Description
(Kin Sai)
(golden tuft)
This has fully doubled, pale yellow flowers with finely lacerated, almost feather-like, petals. These are held together on opening, so that the plant almost looks like a dwarf, yellow thistle but with age they reflex back in the normal fashion to reveal a gorgeous, spidery yellow flower. These develop a lovely, pale orange infusion towards the petal tips with time, this is most pronounced in the oldest flowers..
Quite an old cultivar but one which is still exceedingly rare, having almost been lost to cultivation. This is one of the earliest of all of the Adonis cultivars to flower in the Spring.
Gardening practice is to call all Japanese cultivars amurensis though it is more correctly “amurensis of Horticulture”.
They are all very early-flowering plants for a damp, humus-rich but well-drained, lightly-shaded spot. Adonis seem to resent transplanting even more than most other Ranunculaceae, a family notorious for their dislike of being moved. Please be patient with them (and with us) as this is down to evolution, not the nurseryman.
