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(Attachment Link) Oops, I've just realised we have mentioned P. magadensis several times in the forum - when the name should be Pulsatilla magadanensis
Armin, the prospect of 27 degrees C seems very distant here - right now it is just 7 degrees .I can quite understand why your flowers came and went so fast in such temperatures.
Thank you Armin for sharing seed back in 2010 of Pulsatilla vulgaris 'Rote Gloche' (Red Bell?). I marked a spot in the garden, and sowed the seed directly. Last year during the summer rabbits ate the plants down to mere stubs, but obviously they have recovered. This year they flowered for the first time, such large flowers of a lovely red color. The two photos taken 2 days apart, a week ago, the plants still looking good.
The mental picture of a stealthy rabbit sneaking into Mark's garden to munch his favourite plants is not a happy one ....but it brings to mind something that I have often wondered about in the past - how on earth do critters find such furry plants palatable? To eat those plants that have very hairy, furry or wooly foliage would seem to me to be akin to me chomping on cotton wool - that is to say, both unpleasant and downright tricky to chew, let alone swallow! How do these critters manage it?