Sunday, November 7, 2010

Wild Clematis, beautiful garden volunteer or weed? Flowers are lovely...

white wild clematis blossoms
This wild Clematis, botanical name Clematis vitalba, is a garden volunteer and was growing in a very weird spot when I first moved into my home almost 30 years ago. I kept it because of the beautiful fragrance when the tiny flowers burst into bloom in late summer. After a while, I finally had someone dig it up and move it into a better spot and now train it to climb a trellis and provide a lovely show every year!

While searching for the botanical name of this plant, I found an article explaining that this plant is not native to North America, is extremely invasive, and is therefore considered a weed!

4 comments:

  1. Those are so pretty, I've never noticed the flowers on wild clematis, even though I have been around it most of life. The white fluffy seed heads in the fall are eyecatching though.

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  2. Beautiful details and depth of field Victoria.

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  3. Go figure, Victoria. Some weeds out there are the prettiest of all flowers!

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