Everytime you post pictures, I get more and more in debt. Beautiful, Miguel!! I'm smitten with your Sizaia and Socialis.

Carol

GORGEOUS..there just isn't another word I can think of...Jeanne

aaauauuuugghh i'm jealous of you, too. (*crosses arms and harrumphs*)

Beautiful blooms! I'm with Violetta, stomping out of the room to go pout. I have buds, but no blooms yet. So impatient!

I am totally gobsmacked here!!
The Socialis is gorgeous, they all are.
Have never heard of Sizaia Ptitsa , where on earth do you find these beauties?
The Addisonii leaves look huge compared to the buds, really,really lovely.
I guess this is the time of year that makes it all worthwhile.

Thanks all. Have been working OT for several weeks now and Thursday night worked until 4am Friday morning. Tonight I was home by 11pm since this is the last day of the quarter.

Helen, Sizaia Ptitsa is one I got from Chalk Hill. Actually Katie a friend in California was going to visit Chalk Hill and I got her to pick it up and mail it to me. I love the integrifolias as much as the viticellas and US natives. I have never had it set seed for me yet, but I think I am going to try and take some cuttings and try them once the blooming stops.

Addisonii is one I have two of--one from Dan at Brushwood and one from Plant Delights. The one pictured is from Plant Delights and had to be propped up due to the winds we have been having.

They are all beautiful, but I am totally charmed by those Addisonii leaves.
Good luck with the cuttings, I suppose you could layer some too?

Helen, the leaves are huge this year on this one plant. I have another addisonii plant that is in a more protected environment where it doesn't get the sun as early as the one in bloom now. Yep, went out today and a couple of buds were open.

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Here is another shot of the leaves, but you will have to look sideways at it since I uploaded it that way. DUHH!!!
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Not quite open yet but ready to pop is integrifolia 'Rose Colored Glasses'.

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Fantastic shots Miguel, especially the last one, did you perchance happen to get a new camera?
If so.......what is it?

Btw, what is the plant in the last pic, an Integrifolia?

Wow Miguel, they're lovely. It'll be awhile before we see blooms here. They're just poking their stems out of the ground now. Keep us entertained while we wait.

Joan

Helen, the last picture is Rose Colored Glasses, an integrifolia.

I have had a new camera for a year or so now. It is a Fuji Film 7.3 megapixel Finepix A700.

Glad to oblige Joan. When mine are finished or waning, your plants will be in full form so I will then live vicariously through your pictures.

Just beautiful, but you're really making me antsy. Rhapsody is the only clem which even has a bud here.

Miguel, just beautiful as always.

I am, once again, taking notes...............

I am really apreciating all the pictures...we had zero blooms last year due to the late, hard freeze. It makes you really appreciate a good spring.

Glad you enjoyed them gldno1! More to follow.

Zobleupi finally opened up.
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Two more shots of blooms on one of my addisonii plants.
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1st bloom on Vanso or Blue Light
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1st bloom on Piilu. This one is paired with Proteus which is about ready to open a couple of blooms.
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Rooguchi about to open.
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The first bloom on socialis has faded but there is one bloom open with a few others forming.
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Integrifolia Rose Colored Glasses opens up.
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Wonderful pics Miguel, the addisonii are still charming me.
Rose Colored Glasses is gorgeous too.
They all look so vigorous and healthy.
Keep the pics coming.

Will do Helen as time and blooms allow!

These are mouth-watering. Some of your integrifolias (e.g., Rose Colored Glasses and the picture of Sizaia Ptitsa under a tree) look as though they're holding their blooms up on their own. Is that true, or have you cleverly concealed sticks or something? I have envisioned growing this type through shrubs to accommodate their non-vining character, but I like the way yours look.

Miguel,

Great pictures as always! Thanks for sharing. I can't wait to see more of your beauties.

Pat, the blooms on Sizaia Ptitsa are self supporting and hold themselves up with no assistance from me. The integrifolia Rose Colored Glasses would be sprawled out all over the ground if it didn't get any support, especially with the winds we have had the last couple of days. If you look closely on the back left side, you can see part of the green ring that supports the plant.

Thanks Bella.

Ummm. So I could use Sizaia Ptitsa as sort of an underplanting under a shrub with short skirts. Is this why SP is described by Joy Creek (and some others, I think) as semi-herbaceous? The more you learn, the less you know, as they say!

Pat mine is growing under a limbed up crepe myrtle tree so it still gets early morning light and indirect light the rest of the year. Not sure how it would do under a shrub since their roots tend to be more fibrous in nature compared to a tree..

Semiherbaceous simply means that the top growth may partially die back each year or not, most probably depending on the severity of the winter and your growing zone. Some integrifolias are herbaceaous meaning they die back to the ground each year. Some clematis, even the type IIIs, are not meaning that they would continue growing out of stems left above ground over the winter.

Miguel, does it compete well with crepe myrthle roots or it needs some extra care? Water, fertilizer? I guess I just MUST buy 'Sizaia Ptitsa' for patriotic reasons :-)

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Wow- your photos are just beautiful. I'm so jealous! I mentioned in a previous post that my viticella (from Brushwood) is really thriving, and you said viticellas never do well for you and you'd love to see a photo of mine thriving. Well, you would laugh if I posted a photo for you! It is just a wee little thing and isn't even long enough to reach the trellis yet. There isn't a single bud or bloom on any of my clematis yet. My viticalla just happens to be the tallest and fullest of the 8 (out of 12) clematis I planted last fall that survived the winter. It's probably a foot and a half long. If/when I get any blooms on it this year, I'll post a picture :) I'm just so happy to finally have some clematis in the ground this year instead of in pots.

Alina it tends to do well where it is because the neighbors have an irrigation system and it gets extra water from their system. I also have a drip irrigation system that I use no more than once a week, even last summer when we had over 60 days of 90+ degree temps. Any excuse is a good excuse in my opinion Alina.

Glad you liked the pictures virakech.

Almond, what I said if I am remembering your post is that my viticella the species plant last year just sat there being its first season in the ground. I can't say enough good things about the viticellas in general. They are grossly underutilized plants in my opinion and are much more appealing to me than most type II clematis. This year, viticella the species came up like gangbusters and then the rabbits attacked it! I have since caged it and it is making a comeback. Perhaps this year I will get a few blooms off of it.

Piilu and Proteus have started gathering steam. The plants are coplanted, both have tons of buds, and should be in full bloom in a short time. Both were pruned almost all the way to the ground this past winter. Not too shabby a comeback for type II clematis trimmed to within a few inches of the ground.

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Fantastic pictures Miguel! Thanks for your comments on crepe myrthle/Clematis combo. I am trying to figure out how to squeeze more Clematis into my new flower beds :)

Ah, thanks for clarifying. I hope your viticella rebounds really well after the rabbit feast and look forward to seeing some blooms of yours this year since I'll probably have to wait until next year to see blooms on mine. BTW, I was looking at Clematis Viorna on the Brushwood site and I'm assuming you are the Miguel mentioned in the description? What a beautiful clematis, and very cool that you discovered it! I'm hoping to find a home for one this year in my garden.

No problem Alina.

Almond, yes I am the one mentioned on the Brushwood site about the viorna and they are plants Dan grew from seed I provided. By the way, the viticella is back up and growing from the rabbit attack. Now I just have to cage some of the new Echinaceas that I have nearby that the rabbits have been chewing to the ground!

Miguel, a belated thank you for explaining "semi-herbaceous" to me. I was temporarily felled by a bug that kept me from both my computer and my clematis. Disasters abound. I love your picture of Piilu and Proteus.

I think I'm going to take my chances with Sizaia Ptitsa and plant it about 8" from the dripline of my white enkianthus and cross my fingers. It should be great if it works.

Let us see pictures of it Butterclem!