Anemonella thalictroides

Are these the same as the wild anemome?

No, those are Anemone nemorosa - but you can get cultivated A. nemorosa plants - I have a pale mauve one and a double.

Love the way the stamens show against the white. Its great we all have these fancy cameras that mean you can get close up to these little plants and appreciate them all the more(with a lot of grovelling about on the ground lol)

It's just as well that the neighbours can't see me crouching in the flowerbeds or even lying down to get a photo!

I think my neighbours just put me down as eccentric! Very pretty little flower.

Mine KNOW I'm round the bend! They are not gardeners, and when they see me, I always have a trowel or secateurs in my hand...and I'm often on my hands and knees, as well!

Do you wear Sarah Raven style clothes as well Spritz? lol

Errr, no. Old ones! With mud on them!

Is that a Brunnera leaf to the left of it Spritz?

It is indeed! It's 'Jack Frost'...

Lol,like me also with leaves in hair and chatting to Mr,Nobody..........

Yesterday I was climbing about amongst the shrubs and a rose thorn grabbed me from behind - I was STUCK... I was almost yelling at it to let go! How daft is that? :-O

Sounds quite normal to me. The time my neighbours thought I'd lost it, I was as usual bent double, bottom in the air weeding when Misty jumped on my back. I could have won the high jump gold medal -it was such a shock. When I looked round himself was at the kitchen window laughing fit to bust!

Well, that's what they do... mine has his uses, but I wouldn't trust him with a trowel and his idea of pruning is to HACK anything that gets in his way!

Mine shouts at me whenever I pick up the seccateurs - he would have us living in a jungle.

Is he the pruning king, then?

Pruning is a dirty word to him - let them grow as much as they want, that's his idea.

Opposite to mine, then - he thinks that paths need to be clear of plants, that all climbing plants should stay back tight to the trellis...I am always finding pieces of Pyracantha on the ground where he has decided to chop them off....he says I should prune everything hard as they always grow back!!!

Stop backbiting the men. My wife is exactly the same - She wants to keep the neighbours from looking in, no matter what! I wait for her to go for a walk or whatever and then I judiciously prune (hoping she won't notice, he he

Beautiful little plant, by the way

Sorrreeee Vincent!!

Let's gang up on him, Spritz. What do you think, Mrs Dunne?

Why not??? Pruning on the sly, indeed!