Sorry Papi Jo I'm colourblind so colours to me are blissfully barely existent (or wilfully ignored according to my late mother, who thought I was the devil incarnate for wearing purple with, well anything actually 🙂). @Fairygirl who's @muckyhandsmike? 😄Â
Humblest apologies @mikeymustard - He's another poster and I think I replied to him on another thread. I'll put it down to my age....
I had a look at that F. Friends this afternoon, with a view to giving it a bit of new soil etc. It's dead. Totally scuppered. Not even pining for the fjords. Probably got far too wet. Hey ho.Â
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Finally ordered 2 clematis from Promesse de fleurs:C. 'Maria Skłodowska Curie' & C. 'Forever Friends'. Things went quite fast: Ordered on their site on Sunday afternoon, order shipped Monday morning and received today Tuesday midday!
Packaging was perfect, condition was OK but the roots were kind of pot-bound, as is often the case, so I carefully untangled and spread them in the plantation hole. Now I just have to wait patiently for the promised flower "shower"!
I grow all my alpinas and macropetalas in raised beds and up against the fences or walls to keep them a bit drier.Â
I’m so glad I hadn’t read this before I planted C. macropetala ‘Wesselton’… mine is in heavy clay on a north facing wall. But it has been fine.Â
I used to grow ‘Hagley Hybrid’, which I really loved. The only thing I would say about macropetalas is that for all of autumn and winter they are brown and dead. Viticellas are easier to disguise, but on the other hand they don’t clothe a wall so densely—they’re better grown through other things like roses.
I live in a very wet area, so I have to mitigate that, because of the clay soil holding onto it so well. They're not like the bigger flowered ones, which like plenty of water I can't grow koreanas though. Just too wet for them.Â
Hope your FF does better for you than it did for me @Papi Jo. It was never happy here in the wet clay. Such is lifeÂ
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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@Fairygirl who's @muckyhandsmike? 😄Â
I'll put it down to my age....
I had a look at that F. Friends this afternoon, with a view to giving it a bit of new soil etc.Â
It's dead. Totally scuppered. Not even pining for the fjords.
Probably got far too wet. Hey ho.Â
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I can't grow koreanas though. Just too wet for them.Â
Hope your FF does better for you than it did for me @Papi Jo. It was never happy here in the wet clay. Such is lifeÂ
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...