Clematis: Spring is here!, 2 by kjuddy

kjuddy wrote:
Oh Pirl too bad you are so far away. Having a clemostabine extravaganza would be my specialty. I LOVE that cottage garden look where everything is running together but sometimes I tend to go a little overboard:) I just carved a tall mexican petunia out of my guara and now I see the other tall mexican petunia has a daylily in the middle of it. Was the petunia asleep when I planted a daylily on top of it??? I have no idea but this overplanting and underestimating how tall a plant will be when it is only 2 inches high are the reasons I must have a good shovel ready at all times. Every year I seem to have plants that need to be moved either up in the bed or back behind something else so they can be seen or else they are sitting on top of someone else and need to be moved.

Edited here to actually match the pictures in the order they are.

First photo is of 'the president' beginning to bloom my oldest clem and one of my very favorites. This one was damaged by a falling tree limb in the Christmas ice storm but he has rebounded nicely.

On another note here is a picture of my Jackmanii - the poor guy who just about lost to that euonymus bush. Yep I'm getting a few blooms but the second photo is of the stem. As you can see (I hope) there is a juncture there with two little stems coming out and going up the trellis. I'm trying to decide whether to leave him be or to cover that juncture with soil or mulch. What do you guys think?



This message was edited May 30, 2013 8:48 PM