Birthday Bouquet

Today being my birthday I thought I would post some images of one of my favorite vines, clematis. I think it is considered a vine. The flower, anyway, that it produces has always looked cool to me.DSC_5547 DSC_5561 DSC_5563 DSC_5568 DSC_5650

Front Side-Clematis

And, here is the traditional floral view. One of the “rules” I was taught in a workshop is: “Never shoot flowers from above”. One of the next “rules” that was presented was: ” The rules should be bent or broken from time to time, whenever you feel the creative urge”. So, there you have it. As much as some would like to make Art a “Science”, basically it is whatever works for you that should be applied.

Clematis

I have a black thumb when it comes to clematis. I have made numerous attempts to grow this vine over the past few years. Not sure what it is this plant needs that I seem to lack, but some gardeners have great luck, such as these examples show.