FLOWERS
6 Beautiful Windflowers to Enhance Your Landscape
Want to brighten up your landscaping around the home, the windflowers today will take your breath away with their breathtaking beauty. They are characterized by beautiful flowers and will flutter when the wind blows. So, are great choices for any landscape, from borders, rock gardens, woodland gardens, and cottage gardens. They make great use of space, and they help turn areas heretofore devoid of life to thrive.
1. Anemone ‘Wild Swan’ (Japanese Anemone)
This windflower is a hardy perennial plant. It forms pure white flowers, on the reverse side of the petal, there is a slight tinge of lavender-blue color. From late spring till frost is the blooming season of this variety. The foliage is deep green in color. This variety is best suited for prairies, cottage gardens, meadows, or coastal gardens. It is a variety that does not really require a lot of maintenance and has average water needs. The plant needs full sun or the part sun, moist and well-drained soil for optimum growth. You also should not consume this plant as it can cause serious skin allergies. They are also resistant to deer and rabbits.
2. Anemone Hupehensis ‘Bressingham Glow’ (Japanese Anemone)
It is a low-maintenance variety and grows to an approximate height of 2 to 3 feet and is known to spread via rhizomes to approximately 3 feet. This flower is characterized by semi-double, deep pink-colored flowers with yellow stamens. It looks best in borders, cottage gardens, naturalistic areas, and coastal gardens. Its stunning flowers attract butterflies but resist deers and rabbits. It requires full sun or part sun. Besides, it grows well in moist, rich, and well-drained soil. It is a salt-tolerant variety, and care should be taken when handling it due to the fact that it can cause skin irritation. It is hardy in USDA zones 5 to 8.
3. Anemone Sylvestris ‘Madonna’ (Snowdrop Anemone)
This flower is from Europe and Asia, it shows off beautiful white flowers with yellow stamens during the month of April. It is more commonly referred to as a snowdrop windflower. The flowers are mostly used as cut flowers since they are fragrant and showy. For its best growth, plant it in part shade and give it medium water. It prefers moist, well-drained, and humus-rich soil. It is a deer-resistant variety that is known to naturalize. This variety typically grows to a height of 1 to 1.5 feet and spreads 0.75 to 1 foot.
4. Anemone Blanda ‘Blue Star’ (Grecian Windflower)
The flower is a tuberous perennial and produces flowers that are a deep blue color in mid-spring. This variety looks best in beds, rock gardens, and woodland paths. If you want to grow this plant, give it in full sun or part shade areas with moist and well-drained soil
5. Anemone ‘Dreaming Swan’ (Japanese Anemone)
Anemone ‘Dreaming Swan’ (Japanese Anemone) is characterized by semi-double flowers that are pink in color. As time passes by, they fade to white and lavender. Its blooming time is from early summer to early fall with light-colored flowers. It attracts butterflies but is resistant to insects and diseases and also to rabbits and deer. To grow this windflower, provide what it demands such as moist, well-drained soil, rich in humus, full sun, or part sun.
6. Anemone Coronaria ‘Mount Everest’
Anemone Coronaria ‘Mount Everest’ showcases snow-white colored flowers, and the stamens are lime green in color. Also, there are varieties and many different colored flowers depending on the variation that you grow. It looks best in beds and borders. It grows well in full sun, fertile, and humus-rich soil.