What to do with anemones now they have finished?

[SarrissUK]

And thank you by the way - I never knew buttercup and anemones were so alike in their foliage. I'll hopefully remember which is which lol

[veggiechicken]

I'd send you a handfork rather than you use glyphosate.

You can choose to use PPE, a bee can't.

[quanglewangle]

I'd send you a handfork rather than you use glyphosate.

You can choose to use PPE, a bee can't.

I'll find fork. Probs last used for barbecue duty

[quanglewangle]

OK! You can stop greenmailing me now. I've found mrs quanglewangle's hand forks.



Suppose I have to spend the morning forking about in the flower garden.

Postscript on bees: we have maybe 150-200 m of Cornish hedge (a sort of earth-filled stone wall), which is bumble bee heaven: nooks and crannies home to a big variety of wild flowers - we cut this back to differing heights to allow for good mixture of habitats. One of our gardens - about 350 m2 - is a managed perennial wild-flower meadow. And we are adjacent to Penwith Moors, which is currently hundreds of hectares of blooming heather and gorse. Bees don't do too badly hereabouts.

[veggiechicken]

Good work qw - you'll enjoy digging up those buttercups.

If its any consolation, today, according to the VC Work Plan is Weedy Wednesday when I fill a trug with weeds. If the rain stops, my weed of choice today will be creeping buttercups - so that you have virtual company in your endeavours.

[quanglewangle]

Here you are for comparison. The first one is creeping buttercup and the second Anemone. Dig the buttercup out carefully so you don’t disturb the Anemones the corms are very difficult to see as the resemble the soil.

Very useful, thanks. VC greenshamed me into handweeding the plot. Done about 5m of a row. My back is telling me its wine o'clock now. I don't think any of my anemones are through yet. Hope not, else they've been dug up.

[quanglewangle]

Give them a feed to build up the corms and hey should flower again.

Yup, well they have...
Only two small mud-spattered specimens so far but a good omen and they make a lovely change indoors to the industrial daffodils we have around here..
Thanks for the tip.

[quanglewangle]

Here are our first over-wintered anemones. It looks like there are plenty more coming.