Many of us are familiar with the song “Edelweiss” from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s 1965 musical “Sound of Music.” The musical is based in Austria where the small white flower is protected and illegal to ...
German artist Rita Fürstenau has created a cross-stitch-style Google Doodle to celebrate the edelweiss, the most romantic of Alpine blooms. The common name for Leontopodium nivale, which means lion’s ...
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No, it’s not edelweiss. I mean, edelweiss is pretty and all, and it’s about as Swiss as you can get—it’s the penultimate alpine flower: “small and white, clean and bright” dah-dee-dah, dah-dee, ...