Clematis: Clematis chat: Success without effort, 1 by LeawoodGardener

LeawoodGardener wrote:
Two or three years ago I ordered a "Countess de Bouchard" from a catalog (or website) - the description made it sound so beautiful.. It bloomed the first year and I thought, "This isn't right - it was supposed to be covered with blooms and I thought they would be spectacular." I thought the color was not exciting and there weren't a lot of blooms.

Last year I added a blue variety at the base, to see if I could come up with some 'excitement' - The blue bloomed (I can't recall the name - I bought it at a local nursery and it was expen$ive) in April, and today, the "Countess" made an appearance. Much nicer than I expected, but still not what I wanted. I had hoped the two varieties would grow intertwined and bloom together. Oh well. Gardening is an experiment...