What color is Anemone blanda 'Charmer'? I have a patch of what's supposed to be this, but the variation in flower color tells me that the tubers were not all true to name. Perhaps they're all near-lookalike seedlings, or the stock became contaminated with seedlings; who knows what tricks the bulb trade was up to when I bought them? A few feet from this patch, a single clump turned up this year with flowers of an unusual color, best described as "fluorescent pink". Really: like a flamingo plugged into a neon sign! The flowers seem to be rather small for a cultivar of Anemone blanda, but the color is a real stunner. I have no idea if this is a chance seedling or simply a tuber from the main clump that was displaced during garden maintenance. Unfortunately, Google is hopeless. All the entries it kicks up on the first page are braindead nursery squibs with lots of irrelevant information and not very much that's on point. Does this little anemone sound like 'Charmer' to anyone familiar with the real thing, or is it "something else?" And if it's not 'Charmer', tell us what that famous cultivar looks like. PS: I have authentic Anemone blanda 'Radar' in my garden. It's bigger than this little interloper, and the color is deeper, though it makes much the same kind of spot of brilliant color. I don't know if my little interloper has a white center to the flowers, or not. -- Rodger Whitlock Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Maritime Zone 8, a cool Mediterranean climate on beautiful Vancouver Island