Anemone blanda 'Scythinica'

[Gerry Webster]

In Brian Mathew's The Smaller Bulbs he refers to  Anemone blanda 'Scythinica', having a white flower with a blue back to the petals.   Many years ago I had such a plant but inevitably lost it. Since then I have never seen it offered commercially. I think it is a very old selection; does anyone know whether it is still in cultivation or available? 

[Maggi Young]

Not one you see about much now, is it?

Checking to see when it was introduced I  discover that it was listed in a KEW  "Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information" Appendix II 1986 as one of the
"New Garden Plants of the Year 1895" 

Anemone blanda scythinica (Gard. 1895, xlvii., 279.) Ranunculaceae.
A form with pale blue and white flowers originally found in N. Kurdistan.     
Anemone blanda 'Scythinica'       Anemone blanda var. scythinica Jenk.          Anemone 'Scythinica'

 This Austrian Nursery is listing it: http://www.sarastro-stauden.com/english/index.html

[Gerry Webster]

Thanks Maggi.

[Rodger Whitlock]

I grow it here.

Not that that does you much good, but you may sleep slightly more soundly of nights knowing it isn't completely lost to cultivation.

[Otto Fauser]

 it also has been growing in my garden for many years .

        otto.

[Paul T]

So is the double "Blue Eyes" derived from it?  That is a double which is white, with blue-ish back to the petals.... then as the flower ages an intense blue eye appears in the centre.

[Diane Whitehead]

No, different species.  Blue Eyes is a nemorosa.

[Paul T]

Diane,

D'oh!  Thanks.  Just noted the colouring and obviously enough didn't focus on the species.    Sorry!

[Gerry Webster]

Thanks Rodger & Otto. It's good to know it still exists.