Anemone nemorosa is one of my favorite species in a favorite genus! (Yes this one too ;) ) The common wild wood anemone grows almost everywhere in Norway. However, although the white form dominates, more or less pink forms exists too. Also forms with flowers in shades of blue can be found but not in Norway.
Another handsome wood dweller here is the yellow cousin Anemone ranunculoides which is less common. You can be lucky and find the progeny of the two, A. x lipsiensis where both parents grow also.
Here are some of the forms I grow in my garden (they are not collected in the wild though ;) ), pictures taken in rain! Many have cultivar names but the names have disappeared . . . .
Anemone nemorosa:
Anemone ranunculoides:
Anemone x lipsiensis:
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Re: Wood anemone and its relatives
Nice ones Hoy!
Here are some pictures i took
Anemone ranunculoides 'Pleniflora'
Anemone trifoliata
Maybe i catch a picture of my white filled in a few days. And an other one is green filled (i don't know if i should like or hate)
Re: Wood anemone and its relatives
Very nice Ernie! Especially the trifoliata! I have been looking for the real thing with entire (but serrated) leaves like yours for some time.
Does anybody grow Anemone oregana or A. quinquefolia?
Re: Wood anemone and its relatives
I have tried to find the names of the windflowers.
Left to right: Anemone nemorosa 'Royal Blue', 'Vestal'?, Robinsoniana seedling - I have had Robinsoniana for years and it has crossed with the common one resulting in several seedlings of different size and colour.
Some unknown doubles
Anemone ranunculoides has several double forms. The common one is 'Pleniflora' which often gets three flowers per stem. Anemone x lipsiensis has started to make a clump!
Re: Wood anemone and its relatives
All lovely! (at least the singles ;D )
Re: Wood anemone and its relatives
Very nice Ernie! Especially the trifoliata! I have been looking for the real thing with entire (but serrated) leaves like yours for some time.
Does anybody grow Anemone oregana or A. quinquefolia?
I don't know Anemone oregana or A.quinquefolia, but i can ask some plantman if they have it. But : How can i send it to you if available???
I tell you in a few weeks (if i don't forget) if somebody can send it to me!!!
Re: Wood anemone and its relatives
Does anybody grow Anemone oregana or A. quinquefolia?
Trond....There is a large patch of quinquifolia near here and I plan on collecting some seed from it. Send a PM so I will remember to send some to you....Ernie that goes for you too if you want some seed.
Re: Wood anemone and its relatives
Very nice Ernie! Especially the trifoliata! I have been looking for the real thing with entire (but serrated) leaves like yours for some time.
Does anybody grow Anemone oregana or A. quinquefolia?
I don't know Anemone oregana or A.quinquefolia, but i can ask some plantman if they have it. But : How can i send it to you if available???
I tell you in a few weeks (if i don't forget) if somebody can send it to me!!!
I showed a couple photos of our native Anemone quinquefolia in the following link, I have one small start of this plant growing, selected for a dark leaf type.
http://nargs.org/smf/index.php?topic=108.msg1855#msg1855
Re: Wood anemone and its relatives
A quinquefolia is very interesting! I think it is cited in just a couple of odd disjunct spots in Alberta- not near here..
definitely one that would be nice to try...
Re: Wood anemone and its relatives
Very nice Ernie! Especially the trifoliata! I have been looking for the real thing with entire (but serrated) leaves like yours for some time.
Does anybody grow Anemone oregana or A. quinquefolia?
I don't know Anemone oregana or A.quinquefolia, but i can ask some plantman if they have it. But : How can i send it to you if available???
I tell you in a few weeks (if i don't forget) if somebody can send it to me!!!
Ernie, it is possible to send as "bulbs" when they have gone dormant. Shouldn't be too difficult from Germany. I'll PM you.
This thread hasn't had
This thread hasn't had anything on it for a long time so I thought I would post these few pictures of Anemone nemorosa from The Blean, a large area of ancient woodland near to Canterbury in Kent, not far from where we live. Ancient doesn't mean entirely natural but with a long history of use and management - over at least 400 years - in the case of The Blean for well over a thousand. The result is wonderful stands of the anemone which are regarded as good indicators of really old, relatively undisturbed woodland. Hardly any variation in colour and mostly mixed with bluebells which are a real feature of Kentish woodland and coppice.
Not to belittle the
Not to belittle the herbaceous flora (they are quite nice!), but what are the two closest large trees in the first photo?
They seem to have a very distinct branch structure.
Maybe the branches of the
Maybe the branches of the trees have been cut when young. (We call it "styving" in N., not quite the same as coppicing as you don't cut to the ground)
Could the trees be linden or elm?
Anyway the wood looks quite nice! Would love to take a walk there
The spring down there seems a little bit more advanced than here although the wood anemones do flower here too!
Most of the bigger and older
Most of the bigger and older trees are oaks but there are not the really old specimens you see in some woodlands. Quite often when coppice is cut a few larger trees (particularly oak) are left amongst them. There is quite a mix of trees in different parts of the woodland, but the soil is mostly quite heavy acid clay so there are few like beech or yew or pine which grow on lighter soils.
The spring is definitely here
The spring is definitely here and almost the summer too. With temps above 20C for several days the birches and other trees have already leafed out a couple of weeks before normal. The wind flowers are doing good although the slugs and snails take their toll. Here are some flowering now:
Seems I have to wait with the pictures. The insert button doesn't work!
Here is one of the blue ones (Anemone nemorosa seedlings) while waiting. . . . . .
BTW does anybody have corms or seeds of the North American species Anemone lancifolia, A. deltoidea, A. oregana or A. quinquefolia for swapping?
I have planted some blue
I have planted some blue clones of Anemone nemorosa that I have bought but now they have crossed with each other and the common white one and I have gotten several plants in different shades of blue.
I have also several clones of Anemone ranunculoides. Here is a semi plena form. And a couple of Anemone trifolia fighting for space with its yellow relative.
The cross between Anemone nemorosa and ranunculoides, A X lipsiensis, has started to spread a bit. I like the pale yellow hue.
I wonder which colour the possible cross between a blue nemorosa and a yellow ranunculoides would have?
These are all great, you already know I like nemorosa :) ranunculoides is pretty too- leaves look nice, though yellow is a more common flower colour here, but the pale yellow hybrid is very nice!
A friend in Poland sent me some bits of roots of woodland plants last fall, ranunculoides was one, and also another Anemone, I can't remember for sure, maybe it was nemorosa.. no signs of any emergence yet, but those beds are just out of the snow...