Tag Archives: Hallerbos

Bluebell beauty

Posted on April 20, 2020 by lembrechtsjonas

This would normally be the season where we take the students to the beautiful Hallerbos, close to Brussels, to teach them all about forest types and keystone plant species. This trip would importantly also involve stunning purple fields of bluebells … Continue reading →

Posted in Belgium, General | Tagged Bluebells, Flowers, Forest, Hallerbos, Nature, Nature photography, Outdoors, Photography, Plants, Spring | 2 Comments

Field season kick-off

Posted on April 30, 2018 by lembrechtsjonas

Last week, we celebrated the kick-off of 2018s field season, and as usual we did that with a student field trip to the Hallerbos, the world-famous purple forest that gets filled with bluebells in spring. We like to take the … Continue reading →

Posted in Belgium | Tagged Belgium, Ecology, Flower photography, Hallerbos, Macro photography, Nature, Nature photography, Plant ecology, Spring, Spring flowers | Leave a comment

More than bluebells

Posted on May 4, 2017 by lembrechtsjonas

The Hallerbos is much more than only bluebells. Yes, the millions of delicate purple flowers are world-famous, and the single reason why thousands of people flock together here every day at the height of the season. Yet there is a … Continue reading →

Posted in Belgium | Tagged Belgium, Ecology, Flowers, Forests, Hallerbos, Landscape photography, Macro photography, Nature photography, Photography, Plants, Science | 2 Comments

Unexpected bluebells

Posted on May 3, 2017 by lembrechtsjonas

This time of year, thousands of people are awed by the Purple Forest, the beautiful Hallerbos close to Brussels, with its endless tapestries of bluebells. Tourists come from all over the world, making the romantic scenery suffer more, year after … Continue reading →

Posted in Belgium | Tagged Flower photography, Flowers, Hallerbos, Hiking, Nature, Nature photography, Outdoors, Plant photography, Plants, Tourism, Travel | Leave a comment

Bluebell-beauties: a gallery

Posted on May 3, 2016 by lembrechtsjonas

Some eye candy: scroll through pictures of beeches and bluebells from the Hallerbos in the gallery on the right. As an assistant in the course on forest types at our university, I spent several hours of my springtime in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Belgium | Tagged Belgium, Bluebells, Flanders, Forests, Hallerbos, Hiking, Landscape, Landscape photography, Nature, Nature photography, Spring, Travel | 3 Comments

Beech and bluebell

Posted on April 21, 2016 by lembrechtsjonas

This week brought the field course to the ‘Hallerbos’, Brussels world-famous forest with the purple bluebell carpet. Of course it is mostly this endless see of purple that attracts the thousands and thousands of tourists every year (oh, dear lord, … Continue reading →