With the exception of two recent additions, I have unfortunately been delinquent in posting about clematis for several months–blooming months at that! My camera, however, was still clicking away. Below are a few of the beautiful clematis I came upon, in my own garden as well as others, during April and May of last year.
New Talk at 2019 Flower Show
November 16, 2018 at 10:20 pm (clematisinseattle)
Lucky me! I’ll be a speaker again in 2019 at the Northwest Flower and Garden Festival in Seattle! I will be presenting an all-new topic: Embrace Vertical Gardening! Embellish Your Garden with Vines. Come and hear me describe the ins and outs of many vines (including clematis, of course)–get the basics about wisteria, passion flower, clematis, akebia, honeysuckle, climbing hydrangea, and others. Learn to control your vines and not let them control you!
When:
Saturday, February 23, 2018, 6:45pm
Where:
The Hood Room at
The Washington State Convention Center
Downtown Seattle
What a GIFT!!
November 14, 2018 at 5:56 pm (clematisinseattle)
Laura Mack, my wonderful long-time friend, gave me the BEST birthday present ever–an absolutely stunning painting/collage of me and my clematis! She knows me well. She even tucked in my husband LeRoy. Isn’t it great! She used some of my own clematis photos, too!
Laura and I have known each other on both coasts, having met when we worked together in Boston, Massachusetts. In 2004, she and her husband and me and mine both left the east coast for the west: I headed to Seattle and she went to Salem, Oregon. Laura’s a professional artist and a college art teacher–it shows!
Click here to see her make an impassioned plea for art in public schools.