Clematis: Clematis chat - heading into winter, 4 by Cem9165

Cem9165 wrote:
Hello ladies, I just catching up on this post, since I was out of town the last few days.

Arlene, I have grown Montana Mayleenfor several years close to my back steps. It should be renamed monster Maylene due to the size that it gets. Mine was neglected this year, and fell off the drain pipe that it was intended to grow up during my recovery, so I just left it there. Here it is in the garden today, I tend to prune it hard during the spring so that it doesn't eat the house, LOL. The second picture is of the stems.

I've also got Barbara Jackman blooming which was purchased several weeks ago, but hasn't been planted in the cement pot yet. It's one of the many things that I have to do this weekend. The camellias have also been blooming here for several weeks. Here's a view of some of them, and a close up of C. Nuccio's Pearl. It's nice to have something blooming at this time of year, when everything else is going dormant.

The weather here has become warm again, after several weeks of cold and heavy frosts, so it was quite pleasant to work out in the garden today, with the temps being in the low 70's. We're expecting rain here tomorrow.

Edited for spelling

This message was edited Jan 6, 2013 5:58 PM