They are celandines and don't they look lovely. Don't be tempted to 'rescue' a few for the garden though, they are very invasive.

Yes they do, Thanks

oh yes lesser celandine! Recently renamed Ficaria verna.
the tiny corm is a real nuisance. I have it in the bottom of my hedges and keep weeding it out from some of the other shady areas.

It's really eye catching when out for a bike ride. It belongs out in the woodlands. BTW haven't seen Moongrowe on here in a while. Anyone know how she's doing?

I've got it all over the lawns and under the hedge and it pops up in the flower beds too. Paul the reason it spreads so is that the seed capsules explode when ripe and shoot the seeds quite a long way. Its country name here is pilewort - if you dig one up and look at the root you can see why...

That's interesting - exploding seed capsules! I think I'll head the warning.

I don’t mind these, after they have flowered they gradually die back and disappear until the next year, great for a naturalised look in the garden.

There are different colours of it. I have white, orange and green plus doubles of each as well.

Bathgate I'm now MGCarol - GoY had a problem with my previous 'handle' :) I'm recovering from the heart surgery and looking forward to joining in more...

Hi Bathgate, Moongrower was in hospital without internet access from end January to mid-March. During that time she was thrown out of GoY in that she cannot get to to write on the site. She is now back but as Mgcarol. Hope this is right and you can now find her.

Good luck mgcarol for speedy recovery.

Don't be tempted by 'Brazen Hussy', a form of the celandine with purple leaves. She's even worse.

I've got some with bronze leaves. They are very pretty and don't spread as much as the wild ones.

Celandines are my favourite spring wildflower as long as they grow in the right places! In my garden they are persecuted, I'm afraid.

Like Andrew, we also have some with bronze leaves and they are lovely little plants. I thought that this was 'Brazen Hussy'?

There is a white flowered one with bronze leaves, cannot recall the name for the moment. Raining too hard to go and look in the pot.

They are a real pest in my garden they have got everywhere even in the thickest ground cover plants they get through.

The bright green & yellow is a welcomed relief from the brown & grey of winter and it can stay in the woods. Mgcarol I'm glad your surgery was successful & hope you are well and that your internet troubles are over.

It seems that unlike the majority I love Celandines! However my Sister and her OH have them in abundance and are forever digging them out of the veg. patch. I have tried to introduce them here as a wild patch, but we have too many beaks that like them for them to get really going! I do have the bronze leaf variety in odd places in the garden and they don't seem to spread anywhere near as much, but are slowly colonising the area I wanted them in. Just so much a herald of Spring. Now if you had said the wild Potentilla - well that really is a pest here!
Your collection of colours sounds fascinating Owdboggy.
All best wishes for your recovery MGC.