Ranunculus
Cloni Success
“My desert island flower. A jam jar full of these on a windowsill is everything I need from spring.”
— ROSIE
Rosie's Take
If you handed me a ranunculus and a rose and asked me to choose, I'd pick the ranunculus every time. I know that's controversial. I don't care.
The Cloni Success series is what converted me. Those layers — tissue-thin petals packed in so tightly it looks like someone spent three hours folding origami. When the light catches them, especially that golden late-afternoon light, you can see right through the petals. They practically glow.
The colour range is ridiculous. I've had them in everything from a creamy, almost-green white through to this deep, saturated coral that stops people mid-sentence. My favourite is the pale pink — it has this quality of looking like it was painted with watercolours that are still slightly wet.
They're spring flowers, really hitting their stride from March through May, and they've become the flower I associate most with that first feeling of the year turning. When ranunculus appear at the market, something in me unclenches.
Vase life is genuinely impressive too — easily a week, sometimes pushing ten days if you keep them cool and change the water. They open slowly, and watching a tight bud unfurl into that impossible layered thing is one of my favourite slow-motion pleasures.
I'd take a handful of ranunculus in a jam jar over a dozen red roses in cellophane any day of the year.
Where to Buy
If you want to try ranunculus for yourself, here's where I'd point you:
“Flower Station carry ranunculus through spring and their stems are always beautifully long. I grab a couple of bunches and mix the colours.”
Order This Flower →“Bloom & Wild include ranunculus in some of their spring letterbox boxes — a lovely surprise landing on someone's doormat.”
Order This Flower →✿ From the folklore cabinet
The name comes from the Latin 'rana' meaning frog — because wild ranunculus tend to grow in damp meadows where frogs live. I find this unbearably charming. A flower this elegant, named after a frog.
