Anemone blanda (common name Anemone)

Just plant them out. Mine have self sown/spread over the years so they must be pretty easy

No need to soak,better planted in groups, will self seed very quickly and have a habit of appearing where you did not plant them!!!

Thanks - I'll plant them today. :-)

Well I hope you have more success than I have ever had. I have planted them off and on, in every possible method over the last 30 years or so and never managed to get one corm to grow. I have them in the garden growing from bought plants, but never from dried corms.

That's how I've always grown them before, too, Owdboggy, but the corms came in a pack of mixed miniature bulbs. I might as well have a go, nothing ventured as they say! I am going to plant them in my new border...see blog...:-)

I must be lucky ,I have grown them only from corms, maybe mice like them!!!

My anemone blanda are growing in an area shaded by a flowering cherry. You might want to give them some shade

OK. Thanks. I will plant them elsewhere to give them the best chance!

We have two Anemone blanda that have come into flower so far - and more on the way - your picture captures them perfectly.

What Fab colour : )

How beautiful!

What a wonderful colour. Blue flowers just seem to stand out in a garden

Many of the simplest flowers provide amazing colour and performance, in my opinion. Although, your poor anemones must be exhausted in this very changeable weather, lol!

Wow this Blue is Lovely :)

Agreed - such a lot of flower for such a wee plant! And pictures never seem to capture the correct shade of purple/blue. They seem to be selfseeding in my garden - which they may as much as they like!

Lovely clump of anemones you have there, wish they grew that well for me.!

I must look out for these, I've got the other sort anemone de caen.

The colour looks pretty&bright with the dark background:)

Lovely :)

They are such cheery flowers. We find them naturalising all over the place - usually after sweeping the paths to collect up the forest bark that has come off the borders - the anenome seeds are presumably collected up, too, and thrown back on the borders.

A great photo of a very cute little flower.Well done.Hel.xxx.

I'm trying to establish some in my garden this year.I hope they will look as good as yours.

I have some of these growing for the first time this year. This evening I noticed just how many were flowering at the same time. I believe you when you say how amazing they look.

I think this looks lovely Buzzbee

They really are amazing Treesandthings, and the photo doesn't do them justice. As you can see, they are growing in grass that is pretty patchy - it's overhung by what i think is a Sea Buckthorn tree in our neighbour's garden - a lovely twisted trunk, with glorious berries and beloved by the birds - not much else grows here, but the anemones seem to thrive here. They open in the sun and shut in the shade - which means I miss them during the week when I'm at work, but catching up with them on a sunny weekend day is just great.

No apologies needed. They look great to me. And... the garden wall looks great. Interesting stone work.

Thanks for posting.! If you hadn't I would not have known they came in white. I've only seen the purple and pink variety. The white is definielty my favorite, it really stands out.!

Excellent.I'm going to plant some this year

Stunning Photo Andrea I planted these in my garden last Autumn part of my garden trying to make it a woodland area.

WOW such a beauty and a charmer Sassy must look out for this one for my garden yes a little treasure indeed.

Beautiful colour, has something had a nibble?

One of my favourite flowers. We have blue ones in drifts in a shady area of the garden. They go so well with the Ilex Golden King (a holly which is female and has berries!)