Large pale blue flowers with dark green foliage, tinged purple.
Order Code: 57-24
Anemone nemorosa Robinsoniana
The RHS Award of Garden Merit
Lovely pale blue flowers, with rounded petals, lightly silvered on the back, 1½” (4cm) across, stand above dark green foliage just tinged purple. Named in 1870 at the Oxford Botanic Gardens. It starts to flower early, but continues all through April. Like all A. nemorosa forms it is a woodland plant and likes humus-rich soil and needs a cooler, damper rest after flowering. Plant in semi-shade, ideally under deciduous trees or shrubs. Pale blue flowers, 5” (13cm) high, flowering in April.
Planting instructions
We will send a rhizome packed to keep it damp which should be planted on arrival, 2-3” (6-7 cm) deep, laid horizontally in humus rich, moisture-retaining soil that has part shade, ideally under deciduous trees or shrubs.