{"id":12706,"date":"2006-05-12T23:35:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-13T03:35:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-08-13T19:37:09","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T23:37:09","slug":"anemones-and-anemonellas-more-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/2006\/05\/anemones-and-anemonellas-more-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Anemones and Anemonella’s: More Spring Ephemerals"},"content":{"rendered":"
Anemonella thalictroides ‘Oscar Schoaf’<\/span> These small, bulbous or rhyzome forming Anemones which carpet woodlands in Western Europe and Asia are slowing becoming more popular with informed gardeners as long as one can provide the edaphic woodland conditions which they thrive in, ( wet springs and dry summers) exactly what most spring ephemerals want. Ephemerals that bloom in April and May, take advantage of the fact that the woodland trees have not come into full leaf, and by the time that they do, they not only shade the harsh sun, the canopy forces the trees to drink more water, and the soil in the woodland becomes dry, just as most ephemerals are going dormant, in early July. Now THAT is intellegent design!<\/p>\n Selected named forms of Anemone nemorosa and Anemonellas of the woodland pursuasion are available at the better plant nurseries, found usually in the woodland section where wild flowers are sold, aYou will only find them in the spring, since they die back and are gone by July. They are available from a few specialized nurseries or bulb catalogs in the autumn. Look for them, since they are well worth the effort to find, and once planted, will slowly spread and colonize neatly, never becoming a pest, and providing tasteful displays that come at a time when the garden could be full of garish Tulips and Hyacynths.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
The wild Wood Anemone, Anemone quinquefolia, which grows in large colonies in the wood behind our our house (and which still does), were one of the first wild flowers which I learned the name of (the trillium was the first). As I have grown as a gardener, I have learned to appreciate the entire family of the woodland Ranunculids, including the still hard-to-find, Anemone nemerosa and it’s close relative, the striking Anemonella thalictroides, above. <\/p>\n