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.

Errata: on the map above, Beds 6 and 7 are switched. Bed 6 rounds the corner of the farmhouse to its west-facing red cement porch. Bed 7 is across the path and runs along the old wire farmhouse fence.

Excellent late bloom and rebloom! October 12, 2026

We have 140 varieties and species still in bloom or back in bloom! As we progress through the season, more of the clematis pruned in late July and early August will rejoin the later blooming species and hybrids, so that number of clematis in bloom may stay steady through the month.

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Visit CLEMATIS SALES: ON-SITE and ONLINE sales are closed for the season, but will resume in April 2027.

Visit CLEMATIS CARE for information sheets on growing clematis. These are being updated this year, and the Clematis Contained sheet will soon be two pages of information and suggested clematis. If your questions are not answered there, call or text FRCC at 971-777-4394. Also, for a more detailed response, or to send photos for clematis identification, please email info@rogersonclematiscollection.org

When Integrifolia Group (non-climbing) clematis are cut back in midsummer, their autumn rebloom occurs on shorter stems. This is ‘Arabella’ in Bed 22, part of our recommended for beginners’ gardens.

Large-flowered hybrid clematis reblooming in the autumn are not as broad as those produced in May and June. This is ‘John Warren’, “only” 8 inches wide instead of 10”! Modern Garden Row 15

The one and only clematis with alternate leaves, *Clematis alternata*, flowering later than usual. Located on the shade porch at the south end of the greenhouse (although the shade cloth has been removed for the season).

One of our favorite, longest blooming clematis is this Japanese non-climbing cultivar, ‘Spark’. It rambles through its neighbors without clinging. Bed 4

Other Plants

Volunteer Robin Sonoda used the whole garden to create a floating tribute to Dolly Parton. Included are *Dahlia* ‘Sellwood Glory’, florets from a dwarf *Hydrangea*, roses from ‘Jayne Austin’, *Lilium speciosum* var. *rubrum* ‘Uchida’, and *Amaryllis bellamosum* (belladonna lily).

The Modern Garden

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

‘Hainton Ruby’ is something of a paradox. It is a durable grower, reblooming randomly all summer, but it is a bear to propagate, although we keep trying. Row 12, considered a red

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

‘Charlie Brown’

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

Nothing in bloom

Raymond Evison Hybrids (Rows 3-7)

Bred by Raymond Evison is ‘Evipo075’ SAMARITAN JO. It is one of his best introductions for autumn rebloom. Row 7

ROW 3, Evison Hybrids

Nothing in bloom

ROW 4, Evison Hybrids

Aisle end: ‘Evipo004’ HARLOW CARR

ROW 5, Evison Hybrids

‘Evipo048’ ESME

ROW 6, Evison Hybrid

‘Evipo008’ FRANCISZKA MARIA, ‘Evipo087’ HISAKO, ‘Evijohill’ JOSEPHINE

ROW 7, Evison Hybrids

‘Evipo077’ SALLY, ‘Evipo075’ SAMARITAN JO, ‘Evipo028’ SHIMMER, ‘Evipo111’ TANQUIILITE, ‘Evipo110’ TSUKIKO. Aisle end: ‘Evipo087’ YUAN

‘Evipo087’ YUAN is a reliably enthusiastic grower, giving loads of flowers from the ground up on short stems.

ROW 8, Double large-flowered clematis

Nothing in bloom

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

‘Zoiamha’ I AM HAPPY, ‘Little Bas’, ‘Pagoda’, ‘Zo08171’ PRINCE WILLIAM, ‘Peveril Profusion’

We would like to humbly request that, for the foreseeable future, clematis breeders hold a moratorium on naming Viticella and 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)

‘Sweet Summer Love’ has turned out to be sweet autumn love this year, but well worth the wait. Row 11

ROW 10, Marczynski Hybrids

‘Mazowsze’, ‘Moniuszko’

ROW 11, Marczynski Hybrids and White large-flowered cultivars

‘Viva Polonia’, ‘Vistula’, ‘John Huxtable’

ROW 12, Red large-flowered cultivars

‘Hainton Ruby’, ‘Sunset’, and ‘Elegant Rhythm’ at the aisle end

‘Sunset’ does not have huge flowers, but they are bright!

ROW 13, Trial Area and Purple large-flowered cultivars

‘Zojapur’ HAPPY JACK, ‘The Vagabond’, VANCOUVER ‘Deborah Dahl’, aisle end: ‘Zoexci’ EXCITING

Flowering on short new growth, ‘Deborah Dahl’ is a sumptuous light purple in the VANCOUVER series.

ROW 14, Lavender/Blue large-flowered cultivars

‘Jenny’ (Cedargren); Aisle end: ‘Pink Delight’

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

‘Adam’s Courage’, ‘Will Barron’, ‘Candy Stripe’, ‘John Warren’, ‘Fireworks’,aisle end: ‘Violet Stardust’

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

‘Donaros’ ROSALIE

The Beech Tree’s Garden

Charming little ‘Tamakazura’ is back from its summer break. Bed 4, lolling into *Spirea bullata*

BED 1

‘Gekkyuden’ (in container)

BED 2

Nothing in bloom

BED 3

‘Roguchi’

BED 4

‘Edomurasaki’, ‘Fuyu-no-tabi’, ‘Odoriba’ (two plants in separate locations within this bed), ‘Roguchi’, Clematis terniflora (sweet autumn clematis), ‘Alba Chirifu’, ’Tamakazura’, ‘Spark’, ‘Kahori-no-Kimi’

*Clematis terniflora*, known as sweet autumn clematis for its luscious scent, swags through “berried treasure”, orange drupes of *Sorbus* (mountain ash), and beautyberry cultivar *Callicarpa bodinieri* var. *girardii* ‘Profusion’. Come grab pictures quick, before the Cedar Waxwings, Northern Flickers, and roving inebriated gangs of Robins finish off the berries!

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.

‘Edomurasaki’ always gives its best show in the autumn. It wants to get tall before working on flower buds.

Coop Border

‘Yufune’, ‘Watayuki’, ‘Little Belle Sumire’, ‘Oborozukiyo’

This adorable pair, both non-climbing clematis bred by Kazushige Ozawa, have been blooming all summer, and have finally crept into each other to charming effect. ‘Yufune’ (lilac-lavender) and ‘Watayuki’ (fuzzy cream)

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.

‘Yufune’ giving a bouquet of bells and seed heads.

Entry Border

‘Natalie Cottrell’ ‘Esprit’ (in urn)

Once again ‘Natalie Cottrell’ puts all other Montana Group cultivars to shame with its amount of autumn bloom.

This new feature of the Rogerson Clematis Garden is a long perennial border opposite the Coop Border. It begins with an anonymously donated metal arch with waving stems of reeds on which large-flowered hybrids climb, greeting visitors with that which they expect to see. But beyond the arch 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.

Heirloom Garden

In Bed 10, ‘Lord Nevill’ has made a show-stopping bouquet of autumn flowers on short growth.

BED 5

C. otophora, ‘Blue Belle’

BED 6

Nothing in bloom

BED 7

‘M.Koster’, C. glaucophylla

For reasons we don’t understand, *Clematis* ‘M Koster’ had a rough spring and had to be hard pruned in early June. Now it is back, loud and proud, for a brilliant October show.

BED 8

Nothing in bloom

BED 9

C. tangutica, C. rehderiana

BED 10

‘Lord Neville’, ‘Mrs George Jackman’, ‘Gravetye Beauty’, ‘Souvenir de Capitaine Thuilleux’, C. integrifolia ‘Alba’, ‘Ville de Lyon’, C. viticella var. plena (aka ‘Mary Rose’), C. var. diversifolia ‘Hendersonii’

BED 11‍ ‍

‘Madame Julia Correvon’ (best seen from Bed 14), ‘Countess of Lovelace’, C. pitcheri

BED 12

‘Countess of Lovelace’

BED 13

Nothing in bloom

The Front Bank

BED 14

‘Zoqum’ QUEEN MOTHER, ’Hendryetta’, ‘Gravetye Beauty’

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*.

The Baltic Border

‘Stasik’, with many more flowers than it had in the spring. Bred in Moscow in 1972

BED 15

‘Viola’, ‘Stasik’, ‘Semu’, ‘Nikolai Rubstov’, ‘Sizia Ptitsa’, ‘Pamiat Serdsta’, ‘Luther Burbank’, ‘Ristimagi’

The Founder’s Garden

‘Moonlight’ is opening a fresh new flower. It is in a large container, where we allow it to ascend into a nearly variegated shrubby dogwood, *Cornus* ‘Hedgerows Gold’, its spring partner.

BED 16

‘Arabella’, ‘Jenny Keay’ (Montana Group), ‘Julka’ (in decorative container), ‘Moonlight’, ‘Sharpie’ (in large planter), ‘Barbara Houser’ (in a large planter), C. stans, ‘Daniel Deronda’, ‘Louise Rowe’, C. macropetala ‘Wesselton’

The Steppe Garden

*Clematis* ‘Sundance’ has hundreds of tiny flowers that open yellow and age to white, with dark purple-brown stamens. 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 Mt. Cuba Project.

‘Sundance’, ‘Evisix’ PETIT FAUCON, ‘Golden Harvest’, C. ladakhiana, ‘Natalie Cottrell’ (look near the ground), C. ispahanica, ‘Kugotia’ GOLDEN TIARA, ‘Zostarri’ STAR RIVER, Radar Love (seed strain), C. tibetana subsp. vernayi ‘Orange Peel’, C. tibetana subsp. vernayi var. vernayi, ‘Bill Mackenzie’, ‘Mayleen’

‘Golden Harvest’ provides a boisterous backdrop for hardy hibiscus ‘Midnight Marvel’. Bed 17

Old Poland (the Polish Beds)

‘Maksymilian Kolbe’ is a repeat blooming clematis named for a 20th century Polish priest who is the patron of journalists and political dissenters. Bed 19

BED 18

‘Monte Cassino’, ‘Polish Spirit’, ‘Syrena’

BED 19

‘Matka Urszula Ledochowska’, ‘Maksymilian Kolbe’, ‘Ania’, ‘Mikolaj Kopernik’

BED 20

‘Westerplatte’, ‘Sylwia’

Large-flowered ‘Westerplatte’ is cut back to 2-3 inches tall in mid-July. The new growth emerges green and healthy from the ground up, giving a fresh display of its popular red flowers from now until mid-October.

The Beginner’s Garden

One does not expect to see *Clematis* ‘Markham’s Pink’ reblooming in September, but our specimen was cut back after it flowered in April, and is now ready for an autumn display.

BED 21

C. alpina ‘Pamela Jackman’, ‘Alionushka’, ‘Markham’s Pink’, C. mandshurica (syn. C. terniflora var. mandshurica), ‘Daihelios’ HELIOS, ‘Walenburg’, ‘Hagley Hybrid’

BED 22

‘Arabella’, ‘Etoile Violet’

The Hedges

BED 23

In planter: LITTLE LEMONS ‘Zo14100’ with ‘Ruby Wedding’. ‘China Purple’, C. tubulosa ‘Alblo’ ALAN BLOOM, ‘C. rehderiana (in Styrax japonica and Terrace fence)

BED 24

‘Pauline’, ‘Venosa Violacea’ in VIP (very important pot)

Winter Bloomers

Inside the Sales Terrace, these clematis are growing on 4’ wide by 10’ tall flat panel trellises. During the winter when we have volunteers on hand (Monday/Wednesday/Friday from 10-2), the gates to the Sales Terrace are unlocked for easier viewing.

C. cirrhosa var. purpurea ‘Freckles’, C. cirrhosa ‘Wisley Cream’, C. c. ‘Jingle Bells’

Troughs

No clematis in bloom

Subtropical Shade Porch

Clematis alternata

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

Mt. Cuba Project

*Clematis cumberlandensis* was given species status in the 1880s, but later was lumped into *C. viorna*. DNA analysis has reestablished it as a species in its own right.

Rows 1-3, foundational species and those not covered in the Estes et al study: ‘Sue Reade’, crispa (from Horning seed), C. pitcheri (Austin TX area)
Rows 4-9 newly documented species: C. arenicola (Texas, Arkansas), C. flaccida (Alabama, Tennessee), C. ouachitensis (Arkansas, Oklahoma), C. ozarkensis (Arkansas), C. subreticulata (Alabama), C. terranigre (Alabama)

Container Display Area

‘Royal Cascade’, ‘EviGsy152’ LINDSAY (container grouping at Terrace gate), ‘Evipo118’ DUCHESS OF CORNWALL

Raymond Evison’s ‘Evipo118’ DUCHESS OF CORNWALL peeking out from amid *Fuchsia* ‘Autumnale’ (earning its name in a big way this year!).

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 bowls in the container area often have floating arrangements of clematis.

The Egg

‘Vitiwester’ (syn. BURNING LOVE), ‘Debbie Marosi’

The cottage garden perennials are recovering from replanting. Luckily *Clematis* ‘Vitiwester’ (synonym BURNING LOVE) did not need to be disturbed. It is partnered with the naturally occurring double *Helianthus flore-plena*, which provides seeds for American Goldfinches when they prepare to head south.

Close up of a single blossom of ‘Vitiwester’ over an unknown aster (purchased as ‘Lady in Blue’, but it isn’t).

The Egg has undergone a major replanting to remove Agastache ‘Little Adder’, which ran amok. The more refined cottage garden plants 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.

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