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The rare sun!


The rare sun! (Clematis cirrhosa)

I just tried to capture the glow of the flowers cascading down the house wall, with the sun shining through them.



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You have the best of all the winter flowering beauties B! And I don't have a single clematis in my garden!! This can't be right! I'm going to have to start scouring the bargain places for some.

19 Jan, 2014

 

Delightful...

19 Jan, 2014

 

Karen, I always associate you with Clematis - so get busy planting!

Thanks, Dd. It really is wonderful this year. :-D)

20 Jan, 2014

 

yes! I feel I am letting the clematis family down! I shall be getting a Niobe for my new arch....ASAP!

20 Jan, 2014

 

Have been and gone and done it lol just just bought our first lot of winter flowering clems, thank goodness for garden tokens!! had a field day......goodness knows where we are going to put them!!

20 Jan, 2014

 

I must admit I was wondering that, Dd. Would you like to borrow my magic shoehorn? ;-D

21 Jan, 2014

 

Lol...At least that's one thing I no longer require. Sadly, my funds are extremely low. This year is going to be about bargain hunting and propagation! I've spent a lot on trees, which have to be bought ASAP of course, but now I'm really skint! It's going to be a very different experience for me isn't it?! Lol!

21 Jan, 2014

 

Please Spritz a magic shoehorn would be the answer, with all this bad weather we are bound to lose a few plants......a case of win some lose some!!
Karen the trees are a priority, I am sure you will find ways and means....

21 Jan, 2014

 

Ha ha...I'm sure you're right! :)) I can't complain anyway...I have an incredible home, and I brought a huge number of plants with me. I've been out planting some of them today, and there are still a lot to get in the ground. I've noticed some huge clumps of bulbs coming up too...can't wait to see what else is sleeping under there!

21 Jan, 2014

 

Just noticed I misread your comment...I read it as 'have you been and gone and done it?' I thought you were asking whether I'd bought Niobe yet! Lol...you must have wondered what I was going on about! Should have gone to spec......!

21 Jan, 2014

 

Somebody shut me up!

21 Jan, 2014

 

Shut up, K! LOL.

You'll get there eventually, K. You have your priorities right. :-D)

22 Jan, 2014

 

:)) thank you. I got my three baby silver birches in yesterday, and a crab apple. It is starting to become my garden now......:)))

22 Jan, 2014

 

Good on you Karen, I love Silver Birch, like you we have 3 Jacquemonti planted in a group, well, they came like that, all 3 in one pot.... and one common Birch that sneaked a lift 13 years ago, found it growing in a pot which we bought from our last house, it stood 8 ins tall and it is now 30 ft .......so fast growing !!recently purchased a yellow leafed variety( just over 2 ft, so a fair bit of growing to do also) promised myself not to buy any more trees, whoever takes over this garden is going to hate us lol

22 Jan, 2014

 

lol! It will be a long time until that happens DD....unless you change your minds about moving. The Birches are planted a foot apart, as advised. They are like little twigs right now, only about 2 and a half feet high. But I shall get so much pleasure from watching them grow.

22 Jan, 2014

 

We did that some years ago, K, to make a multi-trunked tree. They're not quite there yet, but we were 'planting for the future'. They're about 12' tall now! I have to take the little shoots off the base of each one to keep the growth going up, if you see what I mean. It's hard to explain without showing you.

23 Jan, 2014

 

no, I know exactly what you mean B!

23 Jan, 2014

 

Good. It sounded a bit convoluted...so I'm glad you understood, K. :-)

24 Jan, 2014



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