Clematis

Flowers make me smile.  They help make a yard look better.  Grass is grass.  It's nice to have and easy to keep here in the Pacific Northwest.  In the deserts of the Southwest, not so much.  However you can always have flowers.  Desert flowers have all the beauty of Oregon flowers.  Differently, but beautiful non-the-less.  I have put some of the flowers we have enjoyed on our stays in Arizona and beyond.  Being away from home for up to 8 months of the years has kept us from doing much in our yard here in Canby.  \
    This year is different.  It appears we will be Oregon bound for the rest of the year so we have been busy in the dirt.  Planting new. Transplanting old.  Adding new to existing pots.  More changes to come.  A new addition will be a new clematis.  The trellis on the east side of the house has two  small vines with small wine red and dark purple flowers.  Walking around the neighborhood I have seen some large vines bursting with large pink flowers.  That's what I wanted.
    Enter Roberson Clematis Garden in Lake Oswego.  Visited it last year in the fall.  Even then it was amazing.  Made a note to return in the spring summer.  Well, the city has not opened it yet so operations are limited.  You can, however, still buy Clematis from them.  They cultivate and sell types that cannot be purchased at nurseries. ( They do not want to be competing with nurseries.)  So after a phone call and conversation with a volunteer and a visit to clematisontheweb I found the one that we ordered.  We will pick it up on Wednesday.  Kinds sounds like we are adopting a puppy.

This is Clematis Morning Mist.