How To Grow Eranthis or Winter Aconite

April 08, 2008

Looking for early spring color? There is a great tuber/corm that will spread year after year and dazzle you with warm rich yellow color early in spring. Winter aconites or Eranthis appear almost overnight, providing a very welcome splash of colour in late winter, often flowering with snowdrops. They have an underground corm, from which the yellow wild flowers and characteristic "frill" of leaves emerge, sometimes as early as Christmas in the southern zones....