RE: Planting & Watering/ fall anemone

Gene, I agree, I'm not sure there is a bad one among the lot.  'September Charm' seems to be shorter and less aggressive in my garden -- it is a single medium dusty pink -- and indeed IS charming.

One of my favorite combinations is aconitum carmichaelii arsendii (dark blue flowers with dark leathery foliage, about 6-7' tall) which does not bloom until usually October around here.  I grow it with the double white anemone japonica (?) 'Whirlwind' (about 4-5').  One year I also grew with this combination the pineapple sage with its dark red flowers, also a late bloomer around here.  Excellent combination.  Kinda patriotic too, I guess ;-)

By the way that combination grows in high semi-shade competing with tree roots and comes through with flying colors every year.
-----Original Message-----
From: Gene Bush [g*@otherside.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 1:30 PM
To: perennials@hort.net
Subject: Re: Planting & Watering/ fall anemone


Hello Chris,
    That is a bit like asking me which of my sons I like the best. I have
had three hybrids in the garden for a few years now. Of those three, I
believe I like A. hybrida 'Honorine Jobert' simply because it is a clean
white when in bloom that will go with anything else as a companion. I
suppose I would have to follow up with A.h. 'Queen Charlotte'. A nice clean
shimmering pink in semi-double form. Flowers can reach over 3 inches across
on this one.
    I do not believe there is a "bad" one that I have had the opportunity to
see in a garden. They are all large assertative perennials that will take
the room they need if it is not given to them, but goodness, what a show
from August through October. Try using with aconitum, or monkshood. Adds
tall straight lines to the large rounded clumps of the anemone.
    Gene E. Bush
Munchkin Nursery & Gardens, llc
www.munchkinnursery.com
genebush@munchkinnursery.com
Zone 6/5  Southern Indiana

----- Original Message ----- >
> >     First of the fall blooming anemone are in full bud here. Another
week to
> > ten days and they will be fully opened. With the other cultivars in the
> > garden there will be an anemone in bloom from now until a real hard
freeze.
> > They all seem to require lots of room, but goodness do they ever make a
> > show.
>
> So which Anemone do you recommend, Gene?
>
> Chris

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