What's in Bloom?
There's a lot 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 August 26, 2021: There are 248 clematis in bloom. We are enjoying the best August ever! Many large-flowered clematis are reblooming, as well as C. montana hybrids (scant, but welcome!) and the continued reblooming of such denizens of April as ‘Blue Bird’ in Bed 23 of The Hedges. The days have cooled, and we even had some coastal mist this afternoon. And our ever-bearing strawberries shading the feet of the clematis in the Modern Garden are proving true to name, with lots of fruit still setting on. Have a nibble or two when you visit.
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Chalcedony in a new image block - Aug. 16
“Chalcedony in an existing image block - seems to take on the size on the image that was removed.
Chalcedony in an existing image block - also tries to use up existing ‘container’ size.
In the Modern Garden, C. ‘Morning Sky’ is covered in blooms. Scroll down to see it with a partner. Row 10
The Modern Garden
‘Radiance’ started slowly, but is now dominating the east end of Row 9. This is it’s best year yet!
Chalcedony in an existing image block that is a little over 5 inches tall - image does stretch to the size of the old container.
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)
Astra Nova ‘Zo09085’, ‘Amanda Marie’ (reblooming)
ROW 2, Profuse summer bloomers and Pink large-flowered cultivars
‘Vanessa’, ‘Ruby Glow’, VANCOUVER™ ‘Morning Mist’ (small flowers)
Raymond Evison’s Charmaine ‘Evipo022’ is in full bloom, with autumnal flowers with only a single row of tepals.
ROW 3, Evison Hybrids
Abilene ‘Evipo027’ (reblooming), Acropolis ‘Evipo078’, Arctic Queen ‘Evitwo’, Avant-Garde ‘Evipo033’ Aisle end: Jessica ‘Evipo012’
ROW 4, Evison Hybrids
Bernadine ‘Evipo061’ (reblooming), Bijou ‘Evipo033’, Bonanza ‘Evipo031’, Cezanne ‘Evipo023’, Charmaine ‘Evipo022’ Aisle end: Harlow Carr ‘Evipo009’
Endellion ‘Evipo076’ reblooming in Row 5. The larger pale blossoms are older, fading flowers on the same specimen.
ROW 5, Evison Hybrids
(The) Countess of Wessex ‘Evipo073’, Daiyu ‘Evipo083’, Diamantina ‘Evipo039’, Edda ‘Evipo074’, Endellion ‘Evipo076’ Aisle end: Filigree ‘Evipo029’
ROW 6, Evison Hybrids
Hyde Hall ‘Evipo009’, Josephine ‘Evijohill’, Liberation ‘Evifive’, Neva ‘Evipo050’ Aisle end: Nubia ‘Evipo079’ (reblooming)
Liberation ‘Evifive’ is fully recovered after getting scrunched by an ice-laden willow in February.
ROW 7, Evison Hybrids
Picardy ‘Evipo024’, Rosemoor ‘Evipo002’, Sally ‘Evipo077’, Samaritan Jo ‘Evipo075’, Sugar Candy ‘Evione’, Versailles ‘Evipo025’ Aisle end: Yuan ‘Evipo082’
Sally ‘Evipo077’ is in the middle of a second wave of blooms after only the briefest rest.
At the aisle end of Row 7, Yuan ‘Evipo082’ is reblooming with larger flowers than in the spring.
ROW 8, Double large-flowered clematis
‘Blue Light’, ‘Mary-Claire’ (single bloom form), ‘Multi Blue’, ‘Royalty’ (single), ‘Sylvia Denny’ (single form), ‘Thyrislund’ (single), ‘Vyvyan Pennell’ (single) Aisle end: Chloe ‘HJJ-Haz01’ (these herbaceous clematis have been in bloom since May!)
‘Vyvyan Pennell’ has opened a column of single blossoms. We are glad to see it so well recovered after its traumatic winter.
Winter damage (scrunching by an ice-laden pussy willow) necessitated hard pruning of ‘Thyrislund’ so it didn’t produce double flowers this year. The single flowers are lovely, though!
ROW 9, Profuse flowering clematis (C. viticella and C. texensis hybrids)
‘Mrs T Lundell’, ‘Pagoda’, ‘Pendragon’, Princess Kate ‘Zoprika’, ‘Poldice’, ‘Radiance’
ROW 10, Marczynski Hybrids
‘Azure Ball’, ‘Grunwald’, Madame Maria ‘Madame Maria Sklodowska Curie’, ‘Mazurek’, ‘Morning Sky’, ‘My Darling’, ‘Sweet Summer Love’ Aisle end: ‘Pangbourne Pink’
‘Mazerek’ (on the left) flows into ‘Morning Sky’. Another lucky combination thanks to the alphabet.
ROW 11, Marczynski Hybrids and White large-flowered cultivars
‘Skyfall’, ‘Solidarnosc’, ‘Wildfire’, ‘Vistula’, ‘James Mason’, ‘Snow Queen’, ‘Starfish’
‘Wildfire’ is a stunning introduction from Poland’s 'Szczepan Marczynski’
‘Azure Ball’ leads off the fabulous show in Rows 10-11.
If ‘Vistula’ behaves true to form, it will be in bloom for the next month. It is named for Poland’s principal river.
‘Hainton Ruby’ is a glorious example of how well many of the red clematis are blooming throughout the Rogerson Clematis Garden right now. Slow to start but offering a big finish to the growing season. Row 12
ROW 12, Red large-flowered cultivars
‘Allanah’, ‘Barbara Harrington’, ‘Corona’, ‘Ernest Markham’, ‘Hainton Ruby’, ‘Perida’, ‘Voluceau’ Aisle end: ‘Elegant Rhythm’
ROW 13, Red large-flowered cultivars and Purple large-flowered cultivars
‘Sprinkles’, ‘Sunset’, ‘Voluceau’, ‘Lola’ PPAF, ‘Burma Star’, Happy Jack ‘Zojapur’, ‘Perrin’s Pride’, ‘Suzy Mac’ PP24,143 Aisle end: Exciting ‘Zoexci’
ROW 14, Lavender/Blue large-flowered cultivars
‘Blue Ravine’, ‘H.F. Young’, ‘Rhapsody’, ‘Riviera’, ‘Natascha’, ‘Silver Moon’ (small flowers) Aisle end: ‘Pink Delight’ (reblooming after mid-July chop)
‘Blue Ravine’ is as glorious in the shade as ever. The darker purple sepals below it belong to newly opening flowers of ‘Eyer’s Gift’.
ROW 15, Lavender/Blue large-flowered cultivars and Striped/Barred large-flowered cultivars
‘Will Goodwin’, ‘Andromeda’, ‘Doctor Ruppel’, ‘Festival’, ‘Irene’, ‘John Warren’, ‘Kilian Donahue’
‘Will Goodwin’ at last displaying some perfect blossoms after a difficult spring. Row 15
ROW 16, Striped/Barred large-flowered cultivars and Late Adds
Lucky Charm ‘Zo08095’ (this plant has been in bloom since May without a break in service!), ‘Parasol’, ‘Prince Philip’, ‘Scartho Gem’, ‘Tudor’, VANCOUVER™ ‘Cotton Candy’, VANCOUVER™ ‘Fragrant Star’
Updated image of Lucky Charm ‘Zo08095’—a pretty, new introduction from Holland. It has been in bloom since June and is still loaded with buds.
Beech Tree's Garden
The opulent ‘Yaichi’ in bloom again, this time decking Linnaea × grandiflora (formerly Abelia × grandiflora). Bed 4
BED 1
Nothing in bloom
BED 2
Nothing in bloom
BED 3
‘Hakuree’, ‘Roguchi’
BED 4
‘Iryu’ (look up in Rosa glauca), ‘Kasumi no Kimi’, ‘Hakuree’, ‘Yaichi’, ‘Hanajima’, Tae ‘Toltae’, Blushing Bridesmaid ‘Kaiser’, ‘Roguchi No. 2’, ‘Malaya Garnet’, ‘Unzen’, ‘Roguchi’ (two plants), ‘Fudo’, ‘Kahori no Kimi’, ‘Spark’, ‘Little Artist’ (two specimens), ‘Odoriba’ (in Fuchsia ‘Whiteknight’s Amethyst’)
This is ‘Roguchi No. 2’, a seedling from the same hybrid cross generation that produced ‘Roguchi’. This form is not much of climber, but it has no mildew so far this year!
Blushing Bridesmaid ‘Kaiser’ is flowering again with a prettier form and richer color.
Heirloom Garden
Our Curator freely admits she borrowed this idea, with permission, from Christopher Lloyd at Great Dixter. C. × durandii with Fuchsia magellanica. Bed 6
Although a qualified Heirloom and planted in Bed 7, ‘Sir Trevor Lawrence’ is carried aloft by the Vitex agnus-castus (chaste tree) planted over the fence in Bed 15.
BED 5
‘Daniel Deronda’ (look for small flowers high up in the shade of the Ribes sanguineum ‘Pokey’s Pink’)
BED 6
× durandii, ‘Duchess of Edinburgh’, ‘Ramona’
BED 7
‘M. Koster’, C. connata, C. glaucophylla, C. viticella, ‘Sir Trevor Lawrence’ (also can be seen from Bed 15 under the Vitex agnus-castus), ‘Madame Baron-Veillard’. The purple blossoms on the fence at the end of this bed are ‘Luther Burbank’ from Bed 15.
‘Madame Baron-Veillard’ has moved into the neighboring Vitex agnus-castus (chaste tree) to excellent effect.
BED 8
‘Lady Betty Balfour’, ‘Ville de Lyon’, ‘Etoile Violete’, C. integrifolia (three clumps), ‘Daniel Deronda’, C. viticella var. flore-pleno (syn. ‘Mary Rose’), ‘Elsa Spath’, ‘Praecox’, ‘Huldine’ (look up on the flat-panel trellis), C. connata
One certainly can say we’ve had enough heat to make ‘Lady Betty Balfour’ happy!
Large-flowered ‘Elsa Spath’ reblooms amid the dainty flowers of ‘Praecox’ in Bed 8.
BED 9
‘Henryi’ (in Rosa ‘Duchess of Portland’ and in Rosa alba ‘Magnificum’), C. tangutica, C. rehderiana, × jouiniana
‘Henryi’ in a rose with a hardy geranium shading it’s feet.
BED 10
‘Guiding Star’ (base of lilac), ‘Duchess of Edinburgh’ (in lower branches of the Clethra), ‘Gravetye Beauty’ (back towards the fence), ‘Purpurea Plena Elegans’, C. urticifolia, C. macropetala
‘Purpurea Plena Elegans’ has leapt above the Weigela florida ‘Variegata’ into the old Cornus florida var. rubra to make a handsome backdrop for a bountifully reblooming Clematis macropetala.
BED 11
C. urticifolia (two plants), ‘Madame Julia Correvon’, C. heracleifolia, C. pitcherii
‘Lady Londesborough’ reblooming in Bed 12.
BED 12
‘Lady Londesborough’, ‘Countess of Lovelace’
BED 13
‘Purpurea Plena Elegans’
The Front Bank
BED 14
‘Hendryetta’, Queen of Holland’, Queen Mother ‘Zoqum’, ‘Sir Trevor Lawrence’, ‘Gravetye Beauty’ (two plants)
The Baltic Border
‘Nikolai Rubstov’ and Helenium ‘Summer Cinnabar’ punctuate the arbor end of the Baltic Border. Behind them is the foliage of Rhododendron ‘Ebony Pearl’. Bed 15
BED 15
‘Tentel’, ‘Juuli’, ‘Tuchka’, ‘Dubysa’, ‘Kosmicheskaia Medoldiia’, ‘Jorma’, ‘Mikelite’, ‘Pamiat Serdsta’ (two specimens), ‘Idea’ (best seen from Bed 15), ‘Sizia Ptitsa’, ‘Kiev’, ‘Minister’ in memorial pot and in the Rosa ‘Jayne Austin’, ‘Nikolai Rubstov’ (with Helenium ‘Summer Cinnabar’ by Rhododendron ‘Ebony Pearl’)
‘Kosmicheskaia Melodiia’ (translation: Cosmic Melody) in Cedrus deodara ‘Snow Mist’ in Bed 15. The clematis color is richer violet than the phone camera could capture; the flowers in shade are closer to the true color.
The Founder’s Garden
‘Fond Memories’ in the Founder’s Garden looking a little crazy from the heat.
BED 16
‘Arabella’, × durandii, ‘Esprit’, ‘Duchess of Waverly’ (in blue pot), C. stans, ‘Clochette Pride’ (syn. ‘Campanulina Plena’), ‘Mrs Robert Brydon’ (best seen from public pathway), ‘Paul Farges’, C. macropetala ‘Mountaindale’ (in pot), ‘Ai-nor’, ‘Louise Rowe’, ‘Chalcedony’, ‘Frances Rivis’, Daihelios’ (syn. ‘Helios’), C. pitcheri (from seed from Mike Brown), ‘Gipsy Queen’, ‘Huldine’ (two specimens, one near ‘Helios’)
The Steppe Garden
Clematis Saphyra Indigo ‘Climinov 51’ flowers while framed by the loops and swirls of Verbascum bombyciferum ‘Polarsommar’.
BED 17
C. tibetana subsp. vernayi var. laciniifolia, × diversifolia ‘Blue Boy’, ‘Anita’, ‘Golden Harvest’, Petit Faucon ‘Evisix’, ‘Swedish Bells’, Gazelle ‘Evipo014’, Hudson River ‘Zo086137’, C. ladakhiana, Blue Ocean ‘Zo09045’, ‘Amelia’, C. integrifolia ‘Coerulea’, C. ispahanica, ‘Natalie Cottrell’, ‘Bill MacKenzie’, ‘Radar Love’ (seed strain), ‘Mayleen’, C. integrifolia ‘Ozawa Blue’, ‘Skylark’, ‘Stand By Me’ PPAF, C. tibetana subsp. vernayi var. vernayi, Inspiration ‘Zoin’, Saphyra Indigo ‘Climinov 51’, Mississippi River ‘Zomisri’, × diversifolia ‘Heather Herschell’
‘Amelia’ is the sister of ‘Miranda’ and ‘Arabella’, bred by 'Barry Fretwell in the UK.
Clematis ispahanica gets wild and wooly in full sun.
Old Poland (the Polish Beds)
This speciman of ‘Halina Noll’ is choosing to be a groundcover. Bed 18
BED 18
‘Polish Spirit’, ‘Jan Pawell II’, ‘Halina Noll’
BED 19
‘Agnieszka’
BED 20
‘Matka Teresa’, ‘Marcelina’ (large flowers near the ground), ‘Gisela’, ‘Moniuszko’, ‘Kryspina’, ‘Westerplatte’, ‘Matka Urszula Ledochowska’, ‘Sylwia’
‘Marcelina’ with Geranium ‘Gerwat’ Rozanne in Bed 20.
The Beginner’s Garden
We have found ‘Betty Corning’ to be most fragrant on humid afternoons.
BED 21
C. mandshurica, ‘Arabella’ (two plants), ‘Hagley Hybrid’ (trade designation Pink Chiffon), ‘Bill MacKenzie’, Wisley ‘Evipo001’, ‘Gravetye Beauty’, ‘Daihelios’ (syn. ‘Helios’), ‘Alionushka’, ‘Piilu’ Little Duckling, × durandii
BED 22
‘Betty Corning’, ‘Warszawska Nike’, ‘Mrs Cholmondeley’ (stopped blooming during the heat dome in June), ‘Comtesse de Bouchaud’, ‘Lambton Park’, ‘Venosa Violacea’, ’Princess Diana’
‘Mrs Cholmondeley’ has recovered after taking an extreme dislike to the outrageous high temperatures of late June. The seedheads surrounding it are those of ‘Lambton Park’.
The Hedges
Our best specimen of Clematis texensis has shown no ill-effects from the unprecedented heat.
BED 23
C. texensis (Tarpley River form), C. heracleifolia ‘Little Blue’ (in pot), Alan Bloom ‘Alblo’, C. macropetala ‘Wesselton’, C. heracleifolia ‘China Purple’, ‘Blue Mood’, ‘Blue Bird’, C. tubulosa, C. heracleifolia
BED 24
‘Ruby’ (two plants), ‘Josie’s Midnight Blue’, ‘Propertius’ (on the west side of Rosa foliolosa) C. recta, ‘Rosy O’Grady’ (in pot), C. heracleifolia ‘Cassandra’, ‘Pauline’ (for the fourth time!)
Clematis heracleifolia ‘Cassandra’ has dark blue flowers and a delightful fragrance. Towards the end of Bed 24
Test Garden
C. pitcheri ‘Blue and Creme’, seedlings from Powell River Tennessee and Big Piney River Arkansas, C. pitcheri wild collected in Texas, C. versicolor from Humphries County, Tennessee
Winter Bloomer Garden
Nothing in bloom
TerracE
Potentially invasive species grown in large pots.
‘My Angel’, Clematis serratifolia
Greenhouse Stumpery
Clematis otophora, C. repens DJHC8103
Troughs
Nothing in bloom
Subtropical Shade Porch
C. finetiana CDHM 14708
The Antipodes
Nothing in bloom
The Egg
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 through the spring and summer.
C. koreana ‘Fragrans’, ‘Pribaltica’
A close-up of a blossom of the repeat-blooming Clematis koreana ‘Fragrans’
Perhaps we’ve left too many sunflower seedlings around The Egg, but the American Goldfinches are not complaining.