The group commonly known as Japanese Anemones (although probably originally from China) includes A. hupehensis, A. vitifolium, A. tomentosa, and various crosses between them.  Most plants grown today are usually classed as A. x hybrida types. These late, but long blooming gems come in  both single and double forms. The blooms are actually showy petal-like sepals called tepals surrounding prominent yellow stamens and pistils. The stems are wiry strong and upright, great for cuts. They will tolerate most soil types except soggy. In very fertile, loose soils they can be spreaders, even borderline invasive, but how could anyone class such a treasure as invasive? Even among experts there is a great deal of confusion and disagreement about exact descriptions of individual cultivars.

Anemone 'Honorine Jobert' is the classic single white Japanese Anemone. A must  for fall color, especially in the informal, shaded border.

“When one thinks of a shady border almost the first flowers that come to mind are the tall anemones, called collectively Japanese Anemones...The most beautiful of all, I think, is the pure white single form.”   Margery Fish

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Anemone ‘Praecox’ is a single flowered, A. hupehensis type. Some tepals are light pink, others are darker. Usually starts blooming a few weeks earlier than the hybrids. I especially like this cultivar - there’s something happy looking about the bi-colored flowers.

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Anemone ‘Prinz Heinrich’ is a semi-double form with flowers that are usually described as deep rose. I think it has a little more red and less purple in it than many of the dark flowered cultivars.

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Anemone ‘Bodnant Burgundy’ is similar in color to Anemone 'Prinz Heinrich'  but with supposedly fewer tepals. To be honest I have a difficult time telling them apart. If you have one you probably don’t need the other. 

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Anemone ‘Pamina’ is another dark semi-double, a rosy purple-pink, considered by many to be the darkest of the Japanese Anemones.

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Part Shade-Sun / 24-30" / Zone5-8 / Summer-Fall Bloom / Quart Pots / $9.95 ea.

We added Anemone ‘Max Vogel’ and Anemone ‘Serenade’ to the list the past year mainly because Chicago Botanic rated them at the top of their extensive Anemone trials.

Anemone ‘Max Vogel’ has semi-double pearl pink flowers.

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Anemone ‘Serenade’ has semi-double medium pink flowers.

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Anemone ‘Whirlwind’ is also white and large flowered,  but with a semi-double form. Sometimes the outer tepals are light green. The inner tepals can be shorter and irregular as if ruffled by a whirlwind.

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Part Shade-Sun / 30-36" / Zone5-8 / Summer-Fall Bloom / Quart Pots / $9.95 ea.