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The native bluebell is delightful in the woods through May. Some of the best populations around here are the deepest dark blue I have ever seen , with shadows of purple.
I once found a pure white one, looking rather unfortunate in a sea of blue, as though a rather large bird had flown over and...
Pink forms are known in cultivation, though they are mostly hybrids with Hyacinthoides hispanica, and then there is this curious form. Long green leafy bracts at
the base of every flower
give the flower spikes a very strange feathery appearance. It seems to spread easily by division, but I'm not sure if it comes true from seed.
When I first got this I treated it as an interesting oddity, but I have started to look forward to it flowering every year
and I am becoming very fond of it. I have now planted it out where it can spread safely, and I will see it in time to collect seed.
