This is what it looked like in mid May 2006. Later I moved it up from the ground to the deck because the grass was just hiding the plant completely. It never flowered, but the trellis made a perfect perch for a very cheek little female hummingbird.
There she is watching me taking pictures of her. She actually let me take this picture from the doorway, less than 6 feet from her.
Anyway ... The heat really took a toll on the plant, the leaves all turned brown and I thought it was dying on me. Someone told me to cut it back to about 2 inches in the fall and that it would come back in the spring. Then someone else told me that it was an annual and would not re-grow. So I dumped the pot over the back fence and used the pot to plant wildflower seeds. Then just before Easter Judy tells me her clematis plant was sprouting new leaves. So, I take a trip over the brush pile that fills in the whole in the back fence and check out what I dumped. Sure enough, there is several inches of new growth to the plant. Because I already had all my large pots filled, I brought the plant down to Judy to put in one of her garden beds. Boy did it go to town:
The above pictures were taken in late May 2007.
These three were taken in mid June 2007.
I'm guessing that the Clematis doesn't really like to be kept in a pot. Either that or it had already bloomed before Judy bought it. Either way it's very happy where it is. And someday when Rick and I have a place where putting stuff in the ground isn't an issue, I'll probably get a couple of these for myself.
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