Henryi (white clem) climbed up high on the arbor (9' tall arbor) and joined in with some of my red climbing roses (Cl. Blaze).:
Clematis blooms, Everyday
Still can't get a good pic of jackmanii growing up my Ducher rose. Hubby doesn't like it, says it looks messy. I agree but I'm hoping that over time Jackie will feel right at home
LOL, Vossner. Jackie is one virgorous clem. I once had a 6 foot tall trellis for Jack, it took but one season to cover, hung down on the trellis that one couldn't pass through, so I had no choice but took the trellis off the walkway. Nice thing about Jackie is that we can prune it at the beginning of the season to keep it in bound. :-)
Last year as I recall, Multip-Blue paired up with this light pink blossom of my climbing 'New Dawn' one of my fav. combo. This year MB paired with DJ. oh well! (The clem have maxed out as far as the first wave of blooms, I'm hoping they will send out more buds while the temp. is still relative cool).
Here are the buds today on my General Sikorski - still a ways off
Candida (?) and Ville de Lyon
Erwels, your General is going to be a show stopper! I love that red, white combo. Only now I'd add a blue to that combination planting. I'm going to hunt for VDLyon one of these days. lol.
All the photo's are so great!!! Keep them coming! Good job folks - all the clematises look so pretty!!
Ahhh, I wasn't think straight. Erwels, Candida, and Ville de Lyon and the General. That would complete the red, white and blue combo! Nicely done!
The General is kind of hidden in the shade, though. Always up for another blue!
Just teasing me. I'm debating for a red blooming Clem. which should I chose? For the vibrant 'Princess Di' or Ville de Lyon, now another blue? LOL, I've both Young and the Gen. so I'm okay with blue. :-)
I love my Blue Light
I'd like a Multi-Blue, also
lily love, most of your clems will rebloom if you prune and fertilize as soon as first bloom period begins to wane. sometimes this can mean pruning a third of the plant off even if there are a few blooms lingering. this is hard for some to do as the plants seem to be at their peak when you do this,but if you do the regrowth and second flush of blooms will please you, even if blooms are smaller on second flush.
i don't know how often you fertilize, but as you do this it is key to give a good feeding and re top dress.
if you are on this program already,i apologize for being presumptious, but you seemed surprised by your second blooms and you are in a great zone to have a LOT of that!
CG, I'm familiar with the debudding methods for most blooming plants. I'm still at a learning curve on Clematis however. Thus your suggestion is greatly appreciated.
I am new to clematis. I have been reading and viewing all the beautiful clems here on this thread! Quite impressive vines that everyone has growing!!! Love the roses, too!
I live in a very warm zone (10a) and didn't think I could grow clems here. But I got in on a co-op last season and purchased 3 small starts and planted them in the ground a few months ago. I will admit I was impressed with the extensive root system they had, even if the top growth was minimal. But I honestly thought the heat would kill them ... So far they are hanging in there!
I have two different cultivars growing along my picket fence that I believe will handle the heat here. This is "Viticella Venosa Violacea". How long does this one bloom and is it a rebloomer? It is certainly a vigorous grower...
This is a close-up of one of the blooms. Does this vine need to be pruned to encourage more blooms later on?
This is the other clem growing on the opposite end of the picket fence. Not as quick to grow and bloom, but it is still quite pretty! This is Ernest Markham. What kind of pruning does this one require? Anyone know? And I have one more question ... what is the best type of fertilizer to use on clems? I am a newbie and don't know much about clems at this time...
Hi Becky those are two wonderful and beautiful clematis. I myself use rose fertilizer on my clematis and I also use a lot of composted manure around them in the spring.
You will soon see how addictive clematis plants can be! :)
becky, go to a site called "clematisontheweb" and look up each plant you have on the listing.s there will be more info you need about each one than you are asking for so this will save time. you will enjoy it, it is very easy resource as you being your clem journey and forever.
Thanks, Guru! I will check that site out! :-)
my pleasure , you will like it.it is the comprehensive, global resource. when i started in clems there was nothing like it. i use it almost every day for something it seems.
also go on the british clematis society site, there is good planting, disease and pruning info. and checkout the first thread here on the clematis forum, the one called stickey....links to good info there too.
enjoy your clem journey!
My first Jackmanii this year
Niobe is really blooming this year
Niobe closeup
Look at the difference in size in the newest and oldest Ville de Lyon blooms
Pretty
Old Blue Light bloom
That Niobe is gorgeous! As is the Jackmanii. (Can't wait until mine blooms!) Mine only gets partial sun throughout the day. Is Jackmanii a sun-lover?
Just curious, how many years does it take to get the vines that lush and full of blooms? Mine are still rather scrawny.
Well, most of mine were planted before 2005, that's all the info I can find. Because it's a busy time of year for me, sometimes the vines grow in unattractive clumps, and this year I pruned them all to about 12", so this growth is all this year.
They are just gorgeous and so thick with foliage and blooms! Breathtaking!!
Beautiful pictures everyone. We had bad stormy weather today so I didn't get any new pictures. I just wanted to share a pix of one of the seedlings that has been blooming for me. Here are the tinsy bit of new blooms buds on the seedling. (This isn't the species terniflora clem, but one of the hybrid's offspring that I believe to have reverted back to its parentage):
Please disregard the broad leaves that of Smoketrees that the clematis climbs on. :-) I'll try to get more pictures as the tiny buds develope over the next few days.
Gosh you have some great clematis there irwells!!! Awesome!
We need a new thread here, folks. This one's getting too long.
hey lily love, i think you are as interested in the history of clems as i am. i embrace knowing about how they were discovered and etc.
ternifora ,or sweet auturm clem, is a species so it was not bred or hybridized. so nothing to revert back to.
it propagates true from seed, but sometimes the "wild" seedlings do have a slightly different shaped leaf the first couple of years, more elongated and usually with a line around the margin that can indicate a harmless disease called leaf miners. not sure if it is a bug or not and no time to look it up this morning. but it does not spread to your others and does not harm the seedling terniflora either. the reason the leaves look different is that it is seed grown not grown form a cutting like the ternifloras you buy!!!
there may be two wild forms, regular and robusta, but this is debated. but your terniflora is a terniflora...i know how different they can look (seedling plant vs cutting plant) as i have been saving and allowing some of the wild ones to flourish and i love them. her is a pic of one of my wild ones growing and blooming thru an evergreen tree that i am partial to. a large garden gives me the freedom to grow the species and let them naturalize and i am very grateful to have the space to do that. seedling ones are never or rartely sold due to the leaf miner condition and how long it takes to establish a viable plant.
lol and have a green, green day. hope you escape the storms. we are just north of the storm line as it looks right now.
^_^ Thanks CG, for the write up. I meant a seedling of possibly Jackmanii's. The small blooms look very much like one of the 'Pitcherii'. I'll have pictures of those in a few days -- to probably week. :-)
i have been checking my Lowe's for clems and nuthin'! I'm afraid mothers are not gonna be getting clematises on Mother's Day this year
love the thought of your naturalized seedlings. wish i would get some besides terniflora. may have one now i am keeping my eye on, but it will prob be the a sac.
hey, kroger in my area has HF YOUNG clem sin huge pots. smallish plants (not trellised up, mounding) but COVERED in blooms, larger than my blooms for sure on that clem. hothouse babies. lots of them. 19$. would be a buy if you needed that clem and pruned it off and planted it. but i can not get any clems i already have, esp one i have about 6 of...
maybe clems are coming back into style like the victorian age! hope so!
Kim thanks for starting this thread. All the Blooms are just spectacular. I have several blooming now but with a broken camera it hard to take pic LOL.
I'm glad you've enjoyed the thread, Gary. I hope your camera get fixed pretty soon. So you can share pix of 'Princess Di' with me again. lol. I've got to have that clem. LOL
