Anemone 2015

[Anne Repnow]

Thank you, Leena!
Checking my photos I think this might be 'Royal Blue'... Sadly, I wasn't very conscientious about labels in those days.

[Maggi Young]

I have  'Robinsoniana' and also 'Leeds Variety'  but I always get them mixed up....

 I've been thinking about this -  Leeds Variety is white, is it not?  So what is the other blue one I mix  up with Robinsoniana?  I don't recognise the names of the ones  mentioned as types we have here 

[Roma]

Is Anemone nemorosa 'Allenii' the one we mix up with 'Robinsoniana'?

[Maggi Young]

Yes! Roma, that's the one -  This year I must make a real effort to sort out which is which - always supposing I had the correct plants in the first place, of course!

[Anne Repnow]

You might find this site interesting:
www.sarastro-stauden.com

Enter Anemone nemorosa in the search window at the top right hand corner of "Pflanzenshop" (plant shop). Christian Kress lists almost eighty cultivars....

[David Nicholson]

.............. including A. n. 'Dee Day'  in white!?

Cracking selection of plants to browse through though.

[Gerry Webster]

Yes! Roma, that's the one -  This year I must make a real effort to sort out which is which - always supposing I had the correct plants in the first place, of course!

Maggi - when you do let me know!

[Susann]

As soon as one is away from the forum  for a few days there are suddenly so many new posts to read and beautiful pictures to admire (Althoguh I really try to limit myself to follow very few threads).

But, now I have a question regarding `Allenii`. I thought it is the very darkest blue of the ones I have got, and `Bowle´s Blue´is slightly lighter. `Royal Blue`is the smallest and most compact plant ( and I tend to say the most beautiful?).  Although `Robinsonian´ is my favorite with the lightblue- almost blueberry and milk- sweeping petals. So, my question is, if you confuse `Allenii´ with `Robinsoniana´, I must be wrong saying it is my darkest one that is `Allenii´?  I got it from a Swedish collector in 2008,  but unfortunally he has been confused with other ones too. 

I discovered this in my garden a few years ago, and was surprised to find the label saying `Allenii´as I thought it was a darker one. I do not know from where I got this. It is interesting though, as it is very very dwarf in size. I am not sure you can see that in the picture. I didn´t see it last spring, but I did miss a lot in my garden as I was away so much. I will look for it this year and post a picture of it.
Does anyone have a picture of `Alleni´?

[Gunilla]

I have anemones 'Allenii' and 'Robinsonia' growing side by side but I'm not sure if I can trust the labels . They are about the same size and light blue colour but the one labeled 'Allenii' has a faint red/pink tinge on the back of the petals and 'Robinsoniana' has a greyish backside. 

[Leena]

Royal Blue`is the smallest and most compact plant ( and I tend to say the most beautiful?). 

I think so, too.  My blue 'Dee Day' is also quite compact plant, and has about same size flowers as 'Royal Blue' (both are from Ruksans).

I don't have 'Allenii', so I can't say anything about it.
In Rareplants page it says that 'Robinsoniana' is larger plant than 'Allenii' (in 'Bowles Purple' page)
http://www.rareplants.co.uk/product.asp?s=cYqsz6482832&P_ID=158&strPageHistory=related
and that they are identifiable from the backside of the petals.
I have an unknown large pale blue A.nemorosa and another slightly darker and little smaller (but now as small as RB) blueish plant, both nameless, but I suspect they must be the common ones, and at least one of them is 'Robinsoniana'. It is difficult to identify from just descriptions, I should buy plants with right names and then compare.

[Susann]

Thank you for your answers. As you all say that `Allenii´ is very similar to ´Robinsoniana´ I am sure that you are right and my plant wrongly labelled.
Leena, I once bought a `Robinsoniana´at a specialist market ( it was in full bloom and impossible to resist). It was very clear it was a `Robinsoniana" but the seller had put the label "From an old priests cottage in Gotland" ( For you who does not know: Gotland is a very beautiful island outside of Sweden that "everybody" love and cherish a lot).
I think sometimes people try to make their plants a little more posh? Like when Aquilegia buergeriana is sold in normal plant shops as Aquilegia `Tequila Sunrise´.
Anyway, I will relabel my "Allenii" to "unknown". I am going to move most of the A nemorosa this spring to build a bulbscree in that place. The Anemones are to be moved to the new conifer corner and to-be-Rhododendron border. Why does one never stop moving the poor plants around? I spoke to a friend yesterday who said that sometimes one wish to say to the plants "you are perfect now, please do not grow any more". My problem is the other way around. I never get my plants the chance to establish as I keep moving them from one place to another.

[Rogan]

Your help will be appreciated:

It may seem crazy for me to try but, how do you germinate seed of Anemone blanda? For the first time ever I have been able to obtain seed of this plant (Chiltern Seeds) which is unobtainable (not grown?) here in South Africa. Would a period of cold stratification be required?

I have grown several Anemone species before, including the commercially available A. coronaria hybrids, so there might not be too many reasons ( ) why A. blanda won't thrive here (zone 10) - are there?

[YT]

Anemone biflora, yellow flower form, from Janis

[François]

Hello,
I'm a French gardener, anemones blanda are flowering here but nemorosa not yet. I found a blue blanda that reminds me of nemorosa "green finger" in my garden today... Do you have any idea about that one : semi-double or anything ? Is it a common plant ?
Thank you in advance for letting me know.

[Maggi Young]

Welcome François ! I have not seen such anemones in that colour - I suppose semi-double would be a good description. The blandas are not out here yet in N.E. Scotland .