Spring Anemones (A. blanda)
John Grimshaw (Fri, 17 Apr 2009 04:13:38 PDT)
Ellen Hornig wrote, on 8 April:
Both the beautiful rich blue A.
blanda, and 'White Splendor', have been established here for - oh - 15-20
years? the blue ones self-sow everywhere, like crazy, ad nauseam, etc,
and
they've picked up some genes from 'White Splendor', so we now have some
large pale blues as well
Does 'White Splendour' ever set seed? I have never seen a seedling of it in
over 25 years. Nor, though it's grown here adjacent to long-naturalised
(i.e. at least 90 yrs) normal blue A. blanda, have I seen an evident 'son'
such as Ellen describes.
The usual Dutch trade stock of blue blanda varies somewhat in the shade of
blue but I like this as when planted out it looks like a variable, natural
population rather than a selected clone as so many commercially bulbs are.
Here it is planted in light grass with a good bright pink lot of Cyclamen
coum and the combination is quite striking.
John Grimshaw
Dr. John M. Grimshaw
Sycamore Cottage
Colesbourne
Cheltenham
Gloucestershire
GL53 9NP