In a Vase, on Monday – Honouring Honorine

Chris Mousseau

Every Monday Cathy at Rambling in the Garden invites us to join her in sharing materials from our gardens. My camera went wonky this morning, resetting itself for some reason so that when I downloaded a few images the date was wrong and pix were taken and stored as .jpegs, instead of RAW. Very strange and a titch annoying, but I’d still like to share a tiny windowsill vase with Anemone ‘Honorine Jobert’ – which is displaying the final blooms on magnificent six feet – almost two metres – stalks. It’s one of the flowers that survived last week’s light, overnight frosts.

23 Comments

  1. Oh I miss having Anemone ‘Honorine Jobert’ in the garden especially seeing those twisty stems bobbing with these stunning flowers. They are quite beautiful in your vase.

  2. Splendid! I had envied ‘Honorine Jobert’ for years. Such anemones are very rare here, but because I had seen a few performing well, I knew that they could be happy here. A few sickly pink anemone ‘survived’ in one of our landscapes at work, but were never happy about it. Suddenly, just this year (!), our anemone started to grow well for no apparent reason, a neighbor brought me some pink anemone from his garden (which could be the same as what is already here), and another neighbor installed a few specimens of ‘Honorine Jobert’ (!) that I can ‘borrow’ bits from as they grow later.

  4. Never heard of a RAW image – are these meant to be better than jpegs or something?! 😉 Six feet is an admirable size for your anemone, but it was nice to see the blooms close up in your vase. Thanks for squeezing a vase in today

    1. “A RAW file is lossless, meaning it captures uncompressed data from your camera sensor. Sometimes referred to as a digital negative, you can think of a RAW file as the raw “ingredients” of a photo that will need to be processed in order to bring out the picture’s full potential.” But, silver lining, shooting in .jpeg mode means much faster editing and blog posting 🙂

  5. I love Japanese anemones but I’ve been left with a single clump, which took a hit by a severe heatwave in September and, this weekend, was trounced again by our Santa Ana (“devil”) winds. I haven’t even had the heart to look to see if there are any flowers left.

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    1. I think it helps that mine are so tall this year that the flowers are amidst the lower branches of a pagoda dogwood, providing some shade but also wind protection…

    1. I know! They’ve never lasted this long before. Mind you, they also have never been this tall…the wet spring and early summer plus the current warm spell can be thanked I guess!

  9. Our native anemones are quite short and much smaller; these are just glorious. The centers are rather dramatic, aren’t they? And that color! I especially like the vase. If I thought about it a bit I could date it for you, since my grandmother had one almost exactly like it!

    1. The colour is fabulous…I find them to he one of the most photogenic flowers as well! So, this tiny vase is…tiny! Barely 3 1/2″ high. Stamped Made in Japan on the bottom.

  11. Honorine really is lovely. 😃 And your vase is very nice too! She must be happy in your garden if she’s that tall. One of my Anemones also survived two light frosts. They are tough plants!

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