How To Use Clematis In A Sentence
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It was purfled about the rim of the soundbox with trapezia of shimmering mother-of-pearl, and it had a black strikeplate in the shape of a clematis flower, inlaid with multicoloured blossoms that were purely the result of an exuberant craftsman's imagination.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
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Clematis montana will be in full flower in many gardens at the moment and is generally left unpruned.
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After pointing this out to the company concerned they kindly sent another batch which also arrived unlabelled so we ended up with ten mystery clematis to fit into our very small garden.
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Nearby rock ledges had Asplenium rutamuraria, Pellaea atropurpurea, and other ferns typical of the habitat, and the foliage of Clematis occidentalis was noted.
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One of my fences is overgrown with clematis, jasmine, climbing roses and ivy.
Stumped? How to raise a lawn, plus overgrown perennials
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Their favourite was the rose, followed by hellebores, peonies, clematis, magnolias, lilies, euphorbias, primulas, snowdrops, geraniums.
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Of note is the purple clematis which climbs up the wall.
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These are usually the more delicate plants such as Clematis viticella, which are best with an annual light prune followed by hard pruning every ten years.
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This evergreen clematis is covered in perfumed, pink suffused white flowers in spring and needs a sheltered wall where stems, leaves and flowers can be in full sun with roots in shade.
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From 6000 to 7000 feet, plants of the temperate regions blend with the tropical; such as rhododendron, oak, ivy, geranium, berberry, clematis, and shrubby _Vaccinia, _ which all made their appearance at Loongtoong, another Bhoteea village.
Himalayan Journals — Complete
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Apple, pear, plum and cherry trees shadow the hard tennis court which has full perimeter fencing entwined with climbing roses and clematis.
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Their favourite was the rose, followed by hellebores, peonies, clematis, magnolias, lilies, euphorbias, primulas, snowdrops, geraniums.
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We are used to pairing clematis with roses, but there are hundreds of other combinations to be explored.
Times, Sunday Times
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Clematis viticella ‘Etoile Violette’ is still blooming, the first flowers opened in July.
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Once this stage is reached, there is no turning back and the clematis quickly covers trellis and wall, pulling itself into shrubs and trees along its way.
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Nay, Miss Rothesay, do not quit your easel; Miss Van-brugh will accompany me through the garden, and besides, I wish to speak to her about her clematis.
Olive A Novel
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Clematis texensis is bell shaped, and the 6cm flowers open with gently reflexed petals to reveal creamy vanilla stamens.
Times, Sunday Times
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You lived in the white-washed cottage, all honeysuckle and clematis without -- earwiggy and damp within, maybe.
Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
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In spring you see clematis montana rubens everywhere, sugary pink, scentless and often clashing with equally ubiquitous but bright chrome yellow Forsythia.
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While in pruning mode, cut late flowering clematis hard back to a low pair of fat buds.
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Deep planting of clematis encourages the plant to form a vigorous crown of growth buds below the soil surface.
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Plant a clematis vine 2 to 3 feet away from your climbing rose and train them to grow together for an extended flowering display.
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Grow clematis, alliums, pinks, ceanothus, lilacs and scabious.
Times, Sunday Times
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The first impression is of pink phlox, purple loosestrife, clematis, pelargoniums, roses and day lilies.
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Most clematis will require staking so the twining leaf petioles can cling and climb upward, though some gardeners choose to let the plants sprawl over the ground, over woodpiles, other plants, etc.
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Around the feet of these plants grow small euphorbias, lungwort and ground cover campanulas, while on the wall behind the rich flowers of clematis Star of India are beginning to open.
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Outside, a little patio is hung with wisteria and clematis.
Times, Sunday Times
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They are fast growers and tend to bloom over a much longer period than perennial climbers such as clematis and honeysuckle.
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I like the wildness of the two plants that look charming together, with the small white fragrant flowers of the jasmine contrasting beautifully with the reddish purple ones of the clematis.
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Adiantum and fructiferous mosses, and a curious Primuloid plant out of flower, with a curious Clematis.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
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Sitting under a rose and clematis arbour in one area, you see through a lunette in a pyracantha hedge to a pond, encircled by lavender, heleniums, hemerocallis, gaillardias and calamintha.
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Bookboxed – the clematis is one of the stars of the garden, it’s true.
Late Spring « Tales from the Reading Room
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Spirea Van Houttii, best known as Bridal Wreath, we might include and a few of the hardy vines if a trellis or other support was given for them, such as clematis paniculata, coccinea and jackmani, the large purple and white honeysuckle, Chinese matrimony vine, etc.
Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916
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Clematis prefer a neutral to slightly alkaline soil, so add lime if your soil is on the acidic side. Keep the roots shaded and the tops in sun.
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Clematis prefer a neutral to slightly alkaline soil, so add lime if your soil is on the acidic side. Keep the roots shaded and the tops in sun.
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This evergreen clematis is covered in perfumed, pink suffused white flowers in spring and needs a sheltered wall where stems, leaves and flowers can be in full sun with roots in shade.
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So we left the question of statuary for another day and contented ourselves with packing a trolley with roses, clematis, honeysuckle, a climbing hydrangea, hardy geranium, and astilbe.
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He started fumbling for the pockets of his trousers, which were somewhere under the clematis.
Excerpt: Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
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Planning is essential for this very strong-growing clematis which will put on an enormous amount of growth in one season.
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Afterwards, give each clematis a feed and surround the base with a thick mulch.
Times, Sunday Times
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Clematis ‘Jackmanii’ is a late flowerer with abundant purple flowers.
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This beautiful clematis has velvety crimson flowers and can be grown through large shrubs or as a partner for a rambling rose.
Times, Sunday Times
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Plant a purple, large flowered clematis alongside it for a stunning combination of colours.
The Sun
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Always plant them quite deep so the base of the stem is protected against clematis wilt disease.
The Sun
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To keep mice off new clematis, plant it with its stems coming through a plastic collar, made by cutting the top and bottom off a lemonade bottle.
Times, Sunday Times
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Behind stone walls dripping with clematis, a crabapple's toss away from what he called a "muddle" of windblown daisies, beneath the dappled shade of a weeping beech tree, a ruddy-cheeked Englishman, dressed in a gently rumpled olive suit, sat with a sketch pad spread across his lap.
The Seattle Times
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One cause of such calamity is clematis wilt, a fungal disease.
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The stonework could be wonderfully softened with climbing roses and clematis.
Times, Sunday Times
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Roses, honeysuckle and clematis run vigorously together up the pergola, beneath which are hebes, more hostas, hardy geraniums and several magnificent phormiums.
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The Queen has paid for 33 clematis plants which will form the central path up to the marquee at her garden party on August 8 this year.
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Add a few large flowering clematis among the ivies to form a good yearround evergreen backdrop to seasonal flowers.
The Sun
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An instance of the polypetalous regular perianth of _Clematis viticella_ being changed into
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
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Homeowners may have success propagating clematis by cuttings or layering.
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Serpentine layering Climbers such as clematis, jasmine, wisteria and honeysuckle root wherever their long pliable stems touch the soil.
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A black and yellow Monarch glided over the trellis, fluttering its wings as it perched on the clematis leaf.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grieving and Recovery
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One garden bed features a trio of lattice panels hung with hops vine and a well travelled clematis, plus perennials like rudbeckia, delphinium and ligularia that keep the roots of the clematis shaded.
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My eyes fixed on a cocoon attached to the bottom side of a green clematis leaf winding around the trellis.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grieving and Recovery
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Clematis alpina is usually among the earliest clematis to bloom in the spring.
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She bought a tomato cage, a large plastic flower-pot saucer (the kind that looks like terra-cotta), some string and vines, such as clematis, moonflower or morning glory.
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All the surrounding high-rises are screened out with clematis and honeysuckle vines on the perimeter fence.
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The borders are pretty much full of the usual sort of things: cherry trees, broom, hawthorn, raspberries, rhubarb, pyracantha, clematis, birch, and like so.
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One garden bed features a trio of lattice panels hung with hops vine and a well travelled clematis, plus perennials like rudbeckia, delphinium and ligularia that keep the roots of the clematis shaded.
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Serpentine layering Climbers such as clematis, jasmine, wisteria and honeysuckle root wherever their long pliable stems touch the soil.
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If you are planting between shrubs, the clematis ought to stand just outside the canopy of the surrounding shrubs.
Times, Sunday Times
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For added interest, Brenda has some clematis, honeysuckle, winter-flowering jasmine and Russian vine as climbers.
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Unusual hydrangeas , exotic clematis-type vines covered with white starlike flowers, and bushes spotted with heart-shaped leaves and lilylike flowers bloomed everywhere.
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You can plant clematis at pretty much any time of year, but here are some tips to keep them happy.
Times, Sunday Times
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The original hybrid, Clematis ‘Jackmanii’, is still incredibly popular after almost 150 years, with its lovely deep purple flowers imprinted with a cross.
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We have a scented country garden and pond, water features, gravel gardens, arbours, pergolas, a summerhouse, many rare and unusual perennials, and 120 clematis.
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Down one side of the lawn, we've got a good mass of herbs, clematis, sunflower seedlings and wild poppies.
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Natural climbers such as clematis, Dutchman's pipe, and kiwi vines only need to be redirected as required.
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I fired off an email to the Board and the Landscape Committee demanding an apology and suggesting that I should be reimbursed for the plants that I can replace (the clematis cannot be replaced …).
2010 May « Mudpuddle
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The apparently lifeless stick happened to be an early clematis, heavy with bud further down its length and now safely attached to the new support.
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It's kind of, well, just a slabbed area at the moment, but I have a plan to make it into a small courtyard garden, in green and white. I see white clematis, hostas, a scented philadelphus, pots of white lilies, maybe a white climbing rose.
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This beautiful clematis has velvety crimson flowers and can be grown through large shrubs or as a partner for a rambling rose.
Times, Sunday Times
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This year, I cut it back to the ground in early spring, and it responded by towering above my summer phlox, even challenging the clematis Henryii growing on a neighboring trellis.
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The additional trees and shrubs in flower are the tamarisk, altheas, Venetian sumach, pomegranates, the beautiful passion-flower, the trumpet flower, and the virgin's bower or clematis, which is such a quick and handsome climber.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 267, August 4, 1827
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Roses, honeysuckle and clematis run vigorously together up the pergola, beneath which are hebes, more hostas, hardy geraniums and several magnificent phormiums.
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Clematis flammula var. maritima is an example of a lianoid, smaller-bodied viny plant that has adapted to open conditions where there are few climbing opportunities.
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There are clubs devoted to every plant group imaginable, from cacti to clematis, roses to rhododendrons.
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Clematis armandii has large, handsome evergreen leaves not usually associated with such an elegant plant.
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Time to prune back your large, late-flowering hybrid clematis plants.
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According to the DA, ingredients include: canavalia rosea, clematis vitalba, nelumbo nucifera, pedicularis grand folia, heimia salicifolia, leonurus sibiricus, ledum palustre, blue lotus, baybean and a number of other herbs.
Gothamist
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There are clubs devoted to every plant group imaginable, from cacti to clematis, roses to rhododendrons.
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It faces to the south, so that the little court between the gables is a veritable sun-trap, wherein grow magnolia and jessamine; while roses, Dutch honeysuckle, clematis and wistaria cover the whole front of the house and almost hide the mullioned windows.
The Drummer's Coat
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Wisteria and clematis vines cover the arbors, while Boston ivy and trumpet vines link the two levels.
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Among the garden plants with interesting diseases seen recently were clematis affected by a microscopic rust fungus which caused huge galls on the stem, and a disfiguring pathogenic algae on Hardenburgia, an ornamental climber.
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We also drove to a garden centre and got some more plants - I got some Violets, Marguerites and a pelargonium for the veranda pots, and Anders planted a Clematis below the veranda.
Garden work
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One moment this most voracious variety is knee high to your clematis, the next it is tickling your guttering.
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A third variety of this species, Clematis montana ‘Rubens’, is growing through Jasminum officinale and it is my favourite with dark bronzy red leaves and deep pink flowers.
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Around the feet of these plants grow small euphorbias, lungwort and ground cover campanulas, while on the wall behind the rich flowers of clematis Star of India are beginning to open.
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Abutilons; agapanthus; alstremeria; amaryllis; anemone; aralia; araucaria; auricula; azaleas; begonias; cactus; caladium; calceolaria; calla; camellias; cannas; carnations; century plants; chrysanthemums; cineraria; clematis; coleus; crocus; croton; cyclamen; dahlia; ferns; freesia; fuchsia; geranium; gladiolus; gloxinia; grevillea; hollyhocks; hyacinths; iris; lily; lily-of-the-valley; mignonette; moon-flowers; narcissus; oleander; oxalis; palms; pandanus; pansy; pelargonium; peony; phlox; primulas; rhododendrons; rose; smilax; stocks; sweet pea; swainsona; tuberose; tulips; violet; wax plant.
Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)
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Growing Most clematis are undemanding plants that will thrive in any sunny situation.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the woody ravines Panax curcasifolia was common, in these I noticed Cerastium scandens, Elaeagnus, Clematis, Tetrantheroidea habitu, Sedgewickiae!
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
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The Clematis is Betty Corning, the most floriferous I have.
Greeted By Butterflies « Fairegarden
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Always plant them quite deep so the base of the stem is protected against clematis wilt disease.
The Sun
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White flowering Clematis armandii, red tropaeolum, wisteria and roses are being trained to grow over the pergola.
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Over the following days they would enjoy many conversations about the best place to site the roses, the clematis and the wildflowers Faith wanted, and she also had no difficulty in convincing him to leave three small patches unplanted.
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The long, dark, rough leaves of the clematis contrast well with the yellow and green foliage of the pittosporum, which grows against a warm brick wall in the sun.
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The project has included the replanting of the formal garden in front of the house using boxwood, roses, catmint, lavender and clematis.
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A few days later and the squashed plants have recovered, the trellis doesn't look quite so glaringly new and the clematis is about to flower.
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The terraced gardens were full of spring flowers — wallflower and tulip, fruit blossom and early clematis, aubrietia, polyanthus, and arabis.
Through the Wall
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We were too early to see the rata in flower but clematis was in bloom at many points along the track.
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According to the DA, ingredients include: canavalia rosea, clematis vitalba, nelumbo nucifera, pedicularis grand folia, heimia salicifolia, leonurus sibiricus, ledum palustre, blue lotus, baybean and a number of other herbs.
Gothamist
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Late-blooming clematis grew up the trellis, forming a wall of flowers in a rainbow's colours, feathery seed heads and green leaves, enclosing the patio.
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•Prune back clematis (Group I, C. Montana rubens, for example) and deutzia after blooming.
Columnist: Stephen Miller
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Keep an eye out for them on clematis, calendulas, chrysanthemums and zinnias.
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Along the escarpments, redberry junipers grow on the rimrock and cliff faces, along with skunkbush sumac, ephedra, mountain mahogany, plum, grape, and clematis.
Ecoregions of Texas (EPA)
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Early October has brought a fresh crop of flowers to the garden this year and the beds are filled with autumnal plants such as Rudbeckias, Michaelmas daisies, late roses, clematis and cyclamen.
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These are usually the more delicate plants such as Clematis viticella, which are best with an annual light prune followed by hard pruning every ten years.
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The stone walls are studded with plantings of clematis, espaliered trees, and a sarcococca plant - a fragrant evergreen that blooms in early spring.
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They recalled the arbour with clematis, the dresses she had worn, the furniture of her room, the whole of her house.
Madame Bovary
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Here and there, on the dry bank over which the clematis projected like an eave, there stood tall campanulas, their blue bells as large as the fingerstall of a foxglove.
The Life of the Fields
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It was separated from the Boulevard de la Madeleine by a green paddock, and was concealed in a nest of laurustinus and clematis.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847
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The buddleia is just coming into flower and mid-summer clematis are covered in fat buds that will soon bloom.
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O'er the muir, amang the heather," Eleanor's walk had gone; and her basket was gay with gorse and broom just opening; but from grassy banks on her way she had brought the bright blue speedwell; and clematis and bryony from the hedges, and from under them wild hyacinth and white campion and crane's-bill and primroses; and a meadow she had passed over gave her one or two pretty kinds of orchis, with daisies and cowslips, and grasses of various kinds.
The Old Helmet
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If you have shrubs such as forsythia that don't offer much interest in mid-summer, plant a few clematis vines to fill the branches with color during the summer months.
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There was an Italian grapevine roof, a French parterre of boxwood, lobelia, and shiny black coal, and oak columns recently dredged from Boston Harbor garlanded with a ship's hawser and clematis.
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Well-established clematis plants develop a large root system that takes up a great deal of water.
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I saw masses of wild clematis scrambling everywhere, so that the hedge looked as if somebody had been dressing it up in tufts of feathers.
Mary's Meadow; and Letters From a Little Garden
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In her mind she tried to recreate the May-smells of clematis and broom drifting in from the rolling hills, the song of nightingales on the wooded heights, the twinkle of fireflies in the ripening fields.
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THE time to prune early flowering clematis is just after the blooms have finished.
The Sun
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Plant climbing flowers like morning glories or clematis at the foot of the arch.
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Afterwards, give each clematis a feed and surround the base with a thick mulch.
Times, Sunday Times
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Their only draw back is their bare legs so I use the woody-stemmed canes of the roses as living supports for loose-limbed, delicate vines such as clematis, love-in-a puff, honeysuckle and sweet peas.
Suzy Bales: Roses as Climbers, Ramblers and Scramblers
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The foliage of this winter clematis is the most beautiful of the lot, turning a burnished bronze in the cold weather.
Times, Sunday Times
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A trellised gateway rises from low garden walls and is partly covered by wisteria and clematis.
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Clematis montana is the most colourful and floriferous climber we can grow.
Times, Sunday Times
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Passing the summerhouse, they walked along a curving path under a pergola of entwined clematis.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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At higher altitudes, there are shola-type forests characterized by Phoenix robusta, Pterospermum acerifolium, and Clematis nutans.
Chhota-Nagpur dry deciduous forests
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Evergreen Most clematis are deciduous and leave a tangled mass of bare stems in winter.
Times, Sunday Times
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Bachelorette Party, Penises, and Deep Thoughts
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Wisteria floribunda 'Alba' with Clematis 'Lasurstern'
Gardens: Climbing companions
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Any early flowering clematis that has completely outgrown its spot can be cut down too.
Times, Sunday Times
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We have a scented country garden and pond, water features, gravel gardens, arbours, pergolas, a summerhouse, many rare and unusual perennials, and 120 clematis.
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The terraced gardens were full of spring flowers — wallflower and tulip, fruit blossom and early clematis, aubrietia, polyanthus, and arabis.
Through the Wall
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This plant has white flowers but unfortunately I don't know the names of any of these clematis as they were part of a mail order collection that arrived unlabelled.
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Passing the summerhouse, they walked along a curving path under a pergola of entwined clematis.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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Many have abundant gardens, with brilliant red poppies, orange marigolds, blue flax, pink clematis and jacaranda, and large cypress and eucalyptus trees.
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The air was fragrant with late-June flowers; honeysuckle and clematis grew wild along the path.
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A quick rush of embarrassment flooded to the Majors cheeks and he smoothed helplessly at the lap of his crimson, clematis-covered housecoat with hands that felt like spades.
Excerpt: Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
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Most clematis are climbers by nature, and because they are not self-supporting, they will happily wander up any nearby plant or support.
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I simplified his design, but the principle was the same: the trellis - upright posts and a lattice grille - would support climbers such as roses and clematis.
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Tie in clematis and other vigorous climbers like summer flowering jasmine.
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Around the feet of these plants grow small euphorbias, lungwort and ground cover campanulas, while on the wall behind the rich flowers of clematis Star of India are beginning to open.
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The Sunday Telegraph reports that astrantias, gazanias and large-flowered clematis have all been reported in flower in different gardens in December.
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And the only drawback to climbing roses is their bare legs; I use their woody-stemmed canes as living supports for loose-limbed, delicate vines such as clematis, love-in-a-puff and sweet peas or I plant perennials or shrubs in front of them.
Suzy Bales: Up, Up and Away With Climbing Roses (PHOTOS)
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The clematises, tropæolums, solanums, gloriosa lilies among leaf-climbing plants; the bignonias, cobæas, bryonies, vines, passion flowers, and other tendril-bearing plants; the ivy, and other root and hook climbers were carefully studied; and botanists for the first time realised fully the advantages which climbing plants possess in the struggle for existence.
Life of Charles Darwin
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Because clematis prefer a cool root environment, plan to underplant with a groundcover or perennials that have shallow, non-invasive roots.
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Very soon one finds himself deeply interested in these random and detached pictures, and almost before he is aware he finds that he has rounded off the corners of the house, made snug little arbors of wild grapes and clematis, covered the rear fence and the outhouse with actinidia and bitter-sweet, and has thrown in dashes of color with hollyhocks, cannas, and lilies, and has tied the foundations of the buildings to the greensward by low strands of vines or deft bits of planting.
Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)
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The borders are pretty much full of the usual sort of things: cherry trees, broom, hawthorn, raspberries, rhubarb, pyracantha, clematis, birch, and like so.
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When I first looked at the dropwort it reminded me of fall clematis.
May Bloom Day-This And That « Fairegarden
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Passing the summerhouse, they walked along a curving path under a pergola of entwined clematis.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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Many have abundant gardens, with brilliant red poppies, orange marigolds, blue flax, pink clematis and jacaranda, and large cypress and eucalyptus trees.
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The project has included the replanting of the formal garden in front of the house using boxwood, roses, catmint, lavender and clematis.
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Sitting under a rose and clematis arbour in one area, you see through a lunette in a pyracantha hedge to a pond, encircled by lavender, heleniums, hemerocallis, gaillardias and calamintha.
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White flowering Clematis armandii, red tropaeolum, wisteria and roses are being trained to grow over the pergola.
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Many have abundant gardens, with brilliant red poppies, orange marigolds, blue flax, pink clematis and jacaranda, and large cypress and eucalyptus trees.
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Despite its sand dune habitat and shortage of host support plants, this variety of Clematis shows mechanical characteristics during growth that are closely comparable with those of scandent woody lianas.
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That dark pigmentation in clematis finds its way into their foliage, too.
Times, Sunday Times
