Bluebells in Brownsham Wood, near Clovelly, in north Devon this afternoon. Proper English bluebells they are too, not your imported Spanish jobs! 
In oulde Americar it has been bluebell time for weeks. They’re so pretty. The main circulation librarian picks them and brings them in to put on her desk. She also has had bleeding hearts–also gorgeous and sort of similarly shaped.
Those are beautiful. In Iowa, since most of the land is under cultivation, there aren’t very many spots like you show in your pictures. There are some, but also herbicides have apparently decreased the number of wild flowers although I’m sure a determined person could find them. So it is a treat to see these very proper English bluebells.
I just realised that I made it sound like America(r) has a main circulation librarian. Of course that’s not what I meant. Heh… 
The name “bluebell” is applied to several distinct plants (botanists frequently bemoan the use of English country names for plants as confusion is rife, much preferring the Latin). The Scots often call a completely unrelated, summer-flowering plant (Campanula rotundifolia) “bluebell.” The English bluebell is Hyacinthoides non-scripta, a rather cumbersome name unfortunately bestowed on it by botanists in their attempts to put the plant into the right genus. When I was a botany student it was known by the far more elegant name Endymion non-scriptus, and has also been known as Scilla non-scripta. The true English bluebell has cream-coloured anthers and flower spikes that are decidedly one-sided and which droop at the tip. The Spanish bluebell, grown in gardens, is a more robust plant with spikes that are not one-sided and with bluish anthers. Unfortunately, it hybridises with the English bluebell and is threatening the purity of the native species in many areas. Bluebells flower in April and May before the woodland trees are in full leaf. Bluebell woods in the true sense are confined to the western fringes of Europe. Here’s a pic of an English bluebell wood (Brownsham, where we were today).
I love how you Brits use the word “proper”. If I were to tell someone here that the bluebells were “proper” they’d think I was saying they weren’t scantily clad 
Beautiful picture, Steve, as always. I love bluebells…now I wonder, are they the same type as the ones you find in Texas? Now I’m going to have to google it.
These are the Texas variety:
So they’re nothing like the ones you have over the pond it seems.
Bluebells are VERY pretty. And best left in the natural state, as they don’t survive very long being picked. Texas Bluebells look like anemones to me - although there is probably an issue of scale and size.
I like the bluebells, very much. But the thing that gives me a bigger thrill is to see that the Ramsons are out! That’s wild garlic, to those who know it. I’m waiting eagerly for the Mock-Orange to flower.
I was walking in Coole Park yesterday, doing the Yeatsian thing, walking the Seven Woods and watching the Swans and all that.
Bluebells were abundant there too. Around my house are two deep rivervalleys the woodland in those valleys are full of Bluebells and some of them spill over onto our land so they are in bloom in the front garden as well.
If you have a copy of Tobar an Duchas: there’s a photo of the bluebell woodland behind my house on the inside cover.
Hyacinthoides non-scriptus is the name used used here by the Clare Bluebell survey
I don’t recognise that plant, but it’s not related to our bluebells botanically. It’s a dicotyledon with five petals and the same number of anthers which rules out an anemone relationship. It has a single carpel with a club-shaped stigma and a superior ovary. The petals show an interesting overlap pattern. Erm… 
Virginia Bluebells.
It’s a member of the borage family. It’s Mertensia virginica.
Aha. It looks like it’s Eustoma grandiflorum which belongs to the gentian family (though it don’t look like any of the European ones I’ve seen!).
Eustoma grandiflorum is known in Oklahoma as prairie bluebells. 
Here are a couple of pictures I took yesterday. Along with sanguinaria canadiensis, this is my favorite flower, I think.
Trillium
close-up.
I miss the Trillium up in New England. I’ve never seen it here in Ohio, but we do have lovely little wild violets that come up each spring for a short time.
Walden, I have those kind too!
Perhaps it’s just my inner drag queen speaking out, but I tend to think that while these pictures of quaint little bluebells are just lovely, bright flowers like this are much better:
Ghastly.
that aligns with my initial impression, seeing the picture, before reading your text…
Luckily I was not drinking coffee at the time and so my keyboard is still dry! 
Hey Steve (and others)–I found these today:
I know the pictures are tiny. But these are bluebells aren’t they? They grow in peoples gardens but these ones were growing wild (and had already wilted since bluebell season is all but over), so they were smaller…