Collector's Corner Sales

 

Updated October 5, 2024

  • Select your clematis from the list below and send your order to FRCCsales@gmail.com Include your name, phone number, name(s) of the clematis you’d like to buy, quantity of each, and the date you will pick up your order (Mon/Wed/Fri, 10:00am-2:00pm). We will respond within 12 hours by email confirming availability and sending an invoice for online payment. After receiving payment confirmation, we will send pick-up instructions.

  • We do not ship plants.

  • ONSITE clematis sales resume in April 2025.

  • Visit CLEMATIS CARE for information sheets on planting and pruning clematis.

We’ve MOVED! The Collector’s Corner plants have moved to a cozy corner of the sales Terrace, where we are sure they will be much happier, as well as easier to admire.

Prices are the same as last year, $45 for a fully rooted, 1-gallon specimen, and $55 for clematis in 2-gallon pots.

We are delighted to report that our introductions Clematis ‘Sixten Widberg’ and C. ‘Twist and Shout’ are now available through Brushwood Nursery. They are also offering ‘Duchess of Waverly’. If they are currently out of stock, add them to your wishlist there for future notification.
https://www.brushwoodnursery.com/collections/clematis-in-stock


Available in 2024

Clematis florida var. flore-pleno ‘Plena’

This variant of Clematis florida is in many ways more durable than its fragile but flashy kissing cousin C. florida var. florida ‘Seiboldiana’. The blooms will be entirely green when the weather is cold, creamy green in a warm spring, and summer flowers are more white. It is always double, so it doesn’t matter when or how hard you prune it. It may be grown in partial shade or full sun with shaded roots. We have six 1-gallon plants available as of October 4, 2024.

C. ‘Barbara Houser’

This clematis from the Atragene section of the genus was a selection by Brewster Rogerson that germinated in a pot of C. ‘Jan Lindmark’. It is redder than many in that section, and as a seedling was labeled “my red koreana”. After abandoning his attempt to find a suitable color word to use as a name, Brewster named it after his longtime friend ‘Barbara Houser’, who for some years edited the FRCC newsletter from her home in Racine, Wisconsin. This clematis is exceptionally winter hardy and is a good repeat bloomer. We grow it in a container with added pumice to assure it has free-draining soil. We have one 1-gallon specimen available now.

C. ‘Clochette Pride’

Clematis ‘Clochette Pride’ was originally introduced from Sweden as ‘Campanulina Plena’, but that name had to be changed due to the nomenclatural constraints present then. This is a sturdy, reblooming member of the Atragene section, so in the maritime Pacific Northwest, grow in a container with free draining soil, or add pumice to the planting hole when growing in the ground. In both cases, mulch with 1/4-10 gravel or #2 chicken grit. This was a huge favorite of Brewster Rogerson, and can be seen growing in the Founder’s Garden, Bed 16. We have three 1-gallon specimens available now.

C. warei

We are delighted to at last offer this newly documented species to Portland area gardens. Clematis warei has been around the clematis world since 2004, when it showed up as the “Coosa River seedling”, and seed was distributed by Weezie Smith of Anniston Alabama to our first FRCC president, Sally Geist. As it was studied, populations were found by Georgia naturalists Teresa and Richard Ware, who also live in the plant’s native range. Richard joined in a visit by the International Clematis Society to Georgia in 2014, where we got to see his population, as well as seeing the plant at the Chatahoochie Consernation Reserve. It reaches 6-8 feet tall on lightweight vines, and should be hard pruned in winter. We have grown it in our Test Garden for years—as we waited impatiently for its nomenclature to be settled—and can now report it grows easily from cuttings. Place it in your garden to mimic a forest-edge, understory habitat with partial shade, especially in the afternoon. Best growing through deciduous shrubs. We have one 1-gallon specimen available.