Ann Loves Plants

Tag: Clematis

  • Wordless Wednesday: With Spring in My Step

    Muscari armeniacum.  Tulipa tarda. Tulipa humilis. Tulipa (cannot recall the name). Primula veris. Primula veris ‘Sunset Shades’. Narcissus. Muscari album. Viola glabella. Bergenia cordifolia. Spoils from one of my many road trips to CA. Narcissus.  Fritillaria meleagris. Helleborus. Clematis alpina ‘Stolwijk Gold’. Clematis alpina ‘Stolwijk Gold’. Camellia japonica ‘Black Magic’. Acer palmatum ‘Red Spider Web’. Maurice…

  • The Famous Garden Lady (from Digging Deeper: a Series of Gardening Micro-Stories)

    Stilisierte Blumen vor dekorativem Hintergrund, Stilleben, 1908 (Stylized flowers before decorative background, still life) by Egon Schiele She said she wouldn’t listen to the two women unless the word Clematis was pronounced Clem-uh-tis and not Cluh-MAAA-tis. (Prescriptivist linguistics do not belong in gardening conversations thought the younger woman. Gardeners—by their very nature—should always be descriptivists, but…