How are anemones properly watered?
- Watering after planting
- Water only when the soil is dry
- Keep anemones dry
- Avoid waterlogging
Anemones need very little watering other than after the tubers have been planted. Most of the time the earth is still moist enough in spring. Avoid at all costs too wet floors or even waterlogging.
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Do anemones need fertilizer?
Improve the ground before plants with some ripe compost. You should also lime very acidic soils. Anemones don't need more fertilizer.
Can anemones be repotted or transplanted?
Anemones that you keep in pots need to be repotted when the plant has spread too much. Divide the anemone flower by severing tubers or dividing the root.
In the garden, it is not worth transplanting anemones during the current season. Most varieties should be digged up in the fall anyway.
When do anemones need to be cut?
Basically, you don't even need anemones cut. If you cut off what has faded, however, the plant will produce more flowers. The foliage will stay until autumn and will not be removed until it is yellow and you dig up the tubers.
Which pests and diseases can occur?
Caterpillars are troubling the anemone. Collect the pests. If the leaves turn brown prematurely and wither, the plant suffers from anemone rust. Cut off affected leaves generously.
What winter protection do anemones need?
Some tuber anemones are conditionally hardy. You will survive the winter if you put a thick mulch of leaves on the planting site.
Not hardy varieties like that Anemone coronaria should always be excavated in autumn and in a dark, frost-free and dry place overwinter.
Tips & Tricks
Most of the varieties of anemones that come from Onions are drawn, do not tolerate sub-zero temperatures. Put the tubers in small pots filled with soil. Plant the anemones with the pot in the bed to make digging easier in autumn.
