Anemone coronaria
Poppy anemone, Crown anemone
- Height × spread
- 0.3m × 0.15m
- Position
- Full sun
- Hardiness
- Cold to -15C (RHS H5)
- Flowers
- Spring
Availability
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About this plant
This has a filigree like mat of foliage with dissected leaves, rather conical in shape. The flowers are large lustrous cups. They are in shades of blue and white, with broad petals, triangular at the top, making jaggy petalled blooms, with large, opulent looking black stamened centres. They have the same ephemeral, fragile appeal as poppies - reflected in one of their popular names. There are many popular cultivars. It flowers in early spring and is good for cutting. Unfortunately it is not long lived. Give it a sunny site in well drained soil that is neutral or slightly acid. This is around 30cm (12in) high with a 15cm (6in) spread.
- Flower colour
- Blue, Red, White
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Variegated
- No
- Scent
- No
- Shape
- Dome
- Height
- 0.3m
- Spread
- 0.15m
- Season of interest
- Spring
- Flowers in
- Spring
- Evergreen
- Deciduous
- Garden style
- Small scale garden, Seaside garden, Rock garden, Mediterranean garden, Cottage garden, Conservatory
- Sun or shade
- Likes full sun
- Soil type
- Loam (normal)
- Soil pH
- All types
- Drainage
- Well drained soil, Dry soil, Drought resistant
- Hardiness
- Cold to -15C (RHS H5)
- Borders & containers
- Borders and containers
- Use for
- Ground cover, Rabbit resistant, Bee attraction
- Hazards
- No
AutumnNow
Autumn - late · Outdoors
Apply a deep protective mulch
Provide a deep protective mulch in autumn, spreading it around the plant and covering it to give it both nutrients and some protection against the weather.
A mulch is a covering that can: protect the soil surface from rain, heat and cold; deter weeds; provide nutrients. Organic indicates that material has vegetative origin e.g. manure, compost. Synthetics i.e. plastics, or stones are often called mulches.
Spring
Spring-Summer · Outdoors
Water during drought
Water plants in the ground regularly after a period of drought if still in growth (prefer to be dry when dormant). Check plants in pots more frequently, especially in hot weather.
Summer
Summer - early · Outdoors
Feed a general fertiliser
Where plants have moderate needs for nutrients, they can simply be given a general feed, fairly early in the growth season so that the growth has plenty of time to harden off before the cold weather.
Give plants a general boost with the application of a general purpose fertiliser which is spread around the root area of the plant, with amounts as directed on the feed label.
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