
Windflower
- Botanical Name
- Anemone coronaria
- Min Zone
- 7
- Max Zone
- 10
- Height
- 8 to 12 inches
- Width
- 6 to 9 inches
- Flowers
- Early spring: 1.5 to 2.5 inches in shades of red, blue and white
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Soil
- Moist, well-drained, sandy, rich
- Planting & Care
- Where winter hardy, tubers can be planted in fall 2 to 3 inches deep and spaced 4 to 6 inches apart
- Tubers should be soaked overnight before planting
- In colder regions, tubers can be planted in pots in fall and kept in a frost free location and set out for an early spring bloom
- Another option for colder climates is to pot tubers in late winter or early spring and placed outside for late spring flowers
- Often treated as an annual since overwintering doesn't always work and bulbs lose virgor after 2 to 3 seasons in warmer regions
- Problems
- None serious
- Varieties
- DeCaen hybrids - selections with single flowers of various colors
- Mr. Fokker - violet-blue
- Sylphide - light purple
- The Bride - white
- Florist Mixture - mixed colors
- Hollandia - larges flowers, scarlet sepals with white bases surrounding a black center
- St. Brigid hybrids - selections with semi-double blooms in various colors
- Lord Lieutenant - deep blue
- Mount Everest - white
- The Admiral - blue
- The Governor - scarlet and a mixture of colors
- DeCaen hybrids - selections with single flowers of various colors
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