ANEMONE

Anemone blanda “Blue Form” These early Grecian windflowers are a pure delight either in pots or the rock garden. Flowers in various shades of blue, over deep green, finely dissected leaves - a good ground cover throughout winter and spring. FS/1st $4.50

Anemone coronaria x pavonina Very showy hybrids for hot dry sites in an amazing range of shades from pastel pink and smoky blue through to red. This strain is from the Highdown Gardens in Sussex. FS/1st $3.00

Anemone heldreichii Native only to the lowland gullies and gorges of Crete thus well adapted for the dry garden as long as it can get cover from other plants. Luminous white windflowers set off to perfection by navy blue anthers throughout spring. Fist time offered. FS/1st $5.00

Anemone nemorosa “Blue Eyes” This rare beauty hails from Ireland and has a many admirers but alas few are inclined to part with it. It opens from a tight bud into a fluffy white ball of petals that gradually draw back to reveal a steel blue “eye”. FS/1st $6.00

Anemone nemorosa “Blue Queen” Apart from the variety “Marts Blue” this has the richest blue flowers of all available forms. A very good selection which, is very tolerant of poor soil and sun and looks well as perfect background to other specimen plants, like hellebores or prunus. FS/1st $4.00

Anemone nemorosa "Bowles Purple" Mid-blue flowers flecked lightly with mauve, reverse purple. A piece of gardening history selected by the great man himself and given to us as a gift by a great friend, Essie Huxley. FS/1st $4.00

Anemone nemorosa “Bracteata Pleniflora” A long-cultivated distinct variety bearing large, semi-double flowers that are splashed with green and stained purple in the throat. Neat, dark green, filagree foliage. FS/1st $4.00

Anemone nemorosa “Lychette” There are a good many large-flowered white varieties but this would have to be my personal favourite. Long lasting, outward-facing flowers of great substance on tall stems. FS/1st $4.00

Anemone nemorosa "Lady Doneraile" Large, pure white stars, tinged pink on the reverse. Dark stems over strong, much divided, dark green leaves. FS/1st $6.00

Anemone nemorosa “Marts Blue” This is the darkest blue of selection of all the nemorosa varieties, found in the forests of Estonia. Late flowering, dark blue flowers over strong, long-lasting filigree foliage. FS/1st $5.00

Anemone nemorosa “Vestal” A superb, bone-white double form where the extra row of petals form a tight central rosette. FS/1st $ 4.00

Anemone nemorosa “Virescens” This is undoubtedly the same as “Viridiflora” where each broad flower head is a soft filigree of ferny green leaflets, like green lace. A lovely foil for narcissus, scilla and chionodoxa and especially dark-flowering hellebores. FS/1st $4.00 or 3 for $10.00

Anemone nemorosa “Winterwood Pink” A superb variety bred by an outstanding Australian plantsman, Don Schofield. Flowers start white in bud and age through from soft pink to raspberry, outstanding, strong deeply cut foliage. Still very scarce, so limit of 1 per customer. FS/1st $8.00

Anemone ranunculoides flore plena Probably more semi-double but this is the form offered under this epithet. Bright yellow disks over fresh green much dissected foliage in late winter. Rarely offered. FS/1st $4.50

Anemone ranunculoides ssp. wockeana This wood anemone is smaller than the more widespread type and has vivid yellow flowers and more sharply toothed leaves, which are burnished red on the pedicals. Looks good with other early flowering bulbs like crocus, chionodoxa and scilla and later in the season is a luxuriant groundcover. Rarely offered FS $5.00

Anemone x seemanii (syn. lipsiensis) A natural hybrid between A. ranunculoides and A. nemorosa. This choice anemone bears large soft yellow flowers over dark ferny foilage in early spring a little later than A. ranunculoides. Lovely addition to the garden that repays "in spades" . FS $4.00