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Species crown anemone 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 by sprouting tubers at home and only with the onset of sustainable heat, planting a flower in a flower bed. If from the very beginning crown anemone was cultivated in the ground, the first buds will appear no earlier than mid-summer.
Anemone de Caen is probably the most beautiful flowers. It is difficult to grow it, for the winter the tubers need to be dug up and stored at a positive temperature, but the catchy beauty of the buds leaves no one indifferent.
Description Anemone sortoserii de Caen
Crowned 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 the flowers do not overwinter in the open field, they require special placement and constant care.
Among the varieties of the crown anemone, the variety series de Kaen stands out favorably. Anemone 20-25 cm high is decorated with simple poppy-like flowers 5-8 cm in diameter of various colors. Anemone de Caen buds can form throughout the warm season, how long depends only on your climatic conditions and care.
Sortoceria de Caen
The crown anemone of the de Caen variety most often goes 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 packaged, with the manufacturer’s marking, on which the expiration date must be affixed. It is not easy to achieve the germination of anemone de Caen tubers, they are expensive, you should not buy tubers from your hands. Very rarely, it is not a mixture that goes on sale, but a certain variety.
Crowned florists use anemones to make bouquets, they can be grown in greenhouses for cutting and engaged in winter forcing. Anemones planted in September or October will bloom in March or 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 a photo. They will demonstrate the catchy beauty of the flowers.
Bicolor
A beautiful single white flower with a red ring in the middle is large, 6-8 cm in diameter. A crowned anemone bush about 20 cm high with dissected sessile leaves is used for planting in flower beds. The variety Bicolor de Caen has established itself as the most resistant to low temperatures and can be grown in the south without digging, under good cover.
sylph
A low variety of crowned anemones with bushes about 20 cm in size, which, with regular top dressing, can grow up to 30. Each can grow more than ten peduncles. The color of the buds is purple, the shade depends on the lighting, the composition of the soil and top dressing. Single flowers anemones Sylphide de Caen with a diameter of 5-8 cm are decorated with purple stamens.
The variety showed itself well when grown in flower beds and forcing.
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 with a white mother-of-pearl shade, with lettuce or yellow stamens. Anemones look extraordinarily impressive and serve as decoration for flower beds, containers and discounts. Florists love this flower and use it with pleasure when arranging bouquets.
Crowned anemone Bride de Caen should be planted in partial shade, as in the sun the white delicate 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 afar or with incomplete opening of the bud, this anemone can be confused with a poppy. A bush 15-30 cm high with dissected leaves is disease resistant. Anemone Holland de Caen looks great in a flower bed, planted in a large array or when creating bouquets.
Mr Fokker
The color of this anemone is very unusual, it is purple. The color can be saturated or slightly washed out, depending on the lighting and the ground. Bush 30 cm high with sessile dissected leaves. Anemone Mr. Fokker de Caen is grown in flowerbeds as a focal plant, in containers and for cutting.
If the anemone is planted in the shade, the color will be bright, the petals fade a little in the sun.
Cultivation of Anemone de Caen
For most flower growers, planting and caring for de Caen tuberous anemones presents certain difficulties. This is partly due to the fact that anemones do not hibernate without digging. When purchasing tubers, we cannot be sure of their quality, and we ourselves make many mistakes during germination. In addition, in cold regions, a crown-shaped anemone grown in open ground, especially if it bloomed for a long time, does not always have time to give a good onion. Therefore, northerners often have to buy planting material for crown anemones again and again, even with proper care.
Tuber germination
It is impossible to plant dry, shriveled anemone tubers directly into the ground. First, they need to be soaked until they swell.
When growing crown root anemones, soak them in one of the following ways:
- Immerse the tubers half in water for 5-6 hours until completely swollen.
- Put a damp cloth on the bottom of the container, place anemone bulbs on top. This will take longer, but will reduce the chance of rotting.
- Anemone roots cover with wet peat, sand or moss.
- Wrap the onions with a cloth moistened with water and wrap with cellophane.
Landing in the ground
After the tuber swells, anemones can be planted not only in the ground, but also in pots for preliminary germination. This is done if they want to receive flowers before the end of summer. It can take about 4 months from the moment the anemone tuber swells until the first buds appear.
The place for the crown anemone should be well protected from the wind. In the northern regions, choose a sunny place, in the south – slightly shaded. Well-lit part of the day flower beds, located 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 the anemone crown de Caen should be moderately fertile, loose, alkaline. If necessary, add humus to it and deoxidize with dolomite flour, ash or lime. Where moisture stagnates, it is better not to plant an anemone. As a last resort, arrange drainage.
Flowers should be planted at a depth of 5 cm, with a distance of at least 15-20 cm from each other. The tubers quickly spread horizontally brittle roots that do not like competition very much.
Planting crown anemones in autumn is possible only in greenhouses or containers.
Care during the growing season
Anemones are watered in hot, dry summer a little daily. The roots develop only the upper, quick-drying layer of soil and cannot extract moisture from the lower layers of the soil. For the same reason, anemones can only be weeded by hand, and loosening is generally excluded.
Growing crowned anemones, especially hybrids such as the de Caen variety, requires regular top dressing. Flowers, replacing each other, appear for a long time, they need food. At the beginning of the growing season, organic top dressing with a high nitrogen content is carried out; during the laying of buds and their opening, the emphasis is on the mineral complex. Remember that anemones absolutely cannot stand fresh manure.
Digging and storage
When the anemone blooms and the aerial part dries out, dig up the tubers, rinse, cut off the remains of the leaves and soak for 30 minutes in a solution of foundationazole or another fungicide. Lay them out to dry in a thin layer and store at a temperature of about 20 degrees until October. Then hide the anemone tubers in linen or paper bags, wet sand, moss or peat and keep 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 the sotoroseria de Kaen is artificially grown, such anemones do not occur in nature. After sowing, with which you suffer due to poor germination (about 25% at best), after about 3 years unremarkable anemone flowers will open that do not repeat maternal signs.
Conclusion
Of course, you will have to tinker with crown anemones. But de Cayenne anemones are so showy that your efforts won’t matter when the bright, poppy-like beautiful flowers open.
