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The crown anemone species is native to the Mediterranean. There she blooms early and is considered the queen of the spring garden. We achieve flowering anemones at the beginning of the season, it is possible by sprouting tubers at home and only with the onset of stable heat, planting a flower in a flower bed. If from the very beginning the crown anemone was cultivated in the ground, the first buds will appear not earlier than the middle of summer.
Anemone de Caen is distinguished by 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 of anemones variety 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 flowers do not hibernate in the open field and require special placement and constant care.
Among the varieties of crown anemones, the de Caen variety stands out favorably. Anemone 20-25 cm high is decorated with simple, poppy-like flowers with a diameter of 5-8 cm of various colors. The buds of anemones de Caen can be formed during the entire warm season, how long depends only on your climatic conditions and care.
Variety series de Caen
The crown anemone of the de Caenne series most often comes on sale in the form of a mix, that is, a mixture of varieties. It is necessary to buy planting material for anemone only in large garden centers, moreover, packed, with the manufacturer's marking, on which the sale date must be affixed. It is not easy to achieve germination of de Caen anemones tubers, they are expensive, and you should not buy tubers from your hands. Very rarely, it is not a mixture that goes on sale, but a certain variety.
Anemone crown florists use to make bouquets, they can be grown in greenhouses for cutting and winter forcing. Planted in September or October, the anemones will bloom in March-April. If the tubers are placed on germination in the first half of spring, the buds will appear by the end of summer.
We bring to your attention a short 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 crown anemone bush about 20 cm high with dissected sessile leaves is used for planting in flower beds. The Bicolor de Caen variety 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 crown anemone with bushes about 20 cm in size, which with regular feeding can grow up to 30. Each can grow more than ten peduncles. The color of the buds is lilac, the shade depends on the lighting, the composition of the soil and top dressing. Single flowers of the Sylphide de Caen anemone, 5-8 cm in diameter, are decorated with purple stamens.
The variety has shown 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 that of a poppy with a diameter of 5-7 cm are painted with white pearlescent color, with lettuce or yellow stamens.Anemones look unusually impressive and serve as a decoration for flower beds, containers and flower beds. Florists love this flower and use it with pleasure when arranging bouquets.
It is necessary to plant the crown-shaped anemone Bride de Caen in partial shade, since 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 poppy. Bush 15-30 cm high with dissected leaves resistant to diseases. Anemone Holland de Caen looks great on a flowerbed, 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, all depending on the lighting and the ground. Shrub 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 cut.
If the anemone is planted in the shade, the color will be bright, the petals will fade a little in the sun.
Growing anemones de Caen
For most gardeners, planting and caring for de Caenne tuberous anemone 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 a lot of mistakes when sprouting. In addition, in cold regions, the crown anemone grown in the open field, especially if it bloomed for a long time, does not always have time to give a good bulb. Therefore, northerners often have to buy planting material of crown anemones over and over again, even with proper care.
Sprouting tubers
It is impossible to plant dry, shriveled tubers of crown anemone directly into the ground. First, they need to be soaked until they swell.
When growing anemones, crown roots are soaked in one of the following ways:
- Submerge the tubers in water half for 5-6 hours until they swell completely.
- Put a moistened cloth on the bottom of the container, place the anemone bulbs on top. It will take longer, but will reduce the likelihood of decay.
- Cover the roots of anemone with wet peat, sand or moss.
- Wrap the bulbs with a cloth moistened with water and wrap with cellophane.
Landing in the ground
After the tuber swells, you can plant anemones 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. From the moment the anemone tuber swells until the first buds appear, it can take about 4 months.
The site for the crown anemone should be well protected from the wind. In the northern regions, choose a sunny location, in the south - slightly shaded. Well-lit part of the day, flower beds placed near large trees or bushes with an openwork crown are well suited. They will protect the flower from the wind and create a light shade.
The soil for planting the crown anemone de Caen should be moderately fertile, loose, alkaline. If necessary, add humus to it and deacidify 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 5 cm deep, at least 15-20 cm apart. Tubers quickly spread horizontally fragile 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
Water anemone in hot, dry summer a little every day. Roots assimilate only the upper, fast-drying soil layer and cannot extract moisture from the lower soil layers. For the same reason, weeding anemones can only be done by hand, and loosening is generally excluded.
The cultivation of crown anemones, especially hybrids such as the de Caen variety series, 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 setting of buds and their opening, the emphasis is on the mineral complex. Remember that anemones absolutely hate fresh manure.
Digging and storage
When the flowering of the anemones is over and the aerial part is dry, dig up the tubers, rinse, cut off the remnants of the leaves and soak in the solution for 30 minutes foundazola or another fungicide. Spread them out to dry in a thin layer and store at 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
Crowned anemones are propagated by daughter bulbs. Of course, you can collect and sow seeds. But the sotoroseria de Caen is grown artificially, such anemones are not found in nature. After sowing, with which you are worn out due to poor germination (about 25% at best), after about 3 years, unremarkable anemone flowers will open, which do not repeat the maternal signs.
Conclusion
Of course, you will have to tinker with crown anemones. But de Caenne's anemone is so spectacular that your efforts will not matter when the bright, beautiful poppy-like flowers open up.
