Bluebells at Emmetts Garden

 

Can't you just feel the magic when you walk through a woodland carpeted with bluebells?

I adore the sweet scent and the amazing colour of them which in truth I have always found quite difficult to capture on camera. Ideally I would have liked to have visited in the morning or late evening with some sunlight pouring through but the weather has been terrible this week so these were taken on an overcast day (as always, I edit my photo's with lightroom).

After seeing gorgeous images on insta this week of the bluebell woods I was desperate to visit and this won't be my only trip this Spring. I am going to return to Hole Park gardens soon and also want to make a visit to Arlington Bluebell walk as both are meant to be incredible.

When I was growing up my favourite book was 'The magic faraway tree' by Enid Blyton. I loved getting lost in that magical woodland and was instantly enchanted by it all. That is how I feel when I walk through woods like this, I am transported into a fairyland!

With this iconic dainty flower comes a lot of folklore. 

Sadly, as with most British folklore, it's a bit dark...

If you wear a garland of bluebells, you will be compelled to tell the truth.

When a bluebells bell rings, it calls all the fairies to a gathering, but if a human hears the bell, they will be visited by a malicious fairy and die soon after.

Bluebell woods are enchanted. Fairies used them to lure and trap people in their nether world.

If you turn one of the flowers inside out without tearing it, you will eventually win the one you love.

If a child picks a bluebell in a bluebell wood, they will never be seen again.

In the language of flowers, the bluebell symbolises constancy, humility and gratitude.

You could be forgiven for thinking that these photo's I took of Emmett's Garden were in the Autumn as it looks a bit miserable! Spring is taking forever to turn this year, don't you think? 

I had some places in my diary that I wanted to visit for the wisteria but due to the cold frosts they haven't blossomed very well.

If you would like to read my previous blog post on Emmett's garden when the roses are out you can find it here

It's funny looking back at my old photo's; to me I can really see the difference from using an Iphone to a camera. Even as the iphone's have been upgraded the camera quality it significantly improved each time.

On the drive over to Emmett's we saw this incredible field of yellow, which if you're not familiar with, is called Rapeseed. Seeing this magnificent field was very much a 'stop the car!' moment as it was too pretty not to stop and take photo's, especially as I had my camera with me.

I was a bit tentative to get out of the car as I suffer with hayfever and in previous years, Rapeseed has not been kind to me but today it was no problem at all, thankfully. 

Hayfever really is a pain in the ass.

I have now had to start getting in to the habit of taking video's when we are out as I have been trying to include more content for my instagram and it seems 'reels' are the thing to do. Mr Poachie is a very good videographer and whilst I find video's to be a powerful tool, it's not my natural way to get content. I'm far happier just photographing landscapes, gardens and architecture but I'm learning a new skill.

In other news, I recently sold my first image on Getty contributor which I am over the moon about.

A while ago I wrote down some life goals (anyone else constantly writing lists?) and having an image be sold was one of them. This makes life goal achievement number 2 as my first one was to have an image printed on a magazine cover which happened this year in February! 

You can read more on that here

Happy days.