....continuing.
The clematis along the fence are getting started. The first purple is 'Edo Murasaki', the deep velvety red is 'Niobe', the first double-blue is 'Diamantina', then the pearly white with pink reverse is 'Omoshiro', and the single red is 'Ruutel', then there's 'Blue Light' somewhere in the middle, and a double-red 'Red Star', and 'Belle of Woking' is the last one by the pine tree, growing into the rose 'Bleu Magenta', and somewhere in there is 'Fujmusume', but I can't remember where. When it blooms, I'll be able to spot it.
Oh, and the lilies are growing like gangbusters. They get going just as most of the roses have begun their rest, in July.
Those near-white blooms below are 'Omoshiro' under the rose 'Purple Skyliner, which spans just more than the width of this pic, overlapping with 'Bubble Bath' to its left.
This is clematis 'Blue Light', with some buds of the rose 'Pierre Notting' just left and below of center. Somewhere in there is 'Fujmusume', as well as clematis 'Ruutel' to the right, and 'Red Star' to the left, but they're not blooming yet.
This is 'Rose du Roi -- original' not yet blooming, but showing a nice shape. This took a couple years of training and trimming to achieve -- mostly because I learned as I went along. If left unpruned, this rose leafs-out and blooms at the tips of canes bare at the base, and they'll flop over. The remedy is a combination of cutting outer canes short to encourage branching lower down, and lightly pegging taller canes in the center to outward slight diagonals to also encourage more branching lower down. This distributes more weight near the base, as well as produces more blooms.
"Nouveau Monde -- in commerce as" got a bit more of a trim around the railing this year, since last year's growth was responding to the shade of the untrimmed Callery pear. Well, the tree got a haircut, and I wanted the rose to respond accordingly. There are still plenty of buds, but not quite as many had I waited until after the bloom to tidy-up the rose. If you look carefully, you can see where the rose is going into the tree -- as well as three different clematis ('H. F. Young' and 'Henryi' around the tree, and 'Countess of Lovelace' at the base of the rose) all intermingling.
.......to be continued.
:-)
~Christopher
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