Thanks, Pirl...I'm sure that it must be Mrs. Bateman...the green must fade as the bloom matures.....
Clematis chat: Success without effort
With this view from the side yard you can see the Clems blooming on the trellis to the left and one blooming to the right. I have 4 more on the right side but only 2 are blooming now.
My new little friends in the front bed. On sale for 10.00 each, real ceramic not resin.
Minni
check out Alba Luxurians http://www.clematis.hull.ac.uk/new-clemdetail.cfm?dbkey=561
I have one and yours looks very similar to mine....
Marie,
What a charming garden you have! Thanks for sharing.
Katherine
Marie - your gardens are lovely!
Marie
I love your gardens - the path in the first one is so inviting, I want to take a stroll down and see what all there is to see!
Carolyn - yes, that it is. AKA Lime Twist.
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/89828/#b
pirl,
I got the Dr. Ruppel and Midnight showers in Feb. and they had one stem and a small root system. I guess similiar to the ones from Wal-Mart. I had purchased several clems that were with small root systems and, yes, they did die.
But the Jackmanii (from W-M) is now in its 4th year, I believe, and is very happy in a large pot after I almost killed it with too much sun and not enough water. Hopefully the drought from past summers will not continue this summer. Princess Di is loaded with blooms for the first time! She is a favorite of mine. These two are my success stories.
Dropping in late to say thanks Arlene, Kim, John and everyone else for the birthday wishes. Long day today, getting the DH ready for his knee replacement tomorrow. Please keep us in your thoughts and prayers.
You have a beautiful garden marie_kap, and nice blooms minnesippi. I'm drooling over the Omoshiro blooms Arlene and ROBIN. I can never get enough of them ;-)
Kim, the hydrangea is lovely, I have one that's blooming now, I'll have to take some pictures and post them this week. Annette
Good luck, Annette.....hope your DH does just fine! Marie, very pretty gardens....I see you have annuals planted already....still a little early for them here....
I too enjoyed looking at Marie's garden. Nicely done, Marie. Annette best wishes to your DH's procedure and a speedy recovery.
Annette - hope your husband opted to have the "nerve block". It makes a huge difference with recovery! One friend didn't have it when she had both knees replaced five years ago and still uses a scooter. Another friend did select the nerve block and was walking on her own, no assistance from any crutches/canes/etc., in three days.
Good luck to him with the surgery.
Inthegarden - many of us have both successes and failures with the WM clematises. Jackmanii is an old reliable. All clem's should have the genes for survival that Jackmanii has. Princess Diana is so lovely. She scrambles up our Japanese maple, Scolopendrifolium.
One more Omoshiro to wish Annette's husband the best of health:
Annette- Best wishes for your husbands knee surgeries. My wife Roberta had both knees done together 3 years ago. She is so glad she had the procedures! Good luck and I hope you do not become to stressed worrying. Will he be be getting rehab in the hospital?
All- I had my first bloom this year on Mrs. Bateman, small and quite a bit of green however, I sure love her. I also have a forced plant of Pillu in good bloom and lots of buds remaining, but that is the way I purchased her. Lee
My Daniel Deronda finnaly bloomed for the first time. It just have one bloom but I just bought it a month ago. Now only Hanrii have not bloomed yet. Last night and today all day it rained , it was a nice slow rain we needed it. Also my lillies have finnaly bloomed, the pink one called Lollypop. Etelka
Such a pretty Daniel Deronda, Etelka. Love the garden with the lilies, salvia and isn't that gaura I spot at the end?
Edited to correct spelling. (Twice!)
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My Alabast started blooming and Dr. Ruppel will be next....
Everyone's photos are so beautiful...
Beautiful. That pale green stripe is just so enchanting on all clem's!
Thanks Pirl for the proper name for the Daniel D. I had a feeling I misspelled it. It has been a long day at the church cooking. The flower on the end is my Hot lips Salvia, it does look like Guara, but it is taller. I had to trimm it some because my Hanrii is being blocked from it. I have just planted some Calendula seeds, it sproute it, hoping to have some blooms soon. It is called Neon. It said that it has some medicinal use, My sister said that to. Etelka
Here is the Calendula Neon. This is one of my favorite colors. Do they have any clems that color?
Sorry! I was wrong. It's Deronda. You were right and I was wrong.
My neighbor has a lot of calendula and it livens up her vegetable garden. I don't think she uses it for anything medically.
Last week I bought a lot of salvias and just bought by color. I didn't realize they get to 3, 4 and 5' tall. Fun!
No clems in that color, Etelka.
I think it is Salvia I have in the front bed. It starts out as a little clump about 8 inches across. But man once it starts to grow it become 4 ft across and 3 ft high. I had to thin it out some this year and plant it elsewhere.
Hi All:
The nurseries around here don't have the variety of clematis I want. Where is the best place online to order? I want the sweet autumn variety.
Thanks
Many people consider Sweet Autumn Clematis to be very invasive and it self-seeds very freely. A neighbor here is constantly pulling it up and throwing it away.
Brushwood Gardens, Garden Crossings and Silver Star Vinery are three possibilities for buying it.
The worse thing about SAC, is that they choke everything in their paths, I had a nice spot for my hybrid clems in the front yard for several years. This last year the SAC shaded them out. The trouble is I can't yank them out for they woven within other clems. I've tried pretty hard to rid them off, but haven't had success.
I had a sweet autumn clematis at my old house and it was a rampant climber. It actually reached out into a cherry tree and made a bower of white. It was amazing...I kept thinking I need a bride and groom to get married under it...ha ha. I only wish I had taken a picture of it.
Is there another fast growing clematis that isn't so rampant?
I have that here, It was here when I moved in and yes it is so pretty and smells so good. But I soon found out how it can kill a tree and yes choke everything it climbs on. I am constantly pulling it up all over the place , even as far away as a 100 yards. Needless to say I am trying to kill it.
Sweet Autumn clematis popped up all over the place at a former home. Now I've put it in a long high box hedge. I hope it turns the whole thing white!
My DH came through surgery fine yesterday. He was up and walking with the walker this morning.
Arlene, he did get the nerve block, and the orthopedist did put in the knee meds to help with
pain and clotting. He feels much better this time around than the first. His knee is also much more flexible. He now wished he hadn't suffered for 3 years before getting this surgery done.
Lee, he's starting PT in the hospital, they started today, which will continue once he gets home. Thanks everyone for the well wishes for my DH.
I also wanted to say beautiful blooms and gardens everyone. Annette
Hurray! Good for him and great for you as well.
SO glad he had the nerve block. Another DG person was about to have her surgery (she is an RN) and was unsure as to whether to get the nerve block or not. She did and was back to gardening in two weeks!
Good news, Annette.....I don't know of too many clems that get large fast....I have what I believe to be Killian Donahue....that covered this trellis in 2 years......and Blue Light grew up this 5' fence also in 2 years....
It's so good to hear positive news about others who have had this done. I'm thankful he's doing so well.
Nice Clems ROBIN, so healthy in appearance.
Cem, glad your DH is doing well. A good friend had both done last year, amazing difference. She could barely move before. Now all that is forgotten!
Nice Clems, Marilyn. I hope my new Blue Light does as well.
I'm sure it will, Pam....I have to dose Blue Light, Pink Fantasy, Miss Bateman, & Silver Moon with epsom salts....the rest have been done....
tell me please what do the salts do?
It's magnesium in a different form and helps encourage "more basal break" (more stems = more flowers).
thank you :)
You're welcome. The reason for the tepid water is that it's absorbed by plants faster than cold water per my radio gardening guys.
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...
Lee - a friend just had his Comtesse de Bouchard and he, too, was disappointed in the color. Climate and growing conditions (sun/shade) can make a difference as well as taking the photo in various lighting. We're always eager to believe the photos on a site and yet checking PlantFiles to see photos by others is always worth it.
You can try for next year to get them to grow together. Encourage the union by placing a stakes leaning towards each other and check the new growth every week. Add more stakes, if necessary, to keep the clematises entwined.
They both look lovely to me.