California Gardening: Look whats blooming at my house!, 1 by doss

doss wrote:
Hi Clematis lovers,

It's been fun reading this thread. This is Madame Baron-Veillard. She has big floppy flowers.

Gourd, I don't think that what you have is a Josephine. Josephine is a double. Maybe you can give us a close up?

I bought a few clematis from general mailorder houses like Parks. Never again. I buy my clematis from Chalk Hill Nursery now. They already have woody growth, can go right into the ground and if you plant them in the fall, they bloom the following spring. Enough of this waiting around forever.

http://www.chalkhillclematis.com/farm.html