With a brand new-to-me garden to fill up, I need plant ideas, especially shade-loving perennials, so where better to look than the garden of our perennials specialist Larry Hurley?
Once called Anemone japonica, Anemone tomentosa, and a few other species, the various plants offered in horticulture are now considered to be hybrids of several species, and the official name for most of them is Anemone x hybrida, followed by some catchy cultivar name like ‘Honorine Jobert’.