Plantas y flores / plants and flowers: Anemones spring

Its species are very grateful and demanding nothing. Perfectly resist the winter, liked a site well shaded and often bloom in early March. With few exceptions, anemones of spring are plants tuberáceas.

The main species are: anemone of the Apennines, that can reach 30 cm in height. It has flowers and tubers star, blue-sky rarely vellosas white-out. Its leaves resemble those of a arbustácea; the mountain Greek anemone, with leaves wider than the previous one. Its flowers appear as early as March-April and are blue, white or pink. The Anemone nemorosa (Flower of Good Friday) has dark green leaves and white flowers with bright yellow stamens. The variety 'Robinsoniana', also known as pot plants, leaf color is lavender, while the 'Royal Blue' presents its large flowers in a shimmering blue.

Placement and reproduction
All species are planted in autumn, 8 cm. deep in soil porous and rich in humus and in a somewhat shaded location. They are evergreen. If there is heavy frost, we will have to cover it. Anemone the Apennines is multiplied by division of tubers, while the soft does it for seeds, which are sown from September to October, or starting the tubers.