Bluebells are a delicate, bell shaped flower that carpet English woodlands in a wash of blue. Springing up in Spring – from mid-April to late May – this ‘short and sweet’ blooming seems only to add to the fragility of these tiny, blue flowers.
Almost half the world’s bluebells are to be found in the UK and so inevitably they have also found their way into film and song. Above is a still from the film ‘Bright Star’, Jane Campion’s portrait of the life of the Romantic poet John Keats. Fanny Brawne can be seen reading his now famous love letters surrounded by them – the delicacy and sheer beauty of his words matched by the delicacy and sheer beauty of the flowers.
And I leave you with a song entitled ‘Bluebells’ by Patrick Wolf. Written in the depths of winter, the singer longs for Spring ‘when the bluebells are ringing’. A clever pun on their tiny bells!
