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Enjoy the first splash of color in spring.
A few snowdrops, crocuses and March cups are already blooming in the garden, but much less than they were buried in autumn.
Every year it's like a treasure hunt, a kind of bet against nature: Which of the flower bulbs did the voracious voles spared or simply not found in winter?
But a garden alone can hardly satisfy the longing for spring colors.
One dreams of seas of blossoms.
From crocus carpets, cowslip mats, anemone fields as far as the eye can see.
For such a flower journey you really only need to go out into nature, to the next deciduous forest.
True to the motto: You have to look for old beeches.
Under these still bare tree tops they are already blooming everywhere, close together: carpets made of six-pointed asterisks, thousands of wood anemones, the first early bloomers in the forest.
Millions of flowers transform meadows into carpets of flowers
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It takes decades for them to form carpets.
This is why these wild anemones thrive most abundantly in protected forests that are not managed for forestry purposes.
Anyone who is out and about in the Jasmund National Park on Rügen, in Thuringian Hainich or in Solling in Lower Saxony will find it.
In the Harz they are called Bottermilk flowers because they bloom as white as buttermilk.
There, in March and April, cowslips and celandine also thrive in yellow, forest violets in rose, lark spur in purple;
and liverworts add a splash of blue.
If you suddenly smell of garlic on the walk, then white wild garlic is blooming nearby.
Does it smell like May punch?
These are the first woodruff flowers.
If there is a sharp smell of Maggi, then no herbs have grown, but wild boars are dozing in the next bushes.
Your own smell of Maggi wort is unmistakable.
In March they already have freshlings, so it is better to stay on the hiking trails.
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Like on the daffodil route in the Eifel.
Only there you can admire Germany's largest daffodil bloom in spring.
Six million daffodils transform the meadows into yellow carpets of flowers in the Perlenbach and Fuhrtsbachtal valleys near Monschau and in the Oleftal valleys near Hellenthal.
Yellow on yellow: Millions of wild daffodils bloom in the Eifel
Source: pa / R.
Goldmann / Ralph Goldmann
Usually there are guided tours.
Instead, daffodil guides wait in April to show the way at the hiking parking lots - and make sure that no one comes back with an arm full of flowers.
Viewing is allowed, picking is prohibited.
Hiking to early bloomers in Hesse and Brandenburg
Or how about a blue trip to the largest bluestar blossom in Germany?
These wildflowers thrive in the alluvial forests of the Upper Rhine Plain, but especially in the Hessian nature reserve Kühkopf-Knoblochsaue.
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The blue star is also particularly protected.
According to Hessian folk belief, you shouldn't even sniff its flowers, otherwise you will get freckles.
Prefer purple?
Then the crocus blossom in the northern Black Forest is recommended.
A crocus path leads five kilometers through the Zavelsteiner meadows.
Millions of pale purple crocuses bloom there in March.
Or rather golden yellow?
Then nothing like going to the Oder slopes Mallnow in Brandenburg's Märkisch-Oderland for the spring Adonisröschen.
But like most early bloomers, it is moody: it only shows its flowers when the sun is shining.
Pollen can increase the corona infection rate
The pollen is on its way.
For allergy sufferers, the time of the sniffing nose and watery eyes begins again.
But a study shows that the number of corona infections could increase with the pollen count.
Source: WELT / Marco Reinke
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