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PlantsAugust 15, 2024

Anemone 'Honorine Jobert' — the Best Late-Season Perennial for Denver

Pure-white, four-inch blooms from late summer into autumn — a shade-tolerant perennial that thrives in Denver landscapes.

If there's one perennial that consistently earns its keep in Denver landscapes from August through October, it's Anemone × hybrida 'Honorine Jobert'. Tall, elegant, pure-white blooms carried on wiry stems above deep-green foliage — it's the kind of plant that quietly steals the show at exactly the moment most gardens are winding down.

'Honorine Jobert' prefers part shade to filtered sun and consistently moist, well-drained soil. It's slow to establish but rewards patience with a dependable late-season display for decades. We use it as a foundation planting on the north and east sides of homes, where morning sun and afternoon shade suit it perfectly.

Pair it with hostas, ferns, astilbe, and hakone grass for a shade planting that reads calm and formal but bursts into bloom just as summer color fades. In a Denver landscape, that late-season extension of the display is priceless.

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