006, 07:02 PM
|  | Knight Grand Cross of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Nottingham
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Originally Posted by Raye Thankyou for the welcome and advice!
I am planning to be in the Nottingham area (my birthplace is Beeston); Then Birmingham to visit a young couple that we met in Cuba a month ago. Family in East Anglia and Winchester areas. Also Folkestone and Maidstone, Kent which is where I grew up.
Raye | Raye,
One of the best bluebell sites around Nottingham is Rufford Park, in Sherwood Forest Area. A couple of pictures from Rufford Park. |
10-02-2006, 09:20 PM
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Hello again
Will definitely be in England infor most of the month of April so hope that you nice people on the forum will keep me posted as to the first blooms of any of the gorgeous wildflowers.
I will be the one in the hedgerows and on my knees taking close-up shots of them all
Thanks
Raye (in cold Canada) | | |
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