Bloom of the Week - Japanese Anemones

Japanese Anemones seem to like my garden and they are most welcome.  I think mine is Anemone hupehensis var. japonica.

The blooms look rather delicate and bashful sitting in my vase, reminiscent of a dog rose...

... but the plants are really rather brutish in the garden where they grow taller than me.

They have a long flowering season, blooming from now until September and I enjoy the bold foliage and sculptural buds almost as much as the flowers.  As I said, almost:

Bees are never far away.

There is a National Collection of Japanese Anemones in Otford, Kent and in Southampton, Hampshire.

Comments

[Jackie]

They seem very early. But I suppose I am a lot further north than you.