| Bluebells have long stems
with small bell shaped flowers drooping from the ends. The flowers are a blue or violet
colour with small cream anthers at their centre. The leaves emerge from underground bulbs
in early spring and the flowers are in bloom in April and May. Bluebells grow in shady
places and can be found carpeting the floor of many of the woods in
Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes. They are most
common in the south, which is the most wooded area of the county.
Bluebells are protected through general provisions in the Wildlife and Countryside Act
1981, which make it illegal to intentionally uproot a wild plant. |
