About
This perennial forms compact clumps and features finely textured, mid-green leaves. It produces solitary, pale pink flowers resembling anemones, which emerge in early March and may continue blooming into early summer.
About the genus
Anemonella consists of compact, tuberous perennials that form clumps. They feature finely divided, fern-like foliage and produce small clusters of cup-shaped blooms during the spring and early summer months.
Growing conditions
- Sunlight
- Partial shade
- Soil type
- Loam
- Soil pH
- Acid, Neutral
- Soil moisture
- Moist but well-drained
- Aspect
- North-facing, East-facing
- Exposure
- Sheltered
- UK hardiness
- H6
Plant details
- Plant type
- Herbaceous Perennial
- Habit
- Bushy
- Foliage
- Deciduous
- Height
- 0.1-0.5 metres
- Spread
- 0.1-0.5 metres
- Time to full height
- 2-5 years
- Suggested uses
- Cottage and informal garden, Rock garden
Care notes
- Cultivation
- Grow in moist, moderately fertile, humus-rich soil in part shade. Tubers may rot in very wet soils
- Pruning
- No pruning required
- Propagation
- Propagate by seed sown in containers in a cold frame as soon as ripe. Divide young plants in early spring
- Pest resistance
- May be susceptible to slugs
- Disease resistance
- Generally disease-free