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A Mind of Their Own
By eirlys
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I am beginning to think flowers have a mind of their own!
We love Clematis but have had a lot of trouble growing them. We do have three, climbing posts, that reward us with a few flowers when they feel like it. Even so we are grateful as we have lost lots of former clematis plants though we looked after them like babies!
This year we were amazed when a clematis we had forgotten about in the front garden suddenly flowered amongst all the shrubs. The photo shows the bloom at the “front” but there are an equal number of flowers hiding behind the shrubs.
I know clematis like a lot of water so maybe it’s our wet Spring and summer that have persuaded this plant to bloom so prolifically. Whatever, I reckon flowers have a mind of their own!
13 Jul, 2016
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I love the colour of them. Lol will remember that on how to treat plants.
13 Jul, 2016
Clematis do look so lovely scrambling through shrubs like this one.
13 Jul, 2016
Like you I have given up with the large hybrid clematis just cant seem to grow them.
13 Jul, 2016
Clematis come from different pruning groups .....you need to get it right or you have no flowers. Drive you nuts.
13 Jul, 2016
I'll mention that casually to my Other Half, Linda. (Good idea, or not?)
My sister had Nellie Moser outside her front door and it always was a spectacle. I don't think she bothered to prune it.
Had a phone call from a London friend the other evening. She knows nothing about gardening and wanted to know what a certain plant she had found growing in a pot on her balcony was. According to her it had "a long green stem and two small leaves at the top." Yet her plants grow and bloom quite well, even anonymously.
13 Jul, 2016
Lynda: Ours used to just DIE! We didn't have a chance to prune them. The ones that have survived have long straggly stems with three or four flowers at the top
13 Jul, 2016
It's very pretty. I think Clematises take a few years to settle in. All the ones I've ever planted have taken a few years to flower, and then there's no stopping them. I hope yours will flower every year now :)
14 Jul, 2016
Thanks, Hywel. You're right. The ones in the back garden have taken time but they are blooming now.
14 Jul, 2016
Lol Eirlys, I trust you were able to identify the ong stem with two leaves at the top???
Your lovely Clem was well worth waiting for - hope it will carry on now its got the idea!
14 Jul, 2016
Steragram : I was hoping you'd do that for me! :O)
This morning Other Half went to cut some Alstroemerias for a friend and found they had been eaten by the deer. They just jump gates and fences and push their way through hedges.
15 Jul, 2016
I am flattered Eirlys. I'm sure we could all make plenty of suggestions lol...
How about Bileafodendron? Or Twigus doublifolia?
15 Jul, 2016
I think WEEDUS is more likely the answer!
18 Jul, 2016
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your so right,ive showered love and money on plants and they die on me,so now i ignore them and they get min attention and they thrive and bloom to their hearts content,treat them rough lol
13 Jul, 2016