abstract:A bluebell wood is a woodland that in springtime has a carpet of flowering bluebells (Hyacinthoides non-scripta) underneath a newly forming leaf canopy. The thicker the summer canopy, the more the competitive ground-cover is suppressed, encouraging a dense carpet of bluebells, whose leaves mature and die down by early summer.
Until she was declared winner of the by-election in the early hours of the morning, Ms Champion was chief executive of BluebellWood Children's Hospice in Rotherham, which opened in 2008.