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Sunny days and mild temperatures are most welcome. Please post your clematis photos and share your successes with us.
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Thanks Pirl!
I'll have to look around the internet for that Dutchess...
Mike - Here are the vendors who sell Duchess of Edinburgh, from the Plant Files page on it:
http://davesgarden.com/products/ps/go/55683/
I would trust Brushwood and Joy Creek 100% and highly recommend both of them.
I keep hearing recommendations (here in TX) for Polish Spirit. I think I'll have to investigate.
It's always good when you hear of rave reviews about a clematis in your own area. Try Brushwood and see if they carry it. My computer is giving me grief or I'd send a link.
Here's a link to Polish Spirit:
http://www.gardenvines.com/shop/small-flowered-clematis-4/clematis-polish-spirit-174.html
I forgot to record the name of this. Pretty though!
Very nice! Could it be HF Young?
I vote for HF Young too - especially for zone 5b.
My beutiful corner is getting all grown in, to the left of it Hanryi is getting new buds, hoping this good rain will make it show up all the way. Etelka
Here Hanryi is on the right, top of the green trellis, the clematis next to it is HF Young, it is kind of resting now.
Love your corner, Etelka. Everything is so lush and green. Henryi just started blooming here last week. I allowed a hickory tree to grow by the fence with Henryi and I'll have blooms up and down the tree very soon. I realize this is not the best shot but it does show the top of the tree - about 15' tall. Can't wait to see it with blooms.
The President still going strong this morning - I love these purple blooms
Wonderful! It is a glorious color. The President has the largest flowers it has ever had. So many clem's are so huge this year in bloom size.
Edited to mention this photo is Anna Louise.
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Jan - to continue from the previous thread and your question about Epsom Salt and using it:
One tablespoon of Epsom Salt to a gallon of preferably lukewarm water. Apply it once a month. It causes more basal break (more new stems). It's clear that your plant, Jan, doesn't need more stems. It is gorgeous and the ideal specimen but for many of us, who don't have that lush growth at the bottom, more stems would be welcome.
This is a wonderful year for clems....my Omoshiro blooms are huge, & cover the trellis.....I've only had it for 2 years....The roses are awesome this year as well.....
Your Omoshiro is looking terrific for a two year old plant, Marilyn.
The deer arrived as my favorite rose in the rose garden was about to open and left me one bud. In desperation I put up mesh to block their entrance but it was still a big disappointment.
In the newly revised old vegetable garden, the climbing rose I planted last year, climbing Royal Sunset. No fear of the deer with this one since the garden is surrounded by deer mesh 8' tall.
Owosso, MI (Zone 5b)
June 8, 2013 8:50 AM
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So this is where all the information is at. Thanks to Arlene I have discovered the name of my Clematis and glad that I finally checked out this forum don't know why it took me so long.
Arlene helped me name my Clematis as Proteus and I guess I should share my pictures with you all too.
But as I was reading these posts someone was talking about a Epson salts bath and someone else asked what that was so I read on hoping to see it and I didn't see anyone explain what it was so I must ask for myself what is it and what does it do and how much do you use any info would be much appreciated.
Here is my one and only Clematis Proteus which I've had for about 30 years or so give or take. And I take no credit for it just are having a very good season this year with nice mild weather and lots I mean lots of rain besides the fact that it is so old it probably has a great root system. This was probably the first plant I bought when we bought our house 33 years ago.
Thanks again for any information
Jan
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Thanks Arlene I am copying this over from the old post.
Thanks for the recipe for Epson salts therapy I have heard about using it for Hydrangea but didn't know about it for Clematis.
Forgot what it is suppose to do for Hydrangea I think it changes the color or something.
Hydrangea colors are changed by what the ph of the soil is......acid soil will give you blue hydrangeas, lime will turn them pink. Pirl, Royal Sunset is pretty....
My Niobe has been going strong with blooms for around a month and a half now. The middle third of it always looks great with new growth I just wish I could get some more stems to sprout up from below to try and fill in from the bottom. Any of you long time growers have any suggestions?
Mike
Try Epsom Salt, Mike! It's quick and easy and inexpensive. Any drug store or chain store should carry it.
Thanks, Marilyn. I was thrilled to see it blooming and far from the ability of the deer to do damage.
Jan - Marilyn is right about the hydrangea colors. Epsom Salt won't do a thing to change their colors but it's great for roses, tomatoes, peppers, etc.
Last year I bought a bunch of clems from a co-op, many of which wilted as soon as I potted them up. Two surviving Veronica's Choice are on a new trellis, and Lo and behold, a bloom! This one has several stems, and made 3 beautiful flowers less than a foot off the ground. The other one has 2 stems, and is already 4' high on the other side of the trellis. Not exactly identical twins ;-)
Very pretty. From all I've read, the success rate with those tiny co-op plants is so low that I wouldn't do it again. I wish you better luck than I had.
I bought a few last year also with a co-op. never again. Yes they were cheap, 3 or 4 dollars, but they did not do well.
Not all of mine from Koi survived but that was still far better than the worst clematis co-op where people were complaining constantly that their clem's died within days. To me there's no value in it. I know of only one person who bought many clem's and "every one lived, thrived, bloomed..." but that's so rare that I dismissed it quickly.
Never again for me either, Marie. I'll pay the price, get what I want and its fate depends on me.
I know some of us got Calidium's from Bill. With all these cool nights and not so warm days. Mine are just starting to pop up. Anyone have real foliage so far?
I'm raising my hand! Gingerland has some leaves, not many. So many others popped up already and really surprised me since I planted many before that cool snap and thought I had lost out but now I'm happy. The super colossal were all so tremendous that I planted them one per pot and now one pot has sprouted.
Here's a photo of just two of them and they measure a total of 9" - that is super colossal!
I have moved last fall the Sizaja Ptitza clematis to the place of the climbing hydrengea ( i got tired of the waiting to do something.) The ptitza does not get as much sun but it is blooming and have a few buds on it. Planted some electric green coleus et the feet, hope it will trive.
Just got a bid for taking down my large oak which is over my house, $6,000 dollars, because they can not bring in the cranes, or large trucks, everything has to be hand work and lots of climbing. It have been raining for 6 days, today continue, I lost a large limb, but it did not hit the house. It is very unnerving to live under the tree that is kind of leaning thord the house and it's 75 years old. I think I will let him trimm it, and do the rest in March, hoping to have more money saved for it. Etelka
Your Sizaja Ptitza looks good! I'm also tired of waiting for my climbing hydrangea to produce flowers! I've had it seven years now. Your coleus should do fine.
Wow! Spending $6,000. is a lot to consider. Try calling another company and see what they have to say. Good luck!
I had 2 huge pines taken down for $2,000. All climbing...Pirl is correct, call other companies.
you can compare this to a pine tree, the oak tree is over 3 houses and everything is has to be by hand, cut and remove the limbs and grind the stumps. I know it is a lots of money but everytime it is raining, I wonder if this is the day it will come down on my and the next to me houses. Etelka
We do not allow any large trucks, or even small ones, to go across any lawn so we pay the price for it. Our shed had to be erected on site (extra $$$), trees have to be taken down by hand (a lot of extra money), but it's worth it to us not to have damage to the lawn or the irrigation company.
Make sure the company you hire to do the tree work is licensed and insured or any damage done to your home could end up being your problem, Etelka.
Ask at church. Someone probably knows of a reliable company.
My Avant Garde opening up. (2) an onknown (3) unknown, flowers look like crepe paper, The top of the Avant Garde which is now over 6 ft tall. I am a happy camper, it took 3 years to get it to this size from a small plug. I now know that plugs need to be kept in a pot and pinched back the first 1 to 2 years.
Great job with the Avant Garde as well as the others. Love your roses with that third clematis!
The tiny clematises do demand attention and in the end it's worth it.
Arlene, I never would have taken so much time with it if it had not cost me 13.00 each as a plug. And the fact that you cant find, it but only on the internet. patience is not a virtue of mine, so to baby this one for slow long was a test for me.
Babying any clematis is a burden because we always have to tend to that one first before we can do whatever we please in the garden. It was easier for me to keep my pot of Viola Violacea in the kitchen so I could keep cutting it back last year. Then I did it this year with two more Ville de Lyon from Walmart - the kind in those green plastic bags when it's hard to see if they're alive or not!
This was taken 4/5 after they had been in the self-watering pot for a month. I cut it back at this point and then once more. I'm hoping for a huge root ball!
My co-op plants all had 6-8" roots and had broken dormancy. I'm not sure why so many wilted- maybe what I mixed was too rich? Or they went in too much sun too soon? But Veronica's Choice has made the whole endeavor worthwhile. I hadn't realized that one plant had made enough growth last year to produce flowers. The other is certainly making up for lost time! I'm looking forward to next year, when the show should be much more showy.
Last year I had high expectations for C Integrifolia Alba. I put it In the big barrel with Asiatic and Casablanca lilies, and it spilled out nicely for such a new plant. This year it emerged, then stopped growing. Both lilies have really taken over, they now completely fill the planter. So last weekend I took it out with as many roots as possible-- no easy task!-- and put it into one of Pirl's self-watering pots with lots of goodies to recover and regenerate.
Btw, that was a great tip about those pots. I got a bunch of the 12," a few 9" and a couple of much bigger ones. Most of them are already being used, for everything from clems to a new small Daphne, divisions that need TLC, tropicals, a trade plant or two... They are just wonderful! Some have already been emptied and re-filled, some things will stay in them all summer, moving in and out of the beds as they bloom.
Your lilies really grew so well!!! Where did you get the grid pattern flower holder (or whatever it's called) that surrounds the lilies? I need one that's really tall for my Festiva Maxima peony, which is 60 years old and so tall but flops (as many do) in the rain. Last Friday the rain beat it down to the ground so I have clipping to do.
It's true that the self-watering Walmart pots are not "pretty" but they do work well and you can't beat their prices on them. I've bought others (Agway) that are self-watering and may hold more water but work on the same principle. I prefer the Walmart version. I do the same thing, Pam. I move a plant in them and then out when I feel they can survive, then they get a new plant. It's like a mini nursery!