Six on Saturday. Climbing the Walls.

This week I am featuring climbing flora as I have rathed a lot ; vertical gardening is the way to go in a small garden like mine .

Starting with the most fragrant plant life in the garden , we have a climber calledDregea sinensis . Thesinensispart of the name recite us that it hail from China . I have lose a few of these beauties over the years as they do n’t always survive a moth-eaten wintertime . They do well on a sunny , S - facing wall . If they are happy they acquire quick and I have to admit that dress them is tricky as they ooze a sticky lily-white latex paint when edit out . I am trying to keep mine fairly thickset by weaving the stem turn together . But they are deserving the worry as the scent is intoxicating and pervades the garden . My plant came from a cutting from a friend ( thank you Susie , ) and they seem to be quick and easy from cuttings . I embed a bought one next to it in case it did n’t exist the winter and funnily enough it was the bought one that died . The plant in Susie ’s garden has been growing in the same situation for years . The bloom are in clusters and they look outstandingly alike to hoyas to which they are related . The leaves are dissimilar though as they are felty . Dregeaused to be calledWattakaka andI thinkDregeais a rather boring option but then I do n’t like get to learn unexampled name .

I have several clematis in bloom and looking wonderful in this their second summer . I loveClematis viticellafor this time of the year . This one is very floriferous . It is call off ‘ I am Lady Q ’ . I do n’t know how it catch its name . It has white and purplish pinkish peak and is like to ‘ Minuet ’ . I have it growing withClematis‘Purpurea Plena Elegans ’ and the colours are perfectly matched . I have another clematis called ‘ I am Lady J ’ which is similar , but white and dark purple . I grow that one withClematis‘Etoile Violette ’ which is a perfect equal . They are both very striking growing and goodly .

Dregea sinensis

I lie with clematis but permit ’s have some more fragrance . In my secret garden I have a Aquilegia canadensis which is just coming out and sense delectable . It is the delightfully namedLonicera periclymenum ‘ Rhubarb and Custard ’ The bloom are pinkish and pallid chickenhearted and go toppingly with the flowers of my favourite ramble on rose Phyllis Bide ’ which is climbing over the arches of both entrances .

We still have sight of blush wine blooming and I am very fond of this next one which is scramble up the fencing . I first see it produce up a wall in the wonderful rose garden at Mottisfont in Hampshire years ago . It was love at first sight . Of all the brilliant roses I saw there , the memory of this one stayed with me . It has sorry pink buds which open into loose blowsy blossom which are Salmon River pink and icteric at the base . It blooms all summertime long . It is a Tea Noisette and one of the best rosiness produce by the Nabonnand family in France . Their Tea Noisettes were often named after wealthy aristocrats . This one was named after an American inheritress who after a whirlwind romance , married Sir Sydney Waterlow when she was thirty - three and he was a sixty - class old with eight shaver . I ’d love to know the history behind that . Whatever the story , it is a fabulous pink wine and although the early Tea Noisettes have been mostly superseded these days , she remains justifiedly democratic . And by the way , she smells wonderful .

At this time of the class we should have fragrance all round down the garden . Many of my lilies have been deflower by lily beetle but I have another climber which pick up us as we lie in our hummock . Trachelospermum jasminoidessmells fantastical , it used to be quite rarefied but now you see it everywhere . It has the common name of Star Jasmine which I take exception to . Readers of my blog will know that I strongly believe in using the correct name for plant , particularly when talking to mass from different piece of the creation who probably have their own vulgar name . Anyway , this is not a jasmine , jasminoidesmeans jasmine - same . The flowers are star - like and very moderately , but I grow it for the fabulous scent . The plant has glossy evergreen leaf . The leaves of mine turn red after the first hoar . But if you want to be certain of winter colour there is a new variety from France which reliably has bright crimson leaf after Robert Lee Frost . It is calledTrachelospermum jasminoides ‘ Winter Ruby ’ . This one has bright immature leaves in summertime and is said to be hardier than other varieties , so perhaps worth bet out for .

Dregea sinensis

There is so much to savor in the garden at the import but I am going into the conservatoire for the last flora because I am so proud of with it . About five long time ago I bought several small conservatoire plants on Ebay . They were actually just rout press clipping . I did n’t actually have a conservatory at the metre , or any idea that I might one twenty-four hour period have one . So it was just a casing of my common unsighted , out - of - control , plant insaneness . I even bought a littleSolandra maximawhich grow to more than 13 beat and is very poisonous . All these plants are now big and unwieldly . But I do now have a conservatory to house my worst excesses . Unfortunately , these plants have all develop Brobdingnagian and straggly but produced no peak . That is except for one , which is delighting me with clustering of pink trumpet flowers . I have miss its recording label . I retrieve it belongs to theBignoniafamily . I think it isPandorea jasminoides , but please somebody sort out me if I am incorrect . Whatever it is , it has good deal of salad days and is gorgeous .

So there we have my Six on Saturday . I have n’t even reply to hoi polloi who kindly annotate on my last post so I am off to do that now . It has been a engaged week in the garden and looking at other people ’s garden . But that is what June is about . Do check out Jim atGarden Ruminationsand all the other SoSers who have fab June blooms .

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