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Clematis

First Bloom Dates:

2022 April 29

2023 April 21

2024 April 6

Ranunculaceae (Buttercup Family) Pronounced Ruh-nunc-you-lace-ee-eye

The common name of Clematis is the scientific genus too!

Clematis Mrs. Cholmondeley

Planted in 2020. Plant blooms in late Spring and again in the Autumn. It grows 12 to 16 feet tall! Pruning Group 2.

Another purple one planted in 2023. I cannot find the tag. Hubby planted it and he tends to be careless with the tags.

Clematis lanuginosa 'Nelly Moser' (no longer have – pink & white)

I believe this is what I had for many years. I have photos from 2003 to 2012. It is white with pink stripes on each petal. It started out in our sandbox turned garden bed and was later moved to the back of the yard where our Cholmondeley is now planted. I believe it eventually died. The plant blooms once in Spring and again in Summer. Pruning Group 2.

The plant needs regular pruning to encourage strong growth and flowering. It also keeps the plant from becoming a mass of tangled stems with a bare base and flowers so high the neck is strained looking up. Pruning tips are divided into three groups based on time of blooming.

Group 1 | Early blooms in the Spring on shoots grown the prior year; prune after flowering in mid to late Spring; do not prune in the Winter. (includes C. montana and C. macropetala)

Group 2 | Large-flowered hybrids – Bloom from May to June and again in Autumn; prune after the first flush of flowers in the Spring (weak and damaged growth, about half-way) and again in late Winter (like the roses when they are dormant, prune back fairly low); blooms on current new growth (aka old and new wood).

Group 3 | Blooms in late Summer on growth that season; prune in late Winter or early Spring to fairly low to ground. (includes Viticella types, Clematis tangutica, and Clematis jackmanii)

 All clematis prefer their roots to be in the shade, and the top growth to be in the sun. I had a hosta under mine, but the vines interwined around it, so I took out the hosta. It seems to like where it is at okay.

2024

This is the second purple Clematis. I hope I can still find the tag some day. It almost looks like the 2020 one.

This is the Clematis Mrs. Cholmondeley and I love observing it in the different stages of the bud opening up.

It cracks me up that I often zoom in with my camera like I did with this new bud and when I see it on my computer, I realize the lens picked up a bug! I never saw it when snapping the photo!

I just love the Amsonia, Blue Star, and how it compliements the Clematis.

2023

2022

2021

2020

2012

This is in the same spot as the Clematis Mrs. Cholmondeley is in today in 2024, but we had a chain link fence back then.

2011

2008

2007

2006

2003

2002

2001

This is when the Clematis was in what used to be the sandbox. For several years we had a sandbox on the back patio area, which was actually just a few stones, and it was converted to a flower bed. I was told that this same spot used to be filled with Gladioli by the original owner of the house. Our yard has changed so much over the years.