Windflower

Posted by Marion (Nanaimo, BC, Canada) on 22 August 2008 in Plant & Nature and Portfolio.

Here's another pink flower....I know that Anthony will love it. The botanical names are Anemone Tomentosa "Robustissima" Sounds pretty. There was a big bush of them waving in the wind. Here is a description that I got off the net. Obviously written by a gardener in Europe. I share it with you because it sounds so beautiful.

Windflower (Anemone) - A noble family of tuberous alpine meadow and herbaceous plants, of the Buttercup family, to which is due much of the beauty of spring and early summer of northern and temperate countries. In early spring, or what is winter to us in Northern Europe, when the valleys of Southern Europe and sunny sheltered spots all round the great rocky basin of the Mediterranean are beginning to glow with color, we see the earliest Windflowers in all their loveliness. Those arid mountains that look so barren have on their sunny sides carpets of Anemones in countless variety. Later on the Star Anemone begins, and troops in thousands over the terraces, meadows, and fields of the same regions. Climbing the mountains in April, the Hepatica nestles in nooks all over the bushy parts of the hills. Farther east, while the common Anemones are aflame along the Riviera valleys and terraces, the blue Greek Anemone is open on the hills of Greece; a little later the blue Apennine Anemone blossoms.

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