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The 2- to 3-inch blooms float above beds and borders and sway in the slightest breeze, giving rise to their other common name: windflower.

Every year the Greek girls mourned for him and every year they rejoiced when his flower, the blood-red anemone, the windflower, was seen blooming again.

As these beauties fade, they are succeeded by carpets of the Italian windflower.

Snow crocus, reticulated iris, snowdrops, windflowers and other diminutive early performers are easy to tuck in among perennials and established shrubs.

Long oversees March Bank, the deciduous woodland at Winterthur famous for its succession of established colonies of winter aconite, snowdrops, Italian windflowers and other beauties that bridge the shift from winter to spring.