The Bluebell Walk...

One of the quintessential delights of an English estate is a Bluebell wood - a dense copse of deciduous English trees such as Oak and Birch, under-planted with a generous carpet of bluebells (and other assorted spring-time bulbs). It evokes memories of the English countryside and many a ramble.

We have designed and planted our own Bluebell Walk...

It is 100m long and runs from the main drive down to the lake and olive grove. Everything looks a little sad at present, what with it being winter, and the trees being newly-planted, but we have high hopes that in the fertile soil it wont take more than a couple of years to really get established.

We hope that one day the line of Silver Birches above will look more like these below...

We await the advent of Spring, when the dormant and sparse woody branches will burst forth into verdant splendour and we may get a glimpse of what it will look like in the fullness of time. One can hardly see the trees from a distance during Winter...

We used a combination of trees in shades of Blue and Silver and achieve the colour scheme we wanted: Silver Birches (Betula pedula), Weeping Silver Pears (Pyrus salicifolia pendula) and Bluebells (Hyacinthoides sps), with a planting of Plumbago and Alders on the other side of the walk.

Above and Below: Weeping Silver Pears (Pyrus salicifolia pendula)

The current Winter state of our Pears...


Below: A bosquet of Silver Birch Trees

And examples of Bluebell under plantings....