Habitat: tundra
Soil: with humus
Height: 15 cm
Flowering: spring
Width: 15 cm
These are herbaceous anemones that are much larger than the spring-flowering bulbs Anemone blanda and nemorosa, typically 50 to 80 cm high, some a little taller, some more spreading. All have lovely flowers, white, pale yellow, blue, red, often with a darker flush to the outside of the petals (strictly sepals). They include plants from woods and from alpine meadows, and originate all round the northern hemisphere.
Anemone parviflora is a neat, compact plant, with large, white flowers with a yellow boss of stamens, each flower in a separate erect stem. The outsides of the sepals (and therefore the buds) have a bluish tinge. It comes from sub-arctic parts of north America.
9 cm pot £3.50
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| Anemone barbulata is a newly introduced species, originating in China, which has multiply branched slender stems bearing clusters of many delicate, small white flowers, blue on the reverse. | |
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| Anemone drummondii is a western American species, with divided leaves and creamy white flowers, followed by heads of fluffy seeds. | |
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| Anemone x hybrida 'September Charm' is an excellent variety with rich, rosy pink flowers, freely produced. | |
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| Anemone x lesseri has deeply divided leaves and flowers that should be bright red, although white-flowered forms are known. | |
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| Anemone reflexa is an unusual species of Anemone from the Far East, with curious flowers, with fairly narrow sepals, pure white. |