I’m sure someone can tell me what I am doing wrong, but I can never keep anemones for long. They flower beautifully, then disappear to the great herbaceous border in the sky. If I am particularly lucky they might reappear a few feet away from where they were planted, usually in a totally inappropriate place. The next year I try again, full of false hope. Some people never learn.
Once they flower I excuse any heartache they may have caused. The ethereal violet-blue blooms are especially forgiven.
Blissful.
Off The Edge Gardening 
I am sorry that I can not help you with that one. They are like annuals for us. I had always thought that it was because they do not get sufficient chill here, but there must be more to it than that. I had some that survived for years without ever blooming after the first years.
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Perhaps that is the way to go, just treat them as annuals and any that survive are a happy bonus.
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I dislike annuals, and I dislike expensive annuals even more, but I will say that I would grow these again, even if they only bloom for a short while here, just because I really like them.
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They are beautiful, very true.
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So, it is not just me! We will just have to try again.
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I think we should form a special club!
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I seem to do best growing them in containers. Funny about that ethereal violet blue – I planted some blue anemones, or at least that’s what the label said – but I’m getting red flowers. They’re gorgeous, but I love that blue, too.
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The red ones are gorgeous too, do I remember you doing some lovely anemone paintings?
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Yes – they are relatively simple flowers, unlike the camellias I tried to draw recently.😕
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I am sure it was great, you are very modest!
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Do you mean anemone blanda ? Martin grows them on a well drained bank by the gate along with tulipa turkestanica next to a native woodland hedge. They have been very good this year despite the dysfunctional weather, flowering well and in profusion. I don’t know when the bulbs/rhizomes were first planted but it was many years ago, at least 20. They are definitely perennial and self-seed.
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No these are the Anemone coronaria. I remember your wood anemones, absolutely wonderful. I hope your open days went well last weekend. I really need to come and see you soon, I keep pointing people in your direction.
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Lovely picture. They’re not something I grow, mainly due to lack of space. xx
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Perhaps one day 🙂 x
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