Anemone coronaria

[ranunculus]

What a beautiful vista, Oron ... no wonder you had to stop and take these lovely images.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

What a great looking bulbfield !!!
So colourfull !!!  Does it turn into semi desert in Summer ??

I hope you didn't get a parking ticket when taking the pictures Oron ... 

[Sinchets]

If this is Armegeddon, bring it on! What a site/ sight!!

[Joakim B]

Are these planted there or are they "natural"? It seems to be very few of the reds compared what You showed earlier.

A great site to see so thanks for this.
Kind regards
Joakim

[Maggi Young]

Oh, my word, Oron! I am so grateful that you have so little capacity to resist temptation......     what a sight! wonderful.

[Ragged Robin]

Oron, your superb photos of drifts of Anemone really puts a different complexion on how wonderful they look, colours mingling en masse under the trees.  I have never had much success growing them but this is inspiration indeed 

[hadacekf]

What a great beautiful bulb meadow. Thanks

[Armin]

I concur Franz. 

[Oron Peri]

Thank you all for the comments,

Luc, this area is very dry in summer but is not considered semidesert as it receive more than 500mm of rains annually.

Joakim,

These are wild Anemone, we haven't found any explanation so far to this phenomenon, some areas are mixed colors, others only red  or only white.
We suppose that it might depends on rainfalls,   mixed colors in more rainy areas and Red form  in drier areas, but it hasn't been proved scientifically so far.

 

[Joakim B]

Thanks for this explanation Oron
Can it be human intervention so that in these with very low amount of reds people have "taken them away" maybe much earlier (10-100 of years ago) due to what ever reason if this is close to historical grounds (religious or funeral grounds)? Just speculating but it was so few reds it was almost as it was a "weed" that had entered this land of pinks and whites.
I might be totally of but this seems closer to habitation.

Btw is this plant eaten by goats/sheeps? Sometimes animals seem to avoid flowers of some colour and hence "drive" colour to that range or is that just my imagination?
Always fun to speculate.
It is very nice regardles of any possible human intervention.
Kind regards
Joakim

[fermi de Sousa]

I wish we had carpets of anemones under our eucalypt trees
Wonderful pics, Oron.
cheers
fermi

[Sinchets]

Is it on your allowed list, Fermi? I am sure they would love to be there!

[Sinchets]

Not quite Anemone coronaria, but here are some A.pavonina flowering yesterday in the southeast of Bulgaria. So far it seems that the red forms flower later than the pastel and pink forms. The ones we have in the garden should flower in a week or so.

[TheOnionMan]

Simon, a beautiful Anemone. At what elevations does it grow?  Perhaps A. pavonina might actually have a chance of being hardy here compared to A. coronaria.

[Sinchets]

In this area they are found from sealevel to maybe 300 or 400masl. They have had considerable snowfall there this winter. We have them growing in the garden here and they put out leaves in autumn and so have been down to -15C before the snow arrived. We do have 1 red A.coronaria we bought with us which has had no problems outside here either.