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.
Quick update January 30, 2026
Clematis urophylla has joined the ranks of winter bloomers. We have stock plants outside in pots, and specimens in Bed 1 crawling up into rhododendrons original to the farm. The witch hazels (genus Hamamelis) are mostly in bloom, and more camellias making a splash every week!
Clematis urophylla with its flared bells open. This is typical bloom time. Unlike some of the other evergreen or semi evergreen clematis, this species prefers partial shade.
Winter Bloomers at their best: January 8, 2026. It’s a cold (but not freezing yet), soggy winter here in western Oregon. The selections and hybrids of Clematis cirrhosa are undaunted. We have C. urophylla open now, too. Our form is grown from wild-collected seed, so is not the selection C. urophylla ‘Winter Bouquet’. Ironically enough, the one winter bloomer not quite truly open yet is C. cirrhosa ‘Early Times’, a seedling salvaged by Brewster Rogerson from the days when the Collection only contained C. cirrhosa var. cirrhosa and C. cirrhosa var. balearica. Its name implies, not always correctly, that it flowers earlier than var. balearica, but not this year. We will update with a fresh image to illustrate its differences from its parent varieties. Or, visit clematisontheweb.org to have a look at it.
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Visit CLEMATIS SALES: ONSITE sales and ONLINE ordering resume in April 2026.
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
Clematis cirrhosa var. balearica showing its uniquely beautiful ferny foliage, which can go quite bronze as it ages in cold weather.
Clematis cirrhosa var. cirrhosa, chubbier in profile that its balearica variant.
C. cirrhosa var. purpurascens ‘Freckles’ is a selection made by Raymond Evison from wild-collected seed.
C. cirrhosa var. purpurascens ‘Lansdowne Gem’. This cultivar was spotted as a sport of C. c. var. p. ‘Freckles’ in a New Zealand garden. It isn’t 100% stable, but we take cuttings from flowering wood to try to ensure our plants will be thoroughly red. It’s best to plant these where you can look up into them.
OTHER PLANTS
Hamamellis x intermedia ‘Primavera’ in Bed 11. It is the first to have open flowers.
Camellia x lutchitensis ‘Cinnamon Cindy’ blooming in Bed 8, and covered with pink buds.
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
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ROW 2, Profuse summer bloomers and Pink large-flowered cultivars
nothing in bloom for now
RAYMOND EVISON HYBRIDS (Rows 3-7)
ROW 3, Evison Hybrids
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ROW 4, Evison Hybrids
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ROW 5, Evison Hybrids
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ROW 6, Evison Hybrid
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ROW 7, Evison Hybrids
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ROW 8, Double large-flowered clematis
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ROW 9, Profuse flowering clematis (C. viticella and C. texensis hybrids)
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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
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ROW 11, Marczynski Hybrids and White large-flowered cultivars
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ROW 12, Red large-flowered cultivars
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ROW 13, Red large-flowered cultivars and Purple large-flowered cultivars
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ROW 14, Lavender/Blue large-flowered cultivars
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ROW 15, Lavender/Blue large-flowered cultivars and Striped/Barred large-flowered cultivars
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ROW 16, Striped/Barred large-flowered cultivars and Late Adds
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Beech Tree's Garden
BED 1
Clematis urophylla
BED 2
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BED 3
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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.
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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.
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Entry Border
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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 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, 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
BED 5
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BED 6
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BED 7
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BED 8
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BED 9
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BED 10
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BED 11
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BED 12
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BED 13
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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.
BED 14
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The Baltic Border
BED 15
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The Founder’s Garden
BED 16
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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.
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Old Poland (the Polish Beds)
BED 18
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BED 19
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BED 20
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The Beginner’s Garden
BED 21
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BED 22
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The Hedges
BED 23
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BED 24
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Winter Bloomers
Inside the Sales Terrace, these clematis are growing on 4’ wide by 10’ tall flat panel trellises. When we have volunteers on hand, Monday/Wednesday/Friday from 10-2 through the winter, the gates into the Sales Terrace will be unlocked for easier viewing.
Clematis cirrhosa var. purpurascens ‘Freckles’ in bloom December 2025.
Clematis cirrhosa ‘Ourika Valley’ is a selection from the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco. Flowering December 11, 2025
In bloom: Clematis cirrhosa ‘Ourika Valley’, Clematis cirrhosa var. purpurascens ‘Freckles’, Clematis cirrhosa var. cirrhosa, Clematis cirrhosa ‘Jingle Bells’, Clematis cirrhosa var. purpurascens ‘Lansdowne Gem’, Clematis cirrhosa ‘Wisley Cream’, Clematis cirrhosa var. balearica
Troughs
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Subtropical Shade Porch
Clematis napaulensis, which will remain outside until a severe frost is predicted. All other specimens have been moved inside.
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.
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Test Garden/Mt. Cuba Project New Species
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CONTAINER DISPLAY AREA
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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
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The Egg is undergoing a major replanting 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.