Bluebell woods
Spring is definitely here if you speak the language of flowers. The snowdrops have come and gone, the crocuses have blazed out, daffodils everywhere are celebrating the Welsh rugby team’s success, and the bluebells are a month early.
Take a trip to Richmond Park and you can find one of the most beautiful bluebell walks, in the Isabella Plantation. It’s in the corner of the park closest to Norbiton station. The whole plantation was laid out to provide a less manicured, more natural wood and water environment than the surrounding parkland then had, and it’s a marvellous place to wander at a weekend.
In Redbridge, north London, Claybury Woods are famous for their bluebells. The oak and hornbeam woods will host a special guided Bluebell Walk on 26th April this year - it’s free, but you might want to reserve a place by ringing the Conservation team on 020 8501 1426(or email nature.conservation@redbridge.gov.uk).
At the extreme east end of the Central Line, you’ll find Epping Forest, another of London’s great woodlands. Here, Linder’s Field is particularly noted for its bluebells - it’s an immensely old woodland, just a stub of a much older forest. Access is from Roebuck Lane, in Buckhurst Hill, where you can park. Or just head for the greater bulk of Epping Forest and start walking; sooner or later you’ll find the bluebells you’re looking for.
Osterley Park, in west London (Osterley tube) and Oxleas Wood, in Eltham, south-east London (Falconwood railway station) are other places to see bluebells. Which, just to remind you, are usually out from April to May, but this year seem to have decided it’s warm enough to come out in late February!
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