Anemone Wild Swan and Dreaming Swan

* Common name: Anemone Wild Swan and Dreaming Swan

* Botanical name: Anemone ‘Macane001’ and ‘Macane004’

* What it is: Most perennial flowers bloom only for a few weeks of the year, but these two new hybrid anemones start blooming in June and keep producing into fall. Flowers are nodding white ones with purplish-blue backs. Petals emerge from a flat, yellow central cone. Dreaming Swan is slightly bigger in flower size and height than Wild Swan.

* Size: Wild Swan grows about 18 inches tall. Dreaming Swan grows about 24 inches tall. Both spread 2 feet wide and don’t seed around like some Japanese anemones.

* Where to use: Ideal lighting is morning sun and afternoon shade or dappled sunlight all day. Works well in a perennial garden, along a partly shaded border, or along an eastern house foundation.

* Care: Keep the soil consistently damp the first season to establish the roots, then water weekly in hot, dry weather. Scatter a balanced organic or slow-acting fertilizer around the base of plants each spring. Snip off flower stalks when flowers finish and cut browned plants to the ground at the end of winter.

* Great partner: Pairs nicely with most any needled evergreen. Yellow-blooming coreopsis, yellow yarrow, and/or red daylilies good perennial partners.