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Verdun
09/09/2012 at 15:41
Planted anemone wild swan earlier this year and it is now flowering. Blue behind and pure white flowers with yellow centre. Looks. Fantastic. It was the star of Chelsea in 2011. Anyone else growing this?
susan hughes
13/09/2012 at 07:44

I am about to purchase some.  Aren't they beautiful?

jo4eyes
13/09/2012 at 08:53

I love mine. Got it at Tatton show last year. Mine seems to flower earlier than other JAs & so far is well behaved ie no thug tendency, but wouldnt mind if it did! J.

Gracie5
13/09/2012 at 16:59

This Anemone looks gorgeous and will have to add it to my list of plants to buy. Always a nuisance but when a plant is new,  it's difficult to find in garden centres. Anyone know where I can buy it? 

figrat
13/09/2012 at 17:54
a quick google search came up with quite a few suppliers, crocus, Thompson & morgan....but it ain't cheap IMHO!
Verdun
13/09/2012 at 22:54
Mine is nestling outside kitchen window between hellebore, euphorbia rubra , aster frikartii monch and bowles golden grass. Lots of buds opening every day but it really is a gem. Totally unlike the Japanese anemone. This is smaller, compact and CLASSY.
susan hughes
27/10/2012 at 12:42

I've ordered mine from Hayloft Plants - 3 for £18.50 or 5 for £24.00.  These will be supplied as young plants from July 2013 - can't wait.

JIMMMY
04/11/2012 at 16:41

Got mine from T&M, they were finally delivered mid Sept after many broken promises to deliver first before the end of May and then every month onwards.

They were rubbish plants with dead looking brown roots (they also had had rough treatment in transit) but T&M did not want to know, typical!

With a lot of TLC they now look as they have survived, as each plant has the inkling of a new green leaf on each one,hopefully they will grow on to be proper plants, no thanks to T&M or the Post !

Verdun
04/11/2012 at 19:19
Jimmy, this touches on a post earlier. T & M usually deliver pathetic quality plants in my opinion. The Wild Swan i received was a plant in a 2 litre pot and it flowered within 3 weeks, still is, just about. I would be surprised if I paid much more for mine than you did. I received an echinacea plant from T .& M a few years ago and it was pathetically small. I complained and got my money back...it clearly was not going to grow or at least not make any floweriing plant for a couple of years. They also supplied me with tiny bare root geraniums that cost as much as potted plants did. Jimmy, you should ask for your money back and buy from Crocus or Hardys.....bet you won't pay much more. Your bare root anemone MAY flower next year .....a potted plant WILL.
JIMMMY
05/11/2012 at 20:19

Hi Verdun,

Thanks,I have now learned my lesson the hard way, I foolishly ordered some more plants from them,amongst them anemone Queen Charlotte, they were £14.99 for three giant plugs plus a fiver postage.

When they arrived they were each a single stalk with a few more dead than alive leaves on them in miserable little plugs covered in moss, only fit for the compost bin!

T&M said all their plants were hand picked and were sorry I was disappointed so they refunded me my £14.99.

To crown it all I say the anemones QC in the local garden centre in 2lts pots for £7.99 each, plants you would be proud to own.

This is not the first time I have received total rubbish from T&M but never again, how they survive I do not know!

Cheers for the info!

Verdun
05/11/2012 at 20:36
Well done JIMMY. If more people complained standards would rise.
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