Clematis crispa Brookgreen Gardens The flowers draw bees and

The flowers draw bees and butterflies

well-drained soil with generous summer water

Davis grew his out

handsome against a sheltered wall

Clematis crispa Brookgreen Gardens The flowers draw bees andClematis crispa, the swamp leather flower, is a small and delicate native vine that trades the flat, showy face of a garden clematis for something quieter and stranger. The flowers hang solitary and nodding, little urns of thick, leathery blue purple, paler within, their four recurved sepals frilled and crimped at the tips like curled ribbon. Slightly fragrant and endlessly charming, this is a clematis scaled for a small garden rather than a barn