Mostly woodlanders with pretty spring flowers before the trees leaf up. They associate well with other spring flowers such as Epimediums and Corydalis flexuosa but are also useful where later plants come up as the Anemones often die down in midsummer, especially if dry.
The majority of Anemones we grow now are the wood anemones, which are mostly Anemone nemorosa cultivars. Anemone nemorosa is a British native but is also found throught much of the rest of Europe, the British plants tending to be near white (blueish or pinkish), the brighter and deeper colours mostly originate from other parts of Europe. The wood anemones are adapted to grow in deciduous woodland which means that they come up early in the spring and flower before the trees and shrubs grow their new leaves. The wood anemones then slowly die down during the summer as the soil dries out under the trees, remaining dormant until the following spring to start again.
Most of the anemones we offer (including the wood anemones) have an underground, twiggy, root that they grow from each spring. This twiggy root lies just beneath the leaf litter in the wild so tends to be in the top half of pot grown plants, and may be right on the surface of the pot! Do not be tempted to bury them too deep. Also bear in mind that as they are dormant from midsummer to early spring you may just appear to get a pot of compost for slightly over half the year!
A pretty woodland anemone this emerges in spring with chocolate brown leaves which slowly turn green. Clear white flowers like the wood anemones to 10cm. Humusy soil in shade.
Neat clumps of narrowly divided leaves and pale ceamy yellow flowers to 25cm in spring. Well drained soil in sun, ideal for rockery or the front of a border.
Largish pale sky blue flowers on this lovely form of Wood Anemone. One of the more vigorous forms with bigger flowers than most blues. Reasonable soil in shade or part shade. 15cm.
Large flowers of near white flushed a pale purplish-blue. Like many the flowers darken slightly as they age. An excellent form of Wood Anemone for average to good soil in shade. 20cm.
One of the better pink Wood Anemones. This opens white and flushes pink becoming a rich, deep pink after a few days. Average to good soil in shade. 15cm.
An excellent (nearly) double from Austria with lots of golden yellow sepals within an outer row of green streaked ones on top of a ruff of yellow streaked green bracts in early spring. Sun or part shade. 15cm.
Chocolate brown tinted new leaves turn to green with the double yellow flowers nestled in a ruff of green bracts in early to mid spring. Good woodland soil in light shade, under deciduous trees is ideal. 15cm.
The unusual, slower growing, multi-petalled form. It would be over enthusiastic to call it double but it does have lots of extra petals giving a much more full look. Otherwise just like the species.
