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Feb 18
Best Tulip Festivals Around the World: Where & When to See Them
Few signs of spring are as spectacular as thousands—or even millions—of tulips blooming at once. From carefully designed gardens in the Netherlands to broad flower fields in Washington State, lakeside parks in Switzerland, historic gardens in Istanbul, and colorful terraces beneath the mountains of Kashmir, tulip festivals have become major seasonal attractions around the world. …
Feb 16
When to Start Tomato Seeds Indoors: Timing & Growing Guide
Starting tomatoes from seed gives you access to far more varieties than you are likely to find as transplants at a garden center. Heirlooms, paste tomatoes, colorful cherry tomatoes, compact patio varieties, and unusual beefsteaks are all much easier to find when you begin with seed. The challenge is timing. Start tomato seeds too late …
Feb 07
Anemone nemorosa: How to Grow & Care for Wood Anemone
Anemone nemorosa, commonly known as wood anemone, is a low-growing spring perennial that can gradually spread beneath deciduous trees and shrubs to form beautiful carpets of white flowers. It is especially well suited to woodland gardens, shady borders, naturalistic plantings, and areas where spring sunshine reaches the ground before trees leaf out. Native across much …
Feb 07
Anemone hupehensis: How to Grow & Care for Japanese Anemone
Anemone hupehensis, commonly known as Japanese anemone, Japanese windflower, or Chinese anemone, is a graceful late-season perennial that produces pink, rose, purple-pink, or white flowers on slender stems above mounds of dark green foliage. While many garden perennials are beginning to fade, Japanese anemones come into their own, flowering from late summer into autumn and …
Feb 07
Anemone coronaria: How to Grow & Care for Poppy Anemone
Anemone coronaria, commonly known as poppy anemone, garden anemone, or windflower, is one of the most colorful spring-flowering anemones. Its brilliant red, pink, violet-blue, purple, and white flowers rise above finely divided foliage on slender stems, creating blooms that resemble brightly colored poppies. Native from the Mediterranean region eastward into western and southwestern Iran, Anemone …
Feb 07
Anemone Flowers: Types, Growing & Care Guide
Anemone flowers are a remarkably diverse group of perennials, ranging from tiny spring woodland flowers to brilliant Mediterranean cut flowers and tall Japanese anemones that bloom well into autumn. Their colors include white, pink, red, violet, blue-purple, and magenta, while their growing requirements vary just as widely. That diversity is also why anemone care can …
Feb 06
Are Anemone Flowers Poisonous to Cats?
Yes. Anemone flowers should be considered toxic to cats and should not be intentionally placed where a cat can chew them. Fresh anemone plants contain irritating compounds associated with the buttercup family, Ranunculaceae. When fresh plant tissue is crushed or chewed, the glycoside ranunculin can be converted into protoanemonin, a strongly irritating compound that can …
Feb 06
White Anemone Flowers: Meaning, Varieties & Growing Guide
White anemone flowers can look delicate and understated from a distance, but up close they are some of the most distinctive flowers in the genus. Crisp white sepals surround centers that may be golden yellow, green, or dramatically dark, creating combinations that work equally well in woodland gardens, sunny spring borders, cutting gardens, and late-season …
Feb 06
Anemone Flower Meaning: Symbolism, Colors & History
Anemone flowers have accumulated an unusually complicated collection of meanings over the centuries. Today they may symbolize love, remembrance, anticipation, fragility, protection, new beginnings, or the fleeting nature of life, depending on the color, occasion, and cultural interpretation. Historical flower symbolism was considerably less cheerful. Nineteenth-century flower dictionaries associated the garden anemone with being forsaken, …
Feb 03
Types of Anemone Flowers: Popular Species, Varieties & Colors
Anemone flowers are far more diverse than the brightly colored florist anemones most people recognize. The group includes tiny blue spring flowers for rock gardens, white woodland plants that spread beneath deciduous trees, vivid Mediterranean anemones grown for cutting, yellow woodland species, North American wildflowers, and tall Japanese anemones that bloom when summer is beginning …
