These crepe paper-like flowers offer some of the first colors of spring.

Description: Native to England and northern Europe, Anemone nemorosa is a perennial member of the vast buttercup family. A herbaceous wildflower, wood anemone emerges from rhizomes and grows quite low ...

Those first warm days of spring unfurl flowers, new leaves and me. I garden until everything aches. Then, wandering home through the tiny wood, I greet all the other things waking up. Hello, cow ...

Val Bourne lets us know why the woodland border is her favourite bit of the garden The garden starts on the ground early in the year, under the shade of deciduous shrubs and trees. The first snowdrop ...

Ephemeral woodland wildflowers are one of the hallmarks of spring in our local forests. These wildflowers take advantage of the early spring when trees haven’t begun to leaf out yet and that dazzling ...

Plant bulbs ‘in the green’ now and gaps under shrubs and trees will soon fill up, bringing beauty to sparse-looking shrubs and hedges The awkward bare ankles of a shrub or deciduous hedge are not ...

The simple beauty of the anemone can win the heart of almost every gardener. Ancient Greeks called them windflowers because they danced on the spring breeze but our only native anemone is a woodland ...

It is often recommended that Fremontia (Fremontodendron) should be staked or trained against a sunny house wall. Helen Chesnut. Wednesday, January 2. Dear Helen: I’m very fond of wood anemones, and in ...