Premature!......

..........This is a Japanese Anemone - a different sort from yesterdays though related! - (Snowdrop anemone) - (Anemone sylvestris) I was having a little wander and suddenly saw this - it is at least a month early and like most things born early, is much smaller than it really should be - about one and a half to two inches across. I don't think it needs to be an incubator though!

Have a peek on large!

I wish it had opened yesterday because the BOUI (bits of useless information) I wrote then are really more applicable to this variety than to the de Caen Anemones! Never mind!

So here goes with todays BOUI - (bits of useless information):-

"Japanese anemones are commonly known as windflowers. The word anemone is derived from the Greek word meaning daughter of the wind. It’s very ironic since the perennial anemone should be sheltered from the wind. Somebody in the common name department got a bit mixed up because Japanese anemones are actually native to China. The hybrids we know today were developed 125 years ago by English, French and German breeders using Anemone vitifloria and A. hupehensis var. japonica, so they are completely man developed plants despite their very simple appearance."
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Unfortunately Pittsburg was not very kind to Anni yesterday
- lots and lots of rain!! At least the weather helped to give her picture a scariness it would not have had if the sun had been shining!

Sunny here this morning - not cold - 51Deg.F.

Hope you are having a good weekend and (in the UK) remembered to alter all your clocks!