Our garden tour event, while great fun and very successful, distracted me from posting who was blooming when. Inside the greenhouse, it is the “Raymond Evison” show, but some of the volunteers’ favorites, like VERSAILLES & BOURBON, have finished for now. Outside, the Historic Garden (HG) is dominated by the roses and peonies, but a few star performers, like ‘Lady Caroline Nevill’, are spectacular. In fact, she’s my pick of the week. In the Sorbus at the end of the chicken run, Clematis japonica is more subtle, but no less beautiful once you notice it.
Here’s the list. If it doesn’t say otherwise, assume the clematis named is a LFH (large-flowered hybrid). LFH-D means it is double. All-CAPS names are trade designations more commonly known than the cultivar names.
Inside the Greenhouse
‘Andrew’ (Magnus Johnson’s)
‘Andromeda’
ANGELIQUE
ARCTIC QUEEN LFH-D
‘Bagatelle’
BIJOU
‘Blue Eyes’
‘Broughton Star’ (Montana Group)
‘Burma Star’
‘Chalcedony’ LFH-D
‘Duchess of Waverly’
EMPRESS LFH-D
FRANZISKA MARIE (LFH-D, looking smashing here with PISTACHIO)
‘Girenas’ (new plant for us, thanks Joy Creek!)
‘Horn of Plenty’
JOSEPHINE LFH-D
‘June Pyne’
‘Kathleen Wheeler’
‘Killian Donahue’
KINGFISHER
‘Kiri te Kanawa’ LFH-D
‘Konigskind’ (syn. CLIMBADOR)
LIBERATION
montana var. wilsonii
‘Multi Blue’ LFH-D
‘Natascha’
PARISIENNE
‘Perrin’s Pride’
PICARDY
PISTACHIO (Florida Group)
‘Riviera’
‘Rosa Konigskind’
‘Serenata’
‘Special Occasion’
‘The Vagabond’
‘Thyrislund’ LFH-D
‘Twilight’
VIENETTA (Florida Group)
‘Violet Elizabeth’ LFH-D
‘Wilhelmina Tull’
Outside (these are clematis stored outside awaiting planting)
‘Arabella’ (Integrifolia Group)
‘Betty Corning’ (Viticella Group)
chiisanensis var. carunculosa (This is a disputed name, but Brewster bought this plant under this name, and it always blooms double, and a double-flowering chiisanensis is a plant that deserves a name.)
‘Esprit’ (Atragene Group)
‘General Sikorski’
‘Huvi’
‘Juuli’ (Integrifolia Group)
‘Louise Rowe’ (not double right now)
‘Marcelina’
‘Niobe’
C. patens ‘Yukiokoshi’ (LFH-D)
‘Rouge Cardinal’
‘Westerplatte’
Beech Tree’s Garden (the clematis here are all Japanese species and hybrids)
‘Andante’ (Integrifolia Group)
Fairy Blue LFH-D (syn. CRYSTAL FOUNTAIN) [yes, this plant was bred in Japan]
‘Hanajima’ (Integrifolia Group)
C. japonica
‘Kozo’
C. patens (lavender, grown from seed collected in Japan by Kozo Sugimoto)
C. patens (white, grown from seed collected in Japan by Kozo Sugimoto)
‘Sano-no-Murasaki’
Historic Garden
Bed A
‘John Gould Veitch’ LFH-D
Bed B
‘Fairy Queen’
‘Ramona’
Bed C
‘Colette Deville’
‘Lady Caroline Nevill’
‘Lasurstern’
‘W. E. Gladstone’
Bed D
‘Madame Julia Correvon’ (Viticella Group)
‘Ville de Lyon’ (also blooming in the home garden of our webmaster!)
Bed E
‘Edouard Desfosse’
C. integrifolia
‘Miss Cavell’
‘Mrs. Spencer Castle’ LFH-D
Bed F
‘Ramona’
Bed G
C. koreana (Hinkley collection)
‘Madame Julia Correvon’
‘Mrs. Cholmondeley’
‘Princess of Wales’
C. spooneri (Montana Group)
Bed H
‘Guiding Star’
Bed I
‘Edouard Desfosse’
‘Jackmanii Rubra’
The Front Bank
‘Coerulea’ (Integrifolia Group)
‘Gravetye Beauty’ (Texensis Group) [Prounounced “grave-tie”, not “gravity”)
‘Hendersonii’ (Integrifolia Group, of Snoeijer, not the old x diversifolia one)
C. integrifolia var. nana (as purchased from LaPorte Avenue Nursery, Ft. Collins. CO)
‘Little Belle’ (Integrifolia Group, a cross with C. socialis)
‘Lord Herschell’ (Integrifolia Group)
Siskiyou RPN Hybrid (Viorna Group, most resembles C. addisonii, but can climb a bit. RPN stands for Rare Plant Nursery. Comes 90% true from seed.)
‘Skylark’ (Integrifolia Group)
‘Sonnette’ (Texensis Group)
‘Tapestry’ (Integrifolia Group)
C. viorna (Viorna Group: who’s buried in Grant’s Tomb?)
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