Eyra Lundberg is interested in the plant-lore of  the Alpine region.  Does anyone know of any publications on Alpine plant-lore, or has anyone any memories, etc.,  which they would like to share?  If you have, please send them to roy@plant-lore.com

Responses 

Helen Forrester, in chap. 16 of her By the Waters of Liverpool, 1981, records:  ‘For my twentieth birthday on 6th June, 1939, Friedrich, my ever faithful German penfriend, now a young officer in the Luftwaffe, sent me a small ivory edelweiss [Leontopodium alpinum] on a gold chain; in his part of Germany the edelweiss was, in the olden days, given by a boy to his prospective bride.  It was a lovely gift, the first piece of jewellery that I ever owned …’  [Caroline Morgan, January 2022].

Note received from Jeanette Kinsella, Hornsey, London, May 1983:  ‘Myrtle [Myrtus communis] –  Every girl grows her own pot plant to use in her wedding bouquet and head-dress.  If the plant dies, the girl will never marry.  Alpine regions of Austria, Switzerland and north Italy, 1950s and 60s’.

Updated 29 December 2022.