We are Japanese if you please



Japanese Anemone (Anemone Hybrida)

 Introduced in 1848, this wonderful autumn flowerer produces heads of striking, rounded, pink blooms with golden stamens.  You can grown them in sun or part-shade and they can become invasive.  This is what is says in the books, but mine, (I have had it a few years now), has hardly grown at all.  I was hoping for a mass of pink flowers spread across the flower bed.  No such luck - the plant is exactly the same size as when I put it in.  Not one of my better successes I'm afraid.


The back of the flowerhead is almost as pretty as the front



This cactus-type  Dahlia has such a large flower head, as big as a side plate, that I couldn't find a vase for it, so I snipped the stem to a couple of inches and have floated it in a dish.  It looks stunning, don't you think.