How to Grow Anemones
 Contents | The List of the Flowers |
Data / Charm of Anemones / Choosing Bulbs /
Planting Bulbs / Location / Watering /
Fertilizer /
Pests / After the Flower / Utility / Medical Effect / Example Breedings
Data
Botanical name: Anemone coronaria
Family: Ranunculaceae
Origin: Mediterranean
Another common names: Windflower, pasqueflower, thimbleweed
Type: Tuber
Planting season: Autumn
Blooming season: Spring
Hardiness: 0F/-18C
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Charm of Anemones
Anemones have clear beautiful colors such as red, pink and purple. Especially, it is said that just taking a close look of red anemones may improve your blood flow.
It also is interesting that one anemone bulb has lots of flowers.
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Choosing Bulbs
In nurseries, the bulbs of anemone, which has been dried, are sold, and they absorb moist in the air easily.
Observe their surface, and avoid choosing the bulbs with mold.
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Planting Bulbs
Anemone bulbs have really unique shape. Such as in the picture below, the flat side is upper and the pointed side is lower. Of course, they do not germinate if you plant it upside-down. Some of them have so complecated shape that it is difficult to tell which side is upper. In this case, you can plant them vertically.
The best planting season is autumn. However, some species are not hardy for the cold climate. If you grow such spieces in the area, where the temperature reaches below 0F/-18C, plant them in spring.
If you plant hard-dried bulbs in soil and let them absorb water abruptly, they get cracks on the sarfice, which may cause infection or getting mold. Therefore,
The method is as follows; plant them in vermiculite at first, and let them absorb the moist in the air for 2 days without giving them water, and then gradually water them with water spray until germination, and then plant them in soil. To be honest, the owner of this site tried this method, but the bulbs still got mold. However, they still germinate unless the mold is too severe. So, you do not have to be so nervous.
Planting depth is 1/2 to 1 inch.
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Location
Anemones like full sun or partial shade.
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Watering
Wait until the surfice of the soil gets dry, and water throughly. Tace care not to let it too dry. After the flowers have daded and the foliage has turned yellow, stop watering.
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Fertilizer
Mix fertilizer in the soil before planting, and give liquid fertilizer while the plants are growing. If you want to re-use the bulbs, give another fertilizer when the flowers start to fade.
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Pest Control
Anemone is aphids' favourite.
Especially, they like behind the flowers.
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After the Flower
If you pick faded flowers right away, they have another flowers continuously.
You can leave the bulbs in a container in dry-summer regions. However, it is recommended to dig the bulbs out after the aerial area dies back in the area with rainy summer or cold winter (below -18C/0F).
Then, dry the bulbs in the sun for 3 days, and keep them in a cardboard box or wooden box and cover them with vermiculite or sawdust. Do not let them touch each other.
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Utility
Anemones are good to make dry flowers.
Materials: Anemone, silicagel
1. Heat silicagel in a microwevable vessel (big enough to put flowers in it) in full power for 1 or 2 minutes.
2. Pick the flowers with 1/4 to 1/3 inches of the stem. It is recommended to attach the wire to the flower and wrap it with floral tape at this point (because it is difficult to treat the flower after drying).
3. Put the flowers in 1 and cover the flowers with silicagel.
4. Keep it for a few days, until the flower gets dry enough.
Some flowers can be dried in a microwave oven directly with silicagel, but this method is good for anemones to keep them beautiful.
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Medical Effect
Caution: It is not recommended to make medicines because it is risky to intake plants without professional knowledge.
See the details at Risk of the Plants and Aromatic Effect.
Medical Parts: Aerial parts
Indication: As Russian folk medicine, it is used for stomach pains,
delayed menstruation, gout, whooping cough, and asthma. In
homeopathy (it is a treatment method to give the drug, with which healthy people may feel the similar symptoms, to the patients), it is used for gynecological disorders.
Because the juice of fresh anemone may cause irritation, it is recommended to wear gloves if you have sensitive skin. The poisoness substances are decomposed and less irritative, if the anemone is cut into small pieces or dried.
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Example Breedings
Mr. Fokker, Sylphide, The Govener
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