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 season, and here we are in late September. I overwintered this plant last year in [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Vines’
September 19, 2009
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 in a fairly shady location that gets maybe 2-3 hours of hot afternoon sun. I cut it [...]
May 9, 2009
My favorite clematis: Rooguchi
POSTED BY KIM — We first started carrying Clematis ‘Rooguchi’ last year, and I kept walking by these vines with their sweet, bell-shaped flowers — and I just couldn’t stand it. I remember when the first a bud opened, I carried the plant upstairs to our offices at the nursery to show everyone. They’re so unusual.
At the end [...]
December 3, 2008
Growing wild through gravel in our parking lot — passion flower is one tough vine
POSTED BY KIM — Earlier this summer we stacked a bunch of trellises in the parking lot just to make some room, and would you believe that a vine actually started growing on one of them? Say hello to Passiflora incarnata, the native passion flower vine.
Obviously if it’s growing wild in our parking lot — [...]
November 12, 2008
A bittersweet view
POSTED BY KIM — When I look out my bathroom window, two stories above the side yard, I have a great view of a flower bed, a small patch of lawn, and the woods. (My husband complains when I peek out the window because he says I lean on his towel bar, but that’s a subject for [...]
November 6, 2008
A rainy day doesn’t dim the glow of this climbing hydrangea
POSTED BY KIM — It’s sprinkling here in Webster Groves and it’s finally beginning to feel a little more like true autumn. The leaves have all turned spectacular colors, but the weather has been unusually balmy — not anymore!
I’ve been noticing the great fall color on my climbing hydrangea — a very respectable yellow. I [...]
October 16, 2008
The fragrant nocturnal moonflower
POSTED BY KIM — It’s getting colder now, so I won’t be able to enjoy my moonflower (Ipomoea alba) for much longer. This might be my all-time favorite annual vine. I grow it in a pot on my deck, right outside the back door so I
can see it when I’m sitting at my desk in the [...]
October 2, 2008
Do you know this vine?
Mystery vine
POSTED BY KIM — Neither do I. And I started it from seed! I started a *lot* of things from seed. And I managed to keep everything identified except for this annual vine. I was digging through all my current season’s plant tags and seed packets, and can find them all except for this [...]
