This ethereal, drift-forming woodland plant opens from puckered, lilac-pink buds to pure blue flowers shaped like bells, cowslips or petticoats, depending on your perspective.
The flowers’ tubes suit pollinators with long tongues, such as some bees, hummingbirds and hummingbird moths.
Shared for Cee’s Flower of the Day.
Susan Rushton 
Gorgeous bluebells. I wished we had more here 😀 😀
I only saw a small drift.
I presume we don’t have these here? They’re lovely- looking.
I think they look like lungwort flowers and they are related, they belong to the borage family.
Aha! Thanks Jude.
And we can grow them here, but they are obviously not native.
Petticoat! That’s a word very seldom heard, and it’s a lovely match for this bit of blue. That’s a most interesting bud, and I do believe it has a shade of that sky-blue-pink in it!
Sky blue pink it is!
Reading about these, I learned that it’s a change in pH levels in the flower itself that brings about the change from pink bud to blue flower. Fascinating, and so pretty.
That is very interesting – thanks!
Ooh yes, in your photo it does look similar to a cowslip, only blue. Very pretty!
It’s the tiered effect.
Are these in England? I just saw a blogger with some in Massachusetts.
They were in Memphis, TN.
I’ll have to look into them. It might be too wet here for the flowers.
These are lovely flowers; I must get some in my garden here in the Southeastern US.
The shade of blue makes them very striking.
The one time I remember seeing great fields of bluebells was at the site of the Battle of Bull Run in Virginia. I believe it was the same flower. Here in Texas, we have bluebonnets, also beautiful but a different flower entirely (it’s a lupine).
I’ve seen the fields of bluebonnets and their reputation spreads well beyond.
What a lovely flower – wonderful to have it as a native!
It must be.
They are native to the eastern US, including my local area in Pennsylvania. I love them, the soft foliage and the blue and pink flowers – one of our hardier natives that grows well elsewhere. Nice to see them do so well across the pond!
They were actually in Memphis, TN. I like their foliage too. It looks very lush.
Hope you’re OK!
I am, Diane. Thanks for asking!
Beautiful! Love the soft colors. 🙂
Blue can be dreamy.