All Seasons. Anemone coronaria, Windflower, Shaffy's Tuin, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Actually, says Groningen's great horticulturalist Abraham Munting (1626-1683), no-one knows exactly what Windflower's proper season is. But with good care it will grow all year around.
I was happy to see it today in Shaffy's Tuin, just by Amsterdam's railroad tracks to the centre of the country and down south. Olymp was able to shoot our Herba venti though on its high stem it was swaying wildly back and forth.
Carolus Clusius (1526-1609) is said to have introduced this Anemone to western Europe on his return from Vienna when he became the director of Leiden's botanical garden. There's also a rather cute story about one Monsieur Bachelieu who around 1615 procured our flower and was so delighted by it that he jealously guarded it for his own pleasure. A decade or so later his friends discovered the clinging nature of its seeds and plucked them from their mantels after having left Bachelieu's garden. Then they grew their own flowers.
All Seasons. Anemone coronaria, Windflower, Shaffy's Tuin, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Actually, says Groningen's great horticulturalist Abraham Munting (1626-1683), no-one knows exactly what Windflower's proper season is. But with good care it will grow all year around.
I was happy to see it today in Shaffy's Tuin, just by Amsterdam's railroad tracks to the centre of the country and down south. Olymp was able to shoot our Herba venti though on its high stem it was swaying wildly back and forth.
Carolus Clusius (1526-1609) is said to have introduced this Anemone to western Europe on his return from Vienna when he became the director of Leiden's botanical garden. There's also a rather cute story about one Monsieur Bachelieu who around 1615 procured our flower and was so delighted by it that he jealously guarded it for his own pleasure. A decade or so later his friends discovered the clinging nature of its seeds and plucked them from their mantels after having left Bachelieu's garden. Then they grew their own flowers.