celandines

Low to the grass is a single primrose and several bright celandines.

Country diary: South Uist 2011

The violets, lesser celandines and wood anemones were now part of a vivid growing line which drew in the singing dunnocks and yellowhammers, the butterflies and bees, the grass snake and the slugs and dewdrops too.

Country diary: Wenlock Edge 2011

There were primroses, purple violets, and bright yellow celandines, all wrapped in damp moss to keep them fresh.

Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011

There were primroses, purple violets, and bright yellow celandines, all wrapped in damp moss to keep them fresh.

Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011

Towards the bottom of the slope my path steepened where it fell towards a pretty dell and here I came across my first flowering celandines and daisies of the season.

Country diary: North Derbyshire 2011

In our woods and forests, spring begins more quietly – the blades of snowdrops pushing through frozen ground in late January, followed by the star-shaped wood anemones, the dog violets, celandines and primroses, before the bluebells arrive in April, a haze of sky-coloured petals, yellow anthers and clear honey scent.

The power of spring flowers 2011

So it's small wonder that the early spring flowers are barely showing in Scotland and Northern Ireland, but in the southern half of the country spring is well under way – snowdrops, celandines, daffodils, crocuses and hazel catkins are coming into bloom and the leaf buds of elder trees starting to break open.

Plantwatch: a divided nation 2011

I have no idea whether Tolkien was thinking of celandines when he invented elanor, the 'sun-star', but was there ever a flower that suited the name better?

Harbingers of spring Carla 2010

I have no idea whether Tolkien was thinking of celandines when he invented elanor, the 'sun-star', but was there ever a flower that suited the name better?

Archive 2010-03-01 Carla 2010

I've always thought of celandines as one of the candidates for Tolkien's elanor, the "sun-star" the little yellow flowers growing in Lothlorien.

Archive 2009-04-01 Carla 2009