The very first perennial in our ‘A Perennial a Week’ series was a Japanese anemone in white, and it is such a favorite, that this week we are featuring another anemone in pink. The green-eye-yellow-fringe-centered, frilly pink petal ‘Party Dress’ Anemone certainly deserves its fancy name, and it looks so festive in the garden swaying upon its nearly 36” slender stems.
It is a great plant for late summer color in the garden, and even into the fall until frost. The long, narrow double petals of its flower adds so much texture to the garden, and would really ‘pop’ alongside an evergreen boxwood hedge, or as a backdrop to a massing of green leaf hosta.
Source: Bluestone Perennials
The ‘Party Dress’ Japanese Anemone perennial is cold hardy from Zones 4 – 8 (some sources say to Zone 9). And it is tolerant of range of soil types, and likes full sun to partial shade. This perennial does best in normal to acid soil pH, and average to moist/wet soil conditions.
It has small round green buds, and both the buds and the pink blooms would be a pretty accent in a cut flower arrangement.
Source: Connon Nurseries
‘Party Dress’ Anemone’s botanical name is Anemone x hybrida ‘Party Dress’. It attracts butterflies to the landscape, and is deer and rabbit resistant.
Source: Perennial com
There are so many different varieties of Japanese Anemones, and they have the attractive common name of Windflower.
What do you think of the ‘Party Dress’ Anemone?
