Re: Anemone Sylvestris


Hello Gene

You wrote: >Anemone sylvestris is an easy one to grow. Makes a lovely
ground-cover for the
> garden in open shade, decent soil and light mulch. don't give it too rich
a soil
> or one very tight in texture.... plant will respond accordingly and you
will have
> a lot of the anemone.

You've all convinced me that this is a plant I want to grow.  I'll see if I
can get one of the more unusual versions.

>     Although I have not been able to get my hands on them wholesale or
retail from
> catalogs, there are several forms of this one out there to collect. A pink
> blooming form. A large blooming white, and a fully double form.

>     There is certainly no shortage of late winter, early spring blooming
> perennials. What do you have in mind besides the Anemone? Will Primula be
in the
> plans? Pulmonaria? Hellebore?
>     Gene Bush

I think one of the problems I have is that when I was planning my garden
three years ago I listened to all the experts who said that everyone goes
down to buy their plants in spring, so they have great spring and early
summer gardens, but nothing much happens in later summer and winter.
Accordingly, I bought lots of good winter interest plants (mainly shrubs),
and lots for later summer and completely forgot about spring!  There is a
distinct lack in my garden.

Also, my garden is strange in that it is north facing so gets no sun at all
in it from November-February.  But, and I'm not sure why this is, something
to do with the way the local houses are arranged round me, in the summer
months it gets a lot of sunshine.  The gardens I most seem to drool over on
tv gardening programmes, are spring woodland gardens.  But there's only two
places I can replicate woodland conditions in the garden.  Otherwise, these
poor woodland plants that I so fancy would have a bit of sun/shade in
spring, and fry in the summer.  Anyway, that said, these are the plants I
already have (I started this quest last year):

Primulas (the plain lemon yellow primrose); Pulmonaria - I've got 5 or 6
different ones of this now, hopefully they'll flower this year; euphorbias;
loads of daffodils, anemone blanda - I seem to remember putting some bulbs
of this in last autumn (is it spring flowering? - can't remember).

And this is what I intend ordering:

Anemone Sylvestris;
Corydalis Elata;
Epimedium x youngianum niveum;
Epimedium grandiflorum 'Crimson Beauty';
Epimedium pinnatum subsp. colchicum;
Hellebore (I've already got two although the Helleborus Foetidus is
struggling, I think I'll have to move it, neither have flowered yet);
Gallanthus (snowdrops).

I would also like some Galium Odoratum (sweet woodruff), but haven't found a
source for this yet.

Any other ideas?

Thanks for your help.

Louise, Surrey, England




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