Price Points: English bluebells

English bluebells

English bluebells or Hyacinthoides non-scripta are something we’ve realised – after a full year of being in our cottage – don’t currently grow in our garden. So, as well as the wildflower seeds we featured a few days ago, we’ll be planting some English bluebells this autumn.

There are three methods of planting:

Dry bulbs
Dry bulbs can be sown from the beginning of September through to early November and will flower the following April.

Seeds
This is the most economical way to buy English bluebells. Like dry bulbs, seeds also need to be planted in the autumn. Bluebell seeds require a long period of cold for stratification to occur. Seeds will take many years to flower for the first time.

In the green
Plant these in spring (January to April) as soon as they’ve been ordered and delivered. Bulbs ‘in the green’ may take a few years to flower for the first time.

Bluebells prefer a slightly acidic, well-draining soil in a semi-shaded position (such as beneath deciduous trees).

You want your bluebells to look natural when they appear out of the ground. The best way to ensure this happens is to ‘cast’ the bulbs and plant the bulbs where they fall. The worst thing you can do is to plant them in straight rows. Bluebells begin to flower around April and May. They are perennial and self-seed, so will come back better & better each year.

A word of warning, though – make sure you purchase cultivated bulbs and not ones that may have been taken, unlawfully, from the wild.

  1. 500 English bluebell seeds: £3.99, Etsy
  2. 30 English bluebell bulbs, in the green: £9.98, Crocus
  3. 30 English bluebell bulbs, dry: £11.99 Thompson & Morgan

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30 English bluebell bulbs, dry
30 English bluebell bulbs, dry
£11.99
30 English bluebell bulbs, in the green
30 English bluebell bulbs, in the green
£9.98
500 English bluebell seeds
500 English bluebell seeds
£3.99
30 English bluebell bulbs, dry
30 English bluebell bulbs, dry
£11.99
30 English bluebell bulbs, in the green
30 English bluebell bulbs, in the green
£9.98
500 English bluebell seeds
500 English bluebell seeds
£3.99
30 English bluebell bulbs, dry
30 English bluebell bulbs, dry
£11.99
30 English bluebell bulbs, in the green
30 English bluebell bulbs, in the green
£9.98
500 English bluebell seeds
500 English bluebell seeds
£3.99
30 English bluebell bulbs, dry
30 English bluebell bulbs, dry
£11.99
30 English bluebell bulbs, in the green
30 English bluebell bulbs, in the green
£9.98
500 English bluebell seeds
500 English bluebell seeds
£3.99
30 English bluebell bulbs, dry
30 English bluebell bulbs, dry
£11.99
30 English bluebell bulbs, in the green
30 English bluebell bulbs, in the green
£9.98
500 English bluebell seeds
500 English bluebell seeds
£3.99

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A post shared by Jacqueline Mercer (@tinyandthehouse)

You may remember me saying that I joined my local WI when we moved to Wales. Well, at one of the meetings, we did a little flower arranging workshop. That’s when I discovered that the craft wasn’t my forté! Nevertheless, a few weeks later, I had a go at making a Christmas wreath for our front door – I hadn’t improved!

So, when I clapped eyes on this stunning dining floral centrepiece, I could tell that Jacqueline was properly talented. What an amazingly beautiful creation! She constructed it using a wire-framed 4-light chandelier embellished with mainly artificial flowers. Faux blooms are hugely popular in the interiors world currently. They’re really lifelike, they look like real dried flowers. Abigail Ahern sells a huge range of flowers and foliage.

Having the decorative arrangement suspended above the dining table means there’s space for the practical items such as crockery, cutlery and food – genius! It also means that conversation with the person sitting opposite isn’t obstructed.

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