Anemone 2009

[BULBISSIME]

Otto, I'm not doing a photo contest ! 
A lot of forumists are taking wonderfull pictures too,
and you also can have a lok on our french frorum    http://plantes-passion.forumactif.fr/index.htm
Thank you and I'll keep seeds.
Fred

[BULBISSIME]

Here is flowering another littel gem, Anemone biflora, in red form, From iran



I try to get it from seeds too without success : no germination 

[Carlo]

Tres chic, Fred! What a beautiful true red.

[Maggi Young]

My word! What a colour! These colours BREATHE sunshine to me!

[Gerry Webster]

Superb Fred. Was this photographed in Iran?

[Lesley Cox]

Beautiful anemones all. I had previously thought Anemone hortensis (as 'Hortensis') was a man-made strain rather than a wild species. Pleased to see otherwise.

[BULBISSIME]

No Gerry 
Unfortunatly, it's cultivated in my bulb frame, but I'd prefer to catch it in Iran to take pictures in the wild 

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Now here's what I call an eye-catcher Fred !!

And what a splendid photograph !

[maggiepie]

Some wild Anemone hortensis   with colour variations in the maritimes Alps, france :

These flowers are amazing, they remind me of african daisies.
I had never seen them before.

[Oron Peri]

Fred, A. biflora is a beautiful species, thanks for showing it.

Here is another red Anemone, A. pavonina from Greece, the anthers looks like tiny coffee beans.

[BULBISSIME]

Oron, I like this scarlet Anemones !
This group is quite complex to distinguish and a lot of them are very similar.

[Oron Peri]

Fred, it is difficult to distinguish by the flower, but easy by the leaves and brachts.

Here are some interesting A. coronaria.

[Sinchets]

Anemone pavonina in pink and red colour forms 2 days ago in SE Bulgaria.

[BULBISSIME]

very nice forms and colors Oron and Sinchets !

[Oron Peri]

Simon there are more surprises in that meadow: Under the pink flower there is a Romulea leaf  and a Muscari in bud, while in the last one there is an Ornithogalum that seems to be O. fimbriatum...?

Fred, i hold my self tide to my chair each time you post a photo, I was wondering if your  camera is from planet Earth