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Japanese Anemone ‘Honorine Jobert’ – A Garden Perennial A Week


We’re starting the ‘A Perennial a Week’ series (a series featuring types and varieties of garden perennials) off  with a perennial that I saw in a few yards last summer, and I don’t recall ever seeing it before, so it was new for me. It is tall, about 3 feet (but there are shorter varieties), and has a lovely small white flower with yellow stamen, and a lime-green center.

Just look at the gorgeous detail of the flower’s center –

 

Missouri Botanical Garden

Source: Missouri Botanical Garden

 

 

The name of this week’s perennial is the Japanese Anemone ‘Honorine Jobert’, also called Windflower. Its botanical name is Anemone x hybrida ‘Honorine Jobert’. It was discovered in Verdun, France in 1858.

 

It looks so pretty contrasted with the pinkish flowers of a nearby plant –

 

bluestone perrenials

Source: bluestone perennials

 

 

One of the many features I love about this perennial is that it is late-blooming, so there are beautiful blooms late in the summer until frost.

 

I fell in love with it right when I saw it. The 2-inch white blooms create a graceful appearance as they perch atop their long slender stems.

 

Missouri Botanical Garden

Source: Missouri Botanical Garden

 

 

I can image this tall perennial bordering a garden path, running the length of a post and rail fence, as a backdrop to shorter plants in the garden, or naturalized along the edge of a treed area swaying in the flickering sunlight.

Here’s a bit of specifics for the Japanese Anemone ‘Honorine Jobert’ from the Missouri Botanical Garden site:

Common Name: windflower

Type: Herbaceous perennial

Family: Ranunculaceae

Zone: 4 to 8

Height: 3 to 4 feet

Spread: 1.5 to 2 feet

Bloom Time: August to September

Bloom Color: White

Bloom Description: White with yellow stamens

Sun: Full sun to part shade

Water: Medium

Maintenance: Low

Flowers: Showy Flowers

Tolerates: Deer

Uses: Cut Flower, Will Naturalize

 

Would you use the Japanese Anemone ‘Honorine Jobert’ in your yard?

~M

 

 

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