gardenbug8's Blog

Per your request, here is AB's home.  It is planted on this arbor on the right side of this picture and on the left is rosa Zephirine Drouhin (no bloom yet).  AB is a clematis Armandii, a group A clematis, an evergreen which can grow up to 20 ft. and blooms early spring.   Most clematis generally leap on their 3rd year, i.e. lots and lots of blooms if pruned properly on their 1st and 2nd year.  I also trail a stem from a nearby obelisk to add to this arbor, a clematis jackmanii because I mistakenly pruned one stem which I thought was dead  a few months after I planted it.