I only have two bloomes , one is Daniel Deronda, and Ruutel, which latley have very small flowers. I guess this is the last bloom on Daniel, will be cotting them back soon. Pirl what are you putting for compost, your own or you buy something in the bag for the clematis. I can find some composted cow manure in 50 lb bags, I guess that shoul be enough, or I can find some rabbit manure somewhere. Etelka
notice the red bug on Daniel.
Love the blue of Daniel Deronda, Etelka! Ruutel looks good enough to eat!
We use our own compost and from the amount Jack is making I have a lifetime supply. Composted manure should be fine. You can put mulch on top of it so it won't get weedy.
In order to remove the trellis it was growing on, I had to lop off most of an established montana this spring, at my late mother's house in Southampton, NY. Much to my surprise, on subsequents visit I saw that it continued to grow quite well. It had been just starting to bloom, so that was lost, but otherwise it was fine. This spring, if the house doesn't sell, I'll have to find something for it to climb on... or maybe I'll just keep it for myself and bring it to CT :-)
Thanks for the encouragement, Pam. Until you mentioned it I had forgotten there's a trellis under my montana, too!
I wouldn't expect any blooms for 2014 but the fence really needs replacement. It's 21 years old.
If you do attempt to dig it up you may find it's many plants now, not just one. You can leave some and take some to CT. It would be another lovely memory.
You all were talking about babies arriving this year. We had 2 show up this summer. Both were girls. One is a grandchild and the other is a great grandchild. Both on my husbands side. His daughter and his grandson had babies.
Congratulations!
Me, too! My son and DIL are the proud parents of their first child, Robert Francis, born 9/25.
How nice to have babies in the family! I have one bud on my Gypsy Queen clem, but freezing temps tomorrow night might be the end of the bud!
Thanks, Marilyn.
Even snow (informer years) hasn't stopped clematis buds from blooming here.
They are toughies!
Pirl, this is my favorite baby picture of my first GS, 12 years ago. Watching daddy cutting grass. Etelka
That is just so sweet, Etelka, and the dog in the same pose makes it even cuter.
This is my first grandson, Charlie, with his cat on a rainy day, waiting for daddy to come home.
Those are both wonderful photos!
Thanks, Marilyn.
You and I are due for rain today. I hope they're right!
Not a drop of rain, but some big, fat snowflakes hit my car this afternoon! UGH!
Definitely UGH on that.
We did get rain on Wednesday but today it's just a cold wind out there. Only managed to work for 4 hours even though I was in the sun.
Just say NO to SNOW.
last night we went donw to freezing poing, but nothing died, so that is good. Even Mr. John Warren gave me his last flower, have not seen him in months. Started to redo my front garden. Ordered 150 blocks and I am making a new garden for my side flowers. Next door house had a lots of cars in the yard, so I think my soil got contaminated with gasoline and oil, nothing grows well there. I will block the bottom of the picket fence so when the rain comes, It will not wash thord my yard. Now if I can fing some top soil delivered, It would save my back, the stones are enough weight. I poted some of my flowers up so when I get new soil I can put them back in that place. Some rudabeckias, salvias, lantanas and some daisies. Looks like I will be working on it the whole Winter. Etelka
We went to 30, 2 of my salvias died, one is fine.....the angelonia & snaps look ok as well......
So happy to hear John Warren gave you another bloom. Look for more buds. Love how neat your stone work is!
I never even checked for how low it got since I can see some clem's and the dahlias from the window in here and they all look fine. Think I'll just stay in bed for the day when the frost blackens the dahlias.
I'll have to check the salvia! I have a few I'd like to cut back and try to hold over for spring.
We had a ton of stone delivered in September and the first 7 days of placing them was fun, then it got to be drudgery but at least it's done now.
Etelka, your brick work looks good!
Arlene, I would love to see what you did with your palate of stones.
Today was a great day to work in the garden here. We have temps in the 60's and have been intermittently overcast. I got 8 clematis planted, and gave them a nice drink of Epsom salt in water. I found Cardinal W. with a solitary bloom hiding under the fallen leaves.
We have had several nights of frost here, and 2 nights below freezing, the plants were not phased at all. It looks like we'll stay above freezing for at least the next 10 days.
Now I'm off to plant some tulip bulbs in the front garden.
Annette
What a nice color on the clem, Annette! The frost took a lot of my plants......a few hardy ones are still blooming....petunias don't want to quit this year!
Wow! You had frost already. We'll probably have it in the next two weeks - a sad time of year but no one tells the clematises and they often go on blooming. Cardinal W. looks so content and so pretty there, Annette. Happy planting. If I planted tulips they'd just be deer food anyhow.
Here's what I did with the stones, mainly using them to replace timbers that had lined some garden beds...nothing exciting!
Thanks Marilyn. The frost here got some of the annuals. The coleus got hit hard, and some of the brugs got frost bitten, despite me covering them before going out of town. My petunias died off sometime ago. They look great for several weeks then they're done.
Arlene, the stone edging looks wonderful!! It's s great addition to your garden.
The tulips here are deer food too. I planted a giant crocus mix in front of them. covered them with landscape mesh, and sprinkled the area with blood meal and Milorganite. I hope it will keep the deer, squirrels and chipmunks at bay.
My petunias died off in early September so Marilyn is the lucky petunia lady.
Thanks.
The squirrels are bound to love the soft soil from your hard work of planting, Annette. Here, whenever I dig up any large area I can see deer prints the next day and have found far too many nuts the squirrels planted. They must have very bad memories!
LOL, I wish they would forget where my garden is. I'll see how well the blood meal and Milorganite work. I have replaced too many crocus to count, and the critters are so mean. They dig up the tulips, take a bite, then move on to dig up something else. It makes me nuts.
I forgot to add above that I moved one of my clematis Arabella forward in my garden, it was too far back in the bed with the peonies and irises. I really do love that clematis, it bloomed the entire summer into fall. I'm glad I got the other 2 from Brushwood that I planted today.
I still have Dr. Ruppel to plant. I may put it in a large pot by my kitchen steps.
Blood meal repels rabbits for me but not squirrels. It doesn't work on deer here and neither does Milorganite. If I knew of something that was fool proof the deer would just get smarter.
Dr. Ruppel has its good years and then the superb years when it blooms for months on end. This isn't the best photo of it but it does show the exuberance with which the first blossoms appear. How can anyone not like such a zest for life? One day they're buds and the next day there's half a dozen flowers.
Very nice, Arlene, Dr Ruppel has a beutifull color. I did not know that we sopose to use epsom salt this late, I was just planing to put some manure and some pine straw for protection. Etelka
I don't use the Epsom Salt this late in the year but can't see the harm in using it. I'm like you and add manure, compost and a lot of the long pine needles.
I'm always both amused and surprised that many of the ones I neglect from year to year bloom so beautifully. I had 3 big pots covering Rituaal and still it found a way to bloom so beautifully. I hadn't fed it, given it any Epsom Salt drinks or compost.
Etelka, I gave the newly planted clematis the Epsom salt, watering them after they were planted today.
Arlene, thanks for posting the pictures of Dr. Ruppel and Rituaal, they're both beautiful! I love the contrasting color on the reverse of Rituaal. Where did you get that plant?😁
I got it from Evey of Louisiana. I don't know if she's still in the clematis business.
Just found it at Brushwood! Now you can start a new order for 2014. It does fine here in quite a bit of shade and gets only early morning and very late afternoon sun.
This photo was taken the day before the close-up shown above. Here the color is closer to Omoshiro's edge and I have it planted a few feet from two of Omoshiro with a few Nelly Moser clem's in the area.
Wow...it's a beauty!
Gorgeous shots pirl! Especially love that first one of Dr. Ruppel with the hosta and creeping jenny foliage. Hope you share it in more places. :-)
Done, Sue!
Happy Thanksgiving to all the clematis lovers out there!
And a Happy one back to you, Arlene! And Happy Hanukkah to those who celebrate as well.
Happy Thanksgiving to all clematis and flower lovers. I also give thanks to the USA government (I never tought I say that) for letting me in this country in 1969 Nov. 24th. It has been 44 years that I got of that plane and some years have been bad but most of them been good. This is the best country still, we just have to hang in there. Everyone should go to some other country, and would realize how blessed we are to live in the USA. Etelka
Thanks for the excellent reminder, Etelka. We're so fortunate you came and stayed.
God bless America.
Happy Thanksgiving. Etelka - you are so right!.
I am dreaming of blooming clematis!
A safe trip to all that are traveling.
Happy Thanksgiving to all my Clematis friends.
I hope Thanksgiving was good for all of us since we each have something we can be thankful for.
So, have we cut back any clematises that looked too bedraggled, moved any, ordered any???
