I tried them for several years but they never returned. Because they look like a clump of dirt, I decided to try once more but planted them in a regular flower pot that I buried. My reasoning was that if they didn't return, at least I could dig up the pot and sift the soil to find out if they rotted or what.

They returned. They multiplied. They returned again and multiplied more. Sooo, slow learner that I am, I dug up the pot, sifted out the multiplied corms and replanted them directly in the ground. End of them.

Moral of the story. If you have only one mole or vole on your block, it will find the anemones within a year and you will have no more. You don't need a cover on the pot - just a bottom & sides are good enough. I used a 6" pot.

I don't mulch my gardens because the snow covers the gardens before the ground freezes here.

ooh ooh! Let me make sure I understand. You plant them in 6" clay pots? How many corms to a pot? I ask because I have them started, as I noted above, under lights in 6" clay pots and put 4-5 of them per pot. Do you think they'll get too crowded like that? And is it your impression that the pots not only protected them from critters but gave them some winter weather protection? And where did you plant them--sun, shade, in between?

Please excuse the laundry list of questions, but I'm very excited by your success--well, up until the end. :-)

Thanks Hoehum for the tip. I love these flowers but have never gotten them to return. Now maybe I can.

Springcherry

I haven't gotten them to return either, though I, too, succumbed to them at the flower show this year. What I've heard is that it is not just our winters that they don't tolerate well, but our summers. I'm glad to hear that someone had luck with them in our region!