each a slim reddish-purple tube opening to five pale-blue lobes
The finest plants often arrive by exactly this kind of roundabout
suits a plant that has pared everything down: fine leaves
almost hand-shaped look
of pure white bloom that arrives in mid to late summer when little else among the shrubs is flowering
Clematis morefieldii 25/10 Restock each a slim reddish-purple tubeClematis morefieldii, Morefield's leather flower, is one of the rarest of the native clematis, a delicate climbing vine known in the wild from only a small pocket of limestone country around Huntsville, Alabama, and just into Tennessee. Like the other leather flowers, this species trades broad, flat blooms for small, nodding, urn shaped flowers, here a soft, downy pink, their sepal tips curling back at the rim. The stems and leaves carry a fine coat