anemone gardening journals

• 30 Apr 2012

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  Updating the Heritage

  Heritage garden , Anemone coronaria - Windflower 'St. Brigid' , Molucella laevis - Bells of Ireland Sprouti...
  Just a bit of stuff to keep up to date. Put in a few corms of Windflower ‘St. Brigid’ here and in Gnomeville. They are very odd looking and the instructions say to plant them sideways, since it is just about impossible to tell the top from the bottom. Moved the blue English Primrose f...
  Sunny 16°C / 60°F
• 15 Apr 2009

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  colourful spring time

  spring is pretty present right now…there is life and colour everywhere…tulips, anemones, pilewort, primroses, cuckoo flowers and many others are flowering…the blossom of my forsythia is nearly over but my trees are awakening. beautiful white and rose blossoms of apple, plum and greengage plum are...
  15°C / 59°F
• 05 Apr 2009

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  Planted with a cloche

  18 Pulsatilla vulgaris - Pasque Flower - Anemone Planting Out, 2009 Winter Sowing garden , Pulsatilla vulga...
  When I checked the containers today, I was surprised to see that this seedling had grown to about 4 inches tall. There is the tiniest start of true leaves barely showing. This didn’t leave much head room inside the container. I decided to plant this one seedling out and top it with a cloche...
  Sunny 14°C / 57°F
• 01 Nov 2008

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  New bulb growth

  Poppy Anemone Sprouting and Borders garden
  All the Anemones in the Borders are sprouting new leaf foliage. I was surprised, even though I remembered that the bulbs grew leaves last winter in January after planting them in October. Those leaves stayed green all winter, so I wonder if these will stay or die off in the cold.
  Sunny -2°C / 28°F
• 15 Feb 2009

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  Perking up for spring

  Poppy Anemone Breaking Dormancy and Borders garden
  The Anemones have had new leaves sprouting since early winter. However, for the past few weeks, they have been compressed under inches of snow. The snow is gone, and the leaves are perking back up.
  Sunny -2°C / 28°F

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