When I was a child we had a bluebell wood behind my house. The bluebells grew around the base of some mature trees. For the most part, the wood was made up of Silver Birch saplings. I went back after some 45 years expecting to see the wood long gone. Not at all. The Silver Birch were now fully mature trees but the wood was completely overgrown with brambles. Not one of the tracks had survived and it was evident that nobody played in the wood as all the kids in the street used to do. When I commented on this to my niece she thought it very strange that any parent would ever have contemplated letting their kids into a wood without supervision. Is the world really so much more dangerous now than it was then? "Added to which", she added, "Who wants to play in a wood when all your world is on your mobile phone?"
At least the bluebells are left undisturbed. Although it was Christmas, I rummaged around and soon found bulbs. I bought some H. non-scripta online last year to remind me of the wood and they are coming through now. Good job I bought them when I did. Brexit seems to have put a stop to online bulb sales from the UK. I suppose I could get the Spanish variety here but it wouldn't have been the same.