What's in Bloom?
There are always clematis blooming in the garden! See below for a complete list of this week's blooms, plus a map to help you find each theme garden and bed number.
Updated May 3, 2024: Welcome to Spring! We’ve had swings of rainy days followed by days of fine weather make for a not bad spring. We have 72 clematis in bloom, up 26 from the last update. The large-flowered hybrids are starting…in fact, it’s a positive Polish invasion in Beds 18-20. Also offering fuzzy flowers to the spring sun are those children of the Virginia shale barrens, in the American C. integrifolia sub-section of non-climbers.
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Purchase clematis onsite Monday/Wednesday/Friday/Saturday, 10:00am-2:00pm. Visit CLEMATIS SALES for all the information.
Visit CLEMATIS CARE for information sheets on growing clematis. If your questions are not answered there, call or text FRCC at 971-777-4394. Also, for a more detailed response, or to send photos for clematis identification, please email info@rogersonclematiscollection.org
The Modern Garden
At the end of each row along the center aisle is a modern non-climbing hybrid or very short-growing vining cultivar.
ROW 1, Profuse summer bloomers related to C. viticella and some summer urn/trumpet hybrids related to C. texensis
Nothing in bloom
ROW 2, Profuse summer bloomers and Pink large-flowered cultivars
‘Delightful Scent’ SUGAR SWEET LILAC
RAYMOND EVISON HYBRIDS (Rows 3-7)
ROW 3, Evison Hybrids
Nothing in bloom
ROW 4, Evison Hybrids
‘Everin’ CLAIR DE LUNE
ROW 5, Evison Hybrids
Nothing in bloom
ROW 6, Evison Hybrids
Nothing in bloom
ROW 7, Evison Hybrids
Nothing in bloom
ROW 8, Double large-flowered clematis
‘Mary-Claire’ (single form)
ROW 9, Profuse flowering clematis (C. viticella and C. texensis hybrids)
Nothing in bloom
SZCZEPAN MARCZYNSKI HYBRIDS (Rows 10 & 11)
ROW 10, Marczynski Hybrids
Nothing in bloom
ROW 11, Marczynski Hybrids and White large-flowered cultivars
Nothing in bloom
ROW 12, Red large-flowered cultivars
‘Corona’, ‘Regency’
ROW 13, Red large-flowered cultivars and Purple large-flowered cultivars
Nothing in bloom
ROW 14, Lavender/Blue large-flowered cultivars
‘Joan Picton’, ‘Mrs P B Truax’
ROW 15, Lavender/Blue large-flowered cultivars and Striped/Barred large-flowered cultivars
‘Will Barron’, ‘Irene’
ROW 16, Striped/Barred large-flowered cultivars and Late Adds
‘Zo09124’ PICOTEE, ‘Thomas Strawford’
Beech Tree's Garden
BED 1
‘Brewster’, ‘Elizabeth’, C. patens ‘Komurasaki’, ‘Omoshiro’
BED 2
‘Picton’s Variety’
BED 3
‘Picton’s Variety’, ‘Akaishi’, Clematis fauriei
BED 4
This is one of our largest beds, starting across the paths from Bed 3 and Heirloom Garden Bed 5, continuing along the west boundary fence of The Antipodes beds, and the gravel path towards the chickens. Step down to the greenhouse level and walk back toward the farmhouse, which will end the Bed 4 loop.
‘Fairy Blue’ (synonym CRYSTAL FOUNTAIN), ‘Kakio’ PINK CHAMPAGNE, ‘Omoshiro’, ‘Asao’ (in two locations within this bed), ‘Fuyu-no-Tabi’, ‘Kasumi-no-Kimi’, ‘Toltae’ TAE (on the fence), ‘Kaiser’ BLUSHING BRIDESMAID, ‘Kahori-no-Kimi’, ‘Haru Ichiban’
Coop Border
Along the west side of the chicken coop and run, this bed faces due west, so the clematis planted here are sun-lovers, along with their herbaceous perennial companions.
‘Utsusemi’, ‘Freda’, ‘Little Bell Sumire’, ‘Sophie’
Heirloom Garden
BED 5
Clematis montana var. wilsonii (of hort.), ‘Etoile de Paris’
BED 6
Clematis patens (Manchurian form), ‘Fair Rosamond’, ‘Lady Londesborough’
BED 7
‘Nelly Moser’
BED 8
Nothing in bloom
BED 9
Nothing in bloom
BED 10
‘Souvenir de Capitaine Thuilleaux’
BED 11
‘Nelly Moser’, ‘Fair Rosamond’, C. spooneri
BED 12
‘Brewster’, ‘Miss Cavell’
BED 13
Nothing in bloom
The Front Bank
BED 14
Walking from the driveway west: C. addisonii, C. albocoma, C. viticaulis, C. ochroleuca, C. coactilis, C. socialis, C. fremontii (pale form), C. ochroleuca ‘Bald Knob’
The Baltic Border
BED 15
Nothing in bloom
The Founder’s Garden
BED 16
‘Warwickshire Rose’, ‘Vera’, ‘Moonlight’ (in a container), ‘Sharpie’, ‘Louise Rowe’, C. patens ‘Manshu-Ki’ WADA’S PRIMROSE, C. montana ‘Snowflake’, ‘Barbara Houser’, ‘Broughton Star’
The Steppe Garden
BED 17
This bed wraps around both sides of the old Gravenstein apple tree and includes the stock plants at the south end of the Test Garden.
‘Tsunami Child’, ‘Tetrarose’, ‘Mayleen’
Old Poland (the Polish Beds)
BED 18
‘Serafina’
BED 19
‘Mikolaj Kopernik’, ‘Baltyk’ (2 locations), ‘Dorota’, ‘Matka Urzula Ledochowska’
BED 20
‘Izydor’, ‘Regina’,
The Beginner’s Garden
BED 21
‘Guernsey Cream’, ‘Markham’s Pink’
BED 22
Nothing in bloom
The Hedges
BED 23
(Replanted in spring 2024 with Tasmannia lanceolata as the hedging; the Viburnum tinus was removed.)
‘Joe Zary’,
BED 24
‘Pauline’ (three specimens), ‘Pink Swing’, ‘Propertius’
Troughs
Nothing in bloom
Subtropical Shade Porch
The plants have been moved outside for the spring and summer.
The Antipodes
This area was hard hit by the brutal weather we had this winter. C. marmoraria is sending up new shoots, but we do not believe it will bloom.
CONTAINER DISPLAY AREA
This area, between the Bob and Carol Gutmann Greenhouse and The Antipodes will be increasingly populated by a display/demonstration area for growing clematis in containers. We imagine a continually changing, slowly evolving space where those with small gardens will find suggestions and inspiration. Seating is coming soon, too! The broad pale green bowl in the container area will be used to make floating arrangements of clematis.
Nothing in bloom
The Egg
Nothing in bloom
Artist James Harrison donated a handsome structure he created using the proportions of a Fabergé egg; hence we call it The Egg. It occupies the round foundation of the long-gone Luscher Farm silo. The cottage garden herbaceous perennials and volunteer annuals (the sunflowers are full of American Goldfinches nearly all day, every day) make a mad display at the feet of the clematis climbing The Egg through the spring and summer.
In 2022 we altered the clematis planting to include some of the magical hybrids and species selections made by the late Ton Hannink, a past president of the International Clematis Society. What better memorial to the man than his plants?