Description

Anemone coronaria Lord Lieutenant is a standout variety for customers who want crisp, high impact spring flowers with a clean, florist quality look. These anemones produce bold daisy like blooms with a dark central eye on slender but useful stems, making them as valuable for cutting as they are for garden display. They suit beds, borders and large pots, and they are particularly effective planted in groups for a dense, showy patch of colour.

The flower form is a major selling point: wide, smooth petals arranged around a dramatic centre, giving a striking contrast that reads well at distance. In planting design, they pair well with tulips, ranunculus, muscari and early perennials, and they also work in pollinator friendly spring borders where the open centres can be visited in milder weather.

For best results, soak the corms for a few hours before planting. Plant in autumn for spring flowering, or in early spring for later blooms, in a sunny to lightly sheltered position with free draining soil. Anemones dislike sitting wet, so drainage matters in Irish conditions. Keep evenly moist during growth, but avoid waterlogging. Deadhead to prolong flowering, and once foliage yellows allow it to die back naturally. In well drained beds corms can often be left in place, but in wet sites lifting and drying after flowering improves reliability.