magnificent carpets of wild bluebells have sprung up this week , adding beautiful splashes of colour to balmy spring weather .
photographs taken today in micheldever woods , hampshire , show the flowers in full bloom weeks earlier than expected after an unseasonably warm start to the season .
but the fine weather by much of the country is set to be replaced by april showers this weekend , with forecasters warning britons ` not to put the cagoules away just yet ' that