Description
Anemone ‘Hardy Colour Mix’
Size 5/6
A vary special variety, bred to do well in colder conditions and is ideal for Autumn starting.
Anemone ‘Colour Mix’ is a bright cheerful blend of colours, stems the thickest and most study I have found with the biggest flowers, you can trust me, I will always do my best to find flowers that are a joy to grow!
NOTE: These are very different to the woodland varieties of Anemone blanda or Anemone nemerosa and much bigger than Anemone coronaria.
Tall, large ‘Florist quality’ completely different from the varieties available in your local garden centre or online. F1 hybrids which entails hand pollination and are therefore, much more expensive to produce. They survived and thrived beautifully through bitterly cold Winters and flowered from early February last Spring!
Normally reserved for professionals growing for international flower markets we must order them in for you as a ‘special’ order up to a year in advance.
Supply always depends on harvest so if you like them, order them !
We can never be sure we’ll get what we wanted until they arrive, which is why we don’t do any pre-selling and never are substitutions sent in place of what you wanted! We also carefully only count each colour one at a time, cleaning up before changing type so mix ups can’t occur.
You will have seen from our videos, once these corms arrive we immediately start dividing them into bags for you to have the chance to try them in your own gardens.
From the time the shipment arrives till the day we open our corm shop, is just weeks, you can’t get fresher or more viable quality!
Corms do vary in size we always display the size at the top of the page.
Started in Autumn I’ve had flowers as early as December! They happily start popping up in their cells, a signal to get planting out for a big splash of colour!
Packet size: 10 bulbs
How to Grow:
Corms will arrive in a dehydrated state and need to be soaked in a bowl of water for 12 hours (or overnight) before planting in pots or cell trays of at least 6.5cm square.
Rodents love to steal your precious corms so you need to protect them until the corms develop into plants.
Growing Anemones will be new to most gardeners, so I will be providing step by step growing advice and videos, if you subscribe to my You Tube channel you will be notified as each video goes live.
Busy gardeners can now plan ahead with our new season Anemones, Ranunculus & Ranunculus Butterfly Handbook.
Flowering:
Autumn started corms can bloom as early as mid February, however a very cold Spring could delay the start of flowering until March.
Late Winter / early Spring started corms generally flower for us from the beginning of May and continue blooming well into June.
Local weather conditions will affect the exact blooming times. Anemones will need frost protection to protect the buds and blooms from damage.
Height:
Autumn sown corms will be taller growing up to 50-60 cm (or even up to 70cm in my garden), Spring started corms will still reach an impressive 45-55 cm.
Position plants in full sun.
Cutting /Vase Life:
With a vase life of up to 10 days, Anemones make a supreme cut flower.
Cut as soon as flowers open and place into a vase or bucket of fairly shallow water, deep warm water can make stems perish prematurely.
We rest our stems in a cool dark location for at least a few hours in water, preferably overnight, This is called conditioning.
In the dark the flowers will close, opening up again as soon as you move them back into the light.
These corms have been bred for the professional cut flower industry. F1 hybrid hand pollinated, you may occasionally receive the odd ‘rogue’ a colour outside your selection. I always love a surprise! A chance to try a new type! That’s often how varieties make it into my shop, Ranunculus Chamallow, our top selling colour was first introduced to me in a packet of ‘White’ Ranunculus.
