Primula species/Primrose
The Ordinary Primrose, Primula officinalis (Pr. veris), in our country is quite common on high sandy soils, in moist meadows and in forests. It is also grown as an ornamental plant. It is one of the first spring flowers, hence also the genus name Primula, of the Latin primus, the first. The steneless species can show its first yellow flowers even in February. The plant pollen can be easily and quickly propagated by cracks, which is best done in the autumn.

Bleeksporig forest violet and March violet
In the past, this plant was called Rivin's violet; it looks a lot like the March violet and is a rather variable plant. Viola riviniana (10-30 cm) forms perennial, wide-growing pollen. The leaves are in rosettes and are oval with a heart-shaped foot. The flowers appear in April/May, are colored blue-violet, while the lower petal and the spur are lighter than the other leaves. Unlike the March violet, the flowers stand sideways and not at the end of the stem. The forest violet develops best in light shade and on moist, humid soil. It is sown and is easy to tear (in October). Like other violets, an easily growing ground cover among shrub groups, along path edges. They can and may wilder in bushes and under rough hedges.

Forest sanemone/Anemone nemorosa
When the forest is still bare, the anemone opens its white star flowers. With dark and cold weather, the flowers remain closed, to unfold at the first ray of sunshine. The remaining Anemone nemorosa (10 cm) allows its hand shaped leaf to emerge from the long, dark blue rhizomes. In March and April, the white or pink, on the outside darker colored flowers appear. The forest bean grows in normal, slightly moist soil and in the shade. Multiplication is done by removing the rhizomes from the ground in September, dividing them and planting them out again. The forest anemone is used as an early ground cover and for wilderness in shaded places. Apply with early bulbs (crocus, blue grapes), yellow anemone, primroses and under a bush or under a hedge.

Special and medicinal forest plants are also badger garlic, lungwort, sweetheart bedstraw, forest strawberry and primrose. Plants that are not only beautiful and easy but also medicinal and edible. A forest garden, large or small, can also be useful

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