
How to plant and care for Japanese Anemone (Honorine Jobert)
Anemone × hybrida 'Honorine Jobert'
🌸 Flower
🔁 Perennial
Pure white, golden-eyed flowers swaying on tall stems from August to October — the best late flowers for shade. Spreads slowly once settled.
When to plant and care for it
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Flowers
Timed for a typical UK garden (last frost mid-April). The app uses your own town's frost dates.
Growing Japanese Anemone (Honorine Jobert): what it needs
- Light
- Part shade · 6+ hours a day
- Watering
- Water well until established, then in dry spells
- Soil
- Fertile, well-drained soil
- Spacing
- 60 cm
- Height
- 1.2 m
- In pots
- Best in the ground
- Feeding
- A little general feed in spring
- Hardiness
- USDA zones 4–8
Step by step
- On planting day
Plant
Plant at the same depth as it was in its pot, 60 cm apart, and firm in.
- 0–1 days after “Plant”
Water In Well
Give a full can of water, then keep moist for the first few weeks while roots establish.
- 7–14 days after “Water In Well”
Mulch Around the Base
Spread 5 cm of compost or bark around the plant, keeping it off the stems.
Every year
- SeptemberIn Flower
White flowers glowing in the shade — take a photo.
- NovemberCut Back
Cut the dead stems to the ground and mulch.





