Tag: Clematis

A day’s difference

What a difference a day, and especially two, make at this time of year.  Two days ago only the cherry trees had leafed out.  Today this site was common.

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Yesterday our ninebarks hadn’t leafed out.  Today they looked like this.

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Two days ago the clematis was inches closer to the ground.  Today it looked like this.

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The tulip are starting to show buds.  The sedum are starting to round out.  The daylilies are up 4-6″.   The asian lilies are popping up in back.  Even the new red asian lilies I planted in front popped up overnight.  And a few hostas are starting to come up.  Not as many as I’m used to this time of year, and that slightly concerns me.  We lost some very healthy full hostas during the 2017-2018  winter and I was at a loss as to what happened.  I’m hoping it doesn’t happen again.

But almost all the daylilies are up, including one from last year’s seedlings.  And THAT is very exciting.

The clematis is reblooming

One of the first things I planted in our gardens was a couple varieties of clematis.  They grew like crazy.  We had tall trellises and even those bowed under the weight of the early vines.  It was so dense that one year we had a bird make a nest there!  We really enjoyed carefully watching from inside the house as mama came to feed the babies.  Eventually, however, the vines got to be such a jumble that I cut them down and started over with shorter trellises.  That was all before we went to primarily hostas, daylilies, asian lilies and sedum, but they still come back every year and bloom a few times.  They starting blooming again in the past few days.

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Every spring I end up plucking out multitudes of clematis volunteers, but the blooms are just so pretty that they have earned a permanent place in the garden.