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Last spring, while researching plants to add to Floret’s already impressive collection of heirloom and modern roses, seasonal cut flowers, and woody plants, Benzakein learned of Olkhovska’s extensive clematis collection.

A dainty clematis that blooms on new wood, such as ‘Etoile Violette’, trained through the limbs of the deciduous shrub, keeps the romance going on into summer.

In another, a clematis trellis borders the garage.

In the local village, an American flag is so shredded that its tangled threads are inseparable from a clematis vine, and old cypress trees lay splintered and toppled, buzzsaws cutting them away from the roads.

Alternately, there are decorative vines that can adhere to walls, such as star jasmine, evergreen clematis and royal trumpet.