Anemone

Anemone apennina albiflora

The lovely white flowered form, a horticultural selection, which has a pale blue back. In sun this form opens fully and looks white, in rain or gloom, it looks blue.

A good garden plant especially in light shade. Tolerant but it especially loves limey soils.

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Anemone apennina Petrovac

A splendid, vigorous collection made many years ago in Southern Croatia, where it grows in limestone Karst.

It does take time to clump and increase but when it does it makes abundant, large multi-petalled flowers in shades of pure deep, but bright blue. Petrovac is a true stock, vegetatively produced from the original, 1982 introduction.

In the garden it needs only a well-drained humus rich soil in full sun or light shade to do well.

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Anemone blanda Blue Shades

Reliable, cultivated plants. Shàdes of rich mid-blue occasionally veering to pale or darker shàdes. These are top-sized tubers in superb condition, the largest and best available, direct from the grower. You might see cheaper, you will not buy better!

Humus rich soil with good drainage in full sun, but a very tolerant plant.

Price is for 10 flowering sized tubers.

Anemone blanda Ingramii

The variety ingramii is the darkest-flowered form of Anemone blanda that there is. This was first found and named on Mount Parnassus, in Southern Greece and it is from there that this stock originated, many years ago.

Lovely violet-blue flowers with a yellow centre.

Humus rich soil with good drainage in full sun, but a very tolerant plant.

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Anemone blanda Radar

This has flowers of the most intense shàdes of magenta imaginable, each bloom with a contrasting white centre. A scarce clone, which we discontinued some years back when true material became impossible to obtain.

The name is still common enough but most stocks I have seen have flowered white or blue! We have a stock of true, vegetatively propagated plants.

Anemone caerulea

(fischeriana).

This is a tiny little species, I cannot stress its diminutive nature enough. Although it makes stems some 15cm tall, these are slim and slender with tiny leaves – even smaller than the miniature jenisseensis.

The flowers are 5-6mm across and are pale blue (sometimes almost white). This flowers best in well established, old clumps. I think there are several clones within this stock and hence there is colour variation, but we have not selected them.

Naturally small rhizomes which do well, undisturbed in a leafy, well drained soil, pot or choice garden spot and excellent in the alpine house.

A native of the Southern Altai mountains in central Asia.

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Anemone lipsiensis

(seehmannii)

This is the lovely floriferous cross between the strongly yellow ranunculoides and white nemorosa. It is known in the wild and in gardens.

A very worthwhile plant with gorgeous, pale primrose-yellow flowers throughout March and April.

This is an easy plant, growing well in humus rich, well drained soils preferably in light shade though it will take full sun if it is not too dry at the roots in springtime. Under such conditions it will soon make a nice a clump.

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Anemone nemorosa Albaplena

Double flowers of pure white, with a variable number of petalloid stamens in the centre, like a shuttlecock. Not all are fully double; some just have a few extra segments instead of anthers.

This is a worthy garden plant, although it is sometimes wrongly equated with Vestal, which is a very different clone.

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Anemone nemorosa Allenii

This has flowers of a lovely deep blue with a subtle infusion of indigo on the face of the flowers.

The reverse, and buds, are zoned with violet infused with grey, a very characteristic colouration and once seen it is instantly identifiable. The flowers sit over noticeably deeper green foliage than many clones.

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Anemone nemorosa Blue Eyes

This is an old clone varyingly known as 'Blue Eyes' and 'Old Blue Eyes'. As with several of the double clones, it is variable in that the degree of doubling varies with the length of time that the clump has been undisturbed.

Fresh plantings may sometimes even be single. After a year or two the flowers will almost all be doubled and showing their proper colour.

As a rule it has several whorls of petals in a loose and slightly raggedy flower which, with age, takes on a gorgeous deep blue-purple colouration in the centre of the flower.

It is perhaps not as vigorous as some clones but increases pleasingly with time. Well drained, moisture retentive humus-rich soil in half shade to dappled sun.

Anemone nemorosa Bowles Purple

Dark polished purple buds open to a flower which is paler in colour than allenii but darker than Robinsoniana.

In size it also falls between the two, larger than allenii, but smaller than Robinsoniana (which is a large clone). It can always be distinguished by the purple exterior and more deeply coloured flowers. A lovely addition to our range of forms. Deep green foliage sometimes with a thin purple line at the edges of the leaf tips.

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Anemone nemorosa Bracteata Plena

An interesting old form with loose, raggedy flowers with elongated segments sometimes marked with a touch of green and, with age, developing a deep navy blue tinge at the base of some of the petals.

Rather lovely despite its unkempt appearance.

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Anemone nemorosa Ice and Fire

White flowers rapidly take on a deep pink shade front and back, becoming deep pink all over, the petals edges stay white, or pale, almost until the end. Pink flowers and white flowers co-exist in a clump, hence the name.

Very decorative and attractive, a lovely new addition.

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Anemone nemorosa Kassari kirju

A brand new Estonian selection originally from Hiijumaa island.

The flowers are white but the unique, permanent feature (observed over many years) of this clone is that when clumps become bigger some leaflets fail to produce chlorophyll and appear bright creamy-yellow, even if the clump was grown up from a single 'normal' rhizome (i.e. one producing green leaves in first years). I do not think this is a disease, simply a variegation which does not manifest until the plant or clump is mature. To stress again – this form will be all green after planting and perhaps in its next year, it will make yellowish leaves in the clump. I like its green/yellowish contrast and it sits very well with other forms.

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Anemone nemorosa Latvian Pink

A new pink clone raised from a solitary plant first found on the property of Ewald Paupers in Latvia.

This has mid-green foliage and pale pink flowers which deepen in shàde as they mature. An excellent, and distinct, introduction.

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