Herald of spring – wood anemone

Photo: Arne Ader
Translation: Liis from forum
 
Järvselja, virgin forest.
 
We have always picked the white wood anemones or wind anemones (Anemone  nemorosa) to have in vases but a little caution is good – they are poisonous. So are the yellow wood anemones: both belong to the buttercup (Ranunculaceae) family. If you wrap your anemones in a damp cloth at once as you pick them it is said that they will stay nicely fresh in the vase, otherwise they easily droop. Wrapping the flowers in something also means that your hands will not be in touch with the flowers for so long.

The snowdrop windflower, Anemone sylvestris, with its beautiful large flowers does not flower until May.



 

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