Looking for good Clematis source in SW Ontario

18 years ago

I have posted this on the Canadian Gardening forum as well so I apologize if this is a repeat for you.

I am desparate to find a good source for clematis with a large selection. I have gone to the "seed house" websites that are local and am not finding much variety in white/yellow which is what I am looking for specifically. I live in Waterloo but would drive or have them shipped if I could find them anywhere in Ontario.

I am relatively certain that most can't/won't ship from the USA to Canada. If I am wrong then please educate me.

My Ramona is in full glory and I have caught the bug!!! If I can get the new ones established this year I am hoping to get some blooms for next summer!!!

Please, I would apprecaite any ideas at all!

enjoy

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warren_l
18 years ago
Have you checked out Canning Perennials? They are between Ayr and Paris. Go out Trussler Road, past Cedar Creek (reg. road 97) and keep going south for about 10 more minutes, there are signs. They also have an awesome website. Never been there, oddly enough, but it is about 10 minutes from my place... If you don't have any luck there, call Colour Paradise in Mannheim, see if they can help you out.
sharon_can
18 years ago
I live in Windsor and have a collection of 150 clematis but am always looking for unusual ones so I am interested in the replies as well. Canning has a basic collection as does Humber in Brampton. Humber does not mail.
I have not found a US nursery that ships to Canada.
There are only a couple of large flowered clematis that might be called yellow but there are many white.
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garcanad
18 years ago
enjoy
How true (sigh). Have you check Lost Horizon in Acton: http://losthorizons.ca/ ?

sharon
Just curious, hope you don't mind I ask: Where and how you manage to accumulate a collection of 150 varieties in Canada?
enjoy
Original Author
18 years ago
This is great to get some responses. Thanks so much! So you all can see it is a bit difficult to find some that are not your "usual" varieties.
I am still on the hunt and have posted a message asking for feedback on the whites I am considering.
I went to Grobe nurseries on the road to Guelph and they have said they will try to special order some for me when I decide. So, stay posted and I will let you know if in fact they manage to come up with some that are not so common (most whites aren't common at all I am finding out)I am also looking for a Venosa Violacea.

Sounds like Sharon should start propagating hers and become our new source in SW Ontario! Good for you. My Mother lives in Windsor and I was raised in Amherstburg so I will be looking when I am there to visit.
Thanks again. Let's keep in touch over this one as one of us may end up with some good info to share.
maggiepie_gw
18 years ago
I just looked at the Lost Horizons web site and there are at least 33 I would want to buy!!
They no longer ship )-:
Probably just as well!!
sharon_can
18 years ago
garcan- with difficulty. I have been collecting for 7 years and I buy wherever I can find varieties I don't have - box stores, mail order, nurseries across Southwestern Ontario. I have purchased a few from Chalk Hill when I visited friends in California. Never heard of Lost Horizons, so I will make it a point to get there this summer.
Wish I could propagate them and I would be happy to share. Have had absolutely no luck with cuttings and my garden is so jam-packed I lose track of them when I "nick and bury".
enjoy, when you visit your mother send me an e-mail and I would love to have you and your mother visit my garden.
lostmermaid
18 years ago
try Verns in Cambridge on Hwy 24 close to the Value Village. They had some excellent varieties two years ago, not so varied this year.
But if you are willing to try cuttings I have about 120 varieties at the farm in Branchton. and about that in seed.
Actually Lowes in Brantford had a selection of about 8 including Piliu.

Dana