Do Japanese anemones re flower

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• Pete.8 Posts: 11,340

  September 2023

  I've had a patch of them since I moved here 37 years ago and they've never reflowered.
  I've never fed them and never watered them.

  
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• Jemula Posts: 196

  September 2023

  The "Swan" series of anemones have a very long flowering season.  I have Elfin Swan which has been flowering since late May.

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• Plantminded Posts: 3,580

  September 2023

  I'd just remove the brown flowers and stems, to improve the appearance.  There's lots of new buds forming so that's a good sign. One I thought I had removed reappeared this year and is giving a really good show.  I feel guilty about trying to remove it now!  The white is really quite eye catching.

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• Copperdog Posts: 617

  September 2023

  Thankyou everyone I love the white ones too. I gave honorie jobert in a bed and it’s around 6ft tall and looking fab. I think I’ll have to rethink these pot bound ones 

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• GardenerSuze Posts: 5,692

  September 2023 edited September 2023

  I think they may have just gone over in the heat. I grew them in my old garden and they did need watering.
  Japanese Anemones are one plant that I would say needs to be in the ground. However my knowledge comes from the days when A Honourine Jobert and A Whirlwind flowered in the Autumn and never in the summer months. Just these two whites and nothing like what is available now. They are still amoungst the best but I assume the flowering season is now extended by these new varieties?
  Great plants for part shade too where white flowers always look their best.

  I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.

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• bertrand-mabel Posts: 2,697

  September 2023

  We are  possibly the only garden that this flower just went. It was a lovely white one from somebody in the village. Did really well for a few years and then nothing.
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• Fairygirl Posts: 55,117

  September 2023

  I only grow the white ones now, and they're ideal if you have consistently moist soil. They wouldn't really suit pots long term.
  I've never had a problem with them being invasive in any way. Some spread a bit more rapidly than others, but it seems to be the pink ones that can be more problematic, especially if you have drier soil. Some of the newer varieties can be fussy and short lived for some people. 
  You can deadhead, and if you take the stem back properly to a joint, you encourage branching stems, but the flower you take off won't re flower. I rarely bother deadheading though. It's useful to have some seedlings to transplant, although they can take a while to get going after that. 

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• JennyJ Posts: 10,576

  September 2023 edited September 2023

  I never bother deadheading either (mine are the old-fashioned white one, A. "Honorine Jobert"). They flower from about mid-August through into October anyway, depending a bit on the weather, so it doesn't seem worth the effort.

  I've recently planted a pink, A. "Robustissima", in a really dry, somewhat shady spot (root run of a big Prunus ceracifera nigra) where I'm hoping it will establish, but not so well that I regret it . It's a tough spot where nothing much grows except for some variegated Vinca major.
  

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• Copperdog Posts: 617

  September 2023

  Thankyou everyone for your help. I always thought they preferred dry soil as that seems to be the situation I see them thriving in. But agree the pots are prob def not helping and they’ve been in there for around 10 years 🫣

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