Category Archives: Vines
Snow in summer?
POSTED BY KIM — As I was driving to work this morning, I saw this spruce covered in sweet autumn clematis. It looks just like newly fallen snow — SO GORGEOUS! Of course I had to pull my car over … Continue reading
Gourd mania at the Missouri Botanical Garden’s Kemper Center
POSTED BY KIM — If you have kids — or just love gourds — then check out the “gourd tunnel” at the Kemper Center near their children’s garden (the Kemper Center children’s garden, not the big new one). It will … Continue reading
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For the clematis lovers: ‘Princess Diana’ now in its 6th week of bloom
POSTED BY KIM — I planted this baby last summer, and as most clematis do, it sort of dawdled for a season, but this year my patience paid off. Its gorgeous flowers have been in bloom for more than a … Continue reading
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We have babies and buds!
POSTED BY KIM — Big news in the Reiss-Litton backyard — my baby bird eggs have hatched, and my clematis ‘Rooguchi’ is budded up and ready for spectacularness. I can’t say the birds are especially cute, but when I took … Continue reading
Hummingbird Watch 2010
POSTED BY KIM — Things I did yesterday: Made dinner for my family…USING THE OVEN. Had my husband cut a chunk of Gorilla Glue out of my hair (don’t ask). Put out my hummingbird feeder — yay! Here’s a site … Continue reading
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Prepare to be stunned: Clematis ‘Guernsey Cream’
POSTED BY KIM — How spectacular is this clematis?? I must tell you, that this is the second growing season for Clematis ‘Guernsey Cream.’ So it lives up to the old clematis addage: “Sleep, creep, leap!” The first year it … Continue reading
OMG! It’s been 7 years in the making, but my climbing hydrangea has flower buds!
POSTED BY KIM — I was out cleaning up dead leaves this afternoon and I went to straighten up the trellis that is (sort of) supporting my climbing hydrangea when I felt like I was hit by lightning! I…have…flower buds!!! … Continue reading
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World’s largest flowering plant — still growing
POSTED BY KIM — A 116-year-old wisteria vine in southern California has recently been entered in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s largest flowering plant (as opposed to the largest flower, which you might have seen in … Continue reading
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A quick look at what’s blooming on my deck
POSTED BY KIM — Even though the season is winding down, I was out on my deck this morning and saw my passion flower vine blooming. Yay! It was a bittersweet moment because it was the first bloom of the … Continue reading
Filed under Annuals, Butterfly, Container gardening, Fruits & Vegetables, Tropicals, Vines
Clematis ‘Avant Garde’ — a tiny show-stopper
POSTED BY KIM — I am slowly growing my clematis collection (pun intended), and besides ‘Rooguchi,’ which blew me away this year, I’ve had the pleasure of watching this little ‘Avant Garde’ clematis bloom its head off. I’ve got it … Continue reading
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