{"id":3519,"date":"2021-10-18T08:08:19","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T16:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/?p=3519"},"modified":"2021-10-18T08:08:19","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T16:08:19","slug":"honorine-jobert-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/honorine-jobert-2\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Honorine Jobert’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Anemone<\/a>By any measure, Anemone \u2018Honorine Jobert\u2019 is a citizen of the world.\u00a0 Descended from several Chinese species and long cultivated in Japan, the plant\u2019s parent was hybridized in England. That English hybrid found its way to France and, once established in the French garden of a man named Jobert, produced a white-flowered sport, or spontaneous genetic mutation.\u00a0 In keeping with horticultural tradition, M. Jobert named it Honorine, after his wife, or possibly, his daughter.\u00a0 Today, this lovely and celebrated multi-national is doing a star turn in my autumn garden.<\/p>\n

\u2018Honorine Jobert\u2019 was discovered in 1858, just before the American Civil War.\u00a0 It was a time of extravagance in fashion, and women who could afford to do so wore bell-like skirts, supported from underneath by cage crinolines made of concentric steel hoops.\u00a0 Sleeves were wide and exuberantly flounced.\u00a0 We can safely assume that all that fabric and steel made movement slow and cumbersome.<\/p>\n

It would have been difficult for any plant to be more over-the-top than a fashionable mid-Victorian woman, but \u2018Honorine Jobert\u2019 fit right in.\u00a0 Rising to about three feet on slender but sturdy stems,\u00a0 \u2018Honorine\u2019 produces round pinkish-white buds, starting at the end of summer and continuing through fall.\u00a0 Those buds open into pure white, frilly, flowers with double rows of petals that always remind me of a ballerina\u2019s tutu.\u00a0 The petals reach outward from pale green disk-shaped centers surrounded by halos of fluffy golden stamens. The mounding leaves are attractive in their own right,–dark green, with three lobes apiece.\u00a0 A collar of smaller leaves frames each flower.<\/p>\n

\u2018Honorine Jobert\u2019 is a Japanese anemone or windflower, sometimes known botanically as Anemone japonica.\u00a0 A garden stalwart since its discovery, it is part of a group of species and hybrids that have become favorites for late season color and the ability to dance in the wind.\u00a0 Many cultivars bloom in shades of pink or rose, but \u2018Honorine\u2019 stands out for its eye-catching white petals.<\/p>\n

\u2018Honorine\u2019 is what my English relatives would call \u201ca good grower\u201d.\u00a0 Great Britain\u2019s Royal Horticultural Society recognized this by bestowing its Award of Garden Merit in 1993, the Chicago Botanic Garden gave it high marks in 2003 after rigorous field trials, and the American Perennial Plant Society made \u2018Honorine Jobert\u2019 its \u201cPerennial Plant of the Year\u201d back in 2016.\u00a0 Not bad for a 158 year-old lady.<\/p>\n

The plants don\u2019t ask for much and perform well in full sun or light shade.\u00a0 Consistent moisture is nice, but they will carry on if rain is scanty or gardeners are forgetful about watering.\u00a0 They also make excellent cut flowers, even after the petals depart the scene.\u00a0 In fact, some flower arrangers deliberately use only the button-like green seedheads in fall arrangements.<\/p>\n

\u2018Honorine\u2019 has a tendency to self-seed in congenial situations, which some people find annoying.\u00a0 I wouldn\u2019t call it invasive, and neither do most gardeners.\u00a0 If this particular Japanese anemone or any of its fall-blooming relatives become too obstreperous, the offspring are easy to pull out.\u00a0 You can consign them to the compost pile, but ask gardening friends first. Some may appreciate the beautiful fall flowers that will come from your unwanted anemones.<\/p>\n

Several sources allege that \u2018Honorine\u2019 is not attractive to deer and rabbits.\u00a0 Clearly the deer that frequent my garden have not heard about that and for the last several years have eaten the flower buds off all but a few of my plants.\u00a0 This year their appetites were completely sated by the asters in the back garden and they ignored the anemones.\u00a0 As the result, I have a wonderful display of frilly white blooms.<\/p>\n

I will accept good fortune when it appears and remember the deer spray next season.<\/p>\n

\u2018Honorine\u2019 and her fall-blooming relatives will also work in containers, but I would grow them in one-gallon nursery pots and drop them into larger, decorative containers when the flower buds appear.\u00a0 This \u201cdrop in, drop out\u201d method ensures that you always have fresh, seasonal blooms and foliage in your display containers.<\/p>\n

Hoop skirts are long gone from the fashion scene\u2014and deservedly so\u2014but \u2018Honorine Jobert\u2019 goes on and on.\u00a0 You can sometimes find plants on sale at nurseries now, or order for spring delivery from Bluestone Perennials, 7211 Middle Ridge Rd. Madison, OH 44057; (800)852-5243<\/a>; www.bluestoneperennials.com.<\/p>\n

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By any measure, Anemone \u2018Honorine Jobert\u2019 is a citizen of the world.\u00a0 Descended from several Chinese species and long cultivated in Japan, the plant\u2019s parent was hybridized in England. That English hybrid found its way to France and, once established in the French garden of a man named Jobert, produced a white-flowered sport, or spontaneous … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,2,3],"tags":[2601,1347,634,1733,1349,451,2602],"class_list":["post-3519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall","category-general-interest","category-spring","category-summer","tag-anemone-jpaonica","tag-fall-blooming-anemone","tag-fall-flowers","tag-fall-perennials","tag-honorine-jobert","tag-japanese-anemone","tag-windflowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3521,"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3519\/revisions\/3521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}