Hill View Rare Plants

ANEMONE

 

Anemone blanda Blue Forms These early Grecian windflowers are a pure delight. 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 blanda "Pink Form"Large, soft pink flowers up to 5cm across. An outstanding variety that has that special "tingle factor". FS/1st $6.00

 

Anemone blanda "White Splendour"Large, sparkling white flowers up to 5cm across. An outstanding variety of great vigour so easy in the garden. FS/1st $ 6.00

Anemone coronaria Very showy flowers for hot dry sites in an amazing range of shades from pastel pink and smoky blue through to re d. This strain is from the Sir Frederick Stern's Highdown Garden in Sussex. FS/1st $2.50 or 3 for $7.00

Anemone heldreichii Native only to the lowland gullies and gorges of Crete so 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" Richest blue flowers of all available forms. A very good selection which, looks well as perfect background to other specimen plants, like hellebores or prunus. FS/1st $4.00 or $10.00

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 or 3 for $10.00

Anemone nemorosa "Leeds Variety"Very large, pure-white flowers on strong stems, almost twice as large as normal white forms. FS/1st $4.00 or 3 for $10.00

Anemone nemorosa "Robinsoniana"Flowers very large, palish blue with a slightly buff reverse. One of the most robust and largest flowered of all cultivars. FS/1st $3.50

Anemone nemorosa "Vestal" A superb, bone-white double form where the extra row of petals form a tight central rosette. FS/1st $ 4.00 or 3 for $10.00

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 whose flowers start white in bud and age through from soft pink to raspberry, outstanding, strong deeply cut foliage. FS/1st $5.00

Anemone pavoninaBrilliant, eye-burning scarlet, saucer-shaped flowers with dark anthers often surrounded by a central white zone. The epitome of a Greek spring and collected by us in the braided gullies of the Peloponnese. FS/1st $4.00

Anemone ranunculoides ssp. wockeana This wood anemone is smaller than the more widespread type and has vivid yellow flowers and more sharply toothed leavesand burnished red pedicals. Rarely offered FS $5.00

Anemone x seemanii (syn. lipsiensis) A hybrid between A. ranunculoides and A. nemorosa. This choice anemone bears large soft yellow flowers over dark ferny foilage in early spring Lovely addition to the early spring garden. FS $4.00 or 3 for $10.00