My first Clematis to bloom this Spring was Nelly Moser couple weeks past. Next, Dr. Ruppel, then Fireworks. Share yours that starts your spring blooming season.
This is Fireworks that opened yesterday:
Clematis blooms, Everyday
Nelly Moser is really prolific this season. The blooms can be seen from the base of the tuteur up to the top, then spilled over to the gardenia that stands nearby:
love fireworks. looks like a full sun location? nice color contrast.
Yes, CG, Fireworks is climbing up my miniature rose 'Balerina'. They the rose and the clem. compliment each other quite nice. The rose is in buds at present.
Then today I found the very first bloom but not fully open yet, F. H. Young:
The above Blue bloom of F.H. Young is twinning on my red Knock Out Rose. Sharing its spot is Comtese de Bouchard that's on its way.
Here twinning up my climbing Peace rose and 'Cecil Brunner' roses I've 'Multiblue' that's just about to open:
(This is all for now, tomorrow I'll post pix of MB as it unfurls).
Lily..how pretty and exciting..I love this time of the year..yours are gorgeous...Jeanne
Thanks Jeanne, Clematis can't be beat as far as beauty this time of year in our climate. Though, I've noticed yours begun a wee bit earlier than mine. And your collection is ... wow! I've learnt so much over the years by watching yours.
CG; most of my Clematis are scattered about in my garden. Some are in bright partial shade, other are in more pronounce shade, under canopy of deciduous trees. Nelly Moser and many other in these group - planting here are trained on a set of 3 tuteurs under a large pin-oak. It gets morning sun, but as the Oakleafs are filling out, this will be a dappled shade by high noon.
The ... Canope of Pin Oak above:
Beautiful Clematis, Lily!
love those trees. nice dappled sunlight. and the bird is pretty too.
Thanks Shirley and CG, the 'Multiblue' flower takes its sweet time to open up...
There are half dozen of buds on this one:
nice big fat buds and all is right with the world.
Thanks so much for sharing your photo's - they are just lovely!! Here is my Nelly Moser from last year....
Here is my nelly moser with what is suppose to be multi blue but looks more like The President to me....I have never seen this one with double blooms and may never see it with double blooms since I mostly have to hard prune it in the spring...it still blooms nicely for me though.....
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Oh and Guru do you see where that small trellis is on the right? That is where my Pink Champagne was planted the year before but died back and never saw her again....
Dawn, I like the way you designed that small bed. It's rich in composition. I just love that.
Thanks Lily....It does look much different now I am sure...I did a lot of switching around in the fall...the clematis are still in the same place though...
Dawn: Your Clematis bed is gorgeous! It must bring you a lot of pleasure and joy!
Dawn -
very pretty! I love your flower beds with the clems growing on the fence behind.
My 'Multiblue' just enjoys teasing its owner, lol. It still hasn't fully open yet today:
I just love the moonbeam coreopsis in front of the clematis...it seems to do well for me.....
Dawn -
It's beautiful! The blue to the left of the coreopsis looks to be campanula, what is the red/pink to the left of the campanula? It appears to be miniature rose - is that correct? I love your colors.
Yes Carolyn you identified them all correctly! You are good!
I heard there was going to be a coreposis in a completely different color group this year released...has anyone heard of that?
New coreopsis cultivars, the more the lovelier. :-) Here is F.H. Young with my Knock Out roses bud.
Could this be 'Niobe'? This is going to be its 3rd year here on a large container, a half whiskey barrel. I've another 'Niobe' in the shadier spot, and it just now exceeds a foot tall, this one is about to erupt in bloom stands out in the open.
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This is 'Vile de Lyon' I believe is about to open, the vine is more established, and is putting abundant buds this season.
Lily..is the one you think is Niobe as purple in real life as it appears on my monitor?..If so it looks more like "Polish Spirit" with those deep reddish purple anthers..to me..post again when it is more open..Jeanne
http://www.clematis.hull.ac.uk/new-clemdetail.cfm?dbkey=579
Ville de Lyon is gorgeous another of my favs...
Jeanne, thank you for your thought. The deep purple clematis' anthers are a clear green, light anthers, and not crimson red as the link reports. I'll take another pix tomorrow when it opens a little more?
Ok hon
Jeanne, you're absolutely right. The above Clem. does indeed have crimson red anthers in close up. It's my error, that one is planted among Jackmanii, and in years past I wasn't able to I.D. it. Many thanks.
This is the one that I've in a half wiskey barrel (with Belle of Woking) I think. Is it 'Niobe'? She has green anthers.
Lily you have such a great variety of clematis......Beautiful. I see you have Ville de Lyon. I put that one in last spring and I can't believe how fast and how much it grew for the first year being planted in my garden.
I am looking forward to seeing more of your photo's!
Thanks Dawn, I love that red clem. In that small area, I've some of the colors combined; red, purple, white, white with red stripes. Usually in May, next month all the blooms will intermingle with one another. I can't wait until then.
Okay, here it's Polish Spirit as Jeanne has spotted it. :-)
Beauty! I have that one too......love her! So many blooms on that one!
Well good hon.."Polish Spirit" is such a dark clematis and the anthers are a dead give away..Yes I think your other one is most probably "Niobe"..what beautiful clematis you have..The one that I said was "Polish Spirit"..have you notice how vigorous it 'tis about shooting up new vines from the soil?..Mine does so..it's truly unlike any I've had before...Jeanne
Jeanne, not knowing its true identity in years past. For many years when I saw those many new shoots coming backup, I thought those belonged to Jackmanii. lol. They're most prolific! Between Jackmanii and Polish Spirit, they dominate my 6' tall trelis to the point that I've to take the trelis apart because they grew so fast and obstruct our walkway to the front yard.
I only allow those to take up this small space (climbing up an old tree stump). I'll post a pix of previous year next so one can compare.
Here was the trelis that was too small to support these combination of Clems. 'Jackmanii' and "Polish Spririt'. I took that flimsy trelis down after one growing season.
Another view of that same trelis was filling out rapidly, looking back I think I've both type of clems. pictured here:
