Anemone, Japanese Windflower, Japanese Anemone, Japanese Thimbleflower 'Pamina'

Hybrid Anemones are easy and lovely. 'Pamina' is a hybrid of A. hupehensis var. japonica and A. vitifolia. 'Pamina' has double flowers w...Read Moreith more elongated, less rounded, daisy-like petals than most garden varieties. Like most fall-blooming anemones, it will gradually spread and form a nice drift. You can let them stay where they emerge if they aren't blocking the view of smaller plants or move them around the garden.

I have a a few of these growing near black walnut trees and under a gigantic double-trunked cedar tree in Zone 4a. They are a mainstay o...Read Moref my shade garden. The foliage is attractive all year, and they provide lovely rosy-pink double flowers in the fall when little else is blooming. Once established, they require very little care. I plan to add more of these next year to this shade garden and to another garden on the eastern side of my house.

This plant didn't bloom until year 2, but is now a star for fall color in my zone 6a garden.

Pamina has attractive maple-like leaves and charming, soft pink flowers that bloom from late summer into early fall. I have it under a p...Read Moreine tree in full, bright shade. It performs wonderfully there, even though there is competion from tree roots and less than optimal light, and spreads in a polite manner. -I have her sister, 'Honorine Jobert', in moist part-shade and spreading is much more aggressive under those conditions. When blooming is finished, I cut the plants to the ground and remove any old tattered foliage to neaten appearance.