Collector's Corner Sales

 

  • ON-SITE: Monday/Wednesday/Friday/Saturday, 10:00am-2:00pm

  • ONLINE

    • Select your clematis from the list below and send your order to FRCCsales@gmail.com
      Include your name, phone number, name(s) of the clematis you’d like to buy, quantity of each, and the date you will pick up your order (Mon/Wed/Fri/Sat, 10am-2pm). We will respond within 12 hours by email confirming availability and sending an invoice for online payment. After receiving payment confirmation, we will send pick-up instructions. Plants can be held up to two weeks; after that your order will be cancelled.

  • Prices are $45 for a fully-rooted, 1-gallon specimen, and $55 for clematis in 2-gallon pots.

  • We do not ship plants.

  • Visit CLEMATIS CARE for information sheets on planting and pruning clematis.


Available Now (inventory updated weekly)

Clematis afoliata

Clematis afoliata is unique among clematis in having no leaves! It does form petioles (leaf stems) and can climb—after a fashion—but in the wilds of the South Island of New Zealand you will find it in moist meadows lolling over and blending in with tussock grasses. It co-evolved with the now extinct Moa, flightless and ravenous birds with species reaching 3 meters tall! To avoid predation, C. afoliata abandoned growing leaves, and all photosynthesis happens in the bright green round stems, hence the common name, rush-stemmed clematis. It flowers early (March-April) with 1” yellow bells, highly scented of honey. The plants are either male or female. These specimens are grown from cuttings from a specimen that has not flowered, so we do not know the sex. We have 3 one-gallon plants at $45 each.

Clematis afoliata getting ready to flower in the wild. Mature plants look like a loose haystack.

Clematis beadlei

TEMPORARILY SOLD OUT This charming species is native to the state of Georgia. It is summer blooming. This is considered a herbaceous vine, meaning that it goes completely dormant in late autumn, and rejuvenates entirely from the ground each spring, so hard pruning once it is dormant in late autumn is the way to prune. Partial shade is ideal, but tolerates full sun with sufficient water. We have just potted up a few more seedlings, but we cannot say how long it will take them to develop saleable root systems.

Clematis fremontii

The American herbaceous perennial species C. fremontii we offer are all derived from the midwest populations (Kansas and Nebraska). There are small, separate populations in the state of Georgia, but we don’t have a seed source for them. These plants have done well on our Front Bank in full sun and quarter-ten gravel mulch with pumice in the planting hole for drainage. We have one 1-gallon plant available now, for $45, grown from our garden-collected seed.

Clematis fusca

Clematis fusca is native to Japan and many other areas in eastern Asia. It is somewhat variable, but consistently has thick brown fuzz. It may show an interior that is light lavender, cream, or green. It crosses readily with Clematis ianthina, so we always flower these plants before sale so we are able to describe the color and verify the species. These are definitely brown. This is a woodland edge species, best placed with afternoon shade wandering through shrubs. We have one 2-gallon plant at $55. There will be more 1-gallon plants later in the season.

Clematis ianthina

TEMPORARILY SOLD OUT Clematis ianthina (old syn. C. fusca var. ianthina) is distinctly purple under its mix of brown and transparent hairs. The interior may be creamy as shown here at the Royal Edinburgh Botanic Garden, or lavender to purple. These are seed-grown, so because it crosses readily with C. fusca, we flower out each plant to make sure of the color. These plants are strongly purple with lavender inside.

Clematis socialis

TEMPORARILY SOLD OUT Clematis socialis is a colony forming herbaceous perennial clematis, non-climbing. In the wilds of Alabama and Georgia it lives in meadows with native grasses and other wildflowers. We grow it in full sun with a groundcover of creeping thymes (several forms including wooly thyme and T. minimus), which seem to shade the roots but allow new shoots to pop up easily. Summer blooming, and will repeat with deadheading. Tolerates heat with sufficient water. We will be dividing stock plants soon.