>Anemone blanda is a lovely early flowering bulb that I formerly purchased, flats and bags of bulbs at a time, only to watch them fade away in the next couple of years. Then one year, seeds from a fast >fading clump in a bed above a gravel walkway fell to the gravel and germinated. Now I have a patch of 5 or more Anemone blanda (blue flowered) plants in gravel. Another plant that self-sows all over the place here. Sometimes have to weed them out. (I just had to say that, because compared to the PNW we can hardly grow anything here.) Bob Nold Denver, Colorado, USA