Clematis: Clematis chat - heading into winter, 1 by pirl

pirl wrote:
Carolyn - same here. I want every weed out of the garden and a speck of dirt on the kitchen floor can actually be picked up by either sex but it usually doesn't work out that way. Same with the soap dish. Is there any reason, other than stuck on soap, to have to clean a soap dish? How does the dirt get on the soap and get left there? Is there an equal to Mr. Clean that's Mr. Dirty? Once you clean the house it begins to get dirty immediately while garden weeds at least have the courtesy of waiting two or three days to grow again. That makes it sound like Jack is a slob and he isn't but Smitty doesn't wash his paws in the sink so the possibilities are very limited.

Marilyn - it's about half planted now and in spring I'll add dahlias, caladium and coleus. So far I have Limelight hydrangea and two other hydrangeas, a ton of Louisiana irises, two roses, two clematises (both Venosa Violacea) and many Coral Charm peonies, hoping they'll match (and not conflict with) the climbing Royal Sunset rose that will grow on the top of the garden gate. A friend who is moving to Michigan asked me to take her Paperbark maple that I've admired since she bought it. The new owners do not garden at all so it's my honor to accept the gift but now have to get a local guy to do the digging of it (and replanting) for us.

Here's the combo with the large peony photo by Trilian (DG) and the two others by DG's Kell. There will be the two clem's adorning the rose, I hope. The next photo shows the color of the clem's with the roses (photos of the roses by Kell, again).