Gardens Illustrated Magazine

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5 bulbs The colour blue performs an extremely important job in the way it makes a garden seem to recede. And with this beautiful anemone you get a wonderful smudge of violet blue to grey sidling off and away into the distance. It bears large, cup-shaped, violet-blue flowers that have black centres. The flowers float above attractive, finely toothed, mid-green foliage.

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