Kristine that will be beautiful, Ive been eyeing that clematis too.  I don't yet have a place for Patricia Ann Fretwell.  But I am searching for a clematis for Buff Beauty...perferably not purple as I dont want it to look like a UW colors arch although Im sure my husband would love that.

Magpie- Those all look beautiful and lucky you to have so many new pairings!  I cant wait to see how they turn out.

I'm looking forward to seeing photos of all your gardens this spring/ summer! All your pairings sound wonderful! I haven't yet planted clematis and would like to in 2023. I'm using this year to see how my roses develop.

Margaret hunt and renea

Quick silver and emily plater

I love clematis and roses !

@Lilyfinch z9a Murrieta Ca Can you tell me about Emilia Plater? I have one coming in spring but I'm iffy about it and might change my order.

I love clematis and roses too! Lilyfinch, where did you get Emily Plater? I haven't planted any clematis with my Quicksilvers yet, and that's a gorgeous combination. I think the main thing with picking clematis to pair with roses is that if you want the clematis to bloom with the big spring rose flush, it's best to choose early-flowering kinds. The President is really reliable: I grow him with Birdie Blye, and also Falstaff and Viking Queen. A combination that I love is Madame Isaac Pereire with Viola, a gorgeous relatively hard to find clematis which I love for its deep purple flowers (and also because I love the viola and have several wonderful friends who are violists!) Rhapsody is a stunning true-blue clematis that I grow with Eden and Flamenco Rosita; I let Arabella (also blue) scramble through Iridescent Pink. I guess my favorites clematis are the blues and purples, because they are so lovely with pink and magenta roses! I also love combining small flowered roses, like Purple Skyliner, with large flowered clematis!

Magpie : my plants are fairly new still and in the shade after spring so I ( so far ! ) only get one nice spring flush at the perfect time with quicksilver . The blooms are big and so pretty . It’s a type 3 so I cut it back in January and it should be even better next year . Also it gets fed along my rose too . I think it’s really pretty !!

Frances : can you share any pics ? It sounds like you have some amazing combos there !! I need more . They are so addictive to buy and so lovely .

I bought My Emily at humming bird farms clematis . I wish I could add a link for you but my phone won’t let me . :( but check them out they are such great folks !

Another favorite one that is in my rose garden but on its own trellis is “Jenny “ bought from brushwood

Hummingbird Farms is so great! I have a few clems from there 🙃

Oh, I just went to the Hummingbird site - looks fantastic! I think I'll be ordering from them. Lilyfinch, I am a rotten photographer, so I really don't have any great pictures, and very few of roses and clematis together. (Most of my photos are either blunked out from bad light, or so blurry they don't even make sense). I'll try to share what I have, though. First is a shot of my front arbor. John Cabot is the deep pink, Complicata is on top, and the lighter double pink is John Davis, who is accompanied by Betty Corning clematis. You can sort of make out the little blue bells of Betty:

This is a shot of my front garden: at the very back on the left side you can maybe make out the large flowered blue clematis. I think it's Will Goodwin, but I'm not positive. The pink rose he's climbing on is The Herbalist. This is an older photo; we unfortunately lost the Oklame Cherry on the left (we have a new one on the other side, though). I replaced it with an obelisk that grows Climbing Pinkie and Venosa Violacea clematis.

Below is MIP with Viola clematis. Not an ideal photo but I hope you can sort of get the idea.

When spring comes I'll really try to get some more and better photos! DH is actually a really good photographer, but I hate to bug him about taking pictures!

Holy moly frances your garden is breathtaking! Just stunning!

I opened this thread because I want to grow more clematis and in particular I'm looking for some rose/clematis combinations. I have a Zephrine Drouin paired with a rooguchi, but it's mainly because someone gave me the rooguchi and I had nowhere else to put it. I would love the combo if they bloomed at the same time. This was the first year in over five years they actually did!

Love the Eden and the Polish Spirit. And Frances I love Betty Corning but I'm figuring with the rooguchi I should try a different bloom form!

:)

Dee

Are you kidding me? That's your garden? It's incredible, wow.

@Hutchae84 Zone 8b/PNW I think purple would be great with Buff Beauty, but if you didn't want purple then I bet a really crisp white would help brighten and bring out the subtle coloration of Buff Beauty. Have you looked at Huldine*? I think the clean color and fewer petals would bring out the ruffley femininity of BB.

Wow Frances, what an enchanting garden you have! It is truely magical!

Diggerdee-I love that combination, the colors are so vibrant together!

Magpie-I do think purple would be pretty, maybe if i got a lighter purple, like Betty Corning, it would work for me.  I live in Seattle and UWs colors are purple and gold and one year i paired purple and yellow tulips together and i just couldnt get the association out of my head.  I have lots of purple and yellow in my garden but with a little more seperation now.  

I was also thinking Pink Swing could be really pretty, blush pink with nodding skirted heads.

On a side note, has anyone seen the golden lead variety, Stolwick Gold?  I feel like I need that somewhere in my garden! Thanks Lily for the recommendation for Hummingbird!

Oops I meant Huldine* above.

Frances, That's 1 of the top gardens I've seen On these forums! Just a charming secret garden! The epitome of romantic on this valentine's day. Thank you!🌹💝

Boy oh Boy Francis , what a spectacular retreat you have created

Really stunning.

I love your garden also, Frances. And lilyfinch, yours has come a long way in a short time! Very pretty.

Most of my clems are pretty young yet and I don't have pics of big plants yet. Happily, some are getting established. I got Emilia Plater from Hummingbird also, and Jenny from Brushwood. From your pic, Jen, I am glad I got Jenny. Here are some roots from Hummingbird....I don't know if you can see but the roots were so big some of them are going back in an upward direction. Biggest roots I've seen yet on a clematis plant.

I grew the Stolwick Gold, Hutchae, in Alaska and loved it.

The corresponding Golden Bleeding Heart.

Stolwick with Snow Pavement.

Such beautiful pictures!!!

Frances - oh, your garden!!! A feast for the eyes and soul!!

Hutchae - that's the most unusual and beautiful clems I've ever seen!!

Jen - I love your pairing of Quick Silver and EP! And Jenny is so unusual...I love it!

Dee - what a sweet pairing! I love pink/purple!

Thanks so much for all the wonderful comments! I so love my garden! And I love to share it with my friends, family, and neighbors - every year we have a big “rose party” when the flowers are at their peak in late May or early June. It sometimes makes me a little sad to think my garden won’t outlast me, but it’s a huge comfort to know it will live on in so many people’s memories, and that it has given joy to so many.

Anyway, I’ll make a real effort to get more clematis-and-rose pictures! I do love the ones like Betty Corning and Roguchi, that are little bells! Roguchi and Zeph are amazing, Dee, I'm going to have to try that. Or maybe Roguchi with Laguna? Though I tend to obsess over the purple/blue range to go with pink roses, another gorgeous combo is apricot Sweet Juliet rose with the pink clematis Gisele. I’m definitely going to try to get Emily Plater for Quicksilver - though it would also look gorgeous with Annie Laurie MacDowell … Any suggestions for what would look great with gorgeous purple Hippolyte? (Would have to be early blooming, since he’s a once-bloomer).

Here are a few of my young clems:

Rooguchi and Ballerina

Venosa Violacea with William Morris

Laguna and Jackmanii

Honeymoon and the non climbing scrambler Arabella (I think)

Roseanne and Prince Charles

Carefree Beauty with a random clematis from Kroger:

Erasmus - so lovely!

subk3 - man, I love your white rose combination!

Cool combinations ,I can see how clematis can be as addicting as roses

My sister has a chain link fence in perfect sunlight and it is covered in roses and clematis. It is so beautiful

Jennifer ' it is so good to see you posting. I have missed you

Your yard has really taken off and looks fabulous.

Hope you are you darling children are doing well

Your pathway is very beautiful, Sheila. That lime green plant is lit up in that picture.

So many gorgeous clematis/rose combinations! I love the Random Kroger clematis, subk3! I have a more purple-y Random Trader Joe clematis that I grow with Pretty in Pink Eden. You can get some great deals at stores like that (mine was $15) but of course then you don't really know how to prune. I never stress about it too much, though - if I can't remember/don't know which clematis it is at pruning time, I just do something B-ish and it usually turns out alright!

Sheila-I am now just seeing your message, its so pretty.  I'm a sucker for chartruese...especially in the spring.

Gee! These are all gorgeous. Love the Rouguchi, erasmus. Sub3your pics are also dreamy, but i have to ask, didyou secretly move into Jennifers old house? Lol! The scene with the fence looks so similar .😉

Not a rose/clematis combo, but I hope someone can learn from my mistake. I thought this would be brilliant, and it did look nice early summer, but by mid to late summer, this young, first year clematis was so vigorous it pulled the stems of the hydrangea down so the center was open and flat. This year, I will keep it trimmed back and by using garden staples, keep it lower to the ground and only climbing into the hydrangea's lower, strong, woody stems. I think it would work with other shrubs that have stronger stems - like roses! Clems that aren't natural climbers are great ground covers, but they're stronger than they look.

Arabella Clematis & Vanilla Strawberry Hydrangea.

Certainly is a GORGEOUS clematis! :) :)

Francis, the look of your garden is my goal! Now if only I knew how to achieve that... I'm not sure if that look is possible in my climate.

Well I changed my incoming order, switched Emilia Plater for "Jan Lindmark" instead.

"Sub3... i have to ask, did you secretly move into Jennifers old house? Lol! The scene with the fence looks so similar."

Vaporvac Z6-OhioRiverValley Haha, no I did not. But good eye there. The photo with the sunset is looking right in the dircetion of Jenna's old house and it's about 20 miles away as the crow flies. So same, beautiful, Middle Tn hills.

flowersaremusic z5 Eastern WA That's a mistake? It's a happy mistake in my book!

Ashley Smith, I'm SURE it will be possible! For example, the roses on my arbor, John Cabot, John Davis, and Complicata would be totally hardy for you, I think. And I depend on and treasure bone-hardy Felix LeClerc. There's LOTS of great roses that will do fine for you! And you'll probably have an easier time with delphiniums than I do, since they don't like our hot summers (though I do often get them to come back for several years, I always start new from seed every year because they are so essential to me!)

I was in Alaska this past summer and the gardens were MAGNIFICENT. Delphiniums to die for all over the place, tall as me (I'm 5'8"). Sweet peas like I've never seen. And such enchanting rugosas! And the area I was in, near Fairbanks, is I think zone 3.

One secret that really helps: plant Dame's Violets. They are the tall lavenders you see in the "front garden" picture. Get them established, and they'll happily self-sow for you every year. And to my eye, that soft magical coloir and tall graceful shape have a way of kind of weaving the garden together.

Anyway, can't wait to see your garden! Flowers, your Arabella might be a thug, but she sure is beautiful!

Frances-I didnt know delphimium heights depended on temps.  I have several that have gotten taller than me eventhough the tags put them at 30 or so inches.  Off to find a picture....

Gah, of course I didnt get a good picture but hopefully you can get an idea of the height on this one, the stakes extend past the top of the picture.

@Hutchae84 Zone 8b/PNW I don't think it depends on temps. There are many different types of delphinium of varying heights. I wish more types were available but all my local nursery has is "Pacific Giants".

Hutchae - oh that's gorgeous!!! Mmmmmmm :) :)

The problem with delphiniums in my area is the wind blows them over. And not sure I want to grow things I have to stake... Do you all stake yours? I have to be careful to plant things that don't mind wind. Maybe delphiniums are worth it tho.. Frances thanks for the ideas. I am definitely going to start some Dames Violets. Its funny... we were in Alaska last summer too! Didnt get to Fairbanks tho. I was amazed how stuff grew tall even in such a low zone! I wonder if hrs of daylight has to do with it?

Flowersaremusic-Thats so pretty!  I was actually thinking of doing something similiar but with sweetpeas, based on your expeience do you think that would be a bad idea?  I figure its just an annual so I can rip it put.

Hutchae84 Zone 8b/PNW Are you on the wet side of the PNW or dry? I am trying to figure out why my Delphinium stayed small (I liked it.) and wonder if I needed to feed them more.

Ashely-I feel like delphiniums are trial and error because it will depend on your yard.  For example some of my Highlander series stay at the 30in height and dont need staking but some are close to 6ft and do, same exact plant in same part of the hard.  I have found Gauradian White and Lavender stay smaller (but not Blue) but again could be different for you.  Lavender Guardian is continually blooms for me even if I dknt deadhead, which I love.

Hi Ann, I am in Seattle, so the wet side, though its been pretty dry here.  Maybe give it another summer and see how they do?  Also, see my comment above, some of the same vsrotoes will stay yard and others huge in my yard, no idea why.  My favorities (in my yard for vigor) are Guardian Lavender (great repeat) and thr Highlander line, huge thick stakes.

Do you have to cut. Back your Guardian Lavender in order for it to rebloom?

Mine produces new blooms while there are still spent blooms.  I have probably 10 of thud variety and 70 percent of them do this.

Same side here, but we are on the top of a hill, so the winds get bad...even 30" is a problem, but if I plant it close to a rose, it stunts it and they only get to 20".

I do have to stake mine. They get about 4.5 ft hight for me, usually, thought sometimes they'll be taller in a good year. I grow Pacific Giants, Belladonna bellamosum, Guardian Blue, and the blue Magic Fountains ones. I'd love to grow some of the NZ ones from seed, but couldn't quite convince myself that it was ok to order from NZ, the shipping would be rather high. Hutchae, I've never heard of the Highlander series. Where do you get them? Can you get seed for them?