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Old 08-10-2010, 05:20 PM
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They're not so beautiful right now...

When they bloom, they form a virtual wall of hot pink, then they fade a bit lighter. But being ramblers, they only bloom but once a year.

Their bloom time overlaps with a brilliant royal blue Japanese iris that I've planted in front of them, and that color is echoed pretty closely by the Jackmani violet-purple clematis that is on a trellis nearby. Then there are perennial sweetpeas that try to climb up on all this... and then the sweet autumn clematis that tries to outdo one of the roses and...

If you're sensing garden chaos here, you're absolutely right.
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