Tour Scotland Travel Video Bluebell Woods Kinclaven Perthshire

Tour Scotland Spring travel video Blog of the bluebell woods located by the road between Kinclaven and Murthly on ancestry visit to rural Perthshire, Scotland. Previously known as Ballathie Bluebell Wood, this oak wood is one of the largest areas of oakwood in Scotland and is well known locally for its extensive carpet of bluebells in Spring. The Bluebell’s Latin name, Hyacinthoides, comes from a Greek myth: when the Prince Hyacinthus died, the tears of the god Apollo spelled the word ‘alas’ on the petals of the hyacinth flower that sprang up from his blood. Non scripta means unlettered and distinguishes this bluebell from the similar looking hyacinth.

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