Anemone levante Blue

Anemone levante Blue

(Anemone coronaria — Levante® Series — Italian Professional Breeding)

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Anemone Levante Blue belongs to the prestigious Italian Levante® breeding program, internationally recognized for producing elite anemone cultivars for professional floriculture.

The Levante® series is renowned for vigorous growth, early flowering, exceptional flower size, excellent stem quality, and outstanding garden performance, making it highly valued by both commercial flower growers and home gardeners.

Levante Blue is distinguished by its brilliant blue-violet blooms surrounding a contrasting dark center that creates remarkable depth and visual impact. The flowers are carried on long, strong florist-grade stems, making them ideal for premium cut flower production, wedding bouquets, luxury floral arrangements, and elegant cool-season landscapes.

Combining early flowering, vigorous growth, high productivity, and excellent adaptability, Anemone Levante Blue is an outstanding cultivar for both professional floriculture and ornamental garden display.

Variety Details

• Botanical Name: Anemone coronaria
• Series: Levante®
• Cultivar: Blue
• Family: Ranunculaceae
• Plant Type: Tuberous perennial – cool-season flowering
• Habit: Upright flowering stems from basal foliage
• Flower Form: Extra-large single – Fully double — fluffy, multi-layered petals — the defining and unprecedented characteristic of the
• Levante® series
• Flower Color: Brilliant blue-violet with a contrasting dark center
• Stem Height: 20–30 cm — strong, longer and more resilient than Mistral series
• Vase Life: 10+ days — confirmed; greater durability than standard anemones
• Days to Flower: Approximately 90 days from planting (Levante series flowers earlier than Mistral series)
• Uses: Premium cut flowers, wedding bouquets, luxury floral arrangements, patio containers, ornamental borders, collector gardens, and landscaping.

Key Features

• Premium Italian breeding from the renowned Levante® series.
• Brilliant blue-violet flowers with a contrasting dark center.
• Extra-large single blooms with exceptional ornamental value.
• Long, straight florist-grade stems.
• Early flowering with vigorous and uniform growth.
• Excellent productivity and garden performance.
• Outstanding cut flower quality with excellent vase life.
• Ideal for premium cut flower production, luxury floral arrangements, collector gardens, and elegant cool-season landscapes.

Plant Information

• Plant Type: Tuberous perennial – cool-season flowering
• Growth Habit: Compact basal foliage with upright flowering stems
• Plant Height: Approximately 30–40 cm
• Flower Form: Extra-large single flowers with silky overlapping petals surrounding a prominent dark center
• Flower Color: Brilliant blue-violet with a contrasting black center
• Corm Size: Professional Grade 4/5
• Vase Life: Approximately 10 days or longer with proper care
• Light Requirements: Full sun to light partial shade
• Planting Depth: 5–7 cm
• Plant Spacing: 10–20 cm

Germination Instructions

• Before planting, soak your Levante® Blu anemone corms in room-temperature water for 3–4 hours — shorter than the 6–12 hours required for Mistral series corms.
• Let a little water trickle into the soaking bowl to increase the oxygen in the water.
• After soaking, the corms can either be planted directly into the ground or pre-sprouted inside.
• For pre-sprouting, place the corms in flats with drainage holes, cover the corms lightly in moist soil, store at 7°C (45°F), and check on them daily.
• Plant corms with the pointed side down in well-draining soil, 5–7 cm deep, spacing 10–15 cm apart.
• If the pointed side cannot be identified, plant on the side — the growing point will orient itself naturally.
• Keep soil temperature below 15°C during the root growth phase for optimal development.
• Anemones thrive with a cool start to promote strong root development and optimal flowering, growing best with a soil temperature of 5–10°C during the initial phase.
• For floral arrangements, cut stems for bouquet making when the buds are just starting to show color for the longest vase life.
• Cut the stems on the diagonal for best hydration.
• They are heavy drinkers — vase life increases with fresh water daily and keeping flowers away from direct sunlight and heat sources.
• In Kuwait, plant corms directly outdoors in mid-September to October once temperatures begin to moderate from summer heat.

Growing Tips

• Levante® Blu grows well in the garden, in pots, or in a cool greenhouse.
• Not fully winter hardy but tolerates light frost down to -5°C.
• Corms can be stored after flowering and replanted, allowing enjoyment for multiple seasons.
• Anemones thrive with a cool start for strong root development — keep soil temperature below 15°C during root growth.
• Water regularly but avoid waterlogging — the corms are susceptible to rot when dormant in wet soil.
• They do not like to be wet when dormant, so it is best to lift corms if the planting area will be watered once dormancy begins.
• For cut flowers, cut stems on the diagonal for best hydration and provide fresh water daily — Levante® anemones are heavy drinkers, and vase life increases with consistent fresh water.
• Keep away from direct sunlight and heat sources after cutting to maximize vase life.
• The fully double form of Levante® Blue — the characteristic that distinguishes it from every previous anemone series — is best appreciated at the fully open stage where all petal layers are visible.
• Unlike the single open-faced Mistral varieties where the dramatic black center is immediately prominent, the fully double Levante® Blue reveals its center gradually as the outer petal layers unfold — making the bloom’s opening stage a visual event in itself.
• In Kuwait’s cool season, the vibrant blue-violet of Levante® Blu registers most vividly in the clear, lower-angle winter light of December through February.

Gulf Planting Season

• Plant corms outdoors: Mid-September to October, once temperatures begin to moderate
  Soil temperature during root growth: Keep below 15°C — cool start is essential for optimal development
  Days to flowering: Approximately 90 days from planting — earlier than Mistral series
  Flowering: December through March for mid-September-planted corms
  Flowering continues: Until temperatures routinely exceed 21°C
  Lift and store corms: After foliage dies back naturally — corms do not like to be wet when dormant
  Note: Levante® Blu is the most recently released and most technically advanced anemone variety in this catalogue — the fully double form represents a genuine first in commercial anemone breeding that only became available in 2023.
• In Kuwait’s cool-season cutting garden, the Levante® series is confirmed to bloom earlier and more abundantly than standard anemone varieties, making mid-September to October the optimal planting window for first blooms from December onward.
• The fully double flower form of Levante® Blu changes the visual character of the anemone entirely — where the single open-faced Mistral varieties present as large, flat, poppy-like blooms where the dark center is immediately and dramatically visible, Levante® Blu presents as a dense, rounded, many-petalled bloom that more closely resembles a small double ranunculus or peony in form.
• This form difference makes Levante® Blu the most suitable anemone for mixed bouquet use alongside ranunculus varieties in this catalogue — the doubled form providing visual compatibility with the doubled ranunculus while the true-blue color provides the one tone that no ranunculus variety in this collection can deliver.

Companion Planting

• Levante® Blu is primarily grown for its outstanding ornamental and cut flower value as the most advanced and recently released anemone series available.
• In the cool-season garden, the vibrant true blue-violet fully double blooms of Levante® Blu create the most sophisticated color and form combination available in any single variety in this catalogue — full doubling in true blue, a combination that was not available in any anemone series before 2023.
• Companion planting around Levante® Blu should priorities color contrasts that allow the true blue to register at maximum vividness.
• Pure white companions — white lisianthus, white snapdragons, or white Levante® Bianco from the same series — provide the classic blue-and-white combination of exceptional elegance that allows the blue to appear most saturated by contrast.
• Warm orange or golden-yellow companions such as Elegance® Clementin ranunculus provide the strongest color-wheel complementary contrast to the blue-violet of Levante® Blu — blue and orange being directly complementary colors that mutually intensify each other in arrangement.
• Silver-leaved dusty miller provides a neutral metallic backdrop that prevents the blue from deepening to purple in shadow, maintaining its blue character across varying light conditions in the garden.

Garden & Floristry Uses

• Anemone Levante Blue is an outstanding cultivar for premium cut flower production, wedding bouquets, luxury floral arrangements, collector gardens, patio containers, ornamental borders, and elegant landscape planting.
• Its vivid blue-violet flowers create dramatic focal points in bouquets and floral designs while providing exceptional visual impact in cool-season gardens.