Anemone x hybrida 'Honorine Jobert'
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Tried and True Recommended by 8 Professionals
Common Name: windflower
Type: Herbaceous perennial
Family: Ranunculaceae
Zone: 4 to 8
Garden Location: Enterprise Rent-A-Car Flower Borders, Jordan Charitable Foundation Ornamental Shade Garden and Overlook, Jane and Whitney Harris Secret Garden
Height: 3 to 4 feet
Spread: 1.5 to 2 feet
Bloom Time: August to September
Bloom Color: White
Bloom Description: White with yellow stamens
Sun: Full sun to part shade
Water: Medium
Maintenance: Low
Flowers: Showy Flowers
Tolerates: Deer
Uses: Cut Flower, Will Naturalize

Culture

Easily grown in average, medium, well-drained soil in full sun to part shade. Best in part shade with protection from wind. Foliage tends to burn in hot, dry, sunny summer conditions. Prefers consistently moist, humusy soils with good drainage. Soils must not be allowed to dry out. Avoid wet, poorly drained soils, however, particularly in winter. May be slow to establish, but naturalizes well in optimum growing conditions.

Noteworthy Characteristics

'Honorine Jobert' is a vigorous, fibrous-rooted, mounding, compact Japanese anemone hybrid cultivar which typically grows to 3-4' tall and spreads by creeping rhizomes. Single flowers (2-3" diameter) with 6-9 overlapping white petaloid sepals and yellow center stamens appear on long, wiry-but-graceful, branching stems over an attractive foliage mound of trifoliate dark green leaves. Lengthy August to September bloom period. Japanese anemone cultivars are commonly sold as Anemone x hybrida or Anemone japonica. 'Honorine Jobert' is an old garden hybrid discovered in Verdun, France in 1858. Synonymous with A. x hybrida 'Alba'.

Plant of Merit

Although discovered in 1858 in Verdun, France, this fall-blooming anemone remains an outstanding late-blooming selection. Ideal for naturalizing in moist soils in partially shaded borders, cottage gardens or open woodland areas. Typically grows 3-4 feet tall and features 2-3 inch diameter flowers with white sepals and contrasting yellow centers. Blooms late summer to frost atop wiry-but-graceful stems rising above an attractive mound of trifoliate dark green leaves.

Problems

No serious insect or disease problems. Taller plants may need some support.

Garden Uses

Perennial borders, cottage gardens, open woodland gardens.

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