SOLD OUT! Bluebells in the Blackbird Jug.

Still available as a Giclée print. Please email for pricing.

20 cm x 20 cm

This collage is part of ‘The Floral Visitors’ series of prints and collages that explores the plight of our pollinating insects. It highlights the best plants to grow, in terms of pollinator rewards, for each season of the year.

If the number and variety of our pollinators continue to decline it will be devastating for humankind, as they pollinate many of the plants we use for food.

Bluebells are a lovely springtime plant, which covers woodland floors in a thick carpet of deep blue. Visitors often flock to see the sea of flowers when they come into bloom, but recent scientific research has shown that it is the trampling down of leaves, by sightseers, that most threatens the survival of the Bluebell.

I am fortunate to already have a clump of native Bluebells in the garden, as nowadays digging them up from the woods is illegal.

Many insects reap the benefits of bluebells which flower earlier than many other plants. Woodland butterflies, bees and hoverflies all feed on their nectar. Bees can ‘steal’ the nectar from bluebells by biting a hole in the bottom of the flower, reaching the nectar without the need to pollinate the flowers.

Bluebells in the Blackbird Jug was created from collaged hand-painted and vintage papers.

Sold unmounted and unframed.