tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7116278351699614429.post5891834294233627596..comments2023-08-21T01:41:13.490-07:00Comments on Three Dogs in a Garden: The Temptation of Two Spring AnemonesJenniferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00116583212813729057noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7116278351699614429.post-82992749113579780122017-11-19T13:05:00.810-08:002017-11-19T13:05:00.810-08:00They are super pretty and that makes them very tem...They are super pretty and that makes them very tempting. Each gardener has to decide if they are worth the risk of having them spread.Jenniferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00116583212813729057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7116278351699614429.post-24787541686655989562017-11-19T13:01:19.547-08:002017-11-19T13:01:19.547-08:00Sometimes less than ideal conditions will help lim...Sometimes less than ideal conditions will help limit a plants spread and it sounds like this was the case in your last garden.Jenniferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00116583212813729057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7116278351699614429.post-73499314230752332212017-11-19T12:59:12.004-08:002017-11-19T12:59:12.004-08:00It is wise to be cautious of free plants. It's...It is wise to be cautious of free plants. It's often a sign that a perennial produces tons of offspring...so many that there are plenty to give away!Jenniferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00116583212813729057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7116278351699614429.post-44897098050967721812017-06-10T14:09:53.061-07:002017-06-10T14:09:53.061-07:00Uh oh!
I bought and planted 3 of these this year.
...Uh oh!<br />I bought and planted 3 of these this year.<br />They are so pretty though. :-)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02574946867709812195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7116278351699614429.post-48940969128394433212017-06-07T15:09:11.189-07:002017-06-07T15:09:11.189-07:00Oh...you spring garden is heavenly, just loved it!...Oh...you spring garden is heavenly, just loved it!!! Ahhhh....bless Buddy, 18? gosh, what a grand age. Lovely seeing Jasper and Scraps too. Gorgeous, all three of them.xxxSnowbirdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08572555410663928295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7116278351699614429.post-53273575855598173052017-06-07T07:10:06.347-07:002017-06-07T07:10:06.347-07:00I had no problem with A. sylvestris in my last gar...I had no problem with A. sylvestris in my last garden but it was planted in dry shade. After reading this, I'm going to move the two new plants I just bought from one of my perennial borders to my dry shade mailbox garden out by the road.Suehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13911109672807196057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7116278351699614429.post-56852953230842304392017-06-06T12:00:55.020-07:002017-06-06T12:00:55.020-07:00They are so pretty and tempting. A. canadensis wa...They are so pretty and tempting. A. canadensis was handed to me by a lovely woman at a garden show. It was free. That should have been the tip off. It tries to strangle my roses, peonies, clematis and any other perennial it can find. I pull armloads out every year. I rue the day I took that little pot from the innocent looking garden lady and said 'thank you'. No wonder she smiled. She knew.Anniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07932052972867806872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7116278351699614429.post-67381569711369952342017-06-06T11:27:37.413-07:002017-06-06T11:27:37.413-07:00Thanks for adding the link. I think you might be r...Thanks for adding the link. I think you might be right Susan (although I'd only loosely describe the leaves as "heart-shaped"). I went further and looked up more information on anemone americana and found that Cornell University suggests it is not invasive. Here's the link:http://www.gardening.cornell.edu/homegardening/scened82d.html Jenniferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00116583212813729057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7116278351699614429.post-41701490891240348682017-06-06T11:07:56.291-07:002017-06-06T11:07:56.291-07:00I think it may be anemone americana. http://onta...I think it may be anemone americana. http://ontariowildflowers.com/main/species.php?id=176. I was going to use it in the edge of the garden but now wonder how invasive it is. <br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10457013418268780394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7116278351699614429.post-26110311353323905562017-06-06T04:53:11.665-07:002017-06-06T04:53:11.665-07:00Sound like you have discovered another of the nati...Sound like you have discovered another of the native anemones. For instance, there is Rue anemone or Wood Anemone, Anemonella thalictroides but this doesn't sound quite like the one you describe.Jenniferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00116583212813729057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7116278351699614429.post-28017988214585492702017-06-05T17:34:53.790-07:002017-06-05T17:34:53.790-07:00I discovered this growing wild in my area in the k...I discovered this growing wild in my area in the kawarthas in mid May. Mine is also pink and blue as well as white. The leaves are heart shaped. It doesn't seem to be either of the two species you described here. Very pretty plant and the foliage is nice too once the blossoms die.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10457013418268780394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7116278351699614429.post-6251570023004145082017-06-05T08:33:36.519-07:002017-06-05T08:33:36.519-07:00Japanese Anemones are not the same exact thing. Ja...Japanese Anemones are not the same exact thing. Japanese Anemones bloom in the fall. They are also slow to appear in the spring, so you may not have lost as many plants as you think. My experience with them is more limited, so I did a bit of research. <br /><br />Fine Gardening magazine offers this background:<br />Anemone hupehensis var. japonica, the semi-double form of A. hupehensis, was exported to Japan, where it was cultivated for centuries and escaped into the wild. Its cultivars offer semi-double, somewhat smaller blossoms. After he found a semi-double form in a Shanghai graveyard in 1843, Robert Fortune sent it home to England, and Europeans immediately began breeding new garden forms. <br />Anemone × hybrida plants are commonly referred to as the Japanese hybrids. They’re the result of a cross between A. hupehensis var. japonica and A. vitifolia, a tender Himalayan species with grapeleaflike foliage and white flowers. There are a great number of cultivars available today, varying in flower form, color, and height. Anemone tomentosa is native to the higher altitudes of northern China. It’s undoubtedly the hardiest and most vigorous of the fall-flowering anemones. <br />Read more: http://www.finegardening.com/fall-blooming-anemones#ixzz4j8q6lxQP <br /><br />As to their invasive nature, one source said:<br />"Japanese anemones can colonize large areas and become almost thuggish, rapidly reappearing if you try to eradicate them. But, despite their robust and long-lived qualities, they can also be difficult to establish because they dislike disturbance. When buying, go for well-grown, larger specimens and plant them in rich friable soil in semi-shade. If conditions are not ideal, they creep towards cooler soil, then romp away."<br /><br />Another source said:<br />"Japanese anemone (Anemone x hybrida) is an attractive plant, loved by many. It is a hybrid of three Chinese anemone species that has white, pink or lavender blooms in late summer.<br />It is also hated by some when they decide to remove it. I don't know just where it would fall on a chart of persistence, but it would have to be at the higher end. It forms clumps with a mass of rather thin, dark brown, fibrous roots. Buds that grow into new plants can form on the roots, particularly on ones that are a bit thicker. It also sends out horizontal roots that can grow new plants at a distance from old clumps, and it may regrow from cut roots. So the short answer is that the way to get rid of the plants is to remove all of their roots. If a plant comes up, you know you missed some root that was thick enough to bud.<br />Compared with mint, the roots of Japanese anemone will be thinner, making them easier to miss. You may eventually decide, at a time of year when other plants in the bed are least active, to remove them temporarily while you search for Japanese anemone roots."<br /><br />One thing that makes me question using them as an understory for limelight hydrangeas is their height. These are pretty tall plants for an understory. The mature height is 2-4 feet.<br /><br />I am sorry that none of this may make you feel reassured about the understory you are trying to create. Myself, I think I would tend to shy away from anemones as an understory and go with something less problematic. The tiny blue flowers are forget-me-nots, by the way. <br /><br />Finally here is a link to an article by the Chicago Botanical Garden on Japanese Anemones with more information than you may ever need to know:<br />https://www.chicagobotanic.org/downloads/planteval_notes/no25_anemones.pdfJenniferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00116583212813729057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7116278351699614429.post-22742411989426463342017-06-05T07:55:02.778-07:002017-06-05T07:55:02.778-07:00Thanks for sharing this Cricket. I have found that...Thanks for sharing this Cricket. I have found that it is fairly easy to remove it where unwanted too.Jenniferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00116583212813729057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7116278351699614429.post-91891731960314656992017-06-05T07:54:02.483-07:002017-06-05T07:54:02.483-07:00Thanks for weighing in on Anemone canadensis Tammy...Thanks for weighing in on Anemone canadensis Tammy!Jenniferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00116583212813729057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7116278351699614429.post-15445899614878798752017-06-05T00:30:48.425-07:002017-06-05T00:30:48.425-07:00Elles sont belles ces anémones blanches ! Ici au j...Elles sont belles ces anémones blanches ! Ici au jardin, il y en a des roses doubles !<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02993673562686768181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7116278351699614429.post-768953923269945322017-06-04T20:16:29.353-07:002017-06-04T20:16:29.353-07:00Last year I planted about 20 a. Japonicus. Are the...Last year I planted about 20 a. Japonicus. Are these the same thing? As far as I can tell maybe one or two survived but won't know for sure until/unless they bloom. I'm zone 6a/b and clay soil so I'm a little worried. I wanted them to understory my limelight hydrangeas. I'd be willing to try the Sylvester or canadensis if I'm in the right zone or even close. I think they are beautiful also planted 60 blue ones, none of which came up this year or last so maybe I'm doing something wrong. Also what are the tiny blue flowers planted in with thesvestris pics? Thanks for any advice or help. Karenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17917839178944601336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7116278351699614429.post-65073361177846631952017-06-04T16:13:25.583-07:002017-06-04T16:13:25.583-07:00I have a lot of A. canadensis, but the rhizomes tr...I have a lot of A. canadensis, but the rhizomes travel very close to the surface of the soil. My yard is sandy loam so it's easy to fork/hoe it over every couple of years and rake out the rhizomes.Crickethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10752784083722909937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7116278351699614429.post-71177480345037966422017-06-04T13:53:22.536-07:002017-06-04T13:53:22.536-07:00Anemone canadensis is super invasive in my garden!...Anemone canadensis is super invasive in my garden! I have a. sylvestris controlled but not the other. It's a beautiful thug. Casa Mariposahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16647089868277238456noreply@blogger.com