In late summer and early autumn, this garden plant blooms beautifully and exuberantly with many bright white flowers high on the flower stems, above the pool. A jewel in the garden with flowers that have a wreath of yellow stamens around a green-yellow heart in the middle. The summer plants have almost finished flowering and then this autumn anemone or Anemone × hybrida Honorine Jobert flowers. The plant is related to all anemones that belong to the buttercup family. The Anemone × hybrida Honorine Jobert flowers in the autumn, while many plants of the anemone family flower in the spring.
- Anemones
- Autumn anemones
- Japanese Anemone Anemone × hybrida Honorine Jobert
- Leaf and stem
- Flower
- Stamens practically sterile
- Take root cuttings yourself
- Toxic
Anemones
Anemones (Anemone) are herbaceous perennial plants of the buttercup family (Ranunculaceae). Of the many types of Anemones, three species are found in the wild in the Netherlands and Belgium. Namely, the:
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Blue anemone, blooms in spring;
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Wood anemone, spring bloomer;
- Yellow anemone, spring bloomer.
Autumn anemones
The flowering of many anemones is therefore in the spring, but also in the autumn anemones bloom: the autumn anemones or the Japanese anemones. The autumn anemone originates from Japan and China and the Dutch autumn anemone was created by crossing the original autumn anemone (Anemone hupehensis). The cultivated autumn anemone is then referred to by the name Anemone Hybride or × hybrida and then the name of the cultivated new plant, the cultivar. The most common cultivated autumn anemones in the Netherlands are:
- Anemone hybrida × Honorine Jobert with some white petals;
- Anemone hybrida × Königin Charlotte with semi-double pink petals;
- Anemone hybrida × Whirlwind with white semi-double petals.
Japanese Anemone Anemone × hybrida Honorine Jobert
By crossing with the Anemone hupehensis, the Anemone × hybrida Honorine Jobert (or Anemone Hybride Honorine Jobert) was created. A strong plant as a cultivar or hybrid that has been specially developed for the garden. The plant quickly forms a considerable clump with dense green foliage and a wealth of six to seven beautiful white flowers, all of which stand on the upper branched flower stalks like a screen of flowers, at approximately the same height. In the center of the white petals is a wreath of yellow stamens around the green-yellow ovary.
Leaf and stem
The Autumn Anemone Anemone Hybrid Honorine Jobert has a fleshy rhizome. The smooth, round and sturdy stems that grow from this have, without the flower stems, a height of about 80 centimeters and with the flower stems a height of one meter to one and a half meters. Other anemones, such as the blue anemone, grow from a tuber or bulb (stinsenplant). The leaf consists of three stalked, slightly hairy leaves. The triangular blades are lobed and sawn. The leaves at the base of the plant are larger than the stem leaves that are below the flower stems and cover the bottom. From the summer onwards, the flower stems develop, leaving another floor rises in height. The flower buds open in August.
Flower
The flowers are above the dark green foliage, on long hairy petioles, in a group of about six to seven flowers. The seven to ten cup-shaped white petals are single with a golden yellow center and a green-yellow ovary in the center of the flower. The flowers bloom from August to October. Because of the wreath of stamens with pollen, it is a plant that attracts pollen lovers: butterflies, bees and hoverflies. Nectar does not produce the flower.
Stamens practically sterile
Although there are many stamens in the flower, they are virtually sterile (infertile). One to five percent is only fertile, but the plant hardly ever or never reaches seed formation. The plant is therefore classified among the cultivars that originated by human hands and not by natural evolution. The name is therefore written as ‘Anemone × hybrida Honorine Jobert’, a cultivar.
Propagation of the autumn anemone
There are officially three ways to propagate the plant, namely:
- The autumn flowering Anemone propagates spontaneously through the horizontal underground rhizomes (rhizoma) that grow a new plant at the end of the root system.
- The possibility to tear the plant later in the spring and put it in a new planting hole.
- By seed. The ovary remains as a seed bulb when the petals have fallen off. The seed bulbs of the Japanese autumn anemones continue to grow until they burst and the seed fluff is released. Hybrida Honorine Jobert is used to propagate new species.
Somewhat of a loan shark
To prevent spontaneous growth in the garden, it is useful to give new plants that arise spontaneously at the end of a rhizome a new place in the garden and thus maintain an overview in the garden. Because once an autumn anemone in the garden means digging out offshoots for a lifetime, when the autumn anemone gives a new plant in an undesirable place. Plant several plants of this species in a group about 30 to 40 centimeters apart (5 plants per m²).
Take root cuttings yourself
No new plants that emerge spontaneously? Then the rhizomes themselves cuttings. The cuttings are taken in winter, in November or December, by:
- get a healthy plant out of the ground;
- cutting or cutting one to two thick roots;
- putting the plant back in the ground;
- cutting the roots into four to five centimeter pieces. The bottom slant and the top straight;
- place these cuttings with the straight side up, in a container with a mixture of two parts potting soil and one part sand or special cutting soil where the top just does not rise above the ground;
- put in a cool, light place and water occasionally;
- transfer the young plants to a container with potting compost;
- when the cuttings are well developed to put them in the garden or to make someone else happy.
Habitat autumn anemone
Autumn anemones like to grow in sunny, nutritious and moisture-permeable soil. Mix compost or farmyard manure into the soil to enrich it. The Anemone hybrida × Honorine Jobert also shines in a shady spot, under the leaves of a tree where the sun can pass through. However, it is important to water occasionally in dry weather.
Toxic
The autumn anemone, like all anemones, is slightly poisonous. The juice of the fresh plant can cause allergic reactions in contact with the skin. The substance responsible for this is protoanemine and will not be fatal when eaten, but it will be painful in the mouth and cause vomiting and diarrhea. In animals, ingestion of the Japanese anemone can cause stomach upset, convulsions and death. The toxicity is destroyed when the plant is dried.