Anemone 2015

[ChrisB]

Whatever it is, I really like it and it's destined for a place in my garden!

[alanelliott]

Alan, if you get time would you mind taking a look at Replies 216 and 220 in this thread with reference to my Anemone multifida that started life in an Exchange seed envelope labeled Pulsatilla occidental is. I would be interested to know if any of the herbarium specimens you have seen show the reddish/brown markings I have mentioned on the lower outer petals.

So most of our Anemone multifida specimens are 19th C or early 20th C so colour doesnt persist too well, but in saying that there is often but not always the dark marking on the base.

A few specimens also hint at a blueness or pinkness in flower colours, but that could relate to how they dried. 


example of a Colorado plants


Canadian


And two Franklin expedition plants just because.

[Maggi Young]

And two Franklin expedition plants just because......

Lord Franklin? He of the disappearance in the search for the North West Passage?
(bursts into song.....
 "it was homeward bound one night on the deep, swinging in my hammock I fell asleep....."  )

[David Nicholson]

Alan, very many thanks for taking the time.

Given that information I have re-visited the information that Lori included in her reply 212 in respect of Anemone multifida var tetonensis (Porter) C L Hitch which The Plant List now shows in accepted form as Anemone tetonensis Porter ex Britton. The description I picked up from Lori's post seems very apt ""sepals.....usually blue or purple, sometimes white, or abascially yellow and red, blue or tinged purple, and axially yellow, red, blue or tinged purple"".

After all that I shall go for a long lay-down preceded by a generous amount of good malt. I'm not going to change my labels though

[alanelliott]

And two Franklin expedition plants just because......

Lord Franklin? He of the disappearance in the search for the North West Passage?
(bursts into song.....
 "it was homeward bound one night on the deep, swinging in my hammock I fell asleep....."  )

Aye these will be from the second expedition after the canabalism and boot eating but before the catastrophic all hands lost one.

These specimens will be from either John Richardson or Thomas Drummond.

As songs go I prefer Northwest passage "ah for just one time i would take the northwest passage to find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort sea."

[alanelliott]

Alan, very many thanks for taking the time.

Given that information I have re-visited the information that Lori included in her reply 212 in respect of Anemone multifida var tetonensis (Porter) C L Hitch which The Plant List now shows in accepted form as Anemone tetonensis Porter ex Britton. The description I picked up from Lori's post seems very apt ""sepals.....usually blue or purple, sometimes white, or abascially yellow and red, blue or tinged purple, and axially yellow, red, blue or tinged purple"".

After all that I shall go for a long lay-down preceded by a generous amount of good malt. I'm not going to change my labels though

I often feel like a large single malt afrer being in the herbarium but usually settle for coffee or irn bru....

[Maggi Young]

Aye these will be from the second expedition after the canabalism and boot eating but before the catastrophic all hands lost one.

These specimens will be from either John Richardson or Thomas Drummond.

As songs go I prefer Northwest passage "ah for just one time i would take the northwest passage to find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort sea."

A very fine song indeed , though not one in my personal repertoire - happy to sing it with you one day though!

[David Nicholson]

Second lot of blooms now on my Anemone multifida (A. tetonensis). Is this usual?

[David Nicholson]

No one got a view

[Hoy]

David, over here the plants are not sure whether we still have spring as we have not had summer yet

[David Nicholson]

Same over here too Trond apart from the riviera parts of the UK like Essex and Kent.

[Claire Cockcroft]

Hi, Trond!  I'd be happy to send you some of our heat.  We've been baking since the first of June.  It's impossible to keep everything watered and stay financially solvent.

[Hoy]

Hello Claire,

I will gladly have some! Can't say we have been baked here. Still much snow in the mountains! The up side is , no need to water the plants

[fermi de Sousa]

Anemone heldreichii
Anemone pavonina red
Anemone pavonina cream with pink blush
cheers
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