ANEMONE 'WHIRLWIND'

Anemone 'Whirlwind' took me by surprise today.  I was taking photographs of a sunflower and suddenly realised that it was surrounded by white flowers.  They seem to have shot out of nowhere.  I had planted the anemone, which I bought in a pot earlier this year, behind and rather close to Anemone September Charm, too close really, but it has worked out quite well.  The white flowers of Whirlwind stand taller behind the pink flowers of September Charm and have a different habit which, I imagine, accounts for its name: there are several semi-double flowers produced in a whirl at the end of upright stems.

Anemone 'Whirlwind'

Anemone 'Whirlwind' is perfect for pollinating insects

The label says that Anemone 'Whirlwind' is a valuable late-summer flowering perennial bearing cup-shaped, semi-double white flowers on erect stems.  It adds useful height to the rear of beds and borders.  It's suitable for sun or semi-shade in any fertile, well-drained garden soil.  It flowers late summer to early autumn and achieve a height of approximately 90cm (36in) and spread of 45cm (18in).  Stems should be cut down to ground level after flowering has finished. 

Anemone 'Whirlwind'