Monday, November 28, 2022

Native Clematis

We planted a native clematis about eight weeks ago.  For weeks and weeks it has just sat there, not doing much of anything other than hanging on to the two wee leaves it was planted with.  Imagine my surprise when I checked it a few days to go to find this:


Almost overnight (it seems) it has put on a heap of new growth and is looking for something to climb.  Hopefully it will find the tree we planted it next to. I'm guessing it's definitely found its' feet. 

One day, it will look like this.  All being well.

Common Clematis (Clematis pubescens) · iNaturalist

I'm almost as excited about seeing that as I am about trying our first apricots. Which are not ripe yet.  

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