It's been a good year for our clematis.
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- Sandy D.
- Saline, Michigan, United States
"...there is a series of phenomena of great importance which cannot possibly be recorded by questioning or computing documents, but have to be observed in their full actuality. Let us call them the imponderabilia of actual life. Here belong such things as the routine of a man's working day, the details of his care of the body, of the manner of taking food and preparing it, and of passing sympathies and dislikes between people; the subtle yet unmistakable manner in which personal vanities and ambitions are reflected in the behaviour of the individual and in the emotional reactions of those who surround him" (from Argonauts of the Western Pacific, by Bronislaw Malinowski, pp. 18-19).
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3 comments:
Sandy, how the hell do you get your clematis to grow? I've had one outside my front door for 10 years now. Every spring it sprouts, gathers up some steam, climbs about 10 inches, grunts and produces maybe ONE blossom (many years none) and then...peters out. No amount of watering, fertilizing or general coaxing can get it to do more. Is there some secret I don't know?--tracy thompson
How BEAUTIFUL! There's a "wild" clematis here that grows by the rivers, but the flowers are about an inch across.
I have no idea what I did to get this profusion of blooms (there are about twenty like this one!) - it is on the south (very sunny) wall of our house, in terrible clayey soil. We just planted it last year. We did have a very wet spring, so maybe that has something to do it.
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