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The Rogerson Clematis Garden is a botanical garden located at Luscher Farm Park near Lake Oswego, Oregon. The garden is roughly 1-acre (0.40 ha) in size and is home to the Rogerson Clematis Collection, a Nationally Accredited Plant Collection consisting of more than 2,000 individual clematis plants. It represents nearly 900 distinct species or ...
Raymond Evison. Raymond John Evison CBE VMH FLS is a nurseryman, clematis breeder, lecturer, author and photographer. Born in 1944 he started his horticultural career at the age of 15 in Shropshire and moved to the island of Guernsey to set up The Guernsey Clematis Nursery in 1984. [1]
Clematis is a genus of about 380 species [2][3] within the buttercup family, Ranunculaceae. [4] Their garden hybrids and cultivars have been popular among gardeners, [5] beginning with Clematis 'Jackmanii', a garden staple since 1862; more cultivars are being produced constantly. They are mainly of Chinese and Japanese origin.
Clematis, the queen of the climbers, is actually three sisters that bloom at different times. There is one that blooms early in the season, some are evergreen and the rest are deciduous.
The following species in the flowering plant genus Clematis are accepted by Plants of the World Online. Although the genus is currently most diverse in warm temperate regions and mountainous habitats, molecular evidence suggests that this is of recent origin, and earlier diversification occurred in more tropical climes.
Clematis vitalba is a climbing shrub with branched, grooved stems, deciduous leaves, and scented greeny-white flowers with fluffy underlying sepals.The many fruits formed in each inflorescence have long silky appendages which, seen together, give the characteristic appearance of old man's beard.
Clematis macropetala is a species of flowering plant in the family Ranunculaceae native to northwestern China, Mongolia, and adjoining areas of Siberia. [2] Its cultivars 'Ballet Skirt', 'Lagoon', 'Pauline', and 'Wesselton' have gained the Royal Horticultural Society 's Award of Garden Merit .
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