Clematis: Clematis chat for spring, 2 by Cem9165

Cem9165 wrote:
Omoshiro has nice fat buds, it may be 10in. tall, but insists on blooming at that height. Niobe is starting to trail across the top of the fence, and has buds too.

Finally, I just wanted to show my Star anise tree. This is it's third year and it has some amazing blooms. It is planted in semi-shade, stays green all winter, and has been blooming for the past month, with the most blooms I've ever seen open this morning.

The weather here is gorgeous this morning, a cool 48*, and only getting into the low 70's today, thank goodness. Now if only the pollen would go away. The yellow powder that you seen on the Star anise tree is from all the pollen this past week. We broke records with counts over 9000, 8000, and so on this week. Everything here has a yellow tinge to it, and I can't wait for some rain to wash it away.