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Adonis vernalis from the European mountains.
Grows in a sunny spot in the rockgarden in rather alkaline soil.

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Peter George

Mon, 03/28/2011 - 6:21pm

I haven't seen the tiniest sign of mine yet this year. Last year they were beautiful, and I got a bunch more seedlings. I hope they come back as I want fill a  large area of them to replace some invasive Campanula punctata and Chrysanthemum weyrichii that I'm removing.

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Cliff Booker

Tue, 03/29/2011 - 1:02am

Mine (three large pots) haven't reappeared this year either, Peter ... not a sign (and I have, of course, delved down with a finger)?

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Mark McDonough

Tue, 03/29/2011 - 4:44am

Marvelous photos guys, the plants so sunny and welcoming, on two continents and flowering the same time! 

Peter, I might just have to relieve some of your burden of too many Adonis seedlings by taking a few off your hands ;D  Believe it or not, my garden is bereft of Adonis.  Did you get a new camera, that is heck of a good photo!

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Peter George

Tue, 03/29/2011 - 8:48am

I could get a new camera, but what I need is a new photographer. My daughter took that photo, and those are the A. vernalis that I planted on a hill in front of her house 3 years ago. She has a much better setting for them, and I planted 8 plants, which  tripled in size in 2 years and produced a magnificent display last spring. I have one 'big' plant, and maybe 6 seedlings, which IF they come back this year will give me an opportunity to replicate my efforts in Winchester, NH. The photo here is of my much more modest planting, taken 2 years ago.

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Todd Boland

Mon, 04/04/2011 - 3:04am

Have truied many times from seed but can never get fresh one so a no go or show.  can't even find a source in canada for plants.

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Trond Hoy

Mon, 04/04/2011 - 9:58am

Beautiful Adonis, everybody! One of my former  favorite genera but here the greedy gastropods share my interests but they prefere to devour the plants :( :(

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Todd Boland

Wed, 04/06/2011 - 8:18am

Fraser's will not have them available until next year, but it's on my list!  Amurensis would do far better in my wet area than vernalis so I'll hold back on Wrightmans...as it is I just ordered 14 plants from him and 21 from Frasers!  I'm a sick puppy!  LOL!

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Trond Hoy

Wed, 04/06/2011 - 11:41am
Todd wrote:

Fraser's will not have them available until next year, but it's on my list!  Amurensis would do far better in my wet area than vernalis so I'll hold back on Wrightmans...as it is I just ordered 14 plants from him and 21 from Frasers!  I'm a sick puppy!  LOL!

Well Todd, in a way I am glad I can't easily order from those nurseries or it had been two of us ;D ;D

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WimB (not verified)

Fri, 04/08/2011 - 9:58am
RickR wrote:

From a division sent to me by a friend last June.

Adonis amurensis 'Fukujukai'

Rick, Adonis 'Fukujukai' is a very beautiful cultivar and one of the quickest to multiply. It's not an amurensis though, Adonis 'Fukujukai' is a sterile cultivar, a cross between A. amurensis subsp. multiflora and A. ramosa.

Here are some of the cultivars which have flowered here this year:

Adonis 'Beni-Nadeshiko'
Adonis 'Flore-Pleno'
Adonis 'Hakuju'

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Richard T. Rodich

Fri, 04/08/2011 - 9:29pm

Thanks Wim.
I'm just tickled that it survived so well. 
You're certainly right about its vigor!

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cohan (not verified)

Wed, 04/20/2011 - 7:52pm

What could be better in spring than sunshine springing out of the ground!
Love the orange and cream cultivars/hybrids!