anemone advice

lily-ella

Hi this is what my anemone looked like before - pretty!



Now it looks like this - not so pretty! has it had its day? what do I do with it now? pull it out? thanks!

jollyanna

Those are so pretty in flower. Mine are flowering now (corms/bulbs from Morrisons) and they are doubles and seem to get a bit top-heavy. Today I dead-headed the weary ones to see if they'l l produce more flowers, just as an experiment. I'm going to let mine die back in the ground and see if I can re-use the corms next year -- don't know if they will but it's worth a try.

elsien

Pull off any dead leaves if they're bothering you and leave them to it. I doubt you'll get any more flowers this year, but some of mine reappeared the following year. (I suspect I may have dug the rest up by mistake.)

lily-ella

thanks. so disappointed, the picture shows all the flowers I ever got and the plant was quite expensive from a garden centre. They are so pretty though.

serena

Well, to be fair, daffodils and tulips only flower the once for a relatively short time! Bit in the nature of bulbs and corms.

They developed an underground storage organ to survive long periods of time with little or no water, then burst into growth and grow and flower rapidly when water is available, die down again, drawing all the energy back into the storage organ.

Sow some fast growing annuals - it's not too late - and enjoy lots of flowers for the rest of the summer - eg nasturtiums, virginia stock, pot marigolds etc.

lily-ella

serena wrote: »

Well, to be fair, daffodils and tulips only flower the once for a relatively short time! Bit in the nature of bulbs and corms.

They developed an underground storage organ to survive long periods of time with little or no water, then burst into growth and grow and flower rapidly when water is available, die down again, drawing all the energy back into the storage organ.

Sow some fast growing annuals - it's not too late - and enjoy lots of flowers for the rest of the summer - eg nasturtiums, virginia stock, pot marigolds etc.

thanks, will try and find some seeds that you mentioned! can I sow them straight outside?

stumpycat

It may re-appear and surprise you - mine all flower at completely random times, including a lovely red one that pushed its way through 6 inches of snow in January!