birthday blue(bell)s
What adventure shall we go on today?
Ah, it's a trip to Lesnes Abbey's bluebell woods! I wanted to spend my b-day doing something pleasant for me but also fun for the boys. This is where we ended up!
We had a picnic on a very tall bench, where the boys sat and asked myriad questions and chatted away for ages.
According to Wildlife and the Law in Great Britain (by one Margaret Palmer, 2002) "the native wild bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta)... is protected against uprooting and sale." It is, however, "legal to sell cultivated bluebells" -- though personally I've never encountered these.
Swathes of woodland are fenced off in places like this to help visitors avoid temptation during bluebell season. Fortunately for the clumsy who happen to find themselves surrounded by unenclosed tubers, "Damage to a protected plant is not an offence if it can be shown that it was 'an incidental result of a lawful activity and could not reasonably have been avoided'."
Flower-wise, Felix was more interested in the innumerable min-daisies decorating the lawn surrounding the abbey ruin. Fortunately, they are very pick-able!
Lesnes Abbey (Augustinian order) dates from the 12th century. Most of it was demolished soon after the monastic dissolution which occurred in the 16th c. It is now a public park. More info here: http://www.bexley.gov.uk/service/parks/lesnesabbey.html#ruin
gory gorgeous-- dead tree
ta-daa!
Ah, it's a trip to Lesnes Abbey's bluebell woods! I wanted to spend my b-day doing something pleasant for me but also fun for the boys. This is where we ended up!
We had a picnic on a very tall bench, where the boys sat and asked myriad questions and chatted away for ages.
According to Wildlife and the Law in Great Britain (by one Margaret Palmer, 2002) "the native wild bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta)... is protected against uprooting and sale." It is, however, "legal to sell cultivated bluebells" -- though personally I've never encountered these.
Swathes of woodland are fenced off in places like this to help visitors avoid temptation during bluebell season. Fortunately for the clumsy who happen to find themselves surrounded by unenclosed tubers, "Damage to a protected plant is not an offence if it can be shown that it was 'an incidental result of a lawful activity and could not reasonably have been avoided'."
Flower-wise, Felix was more interested in the innumerable min-daisies decorating the lawn surrounding the abbey ruin. Fortunately, they are very pick-able!
Lesnes Abbey (Augustinian order) dates from the 12th century. Most of it was demolished soon after the monastic dissolution which occurred in the 16th c. It is now a public park. More info here: http://www.bexley.gov.uk/service/parks/lesnesabbey.html#ruin
gory gorgeous-- dead tree
ta-daa!
posted by Kori at 19:50
2 Comments:
Nice blog, great to see how everyone is doing. My online friend John Moore (yes, that one) sent me pics of his little girl in the bluebells as well. Must be a British thing.
Nice to hear from you, Theron. Hope you and yours are also well.
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