Clematis: Clematis chat for spring, 2 by Cem9165

Cem9165 wrote:
Everyone's stories are wonderful, but Lee, when I read yours it brought tears to my eyes. I'm so glad that we all have someone that inspired us to start gardening. The person that got me playing in dirt was my mother, and she was the one that was adventurous, and would try to grow everything. We still send each other pictures of our bloomng plants, and we just have the best time talking about them. She's even on DG periodically getting ideas for her rose garden, LOL. I turned her on to DG last year.

I wanted to share my Niobe, which I found blooming when I came home from work today. Between the watering with the garden hose that I did on Sunday because it was so dry, and the rain we've had this week, it's really stimulated the clemies to grow. I present Niobe with it's first open bloom, with a few more to come. What a surprise this was this evening.