Many growers like to grow both cultivated and wild-growing anemones (Anemone), or anemone, which belong to the buttercup family. Anemones are represented by hundreds of species and many varieties.

Crown Anemone

Depending on the variety, it reaches a height of 15-30 cm and breeds with tubers or seeds. The castellated anemone has beautiful large flowers of white, pink, scarlet, dark red, crimson, blue, blue, purple and pinnately-dissected leaves. It is suitable for cutting, arranging.

Anemone Multiple

It has numerous bright green pinnately-dissected leaves. Multi-cut anemone retains its decorative effect from spring to late autumn. Plant height is 15-50 cm. White, pink, yellow flowers with a diameter of 4 cm bloom throughout the summer. Anemone from seeds is sown for winter or spring. Crops sprinkle a little soil. Shoots should appear in a couple of weeks. Planting anemones of multi-cut (seedlings) begins in May and early June, after the spring frosts end. The plant is often used for registration of beds, mixborders. For long-term and abundant flowering of anemone that is multi-dissected, regular weeding, loosening, timely watering and fertilizing with mineral fertilizers are necessary.

When to plant anemones?

In spring, the tubers are planted in partial shade or in the sun, but this place should be well protected from the wind. It is desirable to choose the soil fertile and well drained. Plant tubers should be at a depth of 5 cm, at a distance of 10 cm from each other. Planting tubers in several stages will prolong flowering plants from July to September.

In October, anemone digging, cut off the aerial part, spread on the newspaper and dried. Dried pineal rhizomes in a cool place (10-15 degrees) for a month. In winter, it is best to store anemone tubers in isolation from each other in boxes with wet peat, sand, sawdust or moss, so that they do not dry out during storage. Boxes should be cleaned in a cool place.

In regions with a mild climate, tubers can be planted in winter and autumn (having mulched them from frost), then anemones will bloom from late spring.

Anemone: growing

After the anemone is planted, fertilize the soil with humus from the leaves of the trees or use peat that is loose in consistency. For abundant and beautiful flowering, make a complex fertilizer before blooming buds. Once the anemones are well established in the ground rhizomes, watering should be reduced. Grown anemones do not need watering. Therefore, it is convenient to grow in the garden in remote places for watering. Only the castellated anemone in the flowering period needs a moist soil. In autumn, the seedlings must be warmed, covered with humus for the winter. Now you know how to grow anemones - unpretentious plants that gardeners often plant in their plots.

The only exceptions are tender anemone, apennine and Caucasian. They need extra care. The castellated anemone is the most capricious of all the varieties. Such anemone poorly tolerate frost, so they are better to dig in advance, or insulate with fallen leaves of apple, maple, linden or oak. Tubers anemone crown, dried at a temperature of 20-24 ° C, should be stored in boxes in a warm and dry room until autumn. Then they are transferred to a cool place where the air temperature is not more than 5 ° C. In the spring, whole tubers, pre-moistened with warm water, are again planted in open ground. It is preferable to plant the anemone crown in a fertile, moist and light soil.

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Anemone, planting and care - create a beautiful garden

We decided to grow tender and beautiful flowers in the garden, then an anemone will suit you, planting and caring for which of course will take time and sufficient attention, as the plant is quite capricious. The fact is that anemones can be grown by dividing rhizomes or from a tuber, also by sowing seeds, and depending on the variety being planted, further care is made, which can be both easy and careful ...

How is planting anemone seeds - instruction

Depending on the species and the variety being planted, the requirements of anemones for sunlight, moisture and soil composition may vary significantly. But there are universal criteria that are suitable for all types of anemones, so planting and further care will not be difficult:

• plant an anemone in partial shade;
• arrange good drainage before disembarking;
• take care of fertile and loose soil.

These conditions are particularly well reproduced when the available variety of planting anemone is not known. To obtain a good loose soil, river sand should be introduced, which promotes air circulation and dilutes heavy soil. In addition, the presence of sand improves water resistance, as well as drainage. Acid lands are diluted with dolomite flour, lime-fluff, wood ash is also added.

Planting anemone seeds is one way to reproduce these beautiful flowers. It was decided to sow for the first time, note that the germination rate of the anemone is rather tight, of the total number, under normal conditions only one fourth will grow, but with stratification within 45-60 days, the germination rate increases.

  seedling anemone grown from seeds - in the photo

Depending on whether you plant purchased seeds or your own collection, an anemone is also sown. Usually, the planting material from the store is already stratified; therefore, no additional manipulations in the form of staying in the cold are required. Own seeds must be stratified.

Take the seeds, spread out in a fertile, loose soil mixture, sand or peat crumb and spray well with a spray bottle. Next, maintain sufficient moisture until the anemone seeds swell. As soon as the seeds are swollen and start to hatch, sprinkle some loose fertile soil mixture on top and do not forget to moisten.

Cover with glass or film, leave in a warm place. When the first shoots appear, the protective film is removed and the crops are placed in the lightest and warmest place. It is desirable to maintain the temperature during the entire period after the start of planting within +20 ... + 25 ̊С. Sprouts after sowing will begin to appear no earlier than a month.

Caring for anemone seedlings before picking is the timely watering, good illumination and maintaining the required temperature in the room. With the appearance of 2-3 true leaves, the anemone is picked in separate pots (cups). After the plant is grown in a greenhouse or greenhouse and planted in a second year in a permanent place.

Tip: Use for sowing, pre-soaking the seeds for 12 hours in the solution, then lay in a fertile substrate and follow the germination technology.

Planting anemone tubers and rhizomes

To plant anemones with tubers, planting material must be properly prepared. Soak the nodules in warm water for one or two days to swell. In the water, you can add any corrective drug - Epin, Heteroauxin, and others (diluted according to the instructions). The swollen tubers are planted in a fertile soil mixture or a mixture of peat crumb and sand, observing a embedment depth of 5 cm.

  anemone tubers - in the photo

To properly plant tubers anemone. Determine the growth point. The peculiarity of planting material is that the top of the corms of these flowers is flat, so the landing is done with the elongated part down. If you can not decide, place in the ground side. In addition, it is possible to pour humus and wood ashes into the hole.

  soaking tubers anemone - on photo
  planting tubers anemone - on photo

Planting anemone tubers produced in April or May, or September or October. The distance between the plants is sufficiently spacious, not less than 10-15 cm, because over time, the roots grow strongly and can take up to 1 m2 of area. Watering an anemone after planting requires moderate, it is not necessary to flood the plants, because excessive moisture can adversely affect the appearance of green sprouts.

Vegetative reproduction of anemone is done by root suckers, segments, or division of the bush and tubers. Planting root anemone offspring is carried out in early spring or at the end of August. Root offspring (roots) must be cut into pieces (prepare cuttings), 5-6 cm long. The roots can also be treated with any preparation that improves the root formation process.

The cuttings are planted in the prepared loose substrate in such a way that the tip of the cutting is at the level of the substrate surface. The soil is slightly compacted, sprinkled with sand on top, moistened, covered with foil and sent to a greenhouse or greenhouse. Watering should be rare so that the cuttings of the anemone do not rot. When the green stalks and the first leaves appear, the film cover is removed. Planting an anemone for a permanent place is recommended for the next year.

Anemone care

Care for anemones after planting is necessary, because you want to keep the optimum level of humidity so that the plants start and grow. Excessive water in the soil has a detrimental effect on the roots of flowers, just like a lack.

To keep the water balance within the required limits and facilitate the care of anemones, plant on elevated areas of the flower bed, or specially arrange a place in the garden higher, use mulch if the climate is dry and hot.

As a mulching material, you can take peat chips, fallen leaves of trees or special decorative raw materials sold in garden stores. Mulching space, evaporation of moisture will be slow and weeds are difficult to break through the dense layer of the mound.

When caring, you need to fertilize anemones (anemone), it is best during the budding and flowering period, using complex mineral supplements or, except for manure. Good ash solution, peat, humus.

Anemone is rarely prone to disease and pest damage, but slugs and snails, leaf nematode and winter worm can still look at the flowerbed with delicate beauty. Use drugs and protective equipment that you usually use in the garden to destroy uninvited guests.

When caring for anemones, as a preventive measure, it is recommended to treat the flowerbed with insecticidal agents against aphids and rot once a year. Anemones should be kept clean without weeds, and you should carefully use garden tools such as Fokin's flat cutter, chopper, and rakes for weeding and loosening. close root system to the ground surface may be damaged.

Young autumn anemone is better to cover for the winter, as well as hybrid forms. For these purposes, they take compost, peat and put it on top of an anemone with a layer of 15-17 cm. Pay attention that the leaves and basal stems are necessarily cut before filling. Also, the tubers and rhizomes can be dug out for the winter when the above-ground part will die. Storing anemone in winter suggests the presence of a temperature of +15 ... + 19 ̊С in the room before the onset of the winter period, then before spring the degree should be reduced to + 2 + ... + 5̊С.

It is important that transplantation of an anemone is not always desirable, because Some species can sprout for a long time, especially hybrid varieties, so many gardeners and gardeners prefer to cover flowers in a flowerbed rather than wait for plants to recover after wintering at home.

Common anemone species

Perennial herbaceous plants of the Buttercup family include more than 160 species, the following types of anemone are considered the most popular and interesting for growers:

• crown;
• tender;
• forest;
• japanese

Anemone (anemone) crown - the most popular species, which is most widely used for cultivation in greenhouses and open ground. Plants are compact, up to 40-45 cm tall. Rhizomes of coronal flowers are fleshy, tuberiform (up to 5 cm in diameter). Stems are straight with a small number of leaves, at the ends of which a single large flower is formed, with a diameter of 8-9 cm.

  crown anemone - on photo

Flowers can be simple, terry, white, pink, blue, purple, lilac. If the crown-shaped anemones (tubers) are planted in April-May, flowering will begin in August or September and will continue for several weeks.

Anemone tender  - low frost-resistant plants (up to 20-25 cm) with neat green dark leaves. Flowers, depending on the variety may have a blue, white, dark pink, purple-blue, dark red with a white print color. The peculiarity of the daisy flowers is the early appearance simultaneously with the leaves, almost from under the snow already in April.

  anemone tender - in the photo

Flowering lasts 2-3 weeks. At the end of May, the leaf plates begin to wilt, in June they completely disappear. The lack of anemones tender - tight germination of tubers. According to gardeners, a tender anemone is better to plant in the fall. But do not despair, if out of ten pieces one nodule sprouted, after a couple of years a beautiful flower carpet will be made from the plant.

  Forest anemone  - this species is a plant with a height of 25 to 50 cm with flowers 3-5 cm. Flowers can be larger, up to 8-9 cm, terry and white. Flowering begins in late May or early June and lasts up to 25 days. In the penumbra, the flowers do not wilt longer, dry out faster in the sun.

  forest anemone - on photo

  - a type of tall herbaceous plants (up to 1.5 m) with slender stems, dissected leaf plate. Additional support when growing in the garden is not required. The flowers of Japanese anemones are large, which appear at the end of August, September and continue to delight with a beautiful flowering a long period of time. Color in white or pink with a heart of golden color. In this group, Hubei and hybrid anemone is the most prominent.

  Japanese anemone (autumn) - on photo

The castellated anemone is a member of the buttercup family. Under natural conditions, it grows in Asia Minor and the Mediterranean. As a cultivated plant, anemone has been known for a long time, more than 400 years. It is especially widely used in landscaping in Germany, Italy, Holland and England.

What kind of plant anemone crown

Anemone is a herbaceous perennial plant that grows well with moderate moisture. Considered geophitic ephemeroid. This means that in a short period of time the plant goes through all stages of development from the appearance of shoots to seed ripening.

Anemone starts release the leaves quite earlybecause the generative buds (with flowers) and nutrients in nodules are laid in the late spring of the previous year. In industrial cultivation, this culture also maintains early spring development and a long rest period, which occurs after the withering away of the ground part of the plant.

The vitality of the culture is maintained by tubersthat carry buds with leaves and flowers. Every year the size and weight of the tubers gradually increases, uneven bulges appear on them.

Complex in structure leaves  located on petioles and collected at the base of the plant in the outlet. Flowers  located one by one on the shoots from 20 to 40 cm long, which are covered with slight pubescence. Quite large inflorescences with a width of 5 to 10 cm have a pleasant, subtle fragrance. They are painted in various shades. Small seeds, covered with a short down, ripen in the fruit - multi-heel.

According to the terry value of the variety, anemones are divided into   two groups:

1. plants with flowers that have one row of petals belong to the De Caen group,
2. cultivars with terry and semi-double buds are members of the Santa Bridget group.

Suitable growing conditions

Illumination

Although the castellated anemone prefers to grow in well-lit areas, it can withstand partial shade. This plant belongs to short-day crops, since it requires 12 hours of light day and even less for flowering.

Temperature preferences

Also, an anemone is not very demanding on heat. It quite easily tolerates short-term lowering of temperature to 5 degrees below zero, and leaves - to 10 or 12 degrees of frost. In the open ground, this plant can not withstand severe frosts for a long time, especially if the ground is not covered with snow. Therefore, in regions with strong negative temperatures, beds with anemones should be sprinkled with mulching material or planted in spring.

Often this perennial plant is grown as annual culture.

Moisture requirements

When cultivating this plant, it is worth remembering that it does not withstand waterlogging of the soil, especially at low temperatures. Regular watering is required only during flowering in the dry season.

Planting crown anemones

Planting anemones produced seeds  or tubers.

Landing place in the garden

For disembarking, crown anemones pick up well-lit areas that are protected from powerful air currents. Groundwater should be located at a depth of not less than 60-80 cm.

Ground requirement

During the entire time of cultivation the soil moisture should be maintained at an average level. Both drying and waterlogging lead to inhibition of plant development and even death. Best of all crown anemone succeeds on nutrient, moisture-absorbing, drained soils of average density with a pH of 6.0-7.0.

In the regions with a humid climate  it is best to plant this plant on ridges about 20 degrees high and about 120 cm wide.

Growing anemones from seeds

To get good seeds, powerful and well-shaped flowers are selected during flowering. In order to avoid unnecessary pollination, all remaining flowers on the plants are cut off.

Ripened seeds are collected and dispersed in a small layer about two centimeters high and dried in a well-ventilated room for seven or ten days. Store them in bags of paper or linen material.

It is necessary to take into account that seeds have low germination. Even in fresh seeds, it does not exceed 25%.

To improve seed germination, stratification is carried out, which consists in keeping the seed at a temperature of 6 to 9 degrees for 3-4 weeks.

Sowing is carried out from August to February, depending on the region of cultivation. Seeds are sown respectively in the soil or seedlings.

For sowing on seedlings choose low capacity with a loose, breathable soil with a weakly acid reaction. Seeds are evenly distributed over the surface and buried to a depth of 1 to 2 cm. The best temperature for the emergence of seedlings is from 12 to 15 degrees. During this period, should be maintained moderate soil moisture. Be sure to ensure that the soil does not dry out. After the appearance of the first seedlings, the temperature is reduced to 10-13 or slightly lower. The temperature of higher values ​​rather sharply reduces the growing season and does not help the growth of tuber weight.

In the southern regions you can sow the seeds immediately into the ground. Sowing is carried out in late summer - early fall (August-September). As soon as 2 or 3 pairs of true leaves form on young anemones, they are seated in a row planting with a distance of 7 to 10 cm. The distance between the rows is 20 cm. During this period of time, the temperature should be between 10-12 to 16 degrees

All the time of cultivation from sowing seeds to flowering bushes is about six months.

Planting anemone tubers

Soil preparation

Garden beds and flower beds, where the tubers will be planted, must be dug up to the depth of a shovel (30-35 cm) with the simultaneous introduction of humus, then carefully leveled. Such land preparation is carried out three months before sowing or disembarking. Two or three weeks before planting, beds are dug up a second time with fertilizers containing potassium and phosphorus. On one square meter make about 50 grams.

Preparing anemone tubers for planting

When grown for pruning, annual, biennial, and three-year-old tubers, one to three centimeters wide, are slightly rounded in shape. Very small tubers should be grown to the desired size, and larger and older ones are best used for landscaping.

To reduce the time of occurrence of sprouts in tubers, they are treated in a solution of potassium permanganate from 18 to 24 hours before planting. There is another way of processing. First, the tubers are kept in running water for four to eight hours, and then soaked in diluted fungicide (0.4%) for half an hour.

Another method of processing tubers is as follows: first, they are kept in water heated to a temperature of 50 degrees for half an hour, and then placed in a fungicide for 30 minutes. This helps protect plants from various fungal diseases for 60 days.

If the tubers are planted in unheated greenhouses or open ground, they are not soaked to avoid rotting.

To obtain flowers in the early stages of tubers germinated for two or three weeks at 6-9 degrees Celsius. This is done in peat until the formation of sprouts about 5 mm long. Germinated tubers are well preserved for two weeks and even transported, but for this they are gradually cooled for seven days to one degree of frost.

Terms of planting tubers

On the garden in the garden or in the country tubers are planted at different times. It all depends on the growing region and the time when there an acceptable temperature is established. The most suitable temperature for the growth of roots in tubers is 9-12 degrees. At temperatures below 9 degrees, the rate of rooting decreases quite strongly, and the temperature above 12 degrees causes the root system to be underdeveloped.

Landing technology

1. Before planting, the tubers are dismantled in size (0.5-1.0, 1-1.5 and more than 1.5 cm).
2. When planting tubers with a width of 0.5 to 1.0 cm, the distance between them should be ten centimeters, and a width of 1 to 1.5 cm - 20 cm.
3. Rows are 20 cm apart.
4. The planting depth of tubers with a diameter of 0.5 to 1 cm ranges from four to five cm, and larger specimens are planted to a depth of six to eight cm.
5. Moreover, on light soils, tubers are planted deeper than on heavy ones.

Features of growing anemones for cutting

Cultivation of coronlate anemones for cutting flowers is best done in climate-controlled greenhouses, where the temperature is maintained at 10-14 degrees before the budding.

During the development of flowers, the temperature should be regulated depending on the degree of illumination. For example, in low light conditions, the temperature should be about 8-10 degrees, and with more powerful lighting it is raised to 12-14 degrees.

It is known that at high temperature and low illumination small flowers (3-4 cm wide) grow on fairly elongated peduncles. And at low temperatures, large flowers are obtained on small peduncles. Increasing the temperature to 18 degrees during the flowering period is possible only with strong light.

Temperatures greater than 18-20 degrees cause inhibition of the development of leaves and buds, and also reduce the flowering time. When cultivating this plant, the difference between day and night temperatures is 3-4 degrees.

Anemone care

All care for this culture consists of dressing, loosening, and maintain a certain soil moisture.

Watering

If the plant is grown in unheated greenhouses or greenhouses, the soil moisture should be maintained at a fairly moderate level, especially at low temperatures.

After the appearance of the first shoots and until the end of flowering, an increase in irrigation is required, as this helps in the formation of strong and long peduncles. With a lack of moisture in the soil appear thin and short peduncles.

To maintain planting moisture, anemones can be mulched with peat or humus.

Top dressing

During growth, the anemone is fed with liquid mineral and organic fertilizers. For dressings prepare a solution of cow manure. On 1 m2 take 12-13 liters of this solution. From mineral fertilizers, in which nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium should be in a ratio of 1: 0.6: 1.7, a solution is also prepared (1-2%). Per 1 m2 make 12-13 liters.

Before blooming, the plants are fed 2-3 times a month, and with the beginning of flowering, the number of dressings is reduced to 1-2. If the anemone too much grows the mass of green leaves, then fertilizer with nitrogen is excluded from fertilizing.

When cultivating a plant in a garden or in a flower garden in a garden at low temperatures, the number of dressings for the entire season is reduced by 3-4 times. The first dressing is carried out immediately after the shoots appear on the surface, the second dressing occurs at the time when the buds are formed, but the plants are fed the third and fourth times during flowering.

During dressings, be sure to ensure that fertilizers do not fall on the leaves. And if it suddenly happened, they must be washed off with water.

Also for dressing use and mineral fertilizers in a dry form, which is applied in small doses (from 10 to 20 grams per m2). Before applying dry fertilizer must spend a good watering.

Flowering anemone

Anemone castella blooms from one and a half to 3-4 months. The duration of flowering directly depends on the time of disembarkation, the size of the tuber, temperature and air humidity. One bush usually gives from 5 to 20 flowers. If the anemone is grown in an unregulated climate, the largest number of flower stalks is formed in the spring from March to April.

Cut inflorescences carried out in the morning before watering the plants. In hot weather, flowers are cut when the closed buds are completely colored. In the cool period, the flowers are cut half-open, and in winter you have to wait until the anemones open completely. Damage to the inflorescences should be avoided during cutting, as they become a source of fungal infection. Non-commodity flowers are also removed.

Digging and storage of tubers

The duration of the growing season of coronlate anemones directly depends on the temperature and humidity of the soil. At temperatures above 25 degrees and the lack of moisture in the soil of the plants, flowering ends abruptly and their ground portion dries out.

When the leaves dry up by 50-70%, you can begin digging the tubers. They are dug together with the ground part, and then laid out in low boxes in one or two layers and placed for drying in well-ventilated rooms.

After about a week or ten days, the tubers are cleared of leaves and soil. Then they are sorted by size and placed in a cool and dry room for storage at a temperature of 12 to 15 degrees. Storage humidity should be maintained at 60%. In such conditions, the tubers can be stored for 3 to 4 years and at the same time do not lose their ability to germinate.

Breeding

You can multiply the anemone crown:

• with the help of seeds and
• division of adult tubers.

During seed reproduction, varietal characteristics are not always preserved, since this plant has a rather strong gene splitting. To preserve valuable varieties is better to use vegetative propagation.

Seed propagation is described in the section “Growing anemones from seeds” above.

To divide the tubers use plants older than 5 years. The best time to divide is spring. From the tuber with a sharp knife cut off the parts, each of which has 2-3 kidneys of renewal. It is not necessary to clean the ground from the mother tuber before dividing.

About diseases and pests

Among the diseases that often appear on the crown anemone, it is worth noting:

• rust,
• gray rot
• viral infection and
• respeciation

Of the pests on this culture can attack:

• sheet bugs,
• medvedka,
• slugs
• nematode,
• aphid and
• scoops.

In order for the crown anemone to appear as rarely as possible, various diseases and pests should be carried out the following preventive measures:

1. Do not plant the plants too thickly.
2. Regularly carry out weeding and loosening.
3. Properly and regularly water the plants.
4. When cutting or treating the area around the bushes, avoid various damage to the shoots and stalks.
5. Maintain the best humidity regime and temperature in greenhouses.
6. Remove all plant residues in time.
7. Top dressing to carry out fertilizers in which potassium should be more than nitrogen.
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In the spring, flower shops sell crown anemone tubers, considered the queen among spring flowers. Her flowers are very similar to poppies. I have heard a lot that it is impossible to germinate these tubers in any way, and even I once had a sad experience with anemones.

Sprouting tuber anemone

It turns out that anemone tubers need to be soaked before planting, and the tubers themselves cannot be dipped in water: they absorb a lot of water, just like a sponge, and then rot.

Pour warm water in a saucer, add a drop of epine or zircon. You can use biological stimulants, such as aloe juice, as well as any other root stimulants, such as Ribavom Extra. Dab the fabric in this solution, slightly squeeze (no water should flow from the fabric). Wrap anemone tubers in this moistened cloth and place in a plastic bag. In this state, the anemone tubers should be no more than 5-6 hours.

While the anemone tubers are soaked, take a shallow dish, pour a little soil, mix with sand (you can even use one sand). Ground mixture for germinating anemone should be light, permeable. Moisten the ground lightly and lay the soaked anemone tubers right on the surface. After that, cover the tank with anemone tubers with glass or put in a plastic bag and place in a cool place. Tubers anemone need to be checked periodically, the earth should not dry, keep it moist.

After about ten days, roots and growing points appear on the anemone tubers. Now you can see which side to plant the anemone tubers. If a small sprout has sprouted on a tuber, then this tuber can already be planted in a separate pot for germination. If there is no growth point, continue to slightly moisten the soil, and keep the tubers in a cool place. With this method of germination, all anemone tubers usually germinate, if they are not rotted, of course. In pots, germinated anemone tubers are sprouting up two heights of a tuber.

Planting anemone

After the anemone tubers are planted in pots for growing, it is desirable that the room temperature does not exceed +12 ° C, otherwise anemones will be very frail from the high temperature in the room. However, not only anemones, but also other garden flowers, low temperature is only good. If the temperature is higher, the anemone tubers may rot. When anemones take root and give full sprouts, then the temperature rise is not terrible for them.

When the temperature outside is equal to the temperature of the room, anemones can be safely transplanted into the garden. It would be good to add them in the first days so that the spring sun would not burn delicate leaves.

Tubers anemone can be planted in open ground immediately after soaking. When planting in open ground, observe the depth of planting tubers anemone - it should not exceed 5 cm or two heights of the tuber anemone.

Anemone care

Anemones grow well in sunny places, but also in partial shade in the vicinity of the host, the geyher, their flowering is no worse. The only thing the anemone doesn’t put up with is sour soil, fresh manure, reduced areas in which water accumulates. All these risk factors will lead to decay of the roots of anemones.

Anemones grow well in light, loose, nutrient soil with a neutral or alkaline reaction. In order to raise the pH of the soil, lime can be added to the soil during the autumn digging, dolomite flour. If the soil on the site is heavy, loam - add anemone sand, peat, compost or humus to the landing site.

Crown Anemones easily tolerate a lack of moisture in the soil. Watering anemones can and should be only in the period of growth and budding, if the weather is hot and dry, there is no rain at all. When precipitation additional watering anemones is not required.

Anemones are responsive to fertilizing with complex fertilizers, especially during the budding period. Anemones are almost not affected by diseases and pests.

With proper care on the tuber, daughter nodules are formed, when they are dug out, they are separated and used for further reproduction of anemone. Anemones multiply by seeds, but they bloom only after 2-3 years. If you decide to propagate the anemone from the seeds, then collect the seeds only from brightly colored flowers, because anemones grown from seeds have a paler color in the flowers.

Winter preparations, storage of anemone tubers

Crown Anemone - too southern plant for our harsh winters, its tubers can freeze even under shelter.

After the anemone leaves and stalks have dried, carefully dig up the tubers. They can be stored dry in paper bags or cotton bags in a substrate of sawdust, sand and peat until autumn at +20 0 C, from autumn to spring, anemone tubers should be stored at positive temperatures up to +5 +6 0 C. Paper or cloth they will choke the tubers, and a mixture of sawdust, sand and peat will prevent the tubers from drying out.

But if you could not find the place where anemones were planted (after all, there are different situations), do not despair: knowing the approximate landing site of anemone, try to cover it with a dry mixture of sawdust, peat, sand, and cover it with a waterproof film on top, or other improvised means. The main thing is that the fallout and spring flood waters do not fall under the shelter (well, this is rather a fallback option). In the spring on this place you can make a small greenhouse, so that the anemones quickly ascend. If you're lucky, and the anemone tubers will not freeze in the winter, then next year you can see a re-bloom of anemone in the fall.

But if you want, you will be able to distill the anemones at home and get a gorgeous bloom in the winter.

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Anemone is a plant found in both hemispheres of our planet. Grows mainly on flat areas in regions with a temperate climate. The anemone is represented by a fairly large species diversity, with many varieties growing so differently that sometimes growers are simply lost. Further on the intricacies of planting in an open ground, caring for it, diseases, and also about when it is necessary to plant an anemone (photos and instructions are attached).

Anemone: features, types of plants

Anemone is a plant of the buttercup family, which is actively cultivated by domestic gardeners and most of them are known under the beautiful name “Daughter of the Winds”. In appearance, the anemone is very similar to the usual poppy.

The plant is represented by a large species diversity, among which there are both stunted and tall varieties. The latter, unfortunately, are not particularly well acclimatized in our climate, therefore, domestic gardeners grow mainly low-growing species.

Interestingly, among the anemone can be found those species that require extremely difficult and troublesome for an amateur grower (this is often associated with the peculiarities of the plant’s root system), so we consider only those species that are undemanding for care and growing conditions.

Among these are the following varieties:

• Anemone tender. A tiny plant that reaches only 5-10 cm in height.

Anemone tender

• Anemone oakwood. Not particularly common in our latitudes. The plant is characterized by medium size - will grow to 0.3 m in height. The flowers grow of medium diameter (about 3-4 cm), distinguished by soft white color. However, sometimes there are varieties and soft blue, or purple bloom. The varieties belonging to this variety are very unpretentious.

Anemone oakwood

• Anemone lyutichnaya. Unpretentious plant, characterized by medium height - reaches a height of only 25 cm, blooms very lushly beautiful small pale yellow flowers. At the same time the plant is very unpretentious to care and is able to survive in almost any soil.

Lyutichna anemone

• Japanese anemone Unlike the previous species, the Japanese anemone (as well as the variety presented below) are large perennials with a well-developed root system. The plant is distinguished by large and even peduncles, reaching a length of about 0.8 m.

Japanese anemone

• Anemone hybrid. The variety is represented mainly by semi-double, rather large varieties with lush bright blooms.

Anemone hybrid

Planting anemones in open ground

Before planting, as usual, a number of preparatory activities are carried out, including the selection and preparation of a site for planting anemones, as well as the preparation of planting material.

Land for planting anemones should be necessarily shady, perfectly protected from the wind and at the same time very spacious.

Council When choosing a place to plant anemones, be sure to consider the specifics of the growth of this plant: it needs a lot of free space, which is due to the powerful large root system.

The soil on which the anemone will grow, must be light, loose, well drained and nutritious. Ideal for anemones - loose loam or deciduous land with the presence of peat.

If the soil in your area is heavy and, in general, is not particularly suitable for growing anemones, try to improve its structure by adding some fine sand to the soil (this will make it lighter and friable) or dolomite flour (if the acidity of the soil is high).

An unpleasant feature of anemones is the fastidiousness of its seed material: anemone seeds germinate very badly and require careful preparation before planting. It is about all well-known stratification. There are several ways to harden anemone seeds. The simplest of them is as follows: the seeds should be placed in boxes with a light soil mixture and immersed deeper in the ground on the site, without forgetting to cover them, for example, with spruce branches. During the winter period, the seeds naturally freeze, and in the spring you can safely plant them on the site.

Shoots anemones

If you plan to grow an anemone, planting its tubers, they should also be prepared: soak them in warm water for several hours, then transplant them into containers with the prepared substrate (peat and sand) to a depth of about 5 cm.

Seedlings are planted in a permanent place only by the second year of the plant's life, it is desirable to carry out this process in the spring (at the same time there should be at least 2 leaves on each plant). Although it is quite successful to grow anemones during autumn planting, only in this case the plot with the planted plant should be carefully covered with branches or foliage.

Attention! If the plant is cultivated by the seed method, be prepared for the fact that the first bright flowers will appear on the plant no earlier than 3 years after planting.

Subtleties of plant care

Caring for a plant is not at all burdensome: you just need to constantly maintain the required level of moisture in the soil and feed the plant only with proper dressings.

Throughout the growing season, the anemone should be generously and regularly watered. In particularly hot summer, watering should be very abundant. But it should be very careful, because an excess of moisture in the soil can lead to rotting of the root system. In order to avoid such a problem, choose an area located on a hill for planting anemones.

In the spring or moderately warm summer period, it is enough to water the growing anemone only once a week.

During the flowering period, it is desirable to feed the anemone with liquid organic matter (everything fits except for manure), in the fall - to provide the plant with nutritious mineral complexes. If before planting the anemones in the soil were made nutrient components, the plant will not need any top dressing at all.

Anemone likes generous watering

Anemone with proper care is practically not affected by any disease. Sometimes, however, the site with an anemone can visit