The Guardian is truly shameless. Every gardener knows the native English bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta) is being threatened by an invasive, much more robust variety known as the Spanish bluebell (Hyacinthoides hispanica). As I strongly suspect the bluebells in my garden to be hybrids (also a bad thing), I was looking at pics on Google Images when I came across this old Guardian article.
Notice anything strange? How about this bit:
“Bluebells by the shed but are they good British or bad French? Anyone know?”
Suddenly the bad Spanish bluebell (hispanica, right?) has become French. Subtle, isn’t it?
