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 June 5, 2025: We are working on a new count, but in the meantime, more pictures!
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‘Huvi’ looking like fine rubies against the ‘Blue Surprise’ juniper. Bed 16
‘Duchess of Edinburgh’ in Bed 6 of the Heirloom Garden
In Bed 16, the Founder’s Garden, ‘Fond Memories’ is just gearing up for a fabulous show.
The reasons ‘Hagley Hybrid’ is on the International Clematis Society’s recommended list are obvious: it’s beautiful, plays well with others (that’s Clematis mandshurica over its shoulder), and it is amenable as to how you prune it.
OTHER PLANTS
White on white in the Heirloom Garden Bed 10, Paeonia ‘Duchess of Nemours’ and Rosa ‘Madame Hardy’
Bed 15, Paeonia ‘Felix Supreme’ with Sambucus nigra ‘Eva’ BLACK LACE
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
‘Fuchsia Flash’, ‘Matilda’, and at the aisle end ‘Lord Herschell’
RAYMOND EVISON HYBRIDS (Rows 3-7)
ROW 3, Evison Hybrids
‘Evipo027’ ABILENE
ROW 4, Evison Hybrids
‘Evisix’ CLAIRE DE LUNE
ROW 5, Evison Hybrids
‘Evipo083’ DAIYU, 'Evipo011’ EMPRESS
ROW 6, Evison Hybrids
‘Evijohill’ JOSEPHINE
ROW 7, Evison Hybrids
‘Evipo069’ TEKLA
ROW 8, Double large-flowered clematis
‘Belle of Taranaki’, ‘Blue Light’, Mary-Claire’ (not double), ‘KBK01’ FIREFLAME, ‘Multi Blue’, ‘Moonglow’
ROW 9, Profuse flowering clematis (C. viticella and C. texensis hybrids)
Nothing in bloom
WE WOULD LIKE TO HUMBLY REQUEST THAT, FOR THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE, CLEMATIS BREEDERS HOLD A MORATORIUM ON NAMING C. viticella and C. texensis HYBRIDS WITH CULTIVAR NAMES BEGINNING WITH ‘P’. WE CAN’T FIT ANYMORE IN THE ALLOTTED AREA, AND IT’S PLAYING HAVOC WITH THE ALPHABET. Thanks. ;-)
SZCZEPAN MARCZYNSKI HYBRIDS (Rows 10 & 11)
ROW 10, Marczynski Hybrids
Nothing in bloom
ROW 11, Marczynski Hybrids and White large-flowered cultivars
‘Viva Polonia’
ROW 12, Red large-flowered cultivars
‘Hainton Ruby’
ROW 13, Red large-flowered cultivars and Purple large-flowered cultivars
VANCOUVER ‘Deborah Dahl’
ROW 14, Lavender/Blue large-flowered cultivars
’Blue Mist’, ‘Joan Picton’, ‘Mrs P T James’, ‘Mrs P B Truax’, ‘Miguel Viso’, ‘Zo08111’ PALETTE
ROW 15, Lavender/Blue large-flowered cultivars and Striped/Barred large-flowered cultivars
‘Will Barron’, ‘Barbara Dibley’, ‘Bees’ Jubilee’, ‘Candy Stripe’, ‘Doctor Ruppel’, ‘Irene’, ‘Mexican Beauty’
ROW 16, Striped/Barred large-flowered cultivars and Late Adds
‘Zo09067’ LUCKY CHARM, ‘Zo09113’ PERNILLE, ‘Zo09124’ PICOTEE, ‘Thomas Strawford’, VANCOUVER ‘Mystic Gem’, VANCOUVER ‘Starry Night’, VANCOUVER ‘Daybreak’
Beech Tree's Garden
This specimen of ‘Omoshiro’ in Bed 1 has been putting on a long show this year.
BED 1
C. japonica ‘Gokanoshu’, C. patens ‘Yukiokoshi’, ‘Omoshiro’
BED 2
C. montana ‘Odorata’
BED 3
‘Red Pearl’, ‘Seryu’, ‘Fujimusume’
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 chicken coop. Step down to the greenhouse level and walk back toward the farmhouse, which will end the Bed 4 loop.
‘Fairy Blue’ (CRYSTAL FOUNTAIN is a synonym for this), ‘Iryu’, ‘Kirigamine’, ‘Tomoshibi’ (in two places), ‘Pinky’, ‘Shikon’ ‘Love Jewelry’, ‘Omoshiro’, ‘Sho-un’, ‘Teshio’, ‘Yaichi’, C. fusca, ‘Yuguri’, ‘Kasumi-no-Kimi’ (3 specimens), ‘Red Star’, ‘Haizawa’, ‘Andante’, ‘Taiga’, ‘Hakurei’, ‘Kahori no Kimi’, ‘Spark’, ‘The Velvet’, ‘Alba Chirifu’
Look for ‘Iryu’ around the Rosa glauca in Bed 4.
This ‘Red Star’ is blooming well, but you can see the discoloration caused by aphids on the foliage. Bed 4
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.
C. integrifolia ‘Ozawa #1’, ‘Watayuki’, ‘Sophie’, ‘Shizuki’, ‘Little Bell Sumire’, ‘Utsusemi’, ‘Oborozukiyo’
Clematis ‘Utsusemi’, a non-climbing hybrid from Japan, bears a great resemblance to Clematis ochroleuca, presumed to be one of the parents. Scroll down to the Front Bank pictures and see what you think.
Entry Border
‘The Heroes of Warsaw’, ‘Blue Ribbons’, ‘Raspberry Beret’, ‘Twist and Shout’, ‘Lord Herschell’, RAINDANCE
This new feature of the Rogerson Clematis Garden is a long perennial border opposite the Coop Border. It begins with an anonymously donated metal arc with waving stems of reeds on which large-flowered hybrids will climb, greeting visitors with that which they expect to see. But beyond the arc are the other forms of clematis most people don’t know about. Large flat panel trellises are populated by clematis that get big. They are fronted by clematis that cannot climb, those that are herbaceous perennials, in all of their wonderful colors and flower forms. A series of urns house draping clematis from the Atragene section (this is the section with C. macropetala and C. alpina, among many other species), which start flowering in April and repeat bloom through the summer. We have some woody shrub clematis here, too! Into all of this celebration of the variation within the genus Clematis, we have added an array of herbaceous perennials from groundcovers to tall summer-blooming plants, including lilies and repeated stands of Celtica gigantea (syn. Stipa gigantea, stipa grass). We have carefully selected a few shrubs into which the non-climbing clematis may loll if they choose.
Heirloom Garden
‘Ville de Lyon’ among the Siberian iris in Bed 8
BED 5
C. montana var. wilsonii (of hort.), ‘Blue Belle’, ‘King Edward VII’
BED 6
‘Duchess of Edinburgh’, x durandii
BED 7
‘Nelly Moser’, ‘William Kennet’, ‘Lasurstern’, ‘Candida’, ‘Jackmani Alba’
‘Jackmanii Alba’ amid Sambucus nigra ‘Eva’ BLACK LACE
BED 8
‘Ville de Lyon’, C. integrifolia
BED 9
‘Lady Caroline Nevill’, ‘Henryi’, ‘Belle of Woking’, Ville de Lyon’, ‘Jackmanii Rubra’
‘Jackmanii Rubra’ with a color coordinated weigela. Bed 9
BED 10
‘Miss Bateman’, ‘Souvenir de Capitaine Thuilleaux’, ‘Mrs George Jackman’, ‘Guiding Star’
BED 11
‘Nelly Moser’, ‘Otto Froebel’, Clematis spooneri
BED 12
‘Brewster’, ‘Miss Cavell’, ‘Lady Londesborough’, ‘Otto Froebel’, ‘Countess of Lovelace’
BED 13
‘M. Koster’ (synonym is ‘Margot Koster’), ‘Countess of Lovelace’
The Front Bank
What is a shale barren? Thousands of years ago, Virginia was underwater. As the inland seas retreated, the layers of compressed silt formed these massive walls of quite fertile crevices, if you have roots that know how to exploit the nutrients. The little mounds of green at the upper right and at the bottom of the shale scree are clever Clematis coactilis.
As usual, Clematis ochroleuca is the first of the shale barrens species of Virginia to bloom.
Clematis coactilis is another denizen of the Virginia shale barrens. Bed 14
BED 14
Clematis addisonii, C. ochroleuca, C. albicoma, ‘Princess Diana’, ‘Happy Diana’, ‘Queen of Holland’, ‘Sonnette’, ‘Buckland Beauty’, ‘Carol Lim’
The Baltic Border
BED 15
‘Pamiat Serdsta’
The Founder’s Garden
Clematis ‘Sharpie’ is a named seedling from the days when the entire collection was grown in a greenhouse in containers. This seedling was too amazing to be discarded and has now been registered. We occasionally have it for sale.
BED 16
‘Jenny Keay’, ‘Arabella’, ‘Warwickshire Rose’ (Montana Group), ‘Sixten’s Gift’, ‘Duchess of Waverly’, C. patens ‘Manshuki’ WADA’S PRIMROSE (three spread-out specimens), ‘Vera’, ‘Barbara Jackman’, ‘Rüütel’, ‘Barbara Houser’ (RCG introduction), C. macropetala ‘Mountaindale’ (Brewster Rogerson introduction), ‘Sharpie’ (RCG introduction), ‘Moonlight’, ‘Huvi’, ‘Ai-Nor’, ‘Primrose Star’, ‘Snowflake’, ‘Broughton Star’
C. macropetala ‘Mountaindale’ was a favorite of Brewster’s from the days when the whole collection was housed at Gutmann Nursery, near the hamlet of Mountaindale.
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’, ‘Marjorie’, C. montana ‘Grandiflora’, ‘Mayleen’
Old Poland (the Polish Beds)
BED 18
‘Anna Karolina’, ‘Serafina’, ‘Izydor’, ‘Kacper’, ‘Kamila’, ‘Sympatia’, ‘Westerplatte’
BED 19
‘Baltyk’ (in two locations in this bed), ‘Ania’, ‘Serafina’, ‘Matka Urszula Ledochowska’, ‘Dzieci Warszawy’, ‘Maksymilian Kolbe’, ‘Matka Teresa’, ‘Mikolaj Kopernik’
BED 20
‘Matka Teresa’, ‘Jolanta’, ‘Regina’, ‘Izydor’
The Beginner’s Garden
‘Markham’s Pink’ is on the International Clematis Society’s list of Recommended Clematis. It is extra winter hardy, produces masses of flowers, and reblooms easily.
BED 21
‘Guernsey Cream’, ‘Daihelios’ HELIOS
Clematis alpina ‘Pamela Jackman’ opens deep blue and lightens as it matures. This is an excellent rebloomer.
BED 22
Nothing in bloom
The Hedges
Who doesn’t love a dark, sultry ‘Brunette’? Bed 23 of The Hedges
BED 23
‘Zo14100’ LITTLE LEMONS, ‘Brunette’, ‘Joe ‘Zary’, ‘Alexander’ (Montana Group)
BED 24
‘Thundering Cave’ DJHC796, ‘Pink Swing’, ‘Pauline’, C. chrysocoma DJHC0266
Winter Bloomers
Inside the Sales Terrace, these clematis are growing on 4’ wide by 10’ tall flat panel trellises.
Nothing in bloom
Troughs
Charming little Clematis columbiana var. tenuiloba came to us from seed collected just inside the Idaho border with Oregon. Trough 4, the Bunkhouse Trough
Nothing in bloom
Subtropical Shade Porch
Nothing in bloom
The Antipodes
The unique clematis native down under, in Australia and New Zealand, have many unique attributes. Even Australia’s island-state, Tasmania, has a clematis all its own. Here you will find the world’s smallest clematis (C. marmoraria), as well as a clematis with no leaves (C. afoliata). This quadrant of the world is often referred to as The Antipodes, meaning the opposite.
x cartmanii ‘Joe’ (in pots), C. marmoraria
‘Pixie’ is a hybrid of New Zealand species, including the world’s smallest, so it doesn’t climb, but it does flower like mad in April. Antipodes A
Test Garden/Mt. Cuba Project New Species
Nothing in bloom
CONTAINER DISPLAY AREA
‘Royal Cascade’
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.
The Egg
Nothing in bloom
The Egg is undergoing a major replanted to remove Agastache ‘Little Adder’, which has run amok. The more refined cottage harden plants will return, along with the hybrids and species selections of the late Ton Hannink of Holland, a past president of the International Clematis Society. What better memorial to the man than his plants?
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.
Mr. Western Bluebird is a frequent percher on The Egg, reminding humans that the mealworm feeder is a thing that exists and always needs replenishing.