Tis the season for Japanese Anemones
Here is 'Queen Charlotte', the only one I have...because while lovely, they're very problematical with the climate (they look awful if water lacks and August/September is my driest period). I've thrown lots of water at this one this year to prevent it being ruined.
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vaflowernut
3 years ago
dbarron
3 years agoRelated Discussions
Success with fall planting Japanese anemones?
Comments (13)Perennials tend to be offered on a very seasonal basis here - spring blooming plants in spring, summer bloomers in late spring and early summer and fall bloomers in late summer and early fall. Growers don't have them available until those times and few retail outlets have the space to offer a full range of perennials at any given time in the first place. You could search for weeks and never see a Japanese anemone for sale around here until late July/beginning of August at the earliest. Granted I live in a pretty mild zone but have grown and sold perennials in colder areas and have never had an issue with J. anemones not "taking" with fall planting. FWIW, one of the big advantages of fall planting with any type of hardy plant is that soil temperatures are slow to cool down so encourage root growth right up until very late in the season. Combined with the prevalence of fall rains and with a good mulch, no reason these plants should not be fine with fall planting....See MoreJapanese Anemone
Comments (3)I'm too had a bad luck with fall planted anemones, though everything I planted in beginning-middle of the season is doing good. Ploblem is, by buying them not in bloom you have to trust vendor. Found 'Pamina' to be the easiest to grow of the named cultivars. Blooms for me from mid August till end of September and is not agressive. After 3 years in unammended clay it formed 1.5' wide clump, no runners so far. In general, in part-shade all jap.anemones are not very thirsty, but soil have to have good drainage because they don't like wet winters. Since I can't say that my soil is well drained I simply remove mulch from their root zone for the winter. All of them looks great if planted next to or between spring flowering broadleaf evergreens. Beware of 'Robustissima', true to the name plant. Spreads like crazy, but I have it in a contained bed with phlox David and asiatic lilies which are the fast spreaders on their own, so I let fittest to win. So far it's a three way draw, but I think asiatics will win at the end....See MoreJapanese anemones
Comments (4)I'm not sure that I'd term them "invasive" - I generally recommend reserving that label for plants which pose environmental threats rather than those which may be mere garden thugs. Japanese anemones and their hybrids CAN be aggressive spreaders, however I find they are pretty easily controlled. They do provide a long period of late season color and are very happy in a dappled or filtered shade location. An underplanting for birch sounds like a fine idea, however be advised that they may need supplemental irrigation to get established (competition from the tree roots) but should be rather droughty after a couple of seasons. Powdery mildew can sometimes be a late season issue - thin if necessary and water deeply periodically in late summer to avoid this problem....See Morejapanese anemone in zone 5
Comments (15)Re a Japanese anemone: a personal story: I garden in Aurora, Ontario and have very largely avoided Japanese anemones, actually because I found the one below to be such a spreader (picture October 1, 2009). I planted the mixed perennial garden of the picture in 2000 and have been maintaining it ever since. That Japanese anemone is the only herbaceous perennial that was present when I converted that garden to a mixed herbaceous perennial garden. I've been chopping out runners from the anemone, spreading into several low evergreens around it, ever since. Personally, I've found corralling that Japanese anemone far more challenging than controlling or eliminating several other perennial runners going into evergreen shrubs. However, that Japanese anemone is too useful to eliminate (for its bloom and especially for its bloom time). Over the years, I've only planted one other Japanese anemone (a named cultivar) and that in our own small garden. It only lasted two years, leaving me to wonder whether I'd just dodged a future plant maintenance bullet....See Moredbarron
3 years agocercis47
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deanna in ME Barely zone 6a, more like 5b
3 years agolast modified: 3 years agorouge21_gw (CDN Z5b/6a)
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3 years agofloral_uk z.8/9 SW UK
3 years agolast modified: 3 years agoMine get no feeding either. Nothing in my ornamental garden does. At this time of year they pretty much dominate my microscopic garden. In low angle sunlight they’re luminous.
tsugajunkie z5 SE WI ♱
3 years agoJust starting here. These have reseeded so no telling what they are...
tj
schoolhouse_gwagain
3 years ago
bananastand
3 years agoOhhh, I just identified this in my garden the other day! Not sure what variety I have, but it is sure happy after all the rain we got in Wisconsin over the past week. There are many, many new buds at the tops of those tall stems waiting to open!
dbarron
3 years agodbarron
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3 years agolast modified: 3 years agozellycat2
3 years agolast modified: 3 years agoI picked up satin doll and red riding hood this year, both of which are supposed to be more well behaved. Fingers crossed.
I've placed them with my bleeding hearts since they're supposed to come up late, maybe right around the time the bleeding heart go dormant? If everything survives the winter, I'll find out next year.
peren.all Zone 5a Ontario Canada
3 years agoThat is one beautiful clump of 'Queen Charlotte' dbarron! I have a pot of 'Pamina' that I plunked in the garden when I discovered it was not 'Honorine Jobert'. Wrong color for that spot, I should check on it.
Here is the well named 'Robustissima'. Such a beast but I so appreciate the late blooms. You can see there are some plants going toward dormancy already here.
We had drought for months but plenty of rain in the last month or so. I did not water at all.
dbarron
3 years agozellycat2
3 years agolast modified: 3 years agoLucky charm bloomed this morning. The app isn't letting me add pics properly today so apologies if the same pic comes through later a million times.
By the way - what forum did everyone move to?
vaflowernut
3 years agoQueen Charlotte
this one is only about 12 in tall. I have the name for her somewhere
another shorter spreader. No I’d. I planted them 2 years ago. Slowly spreading now. They can go as far as they want to as far as I’m concerned. Love em.
vaflowernut
3 years agodbarron
3 years ago
floral_uk z.8/9 SW UK