How to Grow a Double Anemone Flower

Anemones are bright and colorful in home gardens and grow across the country as summertime perennials. The family features hundreds of varieties and cultivars, with wide, flat, single-blooming varieties and decorative and fancy double-blooming varieties. All anemones need sun, soil, nutrition and water to thrive and bloom, though, and fail in poor conditions. Plant your double anemones early in the season in appropriate sun and soil.

Hand fork
Organic compost/garden loam
Fertilizer
Mulch

Instructions

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  Plant anemone bulbs or seedlings in spring when the weather warms for immediate colorful impact. Choose large flower beds for multiple plantings or individual pockets for smaller plantings. Give anemones sites with full to partial or filtered sun, efficient drainage and good air circulation; the plants produce their best blooms with plenty of sunshine.
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  Mix the soil for plant nutrition and drainage. Turn 3 to 4 inches of organic compost or garden loam into the top 3 to 4 inches of natural soil to raise the soil level, increase nutrition and ensure soil drainage. The plants thrive in moist, crumbly soil with high organic content.
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  Plant double anemone cultivars to grow double anemone flowers. Look for this classification on each plant's label. Plant bulbs 1 to 2 inches deep at cultivar-specific spacing requirements.
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  Water anemones with 2 inches of water every week to keep them moist and growing. Mulch the soil with 1 inch of organic mulch to maintain soil moisture, and feed the anemones in mid-season with a bloom booster fertilizer for lusher blooms.
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  Deadhead the anemones through the season to encourage repeat blooming. Cut flowers when they open for indoor vases, or pull old, wasted flowers from the plants.

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