Common name: Windflower

Description: Anemone blanda 'Harmony Orchid' bears charming soft orchid-pink daisy-like flowers with bright yellow centres from late winter into mid-spring. The finely divided, ferny foliage carpets the ground in a delicate display before dying back after flowering. This vigorous naturaliser is perfect for rockeries, woodland-edge plantings, or beneath deciduous trees and shrubs where it will gradually spread into cheerful drifts. An easy, low-maintenance bulb that rewards with reliable colour year after year.

Other benefits: naturalises freely, early colour, low maintenance

Wildlife attraction: bees, early pollinators

Height & spread (approx.) at 10 years: 15cm x 15cm

Position: full sun to partial shade

Soil pH: neutral to slightly alkaline

Moisture: well-drained; tolerates dry summer dormancy

Winter hardiness: cold hardy to -20°C