June in my garden offered a plethora of colorful, diverse, and interesting clematis, including the last of the large-flowered bloomers, early blossoms from July bloomers, and three beautiful clematis bell flowers, two of which are home-grown seedlings of the dainty scarlet bells of Clematis texensis.
C. ‘Tartu’ still going strong in June!
C. ‘Morning Mist’ with C. ‘Proteus’ in the background. One flower of C. ‘Morning Mist’ measured 10 inches in diameter this year, the largest clematis blossom in my garden.
The plummy C. ‘Lord Hershel’. Not being a climber, this one lounges around on whatever it can find unless you truss it up.
C. ‘Fujimusume’ is one of my personal favorites. Satiny sky blue!
C. ‘Proteus’ glows in a fabulous muted pink. Who could count the petals?
My own fantabulous C. ‘Fond Memories’ blooming in June. Ahhhh.
Above, the complex blooms of C. ‘Crystal Fountain’, also known as C. ‘Fairy Blue’, just beginning to open.
And here they are, fully open. Beautiful either way!
C. ‘Caroline’ (pink) cavorting with the big double lavender blooms of C. ‘Vyvyan Pennell’
The purple-leaved C. recta ‘Purpurea’ flouncing in the garden and emitting its delicious fragrance. The mauve blooms of C. ‘The First Lady’ poking up in the back join in the fun.
C. florida ‘Sieboldii’. I have two plants of this clematis. Both were sold to me as C. florida ‘Sieboldii’, but they look quite different.
This one has a smaller, darker center. Both, however, stop visitors in their tracks.
C. ‘Polish Spirit’ already loaded down with flowers and buds, though it’s still only June!
Clematis Climador ‘Koenigskind’ is free-flowering on a compact plant.
A classic from the late 1800s, C. ‘Perle d’Azur’ always delights the eye.
Show stoppers C. ‘Etoile Violette’ (dark purple) and C. ‘Betty Corning’ (mauve bell) just beginning to strut. They bloomed together for more than eight weeks during the summer, starting in mid-June. I guesstimate that each of them graced the old dead plum tree that supports them with 3,000 – 4,000 blooms through the season. Amazing!
Clematis ‘Princess Red’, a Japanese hybrid of the American native, C. crispa. The dark pink color might come from a bit of C. texensis (a red-flowered US native) in it’s DNA. What a gorgeous flower.
An elegantly shaped dusky pink flower on a C. texensis plant that I grew from seed received from the British Clematis Society.
Also a plant I grew from seed, this one is similar to a well-known texensis hybrid, C. ‘Etoile Rose’. Mine I think has more of a twist in the petals. Proud mama.
Here in Ottawa I have two Clematis that are in pots, so they come in in October and sit in my basement under fluorescent lights. Last week there was a bloom on Belle of Woking and today there is a bloom on The First Lady. I have others mentioned above but they are all snowbound. My Proteus is not doubled like the one here and my Crystal Fountain is a prolific bloomer as is my Polish Spirit.
Clematis in Seattle 
Geoff said,
December 9, 2018 at 3:33 pm
Here in Ottawa I have two Clematis that are in pots, so they come in in October and sit in my basement under fluorescent lights. Last week there was a bloom on Belle of Woking and today there is a bloom on The First Lady. I have others mentioned above but they are all snowbound. My Proteus is not doubled like the one here and my Crystal Fountain is a prolific bloomer as is my Polish Spirit.
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clematisinseattle said,
December 9, 2018 at 5:25 pm
Hi, Geoff,
I, too, have had luck with some of my large-flowered clematis reblooming in late summer or fall–The First Lady is one of them.
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clematisinseattle said,
December 9, 2018 at 5:27 pm
Great for you to have them blooming indoors in December!
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