Northwestern Oregon has enjoyed an unusually lovely autumn, and the coming of the rains, late this year, have inspired a bevy of beauties to stay in bloom, or return to bloom. Here’s the rundown of which clematis are blooming, and a few pictures to whet your appetite. You will see that the winter-blooming Cirrhosa group are already well represented, with the recently pruned C. cirrhosa var. purpurascens ‘Lansdowne Gem’ rebounding and forming buds already. Also forming buds outside is C. napaulensis, and if the weather continues mild and we avoid a hard frost, we will get bloom from this species. The plants of this species inside the greenhouse should be in bloom within the next two weeks.

Inside the Greenhouse:

ANGELIQUE ‘Evipo017′
‘Doctor Ruppel’
‘Duchess of Sutherland’
‘Horn of Plenty’
‘Iola Fair’
‘King George V’
‘Margaret Hunt’

On the Terrace in Containers:

AMETHYST BEAUTY ‘Evipo043′
ANNA LOUISE ‘Evithree’
ARCTIC QUEEN ‘Evitwo’
‘Bieszczady’
‘Blue Ravine’
CHEROKEE ‘Evipo041′
‘Etoile de Malicorne’
FRANZISKA MARIE ‘Evipo008′
JOLLY GOOD ‘Zogojo’
JOSEPHINE ‘Evijohill’
‘Lech Welesa’
‘Natascha’
PICARDY ‘Evipo024′
‘Prince Philip’
‘Snow Queen’
‘Solidarnosc’
‘Summer Breeze’
VANCOUVER ‘Danielle’

Terrace Walk:

C. cirrhosa ‘Ourika Valley’
C. cirrhosa ‘Wisley Cream’
C. cirrhosa var. purpurascens ‘Freckles’
C. cirrhosa var. purpurascens ‘Jingle Bells’

The IClS Beginner’s Garden:

‘Duchess of Albany’
‘Etoile Violette’
‘Kardynal Wyszynski’
‘Prince Charles’
‘Venosa Violacea’

In Steppe:

C. tibetana subspecies vernayi var. vernayi

Old Poland:

‘Anna Karolina’
‘Kacper’
‘Mikolaj Kopernik’

Founder’s Garden:

‘Ai-Nor’
‘Fond Memories’
‘Gabrielle’
‘Jenny Keay’
‘Sixten’s Gift’

Baltic Border:

‘Romantika’
‘Tuchka’

Beech Tree’s Garden:

‘Fujimusume’
‘Kozo’
‘Mayor Isao’
‘Mrs. Yuki’
C. patens ‘Yukiokoshi’

Heirloom Garden:

‘Fair Rosamond’ (Bed B)
‘Lasurstern’ (Bed C)
C. tibetana (Bed D)
‘Belle of Woking’ (Bed E)
‘Edouard Desfosse’ (Bed E)
‘Candida’ (Bed H)
C. crispa (Bed H)
‘M. Koster’ (Bed I)

Front Bank:
‘Etoile Rose’
‘Gravetye Beauty’
‘Princess Diana’

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Good heavens! It might be easier to tell you what isn’t in bloom. In every part of the FRCC gardens there are many clematis in bloom, testament to the value of getting 65% of the collection into the ground. Of particular interest just now is the International Clematis Society Beginners’ Garden, where we have planted many of the clematis on their list of great plants recommended to gardeners unfamiliar with clematis. We have two island bed dedicated to the 60 or so plants on that list, and all of the clematis pictured in this post are from the eldest of these beds. Each of these clematis is proclaiming loud and clear its worthiness to be on the list!

Beginners’ Garden
‘Abundance’ (Viticella Group)
‘Alionushka’ (Integrifolia Group)
‘Arabella’ (Integrifolia Group)
‘Betty Corning’ (Viticella Group)
‘Bill Mackenzie’ (Tangutica/Orientalis Group)
‘Comtesse de Bouchaud’ (Late Large-flowered Hybrid)
x durandii
‘Emelia Plater’ (Viticella Group)
‘Etoile Violette’ (Viticella Group)
‘Hagley Hybrid’ (Late Large-flowered Hybrid)
‘Helios’ (Tangutica/Orientalis Group)
C. macropetala ‘Maidwell Hall’ (Atragene Group)
C. mandshurica (Flammula Group)
‘Markham’s Pink’ (Atragene Group)
‘Minuet’ (Viticella Group)
‘Piilu’ (Large-flowered Hybrid)
‘Prince Charles’ (Viticella Group’
‘Walenburg’ (Viticella Group)
WISLEY (Late Large-flowered Hybrid)

The Beech Tree’s Garden
C. apiifolia
‘Black Tea’
‘Fujimusume’
C. fusca
‘Hakuree’
‘Hayate’
C. hexapetala
‘Kirigamine’
‘Omoshiro’
‘Pinky’
‘Roguchi’
C. stans
‘Tateshina’
‘The Velvet’

Baltic Border
‘Darius’
x diversifolia ‘Olgae’
‘Eetika’
‘Entel’
‘Iubelieni-70′
‘Jorma’
‘Justa’
‘Juuli’
‘Kaaru’
‘Kaunitar’
‘Kommerei’
‘Mikelite’
‘Negritianka’
‘Pamiat Serdsta’
‘Romantika’
‘Tentel’
‘Trikatrei’
‘Tuchka’
‘Violetta’

Old Poland
‘Danuta’
‘Gizela’
‘Jan Pawell II’
‘Kardynal Wyszynski’
‘Magda’
‘Mikolaj Kopernik’
‘Monte Cassino’
‘Niobe’
‘Sylwia’
‘Sympatia’
‘Westerplatte’

In Steppe
‘Blue Boy’
CHINOOK
FASCINATION
INSPIRATION
‘Lake Baikal’
‘Miranda’
MISSISSIPPI RIVER
‘My Angel’
PETIT FAUCON
PRETTY IN BLUE
‘Rose Colored Glasses’
SAPPHIRE INDIGO ‘Cleminov 50′
SAVANNAH
‘Skylark’
C. tibetana subsp. vernayi ‘Orange Peel’

Via Atragene
C. alpina ‘Pamela Jackman’
‘Ballet Skirt’
‘Bluebird’
‘Broughton Bride’
‘Constance’
C. fauriei
‘Foxy’
‘Frankie’
‘Helsingborg’
I AM A RED ROBIN
C. ianthina var. kuripoensis BSWJ700
C. potaninii
‘Propertius’
C. rehderiana
‘Rosy Pagoda’
C. tubulosa ‘Wyevale’

Heirloom Garden
‘Alba Luxurians’
‘Colette deVille’
C. crispa
x diversifolia ‘Eriostemon’
‘Fairy Queen’
C. florida var. flore-pleno
C. integrifolia
‘Jackmanii’
x jouiniana
‘Lady Caroline Nevill’
‘Madame Edouard Andre’
‘Madame Julia Correvon’
C. occidentalis var. grosserata
‘Perle d’Azur’
‘Purpurea Plena Elegans’
C. recta
C. tangutica
C. urticifolia
C. viticella

Front Bank
‘Coerulea’
C. fremontii
‘Gravetye Beauty’
‘Hendryetta’
integrifolia ‘Hendersonii’
integrifolia var. nana
‘Little Belle’
MEDLEY
Mongolian Bells seed strain
‘Princess Diana’
‘Sonnette’
‘Swedish Bells’
C. viorna

Founder’s Garden
‘Blekitny Aniol’
‘Caroline’
‘Chalcedony’
‘Duchess of Waverly’
‘Esprit’
‘Fond Memories’
‘Huvi’
‘Jenny Keay’
‘Maria Cornelia’
‘Paul Farges’
‘Warsaw Nike’

On the Terrace in Pots
‘Aotearoa’
‘Bagatelle’
BIJOU
‘Blue Light’
BONANZA
CASSIS
CHANTILLY
CHEROKEE
‘Cicciolina’
CONFETTI
‘Dark Eyes’
‘Fairy Dust’
FLEURI
FRANCZESKA MARIA
‘Honora’
‘Jerzy Popieluszko’
JOLLY GOOD
JOSEPHINE
‘Mrs. T. Lundell’
‘Natascha’
‘Oberek’
PARISIENNE
‘Perrin’s Pride’
PICARDY
REBECCA
SUGAR CANDY
‘Solidarnosc’
SUMMER BREEZE
SUNNY SKIES
VANCOUVER ‘Danielle’
VERSAILLES
C. viticella ‘Lisboa’

Inside the Greenhouse
‘Andromeda’
‘Brewster’
‘Burma Star’
‘Horn of Plenty’
‘June Pyne’
‘Kiri te Kanawa’
‘Maureen’
‘Prince Phillip’
‘Sharpie’

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In an unprecedented display of precocious exuberance, several Large-flowered Hybrids living in the greenhouse have burst into bloom. We have ‘Mrs. P. B. Truax’ and ‘Wilhelmina Tull’ in full bloom (yes, we have taken cuttings of “Wilhelmina”, and will continue to do so), with ‘King George V’ and ‘Betty Risdon’ hard on their heals. The indoor Montanas are also in their glory. As gardeners, it is easy to forget that our perceptions and judgments of the weather are very different from those of our plants. The clematis at the Rogerson Clematis Collection are telling us that this was, in fact, a very mild winter, and in spite of the snow last week, they are looking forward to a fantastic blooming season.

Meanwhile, outside, the Cirrhosa Group along the Terrace Walk seems determined to stay in bloom to partner with the New Zealand Group, which are very near to opening.

What the Atragene Group is waiting for, we really cannot say. ‘Wesselton’ and C. macropetala ‘Mountaindale’ are covered with buds in the Founder’s Garden, and along Via Atragene the show is going to be spectacular any second now!

Montana Group in bloom in the greenhouse:
‘Alexander’
‘Elizabeth’
‘Fragrant Spring’
‘Freda’
‘Gothenburg’
montana ‘Superba’
montana var. rubens ‘Brewster’
montana var. rubens ‘Pink Perfection’
montana var. rubens ‘Superba’
‘Tetrarose’
‘Tsunami Child’ (first to bloom)

Cirrhosa Group on the Terrace Walk:
cirrhosa ‘Jingle Bells’
cirrhosa ‘Ourika Valley’
cirrhosa ‘Wisley Cream’
cirrhosa var. balearica
cirrhosa var. balearica ‘Early Times’
cirrhosa var. purpuracens ‘Freckles’
cirrhosa var. purpuracens ‘Lansdowne Gem’

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Just think…last year at this time we were recovering from the thrill (and hard work!) of having the International Clematis Society visit the collection. This year the pace at the farm, while still very much in planting and garden-building mode, has been much more relaxed. There has been precious little summery weather in the greater Portland area this year, and in fact, just last weekend was the first time two 90+ days have been back-to-back. Never the less, the clematis and their companions are still blooming, or in some cases reblooming, as if it were a typical year. The following are the most photogenic of the current bloomers:

The lovely ILKA, in the Baltic Border

Helenium Red Gold strain, grown for us by the horticulture students at Clackamas Community College

Lots of action in the island beds know as “Old Poland” where the Franczak and Noll cultivars reside. This is ‘Magda’.

Also in Old Poland, ‘Slowianka’.

‘Marcelina’, with color more vibrant than earlier in the year.

‘Maksimilian Kolbe’ has chosen to bloom in Caryopteris SNOW FAIRY®

In the Founder’s Garden, the Evison introduction KINGFISHER® is blooming for the third time.

‘Caroline’ proves you can lead a clematis to a “clematis ladder” but you can’t make it climb!

The Heirloom garden has a rambling specimen of Clematis tibetana var. vernayi.

‘Sir Trevor Lawrence’ flowering in the clean foliage of Rosa ‘Tuscany’ (Gallica Group)

‘Perl d’Azur’ where there used to be a wisteria on the farmhouse (actually eating the farmhouse!).

This ‘Lady Northcliffe’ has been sickly, but she sure looks okay now.

The apple-like hips of Rosa villosa (syn. Rosa pomifera), known as The Apple Rose.

Our gardens are open dawn to dusk daily.

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…Uhtsi, Kaaru, Kommerei” is an Estonian nursery rhyme made up of nonsense words. However, the clematis named for these words are no joke. Pictured below is ‘Tentel’, who is blooming brilliantly and has been for a month. In spite of a long slow spring, and summer yet to arrive, ‘Tentel’ has been the star of the Baltic Border. Alas, FRCC does not yet have ‘Uhtsi’, but we have left space for it! We do have the rest of the rhyme.

Pronunciation:
‘Entel’ (accent on first syllable)
‘Tentel’ (accent on the first syllable)
‘Trikatrei’ (trick-a-tree)
‘Uhtsi’ (oot-si)
‘Kaaru’ (car-oo)
‘Kommerei’ (co-marie)

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