I purchased a 1-QT honorine jobert anemone on sale from Park Seed and am wondering what the best spot would be to plant it. For light requirements it says "part shade" and mentions that it's a prolific "shade garden" performer. How shady is part shade? Shade garden makes me think full shade--say under a canopy of trees with fern and hosta. But part shade suggests that it could get a few hours of sun and be okay.

I could plant it with my row of purple coneflower seedlings in a partly shaded bed, but wondering if that's too many potentially invasive perennials in one spot. I'm in Columbus, OH.

I could also plant it in nearly full shade at the end of a hosta row under the canopy of a honeysuckle tree. The soil there stays more moist and gets eastern sun for a couple of hours in the morning.

Thanks in advance for your suggestions.

I grow a different anemone from yours and do so in almost 3/4 day full sun with good moisture. Folks in other parts of the country will probably tell you more shade, but this is what works for me.

Kevin

See the link for an appropriate thread from last fall

But part shade suggests that it could get a few hours of sun and be okay.

Part shade isn't the same as "dense shade" which I take to mean an area that gets no direct sun at all. Part shade in my garden is an area that gets some direct sun--either early/mid-morning or late afternoon--but not during the hottest part of the day and not for 6 hours or more.

I have an entire bed of hostas + other shade perennials in full shade but also have another bed with hostas, coral bells, Solomon's seal, astilbe, daylily, globeflower, toad lily and columbine, among others, that gets an hour or more of midday sun as well as a couple hours of late afternoon sun. Everything in both beds is thriving.

Pick your spot and then keep track of how H. Jobert goes on.

I'll give it a shot in my part shade bed with the rest of the perennials and see how it does!