Mystery bulb?

toomanyanimals · Post by **toomanyanimals** » May 19, 2005 7:41 am

I hope someone can help me identify this bulb. Very small bulb and plant only gets a couple inches high. Flower is small also. I have absolutely no idea what it is. I bought a zillion bulbs at 90% off a couple years ago, thought I would try them all.

I thought I saved all the packaging with pictures, but can't find this one.

Not too impressive is it!?

IBOY · Post by **IBOY** » May 19, 2005 9:36 am

Anemone blanda, Grecian windflower.

Don

kHT · Post by **kHT** » May 19, 2005 9:41 am

Thanks Don, I just went to grab my garden book as I knew it was an Anemone but which one? That was a learning experience, thank you!

toomanyanimals · Post by **toomanyanimals** » May 19, 2005 10:05 am

Thanks Don!

Can't say they will ever be a favorite, but I will keep them where they are till I can find a spot where they are more appropriate. They are in the middle of garden. I only found them because I thought they were a weed and was digging them up. Decided to leave them when I found they were a bulb.

Since looking them up on the web, I have found that I have IMHO the ugliest one. But I can learn to love any flower (at least up to this point).

Sharon

IBOY · Post by **IBOY** » May 19, 2005 10:20 am

Well, it's like looking at somebody's baby; I also thought your anemone was pretty ugly, but wasn't going to say anything... it's probably kind of soggy from rain. Actually these are great little flowers, but they need their own little sunny spot, or they get lost or disappear by being crowded out. Whenever I've planted them in flower beds, they disappear from the bed, but seed out into the sunny, bark mulched pathway. If one had the perfect little raised, sunny spot, with loose soil, the windflower could be the prettiest thing in the garden. They stay in bloom for weeks, too.
Don

toomanyanimals · Post by **toomanyanimals** » May 19, 2005 10:28 am

Hey, you can't say my baby, I mean anemone is ugly . . . only I can!

Can they survive in clay soil.?
I have a terrible spot by the road that is clay, gets dug up by the snowplows each winter, kids on bikes and cars run over this area (that is why it is a garden, the grass would hardly grow, mostly dandelions each year). Believe it or not, I do have plants surviving in that bed.

bkshasta · Post by **bkshasta** » May 19, 2005 10:46 am

I had a Grecian Windflower just pop up in my garden a few years ago. Now they are all over. For me, they spread like a weed. If it ever stops raining here, I will be pulling them up by the hands full.

toomanyanimals · Post by **toomanyanimals** » May 19, 2005 10:49 am

Don, I happened across your blog account a while ago.
Just wondering if you could explain to me what a blog account is, how do you use it, why do you want it, does it cost money?

By the way, I loved "The Cat Who Guards The Garden From The Deer" story. A Children's book in the making?

Now back to the topic of perennials . . . if this anemone turns out to be as nice as you say, maybe I will get some different colors.

Sharon

IBOY · Post by **IBOY** » May 19, 2005 2:05 pm

I think the main thing with these anemones is full sun and they go dormant in summer so probably like being baked a little and dry. I'd try them by the road; they cost a few cents each. Blog-wise, if you're just mucking about with it, like me, you get them absolutely free, and can have one running in five minutes. Mine is through Google; just go to Google, hit 'more", then at the bottom of the page hit "Blogger", and you're on yor way. One piece of advice; if you use Blogger, when you choose a template for your page, IF you want strangers to run across it, get one that allows you to list links to other blogs, as that's the main way you get started, in terms of getting the word around to people you don't know, that you exist, and getting listed on search engines. I was quite amazed when, on a whim, late one snowy night I just started banging away at it, put it out there, and within two weeks had 25 hits a day, and two months later 50 a day. It's quite sobering though, to see the millions of inactive, unread blogs out there. I think I read once that there are something like 4 million blogs out there, and I suspect 3 million of them have never had a hit... they just whimper along in obscurity for a few months, and then stop. Oh well.

Don