Nature Photography
by Paul Micarelli
After a few years of training a Clematis vine to grow over a trellis in our backyard, this Spring it is absolutely bursting with huge purple flowers.
It looks awesome, & it's probably our favorite plant in our gardens. We have a lot of plants in our gardens & in our house, but this is the one that I'm most proud of. It just makes me happy to come home & see it flourishing now.
In previous years, our landscapers cut down the vines, which totally destroyed the growth process that I was working so hard to cultivate. After telling them numerous times & putting up some garden fencing around it, they finally got the hint to leave it alone. Then, Loretta unknowingly cut off the old growth last Spring, thinking it was "dead" vines. I made sure she left alone this Spring, & it is blooming like crazy now.
We also now have a little garden helper who likes to water plants (& soak himself with the hose). We call my son Paulie "Nature Boy" because he loves the outdoors, and he is always right there helping us with gardening or any other yard work.
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