Back in Santa Fe this summer, it was hard to get a bad-tempered woman to sell me a couple of clematis. Are you going to keep them indoors, she asked? The frost will kill them. I explained that no - I'd be taking them back to Los Angeles way before it got cold. She was far from convinced (it didn't seem sensible to point out that if she was that worried, maybe the nursery (Payne's, on St Michael's Drive) should only sell frost-resilient species of clematis. But I persisted, paid for them, and a month later put them into a big pot - indeed, with the watermelon plants - and drove them back. They're just starting a second flowering - and as you can see here, are very happy to be able to coil themselves around a windowbox full of geraniums.
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