Anemone 2015

[annew]

Some more:

[annew]

A nice A. nemorosa, Jummer's Fienrood, and my best effort yet at a double blue - semi-double at least.

[lettuce begin]

Anemone blue eye, love this one.

[Gerdk]

Thank you, Anne!
Yours are  very nice too - especially the semi-double blue one.

Gerd

[Tim Ingram]

Anne - some great plants there! That pink form of Anemone nemorosa, 'Jummer's Fienrood', is about the best I have ever seen - do you have any more information about it?

[annew]

Hi Tim,
I can't find anything on Google - I'll ask Taavi about it. The buds are good too.

[annew]

Just found this: Jümmers Fienrood» (fienrood = always pink in Low German) from the Schuelper Moor in Schleswig-Holstein

[Tim Ingram]

Thanks Anne . A plant to look out for!

[mark smyth]

Ever disappointed in a plants description?

Anemone nemerosa 'Pink Delight'

[Maggi Young]

Alan Elliott  tweeted :  "Horty-types get your pens ready to re-label. Transfer of Chinese Pulsatilla to Anemone
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/enhanced/doi/10.1111/njb.00700/
via Nordic  Journal of Botany "

Research Article
Nomenclatural transfer of Chinese Pulsatilla to Anemone (Ranunculaceae)
Authors
    Nan Jiang ,  Zhuang Zhou, Kai-Yun Guan andWen-Bin Yu
    First published: 13 April 2015

Abstract

Pulsatilla has been separated from Anemone by many authors. However, molecular phylogenies show that this genus, along with Barneoudia, Knowltonia, Hepatica and Oreithales, is nested with Anemone. For this reason, Pulsatilla is better treated as a section of Anemone. For the Chinese Pulsatilla species, nine species names are already available in Anemone, and the remaining names of three species and four infraspecific taxa are transferred to Anemone here.

[David Nicholson]

Ever disappointed in a plants description?

Anemone nemerosa 'Pink Delight'

Nice plant, poor description! What is the nicest pink currently available?

[Tim Ingram]

Alan/Maggi - I don't see Pulsatilla easily being subsumed into Anemone either by horty-types or many botanists! And certainly not Hepatica either!!) But there is already a divergence of opinion about Pulsatilla/Anemone occidentalis & patens in N. America, and Chris Grey-Wilson discusses this carefully in his book, concluding that: 'To include Pulsatilla within Anemone as a subgenus would achieve very little and would only serve to make a large and already cumbersome and complicated genus even more burdensome'. They are obviously very close but it seems more logical to simply 'bar-code' plants for the purposes of science, and maintain useful names for the purposes of visual communication about them.  Are horticulture and botany becoming so distant from one another that neither the twain shall meet?

[Philip Walker]

A. x lipsiensis

[Maggi Young]

A. x lipsiensis

 I'm fond of this- it grows well in our garden - I find the soft yellow colour very pretty and the flower to foliage ratio is pretty good.

[David Nicholson]

Nice plant, poor description! What is the nicest pink currently available?

No-one got a view?

Here's a pink, very pink, Anemone nemorosa from today's visit to Knightshayes. Stonkingly beautiful.

More pics from Knighshayes on Places to Visit thread later this evening