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The crown anemone species is native to the Mediterranean. There it blooms early and is considered the queen of the spring garden. We can achieve flowering anemones at the beginning of the season, you can germinate the tubers at home and only with the onset of stable warmth plant the flower in the flowerbed. If crown anemone was cultivated in the ground from the very beginning, the first buds will appear no earlier than mid-summer.
Anemone de Caen has probably the most beautiful flowers. It is difficult to grow; for the winter, the tubers need to be dug up and stored at a positive temperature, but the striking beauty of the buds leaves no one indifferent.
Description of anemone variety de Caen
Crown anemones are herbaceous plants for open ground with beautiful flowers. They have tuberous rhizomes and are the most difficult to care for. This is due to the fact that flowers do not overwinter in open ground and require special placement and constant care.
Among the varieties of crown anemone, the variety series de Caen stands out. Anemone, 20-25 cm high, is decorated with simple, poppy-like flowers with a diameter of 5-8 cm of various colors.Anemone de Caen buds can form throughout the warm season, how long depends only on your climatic conditions and the care you take.
Sortoseria de Caen
Crown anemone variety de Caen most often comes on sale in the form of a mix, that is, a mixture of varieties. You need to buy anemone planting material only in large garden centers, and it should be packaged, with the manufacturer’s label, which must have a sell-by date. It is not easy to achieve germination of Anemone de Caen tubers, they are expensive, and it is not worth buying tubers from your own hands. Very rarely, not a mixture, but a specific variety goes on sale.
Crowned anemones are used by florists to make bouquets; they can be grown in greenhouses for cutting and winter forcing. Anemones planted in September or October will bloom in March-April. If the tubers are placed for germination in the first half of spring, the buds will appear by the end of summer.
We bring to your attention a brief description of several popular varieties of anemone de Caen with photos. They will demonstrate the striking beauty of the flowers.
Bicolor
A beautiful single white flower with a red ring in the middle, large, 6-8 cm in diameter. A crown anemone bush about 20 cm high with dissected sessile leaves is used for planting in flower beds. The Bicolor de Caen variety has proven itself to be the most resistant to low temperatures and in the south can be grown without digging, under good cover.
Sylphide
A short variety of crown anemones with bushes about 20 cm in size, which with regular feeding can grow up to 30. Each can grow more than ten flower stalks. The color of the buds is lilac, the shade depends on the lighting, the composition of the soil and fertilizing. Single flowers of the anemone Sylphide de Caen with a diameter of 5-8 cm are decorated with purple stamens.
The variety performed well when grown in flowerbeds and forced.
Bride
The height of the anemone is 15-30 cm. Single buds with a shape like a poppy with a diameter of 5-7 cm are painted white with a pearlescent hue, with salad or yellow stamens. Anemones look unusually impressive and serve as decoration for flower beds, containers and garden beds. Florists love this flower and are happy to use it when arranging bouquets.
Crowned anemone Bride de Caen should be planted in partial shade, since in the sun the delicate white petals lose their decorative effect and quickly fade.
Holland
Bright red anemone with black stamens and a narrow snow-white stripe in the center. From a distance or when the bud is not fully opened, this anemone can be confused with a poppy. A bush 15-30 cm high with dissected leaves is resistant to diseases. Anemone Holland de Caen looks great in a flowerbed, planted in a large mass or when creating bouquets.
Mr. Fokker
The color of this anemone is very unusual; it is purple. The color can be saturated or slightly blurred, depending on the lighting and the ground. Bush 30 cm high with sessile dissected leaves. The anemone Mr. Fokker de Caen is grown in flower beds as a focal plant, in containers and for cutting.
If anemone is planted in the shade, the color will be bright; in the sun the petals will fade a little.
Growing anemone de Caen
For most gardeners, planting and caring for tuberous anemones de Caen presents certain difficulties. This is partly due to the fact that anemones do not overwinter without being dug up. When purchasing tubers, we cannot be sure of their quality, and we ourselves make many mistakes during germination. In addition, in cold regions, crown anemone grown in open ground, especially if it has bloomed for a long time, does not always have time to produce a good bulb. Therefore, northerners often have to buy crown anemone planting material again and again, even with proper care.
Germination of tubers
Dry, wrinkled crown anemone tubers cannot be planted directly into the ground. First they need to be soaked until they swell.
When growing crown anemone, the roots are soaked in one of the following ways:
- Immerse half of the tubers in water for 5-6 hours until completely swollen.
- Place a dampened cloth on the bottom of the container and place the anemone bulbs on top. This will take longer, but will reduce the likelihood of rotting.
- Cover the anemone roots with wet peat, sand or moss.
- Wrap the bulbs in a cloth moistened with water and wrap them in cellophane.
Landing in the ground
After the tuber swells, you can plant anemones not only in the ground, but also in pots for pre-germination. They do this if they want to get flowers before the end of summer. From the moment the anemone tuber swells until the first buds appear, it can take about 4 months.
The location for the crown anemone should be well protected from the wind. In the northern regions, choose a sunny place, in the south - slightly shaded. Flowerbeds that are lit part of the day and placed near large trees or shrubs with an openwork crown are well suited. They will protect the flower from the wind and create a light shadow.
The soil for planting crown anemone de Caen should be moderately fertile, loose, and alkaline. If necessary, add humus to it and deoxidize it with dolomite flour, ash or lime. Where moisture stagnates, it is better not to plant anemone. As a last resort, arrange drainage.
Flowers should be planted to a depth of 5 cm, at a distance of at least 15-20 cm from each other. The tubers quickly sprout horizontally diverging fragile roots that really don’t like competition.
Planting crown anemones in autumn is only possible in greenhouses or containers.
Care during the growing season
In hot, dry summers, water anemones a little every day. The roots develop only the upper, quick-drying layer of soil and cannot extract moisture from the lower layers of soil. For the same reason, weeding anemones can only be done by hand, and loosening is generally excluded.
Growing crown anemones, especially hybrids such as variety series de Caen, requires regular feeding. Flowers, replacing each other, appear for a long time, they need food. At the beginning of the growing season, organic fertilizing with a high nitrogen content is carried out; during the formation of buds and their opening, the emphasis is on the mineral complex. Remember that anemones absolutely do not tolerate fresh manure.
Excavation and storage
When the anemone's flowering ends and the above-ground part dries out, dig up the tubers, rinse, cut off the remaining leaves and soak in the solution for 30 minutes foundationazole or other fungicide. Spread them out to dry in a thin layer and store them at a temperature of about 20 degrees until October. Then hide the anemone tubers in linen or paper bags, damp sand, moss or peat and keep them at 5-6 degrees until the next season.
Reproduction
Crown anemones are propagated by daughter bulbs. Of course, you can collect and sow the seeds. But Sotoroseria de Caen was grown artificially; such anemones do not occur in nature. After sowing, which you suffer with due to poor germination (about 25% at best), after about 3 years, unremarkable anemone flowers will open, not repeating the maternal characteristics.
Conclusion
Of course, you will have to tinker with crown anemones. But anemones de Caen are so showy that your efforts won't matter once the bright, poppy-like flowers open.
