What's in Bloom?

 

There are always clematis blooming in the garden! See below for a complete list of this week's blooms, plus a map to help you find each theme garden and bed number. 

Updated July 7, 2025: Can you believe it? Peak bloom is at 412 varieties and species of clematis this year! Some times we even amaze ourselves. Our pictures here cannot begin to do the garden justice, but we will try! (For those of you keeping score, the previous high for peak bloom was 378, two years ago.)

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This specimen of ‘Blue Belle’, in Bed 5 of the Heirloom Garden, has been in bloom for over 2 months already!

Clematis ‘Betty Corning’ wandering among the stems of fellow moist soil lover, Lilium ‘Fusion’. Bed 23.

In Bed 16, the Founder’s Garden, ‘Chalcedony’’ is showing us why it was a favorite of Brewster Rogerson’s.

The reasons ‘Hagley Hybrid’ is on the International Clematis Society’s recommended list are obvious: it’s beautiful, plays well with others (that’s Clematis mandshurica over its shoulder), and it is amenable as to how you prune it.

This floating bowl bouquet features three clematis, ‘Venosa Violacea’ (the largest), ‘Walenberg’ (smaller), and ‘White Heart’ (smallest), combined with stems of lavender, Origanum ‘Kent Beauty’ and leaves of Stachys byzantina ‘Primrose Heron’.

OTHER PLANTS

Our new favorite herbaceous perennial of the moment, Berkheya purpurea ‘Zulu Warrior’. Our plants were grown from seed by students at Clackamas Community College. The brilliantly blue sea holly is Eryngium ‘Big Blue’.

The Modern Garden

The more red flower is Clematis ‘Sodertalje’, and the blue/purple bell is ‘Tim’s Passion’. Row 2, Modern garden.

At the end of each row along the center aisle is a modern non-climbing hybrid or very short-growing vining cultivar.

ROW 1, Profuse summer bloomers related to C. viticella and some summer urn/trumpet hybrids related to C. texensis

‘Aotearoa’, ‘Amanda Marie’, Black Prince’, ‘Zo09085’ ASTRA NOVA, ‘Zo09088’ SUPER NOVA, ‘Brocade’, ‘Chacewater’, ‘Charlie Brown’, ‘Brianna’, ‘Chatsworth’, ‘Cornish Spirit’, ‘Elf’, ‘Dark Eyes, ‘Elvan’, ‘Zoiamladyq’ I AM LADY Q, ‘Hagelby Pink’,

ROW 2, Profuse summer bloomers and Pink large-flowered cultivars

‘Sodertalje’, ‘Tim’s Passion’, viticella ‘Vanessa’, ‘Hanna’, ‘Lisboa’, ‘White Magic’, ‘Twilight’, ‘Margaret hunt’, and at the aisle end ‘Lord Herschell’


RAYMOND EVISON HYBRIDS (Rows 3-7)

‘Evipo022’ CHARMAINE will knock your socks off. Row 3 Modern Garden.

ROW 3, Evison Hybrids

‘Evipo043’ AMETHYST BEAUTY, ‘Evipo017’ ANGELIQUE, ‘Evitwo’ ARCTIC QUEEN, ‘Evipo033’ AVANT-GARDE, at the aisle end is ‘Evipo014’ JESSICA

ROW 4, Evison Hybrids

‘Evipo021’ CHANTILLY, ‘Evipo022’ CHARMAINE, ‘Evipo090’ CHIE, ‘Evipo090’, ‘Evipo040’ CHEVALIER, ‘Evipo100’ CHELSEA, at the aisle end ‘Evipo004’ HARLOW CARR.

ROW 5, Evison Hybrids

‘Evipo026’ CONFETTI, ‘Evipo063’ CORINNE, ‘Evipo073’ COUNTESS OF WESSEX, ‘Evipo115’ ELODI, 'Evipo011’ EMPRESS, ‘Evipo048’ ESME, ‘Evipo074’ EDDA

ROW 6, Evison Hybrids

When photographed in the shade, ‘Evipo008’ FRANZISKA MARIA looks nearly truly blue. Row 6 Modern Garden’

‘Evipo008’ FRANZISKA MARIA, ‘Evipo053’ GUIDING PROMISE, ‘Evipo059’ INES, ‘Evijohill’ JOSEPHINE, ‘Evifive’ LIBERATION, ‘Masquerade’, ‘Evipo052’ NINON, and at the aisle end we have ‘Evipo079’ NUBIA

ROW 7, Evison Hybrids,

‘Evipo034’ PALETTE, ‘Evipo024’ PICARDY, ‘Evipo035’ REFLECTIONS, ‘Evipo002’ ROSEMOOR, ‘Evipo077’ SALLY, ‘Evipo028’ SHIMMER’, ‘Evipo075’ SAMARITAN JO, ‘Evione’ SUGAR CANDY, ‘Evipo069’ TEKLA, ‘Evipo111’ TRANQUILITE, ‘Evipo110’ TSUKIKO

ROW 8, Double large-flowered clematis

‘Blue Light’, ‘Kiri te Kanawa, ‘ST17333’ MULTI PINK, ‘Moonglow’, ‘Samatha Denny’ (single), ‘Thyrislund’ (single), ‘Zodaque’ DANCING QUEEN

ROW 9, Profuse flowering clematis (C. viticella and C. texensis hybrids)

The large white clematis with pebbled texture is ‘Prince George’. The smaller white cup with purple on the outside is ‘Zoprika’ PRINCESS KATE. Cue Paul Simon’s “Mother and Child Reunion”. easterly end of Row 9.

‘Zoiamha’ I AM HAPPY, ‘Purple Haze’, ‘Piskey’, ‘Zojogo’ JOLLY GOOD, ‘Little Butterfly’, 'Zomeibe’ MEINE BELLE, ‘Killifreth’, ‘Little Bas’, ‘Poldice’, ‘Pendragon’, ‘Peveril Pristine’, ‘Zoprika’ PRINCESS KATE, ‘Zo09087’ ROSALYN, ‘Radiance’, ‘Prince George’, ‘Ruby Wedding’

WE WOULD LIKE TO HUMBLY REQUEST THAT, FOR THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE, CLEMATIS BREEDERS HOLD A MORATORIUM ON NAMING C. viticella and C. texensis HYBRIDS WITH CULTIVAR NAMES BEGINNING WITH ‘P’. WE CAN’T FIT ANYMORE IN THE ALLOTTED AREA, AND IT’S PLAYING HAVOC WITH THE ALPHABET. Thanks. ;-)

SZCZEPAN MARCZYNSKI HYBRIDS (Rows 10 & 11)

ROW 10, Marczynski Hybrids

‘Beautiful Bride’, ‘Grunwald’, ‘Jerzy Popieluszko’, ‘Krakowiak’ PINK MINK, ‘Mazurek’, ‘Morning Sky’, ‘Oberek’,

ROW 11, Marczynski Hybrids and White large-flowered cultivars

at the aisle end, ‘Blue Ribbons’, ‘Sweet Summer Love’, ‘Skyfall’, ‘Viva Polonia’, ‘John Huxtable’, ‘Sparkler’

ROW 12, Red large-flowered cultivars

Even in full sun, the open flowers of ‘Hainton Ruby’ hold their opulence as they fade. Row 12.

‘Barbara Harrington’, ‘Corona’, ‘ernest Markham’, ‘Hainton Ruby’, ‘Perida’, ‘Regency’, ‘Rouge Cardinal’, ‘BFCCFLA’ FLAMENCO DANCER

Clematis ‘Barbara Harrington’ is a floriferous sport of the old classic ‘Comtesse de Bouchaud’. Row 12

ROW 13, Red large-flowered cultivars and Purple large-flowered cultivars

at the aisle end: ‘Zoexci’ EXCITING, ‘TBA73’ SUCCESS MAGENTA, ‘Sunset’, ‘Burma Star’, ‘Zojapur’ HAPPY JACK, ‘Kjell’, ‘Suzy Mac’, VANCOUVER ‘Deborah Dahl’, ‘Tie Dye’

ROW 14, Lavender/Blue large-flowered cultivars

at the aisle end ‘Pink Delight’, ‘Miguel Viso’, ‘Blue Eyes’, ‘Eyer’s Gift’, ‘Joan Picton’, ‘Jubilation’, ‘Natascha’, ‘Rhapsody’, ‘Saturn’, ‘Zo08111’ PALETTE, ‘Silvermoon’ (flowers are smaller than normal)

ROW 15, Lavender/Blue large-flowered cultivars and Striped/Barred large-flowered cultivars

at the asile end: ‘Violet Stardust’, ‘Will Goodwin’, ‘H F Young’, ‘Barbara Dibley’, ‘Bees’ Jubilee’, ‘Candy Stripe’, ‘‘Carnaby’, ‘Doctor Ruppel’, ‘Fireworks’, ‘Kilian Donahue’, ‘Irene’, ‘John Warren’, ‘Festival’,

ROW 16, Striped/Barred large-flowered cultivars and Late Adds

at the aisle end ‘Floris V’, ‘Zo08095’ LIBERTY, ‘Zo09067’ LUCKY CHARM, ‘Mrs N Thompson’, ‘Zolaka’ MORNING STAR, ‘Zo09113’ PERNILLE, ‘Zo09124’ PICOTEE, ‘Donaros’ ROSALIE, ‘Zostiwa’ STILL WATERS, VANCOUVER ‘Mystic Gem’, VANCOUVER ‘Starry Night’, VANCOUVER ‘Sea Breeze’


Beech Tree's Garden

This specimen of ‘Omoshiro’ in Bed 1 has been putting on a long show this year.

BED 1

‘Omoshiro’

BED 2

Nothing in bloom

BED 3

‘Seryu’, ‘Roguchi’, ‘Cat’s Eye’,

BED 4

‘Kagayaki-no-mai’ is a deep violet colored “viticella type” from Japan. Bed 4.

This is one of our largest beds, starting across the paths from Bed 3 and Heirloom Garden Bed 5, continuing along the west boundary fence of The Antipodes beds, and the gravel path towards the chicken coop. Step down to the greenhouse level and walk back toward the farmhouse, which will end the Bed 4 loop.

‘Sho-un’, ‘Shikon’, ‘‘Kagayaki-no-Mai’, ‘Yaichi’, ‘Sano-no-murasaki’ in container, ‘Yuguri’, ‘Kasumi-no-Kimi’ (3 specimens), ‘Taiga’, ‘Hanajima’, C. integrifolia ‘Ozawa Number 2’, ‘Haizawa’, ‘Andante’, ‘Hanaguruma’, ‘Toltae’ TAE, ‘Roguchi #2’, ‘Hakurei’, ‘Kahori no Kimi’, C. hexapetala, ‘Spark’, ‘Odoriba’ (three speimens), ‘Alba Chirifu’, ‘Little Artist’,

Coop Border

Along the west side of the chicken coop and run, this bed faces due west, so the clematis planted here are sun-lovers, along with their herbaceous perennial companions.

C. integrifolia ‘Ozawa #1’, ‘Watayuki’, ‘Sophie’, ‘Shizuki’, ‘Yufune’, ‘Little Bell Sumire’, ‘Utsusemi’, ‘Oborozukiyo’

Entry Border

‘Rosy O’Grady’ is back in bloom, draping out of one of the big urns in the Entry Border’.

‘Zoprika’ PRINCESS KATE, ‘Rosy O’Grady’, ‘Raspberry Beret’, ‘Twist and Shout’, ‘Psharlan’ MONGOLIAN BELLS lavender and blue, ‘Pink Pinwheel’, ‘Rosy Cheeks’, ‘Raindance’ PPAF,

This new feature of the Rogerson Clematis Garden is a long perennial border opposite the Coop Border. It begins with an anonymously donated metal arc with waving stems of reeds on which large-flowered hybrids climb, greeting visitors with that which they expect to see. But beyond the arc are the other forms of clematis most people don’t know about. Large flat panel trellises are populated by clematis that get big. They are fronted by clematis that cannot climb, in all of their wonderful colors and flower forms. A series of urns house draping clematis from the Atragene section (this is the section with C. macropetala and C. alpina, among many other species), which start flowering in April and repeat bloom through the summer. We have some woody shrub clematis here, too! Into all of this celebration of the variation within the genus Clematis, we have added an array of herbaceous perennials from groundcovers to tall summer-blooming plants, including lilies and repeated stands of Celtica gigantea (syn. Stipa gigantea, stipa grass). We have carefully selected a few shrubs into which the non-climbing clematis may loll if they choose.

Our non-climbing introduction ‘Twist and Shout’ is sprinkling itself through Salvia ‘Nachtvlinder’ in the Entry Border.

Heirloom Garden

‘Ville de Lyon’ among the Siberian iris in Bed 8

BED 5

‘Jackmanii Superba’ is happy to have Geranium ‘Ann Folkard’ shading its feet in Bed 5 of the Heorloom Garden.

‘Jackmanii Superba’, ‘Blue Belle’,

BED 6

x durandii

BED 7

‘M Koster’ enjoys its shade-producing neighbor, Cotinus coggygria ‘Royal Robe’.

‘M Koster’, Nelly Moser’, ‘Colette DeVill’, ‘Lady Northcliffe’, ‘Alba Luxurians’, ‘Lasurstern’, ‘Candida’, ‘Etoile Violette’, ‘Sir Trevor Lawrence’, ‘victoria’, ‘Blue Belle’, ‘Kermesina’

BED 8

‘Ville de Lyon’, C. x diversifolia ‘Hendersonii’, C. integrifolia, C. viticella ‘Rubra’, ‘Daniel Deronda’, x diversifolia ‘Eriostemon’, ‘Jackmanii Rubra’, ‘Praecox’, ‘Huldine’,

BED 9

‘Jackmanii Rubra’, ‘Ville de Lyon’, ‘Henryi’, C. jouiniana, x diversifolia ‘Eriostemon’,

‘Jackmanii Rubra’ with a color coordinated weigela in Bed 9

BED 10

‘Mrs George Jackman’, ‘Guiding Star’, ‘Perle d’Azur’, ‘Star of India’, ‘Lord Nevill’, ‘Minuet’, ‘Etoile Violette’, ‘Little Nell’, C. viticella ‘Flore-Pleno’ (syn. ‘Mary Rose’), C. integrifolia, C.integrifolia ‘Alba’, C. recta, C. florida var. flore-pleno ‘Plena’ (flowering in Rosa chinensis ‘Mutabilis’), ‘Purpurea Plena Elegans’, ‘Ville de Lyon’, C. x diversifolia ‘Hendersonii’, C. x triternata ‘Rubromarginata’, x aromatica

BED 11

With the distinctive canoe-shaped sepals, ‘Madame Grangé’ is easy to ID. Bed 11.

C. heracleifolia, ‘Blue Belle’, ‘Madame Grangé’, ‘Madame Julia Correvon’ (best seen from bed 14), ‘Elsa Spath’, ‘Etoile Rose’ (best seen in the crabapple from Bed 14), C. urticifolia, C. viticella, C. morefieldii, C. reticulata, in container, ‘Souvenir de Capitaine Thuilleaux’.

BED 12

‘Perle d’Azur’, C crispa, ‘Star of India’, ‘The Bride’

BED 13

‘Guiding Star’, ‘Minuet’


The Front Bank

What is a shale barren? Thousands of years ago, Virginia was underwater. As the inland seas retreated, the layers of compressed silt formed these massive walls of quite fertile crevices, if you have roots that know how to exploit the nutrients. The little mounds of green at the upper right and at the bottom of the shale scree are clever Clematis coactilis.

As usual, Clematis ochroleuca is the first of the shale barrens species of Virginia to bloom.

Clematis coactilis is another denizen of the Virginia shale barrens. Bed 14

BED 14

Clematis addisonii, ‘Sonnette’, C. albicoma, ‘Princess Diana’, ‘Happy Diana’, ‘Queen of Holland’, ‘Zoqum’ QUEEN MOTHER, ‘Hendryetta’, C. versicolor, ‘Zoprika’ PRINCESS KATE, ‘Buckland Beauty’, ‘Gravetye Beauty’ (two of them)

The Baltic Border

BED 15

‘Stasik’, ‘Entel’, ‘Entel’, ‘Trikatrei’, ‘Kaaru’, ‘Kommerei’, ‘Pamiat Serdsta’, ‘Eetika’, ‘Juuli’, ‘Kaunitar’, ‘Romatika’ ‘Jorma’, x diversifolia ‘Olgae’, ‘Darius’, ‘Silmakivi’, ‘Dubysa’, ‘Rhaarinne’, ‘Viola’, ‘Ashva’ ‘Mikelite’, ‘Vostok’, ‘Semu’, ‘Iubelienyi-70’, ‘Minister’, ‘Kiev’, ‘Sizia Ptitsa’, ‘Nikolai Rubstov’, ‘Blekitney Aniol’, ‘Janis Ruplens #1’, ‘Ristimagi’, ‘Luther Burbank’


The Founder’s Garden

Clematis ‘Sharpie’ is a named seedling from the days when the entire collection was grown in a greenhouse in containers. This seedling was too amazing to be discarded and has now been registered. We occasionally have it for sale.

BED 16

‘Carmencita’, ‘Arabella’, ‘Paul Farges’. ‘Mrs Robert Brydon’ (best seen from public pathway), ‘Rüütel’, ‘Sharpie’, C. stans, C. macropetala ‘Wesselton, ‘Huvi’, ‘Daihelios’ HELIOS, ‘Fond Memories’, ‘Chalcedony’, ‘Gipsy Queen’, ‘Evipo073’ KINGFISHER, ‘Huldine’, ‘Honcho’, ‘Fujimusume’


The Steppe Garden

‘Cleminov 29’ SAPHYRA DOUBLE ROSE is a Clematis integrifolia hybrid that cannot climb, but it drapes beautifully. Bed 17

BED 17
This bed wraps around both sides of the old Gravenstein apple tree and includes the stock plants at the south end of the Test Garden.

‘Sundance’, ‘Cleminov 29’ SAPHYRA DOUBLE ROSE, ‘Lathkill Dale’, ‘Skylark’, ‘Golden Harvest’, ‘Anita’, x diversifolia ‘Blue Boy’, ‘Lake Baikal’, ‘Evisix PETIT FAUCON, ‘Swedish Bells’, SAVANNAH, ‘Pangbourne Pink’, ‘Bill MacKenzie’, C. integrifolia wild-collected by Denver BG, GIZELLE, ‘Coerulea’, HUDSON RIVER, ‘Fascination’, ‘Zo09045’ BLUE OCEAN, C. ispahanica, ‘Kugotia’ GOLDEN TIARA, ‘PSHarlan’ MONGOLIAN BELLS white, ‘Zoin’ INSPIRATION, Radar Love (seed strain), ‘Zoblupi’ BLUE PIROUETTE, ‘Zoblueriver’ BLUE RIVER, C. tibetana subsp. vernayi var. vernayi, ‘Skylark’, ‘Sixten Widberg’, ‘Stand By Me’ PPAF, ‘Cleminov 51’, SAPHYRA INDIGO, ‘Zomisri’ MISSISSIPPI RIVER, x diversifolia ‘Heather Herschell’

They do this every year: C. x diversifolia ‘Heather Herschell’ (pink) gets tall enough for a meet up with ‘Bill Mackenzie’. Bed 17.


Old Poland (the Polish Beds)

BED 18

‘General Sikorski’, ‘Kacper’, ‘Polsih Spirit’

BED 19

‘Ania’, ‘Niobe’

BED 20

‘Matka Teresa’, ‘Marcelina’, ‘Jolanta’, ‘Gizella’, ‘Kryspina’, ‘Danuta’, ‘Sylwia’


The Beginner’s Garden

‘Markham’s Pink’ is on the International Clematis Society’s list of Recommended Clematis. It is extra winter hardy, produces masses of flowers, and reblooms easily.

BED 21

‘Hagley Hybrid’, C. mandshurica, ‘Markham’s Pink’, C. alpina ‘Pamela Jackman’, ‘Daihelios’ HELIOS, ‘Evipo001’ WISLEY, ‘Bill MacKenzie’, ‘Abundance’, ‘Walenberg’, ‘Comtesse de Bouchaud’ ‘Amilia Plater’, ‘Alionushka’,

Clematis alpina ‘Pamela Jackman’ opens deep blue and lightens as it matures. This is an excellent rebloomer.

BED 22

‘Betty Corning’, ‘Warszawska Nike’, ‘Arabella’, ‘Minuet’, ‘Gravetye Beauty’, ‘Madame Julia Correvon’, ‘Venosa Violacea’, ‘Etoile Violette’, ‘Princess Diana’


The Hedges

Who doesn’t love a dark, sultry ‘Brunette’? Bed 23 of The Hedges

BED 23

‘Zo14100’ LITTLE LEMONS, C. texensis, ‘Betty Corning’, C. heracleifolia ‘Alblo’ ALAN BLOOM, ‘Zocoro’ SPARKY PINK, ‘Joe Zary’, C. tubulosa ‘Blue Mood’, C.tubulosa, C. heracleifolia,

BED 24

C. crispa ‘Rick’s Choice’, C. crispa var. rosea, ‘Pauline’, ‘Elegant Rhythm’, C. recta, ‘Carol Lim’, ‘Josie’s Midnight Blue’

Winter Bloomers

Inside the Sales Terrace, these clematis are growing on 4’ wide by 10’ tall flat panel trellises.

Nothing in bloom


Troughs

Nothing in bloom

Subtropical Shade Porch

Nothing in bloom


The Antipodes

The unique clematis native down under, in Australia and New Zealand, have many unique attributes. Even Australia’s island-state, Tasmania, has a clematis all its own. Here you will find the world’s smallest clematis (C. marmoraria), as well as a clematis with no leaves (C. afoliata). This quadrant of the world is often referred to as The Antipodes, meaning the opposite.

nothing in bloom

Test Garden/Mt. Cuba Project New Species

C. beadlei, viorna, crispa, pitcheri, warei, vinacea, reticulata, versicolor, kirilowii (our dark-leaf form), ‘Genie Brannon’, viorna seedling from Powell River TN.

CONTAINER DISPLAY AREA

LITTLE LEMONS

This area, between the Bob and Carol Gutmann Greenhouse and The Antipodes will be increasingly populated by a display/demonstration area for growing clematis in containers. We imagine a continually changing, slowly evolving space where those with small gardens will find suggestions and inspiration. Seating is coming soon, too! The broad pale green bowl in the container area will be used to make floating arrangements of clematis.

The Egg

‘Vitiwester’

The Egg is undergoing a major replanted to remove Agastache ‘Little Adder’, which has run amok. The more refined cottage harden plants will return, along with the hybrids and species selections of the late Ton Hannink of Holland, a past president of the International Clematis Society. What better memorial to the man than his plants?

Artist James Harrison donated a handsome structure he created using the proportions of a Fabergé egg; hence we call it The Egg. It occupies the round foundation of the long-gone Luscher Farm silo. The cottage garden herbaceous perennials and volunteer annuals (the sunflowers are full of American Goldfinches nearly all day, every day) make a mad display at the feet of the clematis climbing The Egg through the spring and summer.

Mr. Western Bluebird is a frequent percher on The Egg, reminding humans that the mealworm feeder is a thing that exists and always needs replenishing.