OK, so here are some shots of my baby 'Jaune Desprez' climbing into the old Japanese maple. The tip of the lateral on the left forked-trunk just hits six-feet tall. There are more laterals lower down which are showing lots of growth, so that one won't be alone for long. In this shot, you can see 'Jaune Desprez' climbing the Japanese maple trunk, and the three roses I planted to go against my front porch. I removed the white azalea that was in the corner by the front steps and moved it to in front of the neighbor's house behind their mailbox. On the left is 'Souvenir du Dr. Jamain' which will be the big climber for the porch railing, and will continue to be trained to grow against it. In the middle is the once-blooming Hybrid China 'Duchesse de Angouleme' which will not get quite as big but will serve as a "living trellis" for a clematis I'll plant there next year. And on the right is the China 'Archduke Charles', which is thornless, and has flowers that open pink and age to cherry-red. This is 'Nouveau Monde' showing its one big fat cane (which sprouted new after the band was potted and grew-on a bit -- the thin stems lower down was what it had when it arrived) which I trained along the deck railing, and it's sprouting lots more along its vertical length. 'Orfeo' is being trained against the Callery pear tree. Its two long main-canes are "hugging" the trunk diagonally, and training them so prompted lots of laterals to sprout. These were previously growing straight-out horizontally, but I tied them against the trunk with string (for now -- as they grow, I'll cut the string back and use something less obviously-visible). All roses mentioned in pics in this post came as bands this Spring -- none were from last year, and none came as 1-gallons. Lesson -- don't be afraid of bands! :-) ~Christopher This post was edited by AquaEyes on Sat, Oct 5, 13 at 15:02

Your photo's are beautiful. I am especially jeolous of your Huldine. I have read so many posts raving about this clematis and have had no luck with it. I bought one 4 years ago and the first year it produced tons of foliage and no flowers. The second year it produced less foliage and no flowers. The third year it died. I am trying it one more time. Last year I planted it and this year it is producing lots of foliage again. There is not one single flower bud on it. I am fertilizing the same as all my other clematis and it is growing in a west exposure. I am going to give it one more year and then try something else. I don't know why I can't get this one to bloom. Karen

Very nice. The colors in your garden are beautiful, the orange Modern Sunrise rose is what I have been looking for.

@Deb... Little Business was one of my first hem purchases about 7 years ago along with Little Wine Cup, both have performed quite well and done a decent job of multiplying. LB is colorfast in full sun for 10+ hrs, but LWC can get quite ratty looking when it gets over 6 hours of direct sun. @Kay... Salieri surprised me with how dark it was. It wasnt blooming when I got it, and I wanted another dark hem to juxtapose with my mutiple clumps of Ed Murray. @Julia.. to the best of my knowledge Red Stella is an unregistered intro by an unknown hybridizer thats been sold at the big orange big box retailer. @Rita... Being a Depeche Mode fan I saw Route 66 and had to have it and Chicago Apache is an awesome big red bloom. Daring Deception, I am on the fence about, because the pic on the tag was obviously tweaked. The actual bloom matches with the registered color description, whereas what was pictured on the tag was pinky purple with the dark purple eyezone and picotee edge... so I'll give it another season or two to see how it shapes up.