Bluebells at dusk

This is very difficult because I am unused to critiquing other people's shots, other than heaping on praise, but I feel/hope you don't want meaningless positivity and want to know what people really think so you can try other things. This is certainly my preference. Anyway, here goes and remember it's just my view and is not necessarily "right"........ I think the background is too dark. It looks like night. I might have been able to live with it better if there was more green in it giving perhaps more of deep woodland feel. Lighting is nearly from the back but possibly from the right making it uneven with bright spots and shadows. I think it is a compromise that doesn't quite work. Backlighting is great but then you have the difficulty of having enough on the front or your subject will be too dark (reflector needed). Focus I think is also a compromise at f5. Generally the "rule" is to have the nearest point in focus and here front of the second bell up just misses it while the less attractive top bud (and lovely bottom bell) are in focus. Did you try a smaller aperture to get a bit more sharp? Or go in even closer with an even wider aperture to get just one point in focus? I have found photographing bluebells particularly difficult because added to the issues of DOF and isolating one flower is the movement. We have a few weeks to keep at it (I'm hoping to go and see some next week too), so I hope you will show us some more.

This is very difficult because I am unused to critiquing other people's shots, other than heaping on praise, but I feel/hope you don't want meaningless positivity and want to know what people really think so you can try other things. This is certainly my preference. Anyway, here goes and remember it's just my view and is not necessarily "right"........
I think the background is too dark. It looks like night. I might have been able to live with it better if there was more green in it giving perhaps more of deep woodland feel.
Lighting is nearly from the back but possibly from the right making it uneven with bright spots and shadows. I think it is a compromise that doesn't quite work. Backlighting is great but then you have the difficulty of having enough on the front or your subject will be too dark (reflector needed).
Focus I think is also a compromise at f5. Generally the "rule" is to have the nearest point in focus and here front of the second bell up just misses it while the less attractive top bud (and lovely bottom bell) are in focus. Did you try a smaller aperture to get a bit more sharp? Or go in even closer with an even wider aperture to get just one point in focus?
I have found photographing bluebells particularly difficult because added to the issues of DOF and isolating one flower is the movement.
We have a few weeks to keep at it (I'm hoping to go and see some next week too), so I hope you will show us some more.