Plant profile
- Botanical name: Eranthis hyemalis
- German names: Winterling
- Genus: Winterlings
- Family: buttercups
- Height: 5 to 15 centimeters
- Growth habit: Flat-growing, forms runners
- Main flowering time: February and March
- Leaf color: strong green
- Leaf shape: pinnate, fan-shaped or palm-shaped
- Flower color: yellow
- Flower shape: Cup-shaped flowers about two to three centimeters in size
origin
The completely frost-hardy plant originally comes from southern Europe, where it mainly thrives in damp deciduous forests and under bushes. The botanist Joachim Camerarius the Younger brought it back in 1588 Winterlings from a trip to Italy and cultivated it in his garden in Nuremberg. The early bloomer quickly became an attraction in landscape parks and enjoyed increasing popularity with garden lovers.
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Planting and care
The frugal winterlings thrive in any normal, slightly acidic one
Garden soil. Place the nodules eight to ten centimeters apart in autumn about five centimeters deep in the ground. Ideally, you should place the plant under deciduous trees where the spring bloomers can spread freely. However, waterlogging should be avoided as well as a substrate that is too dry.It is important to have a regular supply of ripe compost. Alternatively, you can lay falling leaves in a layer that is not too thick and allow them to rot. Avoid any tillage and only cut back the plants when the leaves have turned yellow and drawn in at the end of May.
Multiplication
Unless you are cultivating a sterile cultivar in your garden, the winterling will do itself together. However, the small plants need about four years to bloom.
Alternatively, you can dig up the ever-growing clumps after they have withered, carefully divide and move them.
Diseases and pests
Winterlings are extremely robust and less susceptible to pests or diseases. Only rust fungi occasionally bother the signs of early spring.
Tips
Since winterlings are not set deep, you can carefully dig up the plant at the budding stage and bring it into the house. Make sure that there is enough substrate on the tubers and put the heralds of spring in bowls.
