Growing Japanese anemones
Categories: Plants to grow
The delicate-looking Japanese anemones are fall flowers that you’ll find easy to grow. They can be quite vigorous once established.
Garden Making Editor-in-Chief Beckie Fox tells you about anemones in the beautiful setting of the Niagara Parks Botanical Gardens.
Garden Making Editor Beckie Fox at Niagara Parks with anemones (Photo by Mark Disero)
Also, we take you behind the scenes to a major grower and plant wholesaler, Valleybrook Gardens in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont., where Sales Consultant Tony Post describes a few of his favourite Japanese anemone cultivars and how to keep them happy.
We published six pages on Japanese anemones in issue #7, Fall 2011. You can order a back copy from our office.
Valleybrook’s plants are marketed under the Heritage Perennials brand and they have more information online at perennials.com as well as a retailer locator.
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I think invasive would be more apt than vigorous! I love them and would be sad not to have these lovely flowers in the fall, but they spread quickly and I have a hard time eliminationg them from areas where they threaten some more delicate plants. I wish I had been forewarned and I would have planted them in a bottomless pot or bucket as I do to control some other thugs.
I found the information clear and simple and very useful. Like your work.
I love the video on Japanese anemones. I live in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and Robustissima is the one that never fails for me in our Zone 2b climate. I garden in what is lovingly referred to as “Manitoba gumbo”, almost pure clay, and this anemone never disappoints.
I look forward to receiving the fall edition!
Thanks, Sandy, and to others who have commented on our videos. We hope to post more gardening videos in the future.–Beckie
This was a very pleasant video on the Japanese Anemones. They are one of our favourites for late season charm. Our only reservation is their tendency to “wander”.