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Posted: March 03 2007 at 4:13pm | IP Logged Quote Anne McD
Hi Ladies,

For all of you living in NOVA: do you know a good place to see the bluebells when they bloom? Um, and, when do they bloom . I've never seen them in person, but the picures on Elizabeth's blog are so pretty and I thought I'd take the kids to see them. (They're not protected by any law from picking, are they?)

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Posted: March 03 2007 at 4:30pm | IP Logged Quote Elizabeth
They are protected from picking. We usually go to Bull Run Regional Park. They're also awesome at Riverbend. Let's try to plan an outing.

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Posted: March 03 2007 at 4:53pm | IP Logged Quote Maria B.
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Posted: March 03 2007 at 5:11pm | IP Logged Quote Elizabeth
I didn't answer the "when" part of your question Anne. Two years ago, it was the third week in April. Last year, we were there April 11, though they bloomed about a week earlier. We'll keep a watch out!

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Posted: March 03 2007 at 6:26pm | IP Logged Quote msclavel
We go to Bull Run every year, count me in! I am so excited now!!!!
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Posted: March 03 2007 at 7:57pm | IP Logged Quote Maryan
I'm intrigued! I wondered what kind of flower that was in your picture, Elizabeth! I don't know anything about bluebells - I never saw one in my native CT.

Thanks for pointing this out Anne!

Can they not be picked because they're in a park and that's not allowed or are they endangered? Can they be home grown?

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Posted: March 03 2007 at 8:30pm | IP Logged Quote Anne McD
Oh, this sounds like so much fun! I only hope that our crazy weather this winter didn't kill them off or something!!

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Posted: March 03 2007 at 8:43pm | IP Logged Quote teachingmyown
Count us in too! All these years, and we have never been there for the bluebells!

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Posted: March 04 2007 at 7:32am | IP Logged Quote Ruth
We'd love to see them also. Molly, maybe we can carpool.

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Posted: March 04 2007 at 10:29am | IP Logged Quote Cindy Mac
I'd love to take the boys as well. Count me in!

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Posted: March 04 2007 at 2:25pm | IP Logged Quote Molly Smith
We'd love to go, too!

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Posted: March 04 2007 at 3:03pm | IP Logged Quote Theresa
Wow, there are alot of you VA girls!

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Posted: March 05 2007 at 11:09am | IP Logged Quote Wendy
Can we come, too?

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Posted: March 05 2007 at 12:29pm | IP Logged Quote JennGM
I hope I can go this year, also.

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Posted: March 06 2007 at 12:06am | IP Logged Quote teachingmom
I'd love to see so many of you at one time. We'll be there if we are able.

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Wakefield Park in Annandale/Fairfax is also a great place to see the bluebells-along the stream anyway. You feel like you're in another world among a sea of blue! I love that time of year!
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Count us in, that sounds like fun.
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Posted: March 07 2007 at 5:02am | IP Logged Quote Maria B.
KristinaP wrote:
Wakefield Park in Annandale/Fairfax is also a great place to see the bluebells-along the stream anyway. You feel like you're in another world among a sea of blue! I love that time of year!


Kristina - Where is the stream at Wakefield Park?

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Posted: March 07 2007 at 8:21am | IP Logged Quote msclavel
I just checked and if you go by when they've scheduled the annual walk at Bull Run, they may be peaking right around Easter Week (at least at Bull Run). What a beautiful way to celebrate Our Lord's Resurrection!
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Wakefield Park in Annandale/Fairfax is also a great place to see the bluebells-along the stream anyway. You feel like you're in another world among a sea of blue! I love that time of year!


Kristina - Where is the stream at Wakefield Park?


Maria, the stream basically wraps around the entire park but the side with the bluebells is about a couple hundred yards to the left (if you're just coming into the park) of the softball and soccer fields. There are a whole slew of trails that you can you hike and bike on that meander along the stream. Probably the most direct access would be to park by the first restroom station at the softball fields and then follow the cinder trail to the soccer fields and branch off to the left at those fields where it becomes a dirt path. I guess that sounds confusing but pretty much every trail on the left side there will eventually lead to the stream.
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