My blue-blue non-vining clematis (I call her Clemmy...) continues to amaze with the detail of beauty! Observe how the tiny, twisty centre resembles a thick head of hair a la 1980's crimper! Who thinks of these things?! (Hmmmmm...let's sit on the porch awhile and ponder such things...)
“At first, he talked about the flowers in the garden behind
his country house 
in Surrey. His voice still had its Midlands accent but was soft now and
barely audible. He knew the plants by name and took a few minutes with each
of them: ageratum, coreopsis, echinacea, rudbeckia…” -from Teller: A Novel, by Frederick Weisel
