Anemone nemorosa

[Carlo]

Joakim,

Would have sent this privately but didn't have your email--as long as the articles you provided on this forum are already in electronic form, I'd love to see them...

Carlo

[Joakim B]

Carlo the articles are sent
I can send them to anyone else who is interested. 
Nice pictures everyone and I think that here it is shown that the flowers vary a bit and that they have a tendency to cheat a bit and have seedlings amongst each other that are slightly different. One more lovely than the other.

Kind regards

Joakim

[henkw]

Dear Paddy,

In real it is a little more white, it has a pink blush.

Henk Westerhof

[Hkind]

My 'Blue Eyes' stays white, even when aging.

Hannelotte

[Paddy Tobin]

Henk, Hannelotte,

A. n. 'Blue Eyes' seems to be a very good plant. Many thanks for the photographs.

Paddy

[Bjarne]

Some new forms I found yesterday.

[Joakim B]

Nice Anemones Bjarne. Congratulations 
Were they growing in the wild or in Your garden. I have understood that if one has a few different types in the garden there is a high chance of them mixing after a while and can hence create new nice forms.
Close inspecting of anemones gives great rewards I have understood from the forum. From distance most are "just"white. I must have a look at the wild population around where we are in Sweden  . Here in Portugal I have not found any.

Kind regards
Joakim

[Bjarne]

They grow in the wild. I will try to hand pollinating the different forms. Does anybody have some experience? I need some good advice 

[Bjarne]

Another wild form. This plant have two flower on the stem!

[mark smyth]

very interesting. A local old overgrown garden has many different shades of colour but no dare I say freaks.

Blue Eyes seen in the garden of Margaret Glynn

[Maggi Young]

I'm sorry, I can't resist .....I never knew Margaret had such beautiful blue eyes!

[Bjarne]

Now I have found some ’monster anemone nemorosa’. I was scared. What have happened here? Disease? The plants grow in a sandbank in a small river under some Alnus glutinosa. Most of the nemorosa was normal, but spreads around some of this ’monsters’ grow.


"Monster nemorosa"

A normal A. nemorosa for likening

Red variants

[annew]

Bjarne, this could be what we call 'big leaf' disease. Were some of the leaves thick and distorted too?

[Bjarne]

Bjarne, this could be what we call 'big leaf' disease. Were some of the leaves thick and distorted too?

Yes, the leaves stem and flower where thick and a little bit distorted. What is ‘big leaf’ disease?

[annew]

That is a good question. As far as I know, nobody has been able to find out what causes it, and it doesn't appear every year. It might be weather conditions when buds are being formed, or an organism that just has not been found yet. If it appears in a garden, it is best to take out affected plants just in case.