Can't beat P. vulgaris

[Hoy]

Not the showy colors maybe, but a very fine plant when you find it! To hit the blooming you have to look when the carpet of snow disappear. This year I was a little too late but caught the last flowers of Pulsatilla vernalis (Mogop!).

[Todd Boland]

If you get seed of this one Trond it would be most appreciated!  I have tried it twice and each time they ended up being P. vulgaris!

[Hoy]

If you get seed of this one Trond it would be most appreciated!  I have tried it twice and each time they ended up being P. vulgaris!

Certainly! But you have to cross your fingers: Two years ago a hare ate all the flowers, last year a herd of sheep managed to get through the fence and ate all the seedheads (and a lot more - among them all the Gentiana purpurea in flower) and this year we have a bunch (or what do you say about this animal?) elk (moose) browsing around the place.

[cohan]

Nice plants!
Trond, I`d like to line up for seeds of vernalis also, if it doesn`t get eaten this year!

Here is one of my 2 beginning plants of P vulgaris, 2010; last year was their first spring after being planted in this bed (previous winter was still in the nursery pots sunk in the ground). I have to say I love to see the foliage poking up in spring--things in general are very slow to start here, and this bed turns out to be in a cool spot...oh well!

   

Ironically, when the flowers opened in mid-May, we were having some very warm dry weather, so the flowers opened wide ( I prefer them half open!)

 

A few days later, on a cooler day, they returned to form