Ideal for planting in a shaded area, under deciduous shrubs or in a woodland garden Anemone blanda 'White Splendour' (winter windflower) provides early spring interest. Here this tuberous perennial has developed into a large group in this raised bed.
It was a dreary Saturday on Chestnut Ridge, but even the bleakest days are brightened by Spring’s dazzling gifts. From top: a wood anemone (Anemone quinquefolia) grudgingly unfolds its petals in search of sunlight; common sassafras (Sassafras albidum) shows off its yellow-green blooms; smooth Solomon’s seal (Polygonatum biflorum), whose pendulous flowers are near to bloom; the magnificent marsh blue violet (Viola cucullata Aiton), a lover of damp stream banks and bogs; heartleaf foamflower (Tiarella cordifolia), whose resplendent flower spikes are matched in beauty by its velvety, luxuriant foliage; and the fragile, sylph-like sessile bellwort (Uvularia sessilifolia), whose principle pollinator (Andrena uvulariae) specializes in this wildflower.
Anna "Windflower" Fang ready to beat Valentine's ass,,
I love that the two hottest characters of the first book get to fight against each other. So true,, I take that so personally
On this woodland floor below the Acer pseudoplatanus (sycamore, sycamore maple) trees the Anemone blanda (winter windflower, sapphire anemone, Balkan anemone, Grecian windflower) were coming into flower. This spreading perennial forms clumps in a well-drained, humus-rich soil and needs a dry dormancy after flowering.