How to Grow Anemone Sylvestris Plants in your Garden

Gardener's HQ Guide to Growing Snowdrop Anemone

Anemone sylvestris is a perennial, flowering groundcover that is a part of the Ranunculaceae family of plants.

It also goes by the common names Snowdrop anemone and Snowdrop windflower.

Anemone sylvestris is often used as a floral groundcover to give visual interest in gardens, under bushes, or along bed borders.

Snowdrop Anemone photograph by daryl_mitchell.

The perennial can grow up to 18 inches tall (45 cm), and the dark green foliage can spread out 12 - 18 inches (30 to 45 cm) from the root of the plant.

Cup-shaped, white flowers that can reach up to 2 inches wide (5 cm), long lasting blooms in early spring to late summer, and bring fragrance to the groundcover.

The white anemone flower blooms give way to white, wool-like seed heads during the summer, and repeat blooms can occur in the cooler weather of the fall.

Gardener's HQ Anemone sylvestris Growing Guide

Anemone sylvestris is best grown in hardiness zones 3 to 8 and prefers to be planted in an area that is partial to fully shaded.

It requires a medium amount of water and spreads quickest in moist, sandy soils.

It is recommended that the plant be grown in soil that is between a sandy and clay-like consistency; this can help to prevent it from spreading too aggressively.

The Anemone sylvestris plant reproduces through its underground root systems but can be manually spread by division in the early spring.

A low-maintenance plant, anemone sylvestris, needs only to be pruned for border clean-up, or cut back to the basal foliage after it blooms to promote another round of flowers in the summer or the early fall. Anemone is a deer resistant flower.

I hope that you enjoyed this guide on how to grow Anemone sylvestris. You may also enjoy the following Gardener's HQ growing guides: How to grow Larkspur and Thalictrum plants.