Anemones

[@Keith-sw1co]

Great video - specific information, nice photos, and well narrated.

[@SylvanGreenEarth]

Thank you!

[@anemone104]

Enjoyed your vid. I work in the UK - a completely different context where the place has been densely populated for many hundreds of years. Our wood anemone is Anemone nemerosa or 'wind flower'. It's one of a suite of plants that is an indicator (in context) of ancient woodlands. An ancient woodland is woodland that has never been grubbed or ploughed since 1600 or before - it may have been felled, maybe repeatedly (coppiced). If your interested, here's a link that shows the plant and the context it is sometimes found in. kzbin.info/www/bejne/bXjMXpqahdephK8

[@SylvanGreenEarth]

I enjoyed watching your video of the Anemone nemerosa! The woodland where I filmed these plants has been undisturbed for at least a 100 years. The land around it is very agricultural and increasingly developed.

[@anemone104]

@@SylvanGreenEarth Glad you enjoyed the vid. I thought it might be interesting to look at the two species and compare. I caught that lane at just the right time for the anemones. Just as they were going over there were quite a lot of bluebells that would have come on to replace them in the show. Question: how long was your woodland farmed for? was it ploughed or grazing land? I'm not familiar with the American context, but I wonder if your wood anemones are like our: slow to spread and intolerant of soil disturbance?

[@SylvanGreenEarth]

I think the area where the anemones grow was only ever logged, not farmed. I've generally only seen them in relatively undisturbed areas as well.

[@anemone104]

@@SylvanGreenEarth Thanks for the reply. Looks as if your wood anemones are ancient woodland indicators, too.