Clematis

I'm gonna tattle cause Lynn d-mailed me last night and said that she did it... she made the whole order! Then I started a rough calculation and figured that if we are successful in starting clems by cuttings, our three South Prairie Gals alone would have include over 50 cultivars of clems if we share cuttings from house to house. Hmmm..... now that might truely be excessive.... but don't think that we won't try it!

Oh, I think you should try it. ^_^

Good for you, Lynn!! Just don't forget that you'll need slug bait and food for all your new babies, too.

Didn't your mother teach you it is not nice to be a tattle tale? Just kidding. Yes, I drooled and drooled and tried to cut my order, but instead it kept growing. So I decided that it would be easier and cheaper to just order them and not keep looking. It is a good thing I am not looking at puppies.

I did tell Debbie that I was going to check with you first to make sure you have the room in your car for them. Also, I want you to pick out one that you really want and haven't ordered, so I can get it for you. It was going to be a surprise, but I can't keep a secret, and I didn't want to duplicate something you already have.

Can you envision all of the beautiful clems we will have if we are successful at starting some of them? I can picture them climbing up everything. Lots to share with friends.

Willow - just remember that I can make all the decisions but if things go wrong, I have no one to blame but myself!

That's okay. I have strong wide shoulders.:)

I'm getting ready to order. should I use her 'cart' or should I email the order?

What did you order Pixy?

Pixy, Use her cart, and then make a note in the bottom section regarding pickup. You don't pay on the site, you pay after she sends and invoice and she adjusts it for pickup. Yes, inquiring minds want to know.... what are you ordering?

She has recommended Claire de Lune, but I don't see it on her site. I've emailed to ask if she has it. I used to have it, but I killed it, or the voles got it, or something. So I want that if she has it. In addition:

Silver Moon
Jan Lindmark
Will Goodwin
Mrs. N. Thompson
Blue Dancer
Gazelle

http://www.gardenwiseonline.ca/gw/how/2009/05/22/creating-living-willow-trellis-clematis

Evey on the clematis forum posted this.

I ordered a few clems from simplyclems last night:

Diana's Delight
Pink Champagne
Macropetala Markham's Pink
Mrs. Robert Brydon
Kiri Te Kanawa

Will be getting more from silver star when I decide.

Hey! What is my cat doing in her photo? I wondered where he was yesterday! That is cool.

I don't know whether to thank you or not for referring to ordering from simplyclems. Sigh. Now I have to look at her stuff. You knew you would make me do that.

Hee hee . . .

Resisting........Resisting.........NOT CLICKING..........

Well, I did look, but honestly, I probably will not order from her because she is way down in Louisiana. I've had enough problems with plants that come from sunny California. They die on me in most alarming numbers. I would probably kill plants from Louisiana, even though they should do fine here. Plus, for a year in which I was going to 'slow down' on buying plants, I'm already batting 1000 with all the coops I'm in.

Good point. I don't order that much, so we'll see what happens . . . I'm going to try to make the propagation device and hope to have some success with cuttings this year.

Hi Pixy, a friend sent me a link to your post. I wanted to let you know that, while I am located in Louisiana, my growers are not. I obtain my plants via wholesale purchase from the same national licensed growers that your local nursery does... and the same growers that are used by Garden Crossings. There are actually very few licensed clematis growers in the United States, especially for the Evison cultivars.... and these growers are predominantly located up near you guys! I place my orders early in Fall so that I'm able to offer my customers the plants I would like to purchase myself. The plants are then tagged for me and they go through vernalization. After they break dormancy, the growers ship the clematis to me, they go through inspection by the Ag Extension Service, and then they are sent out to my customers. They spend about two weeks here in Louisiana, in a closed greenhouse. I will be getting new plants at the beginning of each month through the growing season and any that are not presold and shipped out quickly are destined for our local parks... or will be sold in some garden shows I am attending. I don't have the greenhouse space to retain holdovers. So, what my customers receive aren't "Louisiana" plants at all. They've been hardened off for the coldest of environments by the growers with a controlled vernalization process. I hope that puts your mind at ease.

Evey =)

EDIT: P.S. - Katie, thanks for posting a link to me and also for the order. I appreciate it very much!

This message was edited Feb 21, 2010 11:01 PM

Evey - what a small world. :-) Good to see you here. Thanks for popping in. I had no idea what the process was - I know we have at least one grower here pretty close to me, but I don't see anything from them very often. I think they're in Clearview.

Based on the weather this year, the plants shouldn't much know the difference between Washington and Louisiana. LOL

So true! We've had snow twice here this year, and we had almost three weeks where temps dropped down to the teens. It's been a crazy year here in the South. =)

Thanks for the info, Evey. Those are some well traveled plants! Yes, with our weather being yours and your weather being ours, maybe they wouldn't know the difference.
Rats. Now I have to really look harder at her site. Sigh. I can't get away with anything on this site.

Something else y'all might not realize... we're zone 8b here too! Our winter temps are not all that different. It's the summer ones that are way off.

Oh yes, I've lived in Louisiana. They are WAY off! LOL! And the humidity, too. WAY off!!!

Ah, then yes, you definitely know!

FYI, McLendon's has "Snowdrift" right now in full bloom. Melissa, is it fragrant? I will give you a price report if I can get hold of Julie who should be there about now.

Sharon, mine grows so high up in the tree, I wouldn't know. It's blooming now, though.

Ooooo I returned from out of town to see my evergreen clematis climbing over the shed and blooming like crazy. So pretty!

Yeah, Portland. My evergreen clematis now looks dead. I am so sad because it was finally starting to grow. I have now killed 3 of them. Time to move on!!!

I'd love to see a picture of one that is happy as I'm working on killing the one we have. Can't seem to figure out "why" it's so unhappy... anyone have clues for me.

Bonehead and I are having the same problem. I'm wondering if there wasn't a bad "shipment" of these last year. It could be viral or bacterial. This is an interesting article:

http://www.ubcbotanicalgarden.org/forums/showthread.php?t=4801

Gotta say -- I got my Apple Blossom at the grocery store, which can be a bit suspect to me...I usually trust nursery stock better, but alas, can't pass by dropping a plant or two in my basket as I'm heading into the store.

I can't remember where I got mine, but it was last year and it was a good price, so probably not a bonafide nursery.

Katie, I snipped off absolutely every leaf that showed a sign of disease about a week ago, and took them down the hill far far away. My new growth looks healthy so far, crossing fingers.

So there's still life. That's good!

I just got my order from Simply Clems and am very pleased. I ordered 5 plants. I don't do a lot of plant buying by mail order, but this is hands down the best plant shipment I've ever received. The plants are in 4 inch pots, but theyhave great roots and are full and lush. Great care was taken so that they didn't get squished at all.

Two of them are ready to bloom!!

Bump . . .

Brushwood is having a sale, apparently . . .

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1101576/

Not very nice Kathy.... I still have two left to plant from my SilverStar order....

Oops. Sorry. If it helps, I still have several to plant from my Simply Clems order. And it doesn't look like Kiri Te Kanawa made it. It wilted the day after it got here and just hasn't recovered. Hmmm . . . wonder why?

I had one stem on my Bourbon wilt from my SS order and it worried me horribly as I had just lost my big one to the wilt. The rest of the plant seems to be doing OK, but time will tell. I don't like that wilt stuff!

Yay - thanks Katie... I'm bummed about the weather, I'm pretty sure the cure is an online plant sale! :)

Yes. Did you all order from Bluestone? I'm broke because of that one. And I have so much planting still to do . . .

Kathy - what do Kiri's roots look like?
This has happened to some of my clems - they were fine, just needed underground R&R for a bit.