Puzzles

[tonyg]

Here is an easy one

Bring me sunshine  in your smile    bring me laughter all a while 

In this world where we live there should be more happiness 

So much joy you can give to each brand new bright tomorrow 
 
Just thinking about your not so easy puzzle.......

Bring me joy, bring me sunshine, bring me love!!!

[Ragged Robin]

Well that's fine and dandy but for love or money I still ain't got a clue 

[tonyg]

Sorry!  It was not meant to be a clue, I just had to finish the song
The flower is not ericaceous but could be said to have short fat hairy legs

like this?

[Paul T]

Cliff,

That Glaucidium is striking!  I had never seen a white one before (well to be honest I have never actually "seen" a real plant of it of any colour or variety).  Beautiful!!

[Ragged Robin]

Sorry!  It was not meant to be a clue, I just had to finish the song
The flower is not ericaceous but could be said to have short fat hairy legs

like this?

So this flower likes sunshine....thinks it's cool to have hairy legs....and is vertically challenged? 

[Giles]

Tony,
'Bring me sunshine' was always the final song on Morecambe and Wise's show,
and Ernie was always being teased for having 'short fat hairy legs',
but I don't see a connection to any plants.

[tonyg]

I think I've made too many lateral connections, all this Morecambe and Wise (they were my favourite entertainers as I grew up) stuff is nothing to do with the plant.  It does have hairs though, as you can see in the picture and the flowers open when the sun shines.  Cliff will know it immediately when he sees the pics - and that is a clue for the rest
No!  Its not a hirsute buttercup
There is another clue (when photo upload is possible) ... many more and you'll have the whole plant!

[ranunculus]

Go on then ... Pulsatilla vernalis?  Hairs don't look right on the stems though, Tony?   When you mentioned me, I immediately thought; 'Old Man of the Mountains'!!!   

[Lori S.]

How about a dryad, maybe Dryas... I dunno... octopetala? 

[Maggi Young]

Go on then ... Pulsatilla vernalis?  Hairs don't look right on the stems though, Tony?  When you mentioned me, I immediately thought; 'Old Man of the Mountains'!!!   

Hmm, I don't think you get hairy Adonis, do you?

[ranunculus]

I am just a little confused, Maggi ... ('What's new', chant the members of the forum in unison)?

You are either calling me an Adonis (the optician is open) or you have misread my answer about Pulsatilla vernalis and assumed I meant Adonis vernalis or you believe adonis to be nicknamed the 'Old Man of the Mountains', which I have always known to be Hymenoxis (or now Tetraneuris) grandiflora? 
I do like the first option ... ! 

[Lvandelft]

I thought I knew what 'Little Ern' is, but there are more plants with such
hairy stems.
Here is the one I was thinking of and it's having yellow flowers.
If it is not the same, Tony may say what it is 

[Ragged Robin]

This puzzle is getting really hairy 

[tonyg]

Go on then ... Pulsatilla vernalis?  Hairs don't look right on the stems though, Tony?   When you mentioned me, I immediately thought; 'Old Man of the Mountains'!!!   

Amazing what happens if you take a day off for a Wedding Anniversay.  Just think how many hirsuite wrong answers would have been offered if I'd been gone for a week?
Cliff is right with Pulsatilla vernalis.  Go on then Cliff now tell us where the photo was taken? .... you do know you know

[tonyg]

I thought I knew what 'Little Ern' is, but there are more plants with such
hairy stems.
Here is the one I was thinking of and it's having yellow flowers.
If it is not the same, Tony may say what it is 

Pulsatilla alpina ssp apiifolia?
..... or any one of a dozen hieraceum species