Last spring I bought one package of purple anemone rhizomes. They bloomed nicely in the spring and then again in the fall and now some of them are coming back a third time this year:
We do not get freezes often here in the Palm Desert area, but recently, the weather did dip down to 29 degrees F for a bit while I was away on a trip and when I returned, some of my plants were dead. I think.
Sometimes they fool me by looking dead and then coming back. But it was nice to come back and find something blooming in the back yard.
Oddly, there was one pink anemone back there too. A neighbor had given me a clay planter with some old dirt in it sometime back, and not having had a chance to plant anything, I put it under a drain spout before going away. When I returned from my trip, the pot was filled with foliage and this flower was just starting to open, with several more buds coming up around it.
Obviously it rained some while I was gone.
The rain brings snow to the mountain tops this time of year even when it is sunny and nice down below. Here is a photo I took from the trail up to Hemet's intriguing Stone Maze:
My post about the Maze is here.
